'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Especially because I've lost count how many mass shooters had a history of intimate partner violence.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
A new immersive exhibition called "Mind of a Serial Killer" opened today in New York City and runs through the end of June. No one will be surprised that I did not care for it, but somehow it was even worse than I expected. My latest at @flaminghydra.com:
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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Congratulations to Prof. Warren Woodfin, who won an NEH grant to fund a book on the Chungul Kurgan, a 13th-century burial site in present-day Ukraine. He explains how the project challenges traditional views of Ukrainian history and has sparked controversy
🎥 Affaire Patrick Bruel : en Belgique, deux attachées de presse et un chauffeur témoignent au micro de @mediapart.fr.
Une plainte pour agression sexuelle a été déposée. Selon nos informations, le parquet de Bruxelles a ouvert une enquête.
Orban's system was rigged to give plurality winners with widespread support in the countryside super-majorities in the parliament - so Peter Magyar generated widespread support in the countryside and has been rewarded with 69% of the parliamentary seats. Now he can undo Orban's constitution!
Here's the (nearly) final total:
Hungary's blue wave . . .
The queen has spoken @jkbjournalist.bsky.social
The queen has spoken @jkbjournalist.bsky.social
Annonce de recrutement d'ATER
#Recrutement 💼
🧑🏫 L'EHESS recrute 10 attachés temporaires d'enseignement et de recherche (#ATER) à mi-temps à compter du 1er septembre 2026.
👉 Candidatures ouvertes jusqu'au 30 avril : https://recrutement.ehess.fr/front-offres.php
#jobs #esr #recherche
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The Waffle House teleportation story from last was obviously...odd, but imo a lot of people are missing just how *conventional* the FEMA guy's type of supernatural thinking has become in American evangelicalism slate.com/life/2026/04...
“Instead, on July 4, 2026, the first American pope will travel to Lampedusa, the Italian island where North African migrants wash ashore by the thousands. Robert Francis Prevost is too deliberate a man to have chosen that date by accident.”
A screenshot of my cover with this quote: David Perry is one of the most trusted voices on how to think, write, and work in public. He has a clear ethic about the critical importance of intellectual labor at a moment when the risks of being public have rarely been greater, and the reasons why academics must risk it have rarely been so clear." - Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times columnist, author of Thick: And Other Essays
My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work.
Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Reasons why me and @lauramorreale.bsky.social and @merleeisenberg.bsky.social started @middleages4educate.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/ng... #medievalsky #skystorians
I love this cover!!!
