repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Portland never stops being Portland.

Early history of the papacy a bit of a touchy subject in on Wikipedia, it seems

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

The latest chalkboard design by one of our digital humanities center student workers 😍 #DHmakes

I love this!

Devon Fitzgerald @devinfitz.bsky.social with the first talk at the Forms & Function symposium, talking about the Xi’an Nestorian Stele!

Become ungovernable

"Delve" is all over my dissertation. I've cut almost all instances from the related book project.

Literal LOL

This is bound to be excellent!

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

It's a narrative logic that is at such odds with students' general expectation of a largely spoiler-free experience that it always leads to great discussions!

Today in my crime fiction/ghost stories class we are talking about the Peony Pavilion. I absolutely love that the first scene just straight up gives away the whole plot. Essentially, Tang Xianzu is saying, "buckle up, this is what we are going to be talking about for the next 24 hours."

And they weren't really used for the business, as you an imagine. More as sort of an amusement. The real business was all done with offset lithography (and an Intertype machine before that)

These, along with a few other drawers, were definitely used for everything!

I’ve not gotten there, but I’ve hear that this is a rough one

This is always one of my favorite facts! and reminds me I need to do something with the type drawers that I inherited when my uncles retired and closed down their print shop (which are just sitting there staring at me from across the room)