me after spending the day car shopping with the kid

I Give Up - The Good Place

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Looking forward to this workshop on Nov. 6 in Princeton at the IAS. Livestream option is available! #earlymodern #skystorians #EarlyModernSpain

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Let's say you've never been to Portland Oregon and you ask me what it's like, I'll say well today I was at the airport walking to the rental cars and there was a therapy alpaca for us all.

v. honored to learn that Society for Renaissance Studies awarded the Biennial 2026 Book Prize to *Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.* Very grateful to the judges for their work, & congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. More here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

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back to baking these days --

run do not walk to the Taryn Simon exhibit at the Guggenheim NYC. The way the exhibit deliberately uses the structure of the building is breathtaking (and that's just one slice)

I really loved Lincoln in the Bardo; while the quote is serious, every time I read this bit, it feels like a line on my CV: "Perennially outmatched by circumstance, Inadequately endowed with compensatory graces"

Ok the classicists had their time in the sun with the Odyssey. But it's time to move over, the Peasants' Revolt movie is coming out! Get ready, medievalists!

self care pep talk in the mirror:

Dan Levy: Get It Together!

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Long overdue snaps from the glorious Zubarán show in London. The crispness of his whites and richness of the textiles (the light glimmering on her skirt!) are extraordinary

(Catholic) author Matthew Walther, on Vance's book communion (in the Atlantic): "he (JD) describes himself attending 'a Mass mourning Christ's passion' a phrase so theologically defective that it could be the subject of an entire ecumenical council." Savage! And true! I laughed out loud.

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UCL History@uclhistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom this November! 📚 A powerful new contribution to the history of slavery, resistance and the Atlantic world. Congratulations, Chloe! 👏 shorturl.at/TsSpH

Posting this old photo in honor of how I cried with relief and gratitude when everyone in my family was able to be vaccinated for Covid. At one site, the state offered people these papers (behind me) to say why they were getting taxed. They were so beautiful to read. #researchsaveslives

Tis the season, the anti Christmas when everything under the tree is a lump of "deadlines I planned to meet in June"

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

I'm on vacation in the PNW. We see a house w/ a huge gate way too fancy for the area & get curious. Husband finds a YouTube video since it was for sale. It's a bizarre European 'style' & the owners were art collectors. in the hallway what Im pretty sure is an 18th c black saint, Benedict of Palermo

The only thing in the natural world i love more than watching the sunrise over mountain tundra it's sipping my coffee on a glorious morning on Vancouve Island. A view of the ocean is right behind those trees, but here i get the birds

I'm from Maryland - Old Bay and our flag are our entire personalities (imo old bay is best on fries)

A hill I will die on: it is correct to translate 'convento' as convent even when you are talking about friars (men). A convent is not a house for women, it is a particular type of religious institution. Likewise, some nuns live in monasteries.

I don't know what im more afraid of - using the loo at the train station or losing my seat in the thunder dome that is this miniscule seating section (long wait)

my social life is so much better in Madrid than home. Maybe because the isolation of the archive demands social decompression, even for an introvert (in contrast to the powerful social demands of the office)?

Heaven is a salt water pool in the blistering countryside.

over 200 hundred entries across 6 archives to put together a complex series of correspondence only to find most of it published in modern edition. So there's that.

I just read that people who curse more are more trustworthy so just so you know, I'm the mistake honest person you've ever met.

One of things I sometimes meditate on is the in betweeness of being a scholar conducting research in Europe, esp in this era of destructive overtourism. Not a tourist, not a resident, trying to minimize impact.

Man I love early modern authors who are haters. I've discovered in a book I'm reading the author reproduced an engraving identical to a famous one in order to ridicule it. Amazing level of disrespect. it made me laugh.

Bounced from suffocating Madrid heat (genuinely making me ill) to cool Lisbon, finding at least one rare book I need. I'm glad I came, in spite of the Last minute scramble. Oh and I found two sculptures of San Bento de Palermo in Spain!

I am crashing out so dramatically in this airport lounge that if I hadn't checked my bag I might flee; aka, the moments after I discover that due to renovations, the archival research I'm crossing an ocean to conduct is impossible