Dame Averil Cameron obituary Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

Ancient Persian Cambridge Core - Arabic and Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics - Ancient Persian

New open-access historical sociolinguistics of Persian from the Achæmenid period onward.
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Yeah, bad move to mess with HEB.

Good luck with that. HEB is our Dolly Parton.

I’m at my childhood church and the minister is giving a Biblical sermon against AI-images and ChatGPT and how we must do the difficult work of storytelling, interpretation and history ourselves and I am very proud to be have been baptized and raised at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

“Participants include the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth; and the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy.”

Will Hegseth be reading Ezekiel 25:17?

The Millennial CAPTCHA “CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting ...

"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."

How many times does this have to happen and how many immigrants terrorized. Same result every fucking time. This country does not run without immigrants.

Very sustainable way to manage diplomacy.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Villanova Basketball to Open '26-27 at Eternal City Tip-Off - Villanova University Wildcats men and women to meet the Fighting Irish in a nationally televised doubleheader

This sounds great: "Villanova University and the University of Notre Dame will meet in Rome, Italy, in November 2026 for a unique celebration.... student-athletes from both institutions will open the 2026–27 NCAA basketball season with a marquee men's and women's doubleheader on November 1, 2026."

Multi-omic profiling reveals Retatrutide alleviates adipose tissue fibrosis via metabolic reprogramming and tissue repair - Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome - Retatrutide, a novel GIP, GLP-1, and glucagon receptor triple agonist, exhibits unprecedented weight-reducing efficacy in clinical trials, yet the molecular...

Study in 🐀 however...I think you'd see similar results in humans as well.

"Retatrutide transforms dysfunctional white adipose tissue into a metabolically competent organ by simultaneously enhancing lipid oxidation, suppressing inflammation and fibrotic remodeling, and restoring endocrine function"

Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old)

We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/

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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only
dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver"

some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks...

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The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

🧵America's boldest, most unique educational experiment is ending. Gutted as a @hampshirecollege.bsky.social grad. This is dire for critical thought, intellectual leadership, and left activism in academia and in the US.

More than a *school* -- it was a world changing, status quo-upending revolution:

I never thought I’d live to see the day when there’s a full blown meltdown over the lack of teen pregnancies. Good grief.

Also? Maybe make it easier to afford raising kids?

They aren’t even attempting to veil it anymore that they want a permanent underclass of indentured servant by having teens get pregnant and loosening child labor laws.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

“It’s a real example of what the administration is doing in terms of its mass deportation plan and who it’s targeting,”

New today: After 35 years in Ameria, Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now in an ICE detention center.

The question that I get asked most often these days is: Even if the ceasefire in Iran holds, has the war already imposed large irreversible costs on Americans?

So I made a video about these issues. The stakes may be much larger than you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuS...

I think it charges with time too. Like, I have had a chance to do the R1 thing (and see a lot of changes over the years). I also capitalized in various ways on what that job offered. These days, I’d prefer to be closer to family and old friends.

I would love to read some qual research where people ask faculty their ideal uni to work at, while factoring in where they currently work, and where they got their terminal deg. I'm genuinely curious when and which people preference status over, say, living near family. Someone please do this.

Zelensky just out with a long comment after the latest Ramstein meeting. Optimistic and gives thanks to many partners. Not a single mention of the US helping Ukraine.

The Ukrainians are not hiding the fact that the US is no longer their friend.

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI | TechCrunch Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

Get over your racism to fight declining birthrates and increasing labor demands in limited sectors challenge for nations. Some will get with the program, other nations will double down on their racism and xenophobia.

Many things are bad, but you don't have to be. You can be reliable and stable for yourself and the people you care about. Try to eat something, drink a big glass of water, and do one thing at a time, even if it's an email.

I know how hard and overwhelming everything feels right now. Max loves you.

More higher ed discourse like this please

Housing Should Be Affordable Except When I Sell My House for a Million Dollars “People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades’ worth of repairs ...

"People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades' worth of repairs and home improvements, allow me to purchase a new condo, and fund the next two decades of my retirement. It's that simple."
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Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.” - @colsonwhitehead.com
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Are you in a red state w a Republican governor? Or republican supermajorities? That’ll do it