The latest issue of T'oung Pao: International Journal of Chinese Studies (TPAO) is out now! More details here: brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Hanging out with the daughters over the break means lots of drawing sessions, which are tons of fun, but I’m only marginally better than a four year old.

Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

Who’s got two thumbs, a 22 inch griddle he got for Christmas, and is ready to cook pancakes for 26 people (nearly half of whom are 4 or 5) in the morning?? This guy!

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

Always love getting mail from @skeuomorphpress.org and @ryancordell.org !

Grades are in!!

It got Bari’d.

Silksong is an absolute masterpiece. 100% Steel Soul run in the bag and all 52 achievements are complete! I have very little time to play game these days, so this was the first game I've done EVERYTHING in since the first Hollow Knight game.

Rick Steves, a truly wonderful human being

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Nicholas Basbanes tells a wonderful story about a patron who carries a dusty, decades-old book up to the circulation desk and lo and behold, it’s the first time anyone has wanted to check it out. “I wonder why the library bought this book,” they muse aloud. “We bought It for you, sir” is the reply.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Lawrence, KS instituted an indoor smoking ban right before my senior year in college, and when I tell you that going out got 100x times more enjoyable for me, I am underselling the improvement.

I have five days from when my student's final projects were due until I have to turn in grades. When I asked if these were "calendar days or business days" it elicited a chuckle. Looks like I'm working this weekend.

We have to do the work to kill this in the senate. There's nothing near a guarantee that it'll die on its own. Please, please contact your Democratic senators and demand they oppose it. This is literally a life-or-death bill for trans kids.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

he's not alone, this has also happened to me several times where I didnt apply for a job and then I didn't get the job

Have conviction in what you know is true: adults should not have sex with children. To do so is harmful, shameful. Find a community that knows this truth also. Reify this in person, without the intermediation of social media. We are a much larger community than they are

One of the important things about Brooks's failure to disclose that he participated in an Epstein-funded dinner is that we have known for a long time that his MO is to use these elite clubs to create a circle of powerful protectors, some of whom were not directly involved in systematic child rape

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #sinology

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

Ming Studies scholars planning to attend #AAS2026 in Vancouver—you have until *tomorrow* (December 18) to apply for a Geiss-Hsu grant to support your travel! All materials must be submitted to AAS by 11:59pm Eastern Time. bit.ly/AAS2026Ming

And this is why I subscribe. Local news is truly the best. Glad to hear the Delco Pooper's record might be be "wiped clean."

This is amazing news!

"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

it's good that people who work for ICE are being ostracized by their communities and confronted at their churches. that's actually what living in a society is

A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

Not just STEM. Where I am, Humanities profs have a 5-4 load.

I am over 40 years old, how am I supposed to answer this?

With generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, AAS is able to provide travel grants for Ming Studies scholars to attend #AAS2026—but there's only one week left to apply! Submit materials by December 18. buff.ly/HsXcRpE

Excited to present my work with @emilyue.bsky.social at #CHR2025 tomorrow at 3pm! If you're around, please join us. Our full paper is available at: doi.org/10.63744/uNU.... We fine-tuned a BERT model on medieval Chinese poetry to study Shipin, a sixth-century Chinese work of literary criticism. 1/5

🎉 Congratulations to @mmvty.bsky.social, a 2025 HAVI awardee by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! This grant of up to $450K, led by Tom Lippincott @jhu.edu with co-PIs John Hale (JHU) & Robert Lieck (@durham.ac.uk), will develop ML tools to analyze hierarchical structure in poetry, narrative & music.

Bitter fights ensued over whether or not Turkish food counted. "Don't take away my manti!" young Eric would cry. "You mean MANTY?" his father would hiss. "The dumpling of the steppe? The dumpling that conquered Asia Minor on horseback? THOSE manti?" And so, he wailed. And so, his heart curdled.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

New s-tier unfulfillable request from one of the four year olds just came in: “daddy, I wanted DRY water!”

How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

This looks like an incredible initiative! As someone who writes LOTS of (admittedly chaotic and ad-hoc) software for humanities work, it is labor that has not had a good outlet for recognition as scholarship in and of itself!

“The verse is too dangerous”

I’m proud of this one

Trans rights should always be supported, regardless of the political optics. But good grief, this should be a slam dunk

If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans

ILL is simply the only way one can do scholarship in smaller fields at the vast majority of schools in the US. It was a lifeline for me at William & Mary, which has a great research library but little reason to acquire meaningful holdings in late imperial Chinese literature. This is amazing news!

chow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see