Just two superb owls flying in an #earlymodern print. #superbOwl

It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

If you work in early modern or earlier: Did your mentors ever take you to an archive and teach you how to read a financial document? Reading a trial transcript, travel log, journal, or letter is one thing, but reading the accompanying financials is a whole different job.

As serious as the Inquisition was, I just want to note the presence of doodles in the margins of their accounting ledgers.

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905–2007)

I’ll take things no one needs for $500

Has anyone I know stayed at a convent in Rome? (Yes, this is Emily in Paris‘s fault)

Working at the AHN was awesome 4 years ago, but it’s even better now 😍

How does one get the alias Reggaeton?

The peacock section of Retro has to be one of my top 5 places on earth.

You and your uber driver, straight to prison

I’ve been in Madrid one day and already bombarded with Dua Lipa 😂 I forgot how much this city loves this song.

Xi’s ‘Thucydides Trap’ remark was so clever, though failed to anticipate Trump having no idea what he was talking about. I think Xi meant: ‘when a declining power faces competition from a rising power it will often fight a losing war. How will you avoid this?’ But to answer accepts US is in decline.

Wharton hive!

There’s actually a chance that the next president could be elected by popular vote in 2028 rather than by the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College.

Just a small plug to read the journal, The New American Antiquarian. I contributed to volume 4, but everyone’s contributions are so great. It’s a great journal for assigning to undergrads in vast early American studies and contains great transcription work! naajournal.org/issues/

plotting a coup but its just getting senior faculty to support efforts to save their own profession

Scripps College is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of American Studies. Review of applications will begin 9/11/26. Full ad below. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position. And please share widely! www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/t...

You can read more of Dr. Derby's research on the history of the Dominican Republic in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Updated for the end of another semester. michaelleroyoberg.com/teaching-nat...

Put down a finger is you were converted to anarchofeminism in an AOL chat room

Our prehistory could not be more relevant to this moment. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

I will reiterate the point made by @jamellebouie.net : if you really wanted online political influence, you’d be making vertical video. you’d be learning how to do little booty dances while talking about political theory. you’d be mastering doing BTS fan-cams while talking about anti-capitalism

Hello #AcademicSky hive mind! It's me again. This one specifically for colleagues in the US... Course adoption. What sorts of course do you teach that my book bsky.app/profile/jenn... might be used in? (Don't worry, I'm not asking you to add it to your reading list, though you'd be very welcome!)

What we know about the Eagles' 2026 schedule so far: Week 5: at Jaguars in London on Oct. 11 at 9:30 a.m. on NFL Network Week 12: at Cowboys on Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving) at 4:30 p.m. on FOX

🛫 off to Spain to finish this book draft. See you in August, Americas!

50% off now through June 9th! Head to our website to shop the sale and use code SPRING50 at checkout for half-off great #dinosaur books! 🦕 press.princeton.edu/books?books_... Some exclusions apply. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs

J.R. Smith has an NBA career decorated with accomplishments, but now he has a new source of pride: graduating college. We sat down with Smith to discuss what it means to him, and how he hopes to inspire more people to pursue their education. Free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...

Are the providers in the room with us?

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

#earlymodern BlueSky: I'm teaching Renaissance and Reformation Europe for the first time this coming fall and need some ideas for a sourcebook of primary sources on the Reformation (would also appreciate Ren recs). So far I'm thinking this one from Routledge? www.routledge.com/Global-Refor...

We did it!!! Go Phils!

We need to seriously consider boycotting The Chronicle of Higher Education. This piece is the latest in a long line of increasingly neoliberalist and pro-AI trash. The days of CHE being a robust and practical source of discourse on higher ed is now over.

Check out my latest translation of an "Aztec" poem, "The Death of Tlacahuepan."

Sosa starts in left field 🆚: Colorado Rockies 🏟: Citizens Bank Park ⏰: 6:05 p.m. ET 📺: NBC Sports Philadelphia 📻: English: 94 WIP | Spanish: 106.1 Rumba

I have had my Wawa. I have my Phillies gear on. I’ve been doing my lucky rituals before I head to the Bank. I believe in us winning tonight. Let’s go Fightins.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Please let that man retire now

I got to handle first edition first prints of Las Casas and Cervantes today and they were stunning. Please some liberal arts college in Philly hire me so I can just be here and take my students to all of Philly’s incredible Spanish language rare book and manuscript collections forever.

List of affected schools. Look, we’re number two. web.archive.org/web/20260507...

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

I never thought I would see an instance of someone in a trial referring to Maria de Riviera (Las Blancas) as "quiet, kind, and generous" but here I am reading that sentence.

Hey so as someone actually representing people arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE and doing it pro bono, if you think @katmabu.bsky.social is exaggerating about the cost, you have absolutely no idea. I literally maxed out every credit card I have just on expenses. And that's for STATE court.

Just go to the tack store 🤷‍♀️

Can’t wait to hear what the World Cup visitors think of the endless haunted hallways beneath City Hall

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

For further context, and in contrast to what the IHE article from yesterday stated, the hack is very much still ongoing (it appears that Instructure tried to fix the Canvas breach, but the hackers got around the patches again today). www.thedp.com/article/2026...

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This Canvas jawn has me deeply concerned about my Zotero library…