You didn't get a doctorate so you could 'get your syllabus approved' and then 'not depart from it' and just 'tell the students what they need in order to work in their profession'. You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.

Had to write about Angus King's declaration that "standing up to Trump didn't work" because I've never heard anything bleaker in my life. badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

We academic types like to think of our jobs as our callings, but just remember: a university is your workplace and your employer. It is not your family or your saviour. We trade our labour for pay like anyone else. Love what you *do*, but remember: institutions can't love you back. *join a union

Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism. I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

I just love my bike so much.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

So the fact that the Achaeans left us a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a wooden horse, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the prophet Laocoön and his sons that they insist we don’t bring the horse inside the walls of Troy. Laocoön is an Aegean-class Loser!!! MIGA

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

"I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late" -Mahmoud Khalil, today in the @washingtonpost.com Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.

JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine. It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn! Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Third time I’m posting this article today. Because I believe it’s correct and essential for everyone’s wellbeing.

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

I am not sure that an article has ever better encapsulated a thing that causes me an almost insurmountable level of frustration. There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...

How I think I look when teaching/how I actually look

Look For The Helpers - defector.com/look-for-the...

It’s all shiny and real now!

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??

this is the Audubon sketch for A Podcast

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

@pablo.show Today's celebrity fragrance show made me laugh out loud over lunch. What an incredibly dumb and ultimately incredibly insightful premise. Loved it. Keep up the good work.

Yesterday got me thinking about this amazing thread from David McKenna, who as far as I'm aware does not have an active presence on Bluesky. Highlight tweet of the thread (for me) first, then the full thread archive.ph/GSSce

@seanhannan.bsky.social The Tivoli was exactly the place we were looking for last night. Impeccable taste.

Drinking hotel beers and reading a Star Wars novel after a very successful day of Conferencing. Hooray #sblaar2024

About 7.5 hours until I leave for #SBLAAR2024 and both my paper and handout are ready to go. I… I don’t even recognize myself anymore.

Hey new friends! I’ll be presenting at #Sblaar on Saturday morning w/ @alexianafry.bsky.social Come hear us talk about migration and identity formation in the ancient world. My paper is on P. Amh. 63, Jeremiah, and reflections on life in the Judean diaspora.