Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
@drewjakeprof.bsky.social
andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
that's a lot of Tana French (also lmfao at DA VINCI CODE on this list)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2h agoWhat are the best thrillers published since 2000? We sent ballots to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, as well as librarians, editors, critics and more to decide. Explore the full list. nyti.ms/3TBby1f
coming in January from NAPS VP Beth Digeser! www.ucpress.edu/books/consta...
Constantine, the Once and Future King by Elizabeth Digeser - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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(psst! hey you! apparently they haven't shut off the "this is free" button at the press yet, so zip over and download tout de suite!) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
cambridge.org
love how the blurred hair of the person sitting behind him makes it look like he has a mullet
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4h agoRep. Chuck Edwards (R-North Carolina) said he was dropping his reelection bid after the House Ethics Committee recommended censuring him in a report that detailed “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two young female staffers.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
years ago I visited the Museum of the Bible (sort of serendipitously, as it was during a govt shutdown and nothing was open) & had to give my email to buy a ticket online; I still get their emails so now you get to know along with me that the MOTB is having a Back to School Sale (that image!!)
the very first thing Babar says, after great grief, is "I want clothes," much like Job who, after his restoration from suffering, names his daughters after cinnamon and eye makeup. www.thechatner.com/p/babar-the-...
Three Parents Talk About Children's Books: Babar the King
"It therefore makes perfect sense that Babar’s thoughts, after an interval of confused and wordless wandering, drift in the direction of exquisite trifles"
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I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...
Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Love this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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Why Did the Roman Empire Last So Long? | Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-...
Why Did the Roman Empire Last So Long? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Edward J. Watts’s history of the long Roman Empire is a traditional, top-down political narrative.
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Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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It's also job market season and I can set aside time to do application reviews for two people. You don't need to be in religious studies; some of the best feedback I got as an ECR was from colleagues in other disciplines entirely. Again, my inbox is open!
A. M. Vincent@vincent.northsky.social · yesterdayAs it's syllabus time for much of the world, let me remind you that if you've been sent to teach Into Judaism and are struggling, my inbox is open.
get yourself an office-mate who hangs this in the office and who makes sure it points to his desk and not yours (i honestly love it)
was alerted by a reader that the bloom county house is for sale, though apparently in some disrepair www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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A new post on my blog Apocryphicity: a review of a Gradel and Pedersen's The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons, which includes discussion of 10 third-century apotropaic rings. www.apocryphicity.ca/2026/08/04/b...
COUNTERPOINT: all thought is fundamentally political thought
AHA Career Center@historyjobs.bsky.social · 2d agoNew History Job Posted Today: Senior Rank, History of Political Thought | Department of History, Stanford University
Job listing at University of St. Thomas: John and Paula Kelly Family Endowed Professorship in Catholic Leadership and Co-Director of the Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership. Please share! facultyemployment-stthomas.icims.com/jobs/9440/as...
University Of St. Thomas (MN)
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the best part is the mid-credits scene when the whole cast gets together to perform this banger from THE WIZ www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ZT...
A Brand New Day | The Wiz (1978) | TUNE
YouTube video by TUNE - Musical Moments
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has broken the "Avengers: Endgame" record for the biggest North American opening weekend.
two (2) more days to download the latest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity by Virginia Burrus for 💫 free 💫 ! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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And this is why we should cite Abby’s reporting and not other news outlets aggregating it 🙂
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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*Stefon voice* This story has everything: destructive private equity, Robert Kraft, heart attack cover-ups, name-dropping a half-dozen fancy Manhattan restaurants, the Scottsboro boys... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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