In "Content Machines," @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social considers how short-form, platform-based, and social media writing on digital mediums like Wattpad and TikTok has reshaped the modern reading and writing landscape. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Tip538L

friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! 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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I keep seeing versions of this argument. Yet I am still waiting for it to be taken seriously by those institutions responsible for maintaining the humanities.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4w ago

We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI ft.trib.al/SDdQK9q | opinion

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

“We are expected to be good academics, which means hypocrites and opportunists.” lithub.com/intifada-on-...

Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide

[To rise, she rises, I rise, we rise, an uprising] لا يقيم العزيز في البلد السهل      ولا ينفع الذليل النجاء The noble never reside in easy lands, and flight will not avail the lowly  This is a lin…

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A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities. @delia.bsky.social says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too

“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.

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NORTHWESTERN: *appoints prof as inaugural Chair of Social Justice in Reporting* PROF: *supports social justice* NORTHWESTERN: No not like that

Simply imagine the employment possibilities for the rest of us, in literally any profession, if we just immediately fired predatory men.

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social · last mo.

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Daniel Moraff from her campaign over sexual misconduct complaints that Lee received about Moraff. Moraff is being ridiculed for not properly vetting Platner, but our investigation shows Moraff was hiding his own sexual misconduct issues

Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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AJR's Review Forum of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) continues an essay from Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

Remembering Broken Promises and Shattered Voices — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

In the wake of collective trauma, memory practices can be protective strategies that channel grief while also shielding the community from continuing harm.

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Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the publication of our Spring 2026 issue! Today, we are featuring Edward E. Curtis's important article on the intersection religion and Arab American studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment

“We hear you. You are valid. You. Matter. Secondly, and no less importantly, let me make something clear: The. Endowment. Is. Not. For. You.” May 11 2021 5/8...

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Looks like it’s time to bring back the #chroniclepitchbot again. “Is this decontextualized, historically inept, and badly substantiated report by tenured professors at high profile institutions stupid and violent? We asked the writers.” www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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"Depending on sector and institutional type, presidential compensation ranged from roughly three times to more than five times the average salary of a full professor. That ratio remains one of the clearest illustrations of the widening gap between executive compensation and faculty pay."

Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.

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let me know if you want a copy!

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Philological Encounters Vol. 11 Nos. 1-2: Special Issue: edited by J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus (2026) brill.com/view/journal... The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology @greggiven.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @yitzl.bsky.social @danielpicus.bsky.social

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Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Philological Encounters Vol. 11 Nos. 1-2: Special Issue: edited by J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus (2026) brill.com/view/journal... The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology @greggiven.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @yitzl.bsky.social @danielpicus.bsky.social

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

The 12th Nordic Patristic Meeting PRAYER IN LATE ANTIQUITY 📍 University of Helsinki, Finland 📅 20–22 August 2026 Join leading scholars from around the world for 2.5 days of presentations and discussion on prayer in Late Antiquity. Registration is now open. Welcome! blogs.helsinki.fi/npm2026helsi...

Out in the world! Congratulations, @philharland.bsky.social !

The episode of Byzantium & Friends where I discuss my book is now available!

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Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

A mere four months later he instead bestowed upon us an entirely fresh 16k words—offered, poignantly, in memory of Elizabeth Clark. Folks, you will not be surprised to hear that it's really good. Available now in advance access. brill.com/view/journal...

Greg Given@greggiven.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In August last year, @danielpicus.bsky.social and I reached out to Mark Vessey to ask if he'd consider revising his brief response to an SBL panel a few years back to offer it as an afterword to our special Issue of Philological Encounters, "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology."

Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56813 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Religious studies folks! Check out this late-breaking postdoc (start date: mid-August 2026) at Columbia's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life www.ircpl.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...

coming soon from @adeler.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Theories, Models, and Metaphors in the Historiography of Christian Origins

Cambridge Core - Global History - Theories, Models, and Metaphors in the Historiography of Christian Origins

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Rinaldo Walcott cuts to the chase:"The ongoing canard that universities have been taken over by the left has been useful to deploy so that the conservative institution of the university can continue,w/minimal changes, its ongoing sorting, ranking,& ordering of peoples in service of dominant forces."