A genuine thrill to see Big Fiction in Spanish as Los más vendidos, translated by Íñigo García Ureta, with a new introduction I wrote for this translation with a few quick notes on Spanish publishing industries, in a series, Tipos móviles, by Trama w books by John B. Thompson, Roger Chartier + more

I am convinced people do not know the plot of the movie black panther.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Suryia, the orangutan who learned to bottle-feed orphaned tiger cubs by watching humans

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Mason Miller's first entrance of the year to Korn's "Blind"

Riverside County firefighters save cats from an apartment fire & then use CPR and oxygen to revive them: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

2024 me: “man, I should have been smarter with my money, I shouldn’t have bought a PS5 and 3070Ti in 2022/2023.” 2026 me: “oh thank fuck for my stupidity.”

One way to look at tonight's events: The Raiders spent $281.5M in free agency to build up their team... and just acquired one of the best pass-rushers of the last decade in Maxx Crosby.

We desperately need feel-good stories as the world burns.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

In 2015, a goat was thrown into a tiger's enclosure as his weekly live feed only to become his friend. 🫶

"I’ll Samba Someplace Else" by Andrew G. Britt charts how spatial projects sustain popular ideologies of post-racialism despite enduringly high levels of racialized inequity in Brazil and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/LipCcpS

This grown ass woman is 72 years old (14 cat years)

NFL going out of their way to force-schedule 3 games on Christmas Day featuring 5 of the best teams last year only to end up with matchups with 5 teams whose season is already over and will be starting backups is the holiday spirit we all needed

probably not a great sign that Clelin Ferrell, elevated to active roster in mid-November, leads the team in sacks

The touchdown that never was....

Feel free to hand this to all of the Rams fans crying foul over the 2 point conversion.

They made a desert and called it a job market.

The five-paragraph essay apparently emerged in the US in the 1950s and was already getting lambasted by prominent critics and scholars in the early 1970s. It's always illuminating to see how long we've fought the same fights....

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

thanks google great job you crushed it

Satoshi Mizutani reviews 'The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion', by Chris Suh @chrissuh.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

And Chris Suh's (@chrissuh.bsky.social) article "Diasporic Politics in the Age of Decolonization: Korean Independence and the US Military Occupation of Korea, 1945–1948" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

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Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

My new school year begins with the publication of Yumi Moon's edited volume, Cold War Refugees! Huge congratulations to Yumi, whose pathbreaking scholarship forever shaped the way I think about the intersections of Asian history and US history! 🎉🎉🎉 @stanfordpress.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

My fellow sickos of Bluesky: Who's ready for preseason football?

He did! youtu.be/L3oAU-LBO40?...

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

more of a comment than a question is the unsolicited dick pic of academia

posting our @terpsicoreans.bsky.social translation of Kim Eon Hee's poem for no reason what so ever www.2009-2019.poetryproject.org/from-have-yo...

Tomorrow at 4pm EST! @wilsoncenter.org, @koreacenter.bsky.social, @historians.org, @chrissuh.bsky.social