Oh my gosh, I only have one more lecture to write. Total. For the rest of the semester. Until August! AND it's on Paula de Eguiluz! So really, that's just story time of the most badass and interesting person in history (my Roman Empire).

Every internet comedian on Earth is currently looking through old notes to find that Chuck Norris death joke they wrote back in 2006.

Happy first day of Spring. It’s snowing. Again. 😭😭😭

My book is (FINALLY!) back in stock! If you're interested in the medieval origins of how we think about criminal guilt (with lots of little medieval stories), this is for you. tinyurl.com/bdy4v3np

YAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Why is archival work the best thing ever and why can't that just be the whole thing we do.

An excerpt from opac.vatlib.it/mss/detail/N... because I am poking around the Vatican archives, planning a small research trip. Can anyone tell me about this - the script, language, what it says? Thanks! (I opened it because oooh pretty manuscript)

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Watch the above clip, please, if you haven’t already. It’s a lot more horrifying than just the sound byte quoted

Late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez accused of sexually abusing young girls in the movement for years Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. Gift link:

“Mass detention and mass deportation are a ‘grave moral evil,’ El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz said Sunday, calling on the faithful in the diocese who work in immigration enforcement to follow the Gospel over the orders of the Trump admin.” “No one has to obey an immoral order,” Bishop Seitz said:

“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

My former home, the Helmerich Center for American Research, is accepting application for travel research grants! The collection has strengths in the Early Americas broadly speaking, but particularly for African American and Indigenous histories, Mexico and Peru... gilcrease.org/helmerich-ce...

Santa Clarita Diet addressed this. It's to cover up the fact that they were the ones who bombed the environmentally destructive plant when the FBI says they found a footprint.

Have they tried sending the oil on carrier pigeons? That'd be my go-to.

This morning I’m reflecting on the incredibly kind senior scholars who have formed and supported me over the years. I really have been lucky in the mentorship and friendship they have given me. I hope I am that friend and mentor to my students too.

Today's #PalaeographyChallenge! Help with these 3 words would be much appreciated. TIA.

I WAS THE WOMAN ANOTHER WOMAN CAME TO FOR HELP IN THE WEIGHT ROOM TODAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

People who do Renaissance grammar and Hebrew etc.: I am looking at the Complutensian Polyglot. I take it the "Primitiva Heb(raica)" and "Primitiva Chal(daica?)" are the roots in the respective languages. Qs: Is that "Primitiva (sc. verba)" as in Priscian's usage? +

I get Detroit TV here in Canada. There’s this guy running for Michigan governor, Perry Johnson, and friends, this is the creepiest old man with plastic surgery and eerie fake teeth positioning himself as a Michigan Trump and then he says he’s “rock hard conservative” I get the ick every commercial

To the Epstein class: Be prepared for accountability. And to serve your sentence out.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

Lots of folks have pointed out all of the banana pants stuff about this tweet, but I guess my question would be, "and then what?" You can research & write your dissertation super fast, then what? What is the destination you're trying to get to? A job? Good luck with that. A book? Ok...? Then what?

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

PLEASE 😭 don't vague skeet the academic character of the day. Quote skeet them. I just finished teaching and would like to know the tea! 😂

My class is working through an African diaspora and music section. One of their chapters was on Holy Hip Hop/Black Christianity. We're going to watch some of the named performers but also.... Am I going to subject them to DC Talk? Because dang it my youth group had to see them live every summer...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Folks in the US are going to have to get increasingly comfortable with the idea that accountability for the Trump Administration will have to happen, and that sometimes it’s going to have to me meted out in international tribunals.

No notes.

3.2 million people. 3.2 million people.

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

See US invasion of Mexico and the Niños Héroes

So remember a few weeks ago when I asked how the first Spaniards crossed Panama? This was what I pictured. However, this (whole comment section) is much funnier.

had the folks at the institute work up a solution

ask and you shall receive: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️ aslh.net/2026-annual-...

Paperwork signed. I’ll be joining the history faculty of Oberlin College & Conservatory in the fall semester as visiting asst professor. 🤩 What an absolute dream of a year I am embarking on ✨

There are a million reasons my homesick self cannot wait to be back living in the US, but this morning I am motivated by being able to buy Ryse Cinnamon Toast protein again because dammit that shit is so good in everything. (I'm sorry, I'm only posting vapid thoughts for a minute)

So. Did Cleveland ever get that IKEA?

If I ever get tenure, I’m going to stop participating in daylight savings time. Do not ask me how these things are connected. They just are. Thank you.

FRIENDS, IT HAS, IN FACT, BEEN POSSIBLY THE BEST 24 HOURS OF MY LIFE (non daughter related)

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

When I was living in NV during the Bundy standoff in Bunkerville.

Early modern scribes:

Using a Star Trek gif, post where you’re at right now

I really hate how much politics and media coverage is just journalists pretending to not understand what's actually being said and done by people in power.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Relevant one from the archives today, SF Chronicle, 4/28/1962.

In other news, NFL free agency conversations open today so on top of everything else in the world, I have to face the real possibility that half of the men I love in my life will just go play for other teams next year. 😂

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario: