My (non-academic) friend/neighbor, slightly high, begged me to sit by the pool with her while she did her SoCal thing but I wanted to read so I ended up reading The Odyssey out loud to her and now she is 1000% IN for the journey.

Dr. Paula R. Curtis@paularcurtis.bsky.social · 3w ago

A perfect time to reread @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s fantastic translation. 😍 I stole the hardcover from my besties to read over Christmas after gifting it to them when the book first came out, and it’s just as beautiful to finally own as a paperback!

🙏🏻🙏🏻

Dr. Paula R. Curtis@paularcurtis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

omg! already on the website! so excited to see @noahwblan.bsky.social's book on Carolingian ecological sovereignty coming out in August!! definitely bookmark it, folks! 😍 #medievalsky www.arc-humanities.org/978180270283...

Genuinely one of the most influential graphic novelists of all time and her passing is so heartbreaking. Please read Persepolis if you haven’t, it’s a poignant story of resistance that deserves all the love

Tlacatecolote (Owl-Man)@arrioti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56 Her graphic novel series, published in English in 2003, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. The work helped millions relate to Iranians. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

“I’d like the ‘chipper chicken’”

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's an out-of-context movie line you find yourself thinking about or saying from time to time? I've got: "The lice hate the powdered sugar" And occasionally "you look better than Veronica Lake" (my wife looks nothing like Veronica Lake or Kim Basinger)

If you've already had your doom quotient for the day, I'd recommend skipping this.

Thiago Krause@thiagokrause.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pretty good piece on LLMs and the university, and quite scary, to be frank.

This is a post in which I remind myself and anyone who cares why Oathbreakers (www.harpercollins.com/products/oat...) by @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social is so great to read but also to teach with. But let me back up a bit first to explain why I’m teaching it at all.

Oathbreakers

“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal “An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly The authors of The Bright Ages return with ...

harpercollins.com

Sometimes you are ready to face the work day and sometimes you are down a rabbit hole looking at 2,000 BCE Japanese pottery that looks like Snorlax before 8AM.

Got my TDAP booster today. Cheers to another decade of immunity from nineteenth century diseases! 💉😷

There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says

‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class

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SAUCE CALL! Someone gifted me a yuzu ponzu sauce (!) and it got me thinking, maybe I'm not bored with food, maybe I'm just not punching it up enough with dope sauces. Do you have a sauce that's killer? Smother everything in it? A chimichurri you'd smack on a donut? Tell us us (me) your secrets! 👀

Me: Did you miss me? Him: Did you miss ME??????

It's that time of year! Since 2020, when we all started saying "I didn't have that on my bingo board!" I have been collecting the most brain-breaking, exasperating, and otherwise unexpected news throughout the year. But this year felt kind of special, didn't it? Who could keep up? This felt right.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

As course evaluations open, don't forget the importance of telling students *why* evals matter. I like to explain their use for TT faculty vs. contingent faculty and how students contribute to ed processes through them. I also explain biases, with this helpful viz: benschmidt.org/profGender/#...

"He and other teachers hand-picked students who looked like they might be isolated, or might be into darker art and music — kids who might be potential metalheads. More than fifty students initially enrolled. By the end of the first semester, kids were sneaking out of other classes to join."

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

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That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.

Michel Kasprzyk@michelkasprzyk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Some incredible news: yesterday's AMA with r/PritzkerPosting raised over $1,000 for the NIJC! Thank you to all who came out and participated! www.reddit.com/r/PritzkerPo...

From the PritzkerPosting community on Reddit: A message from Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker: celebrating over $1000 raised for the National Immigrant Justice Center!

Explore this post and more from the PritzkerPosting community

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This slaps🤘🏻

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · 10mo ago

it would mean the world if you watched & shared the video for “horseglue,” which is a treatise on the media’s complicity in genocide, authoritarianism and most importantly… climate change. video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.

Today for my materiality class we read a chapter in Karen Gerhart's book The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan, and based on her fastidious work I created a competitive "set up the medieval death scene" game. 💀 My students competed to set up the corpse with the correct trappings.

This is great too lol

Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social · 10mo ago

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

I love this.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Books are like food. Some are meant to be tasty snacks, and some are meant to be gourmet meals. Either can be equally delicious, depending on what you’re craving.

Important: “What unites these professionals is their expertise in designing and delivering on the academic mission of the university, with special emphasis on student success…In essence, they do academic work, but without academic protections.”

Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)

Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.

insidehighered.com

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

press.jhu.edu

All-day wildcard baseball and a series-concluding W matchup this evening featuring a supremely gutsy Fever team and on the other side the league MVP makes for quite a day of consequential sports viewing.

Blood and thunder!

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The W is where it’s at!

The W.N.B.A.’s Growing Fan-Base

nytimes.com

Well, at least we know with certainty that the bears are not a serious team. Changes my commitments for the season probably for the betterment of my mental health 🙃