I rarely get to talk about the topics that I actually spend the most time thinking about - teaching, strength, aging, embodied knowledge. So grateful to superstar journalist @chrisgayomali for this interview - and subscribe to his Substack, Heavies! heavies.substack.com/p/why-h…

It is a profound irony that a report criticizing the political bias and loss of rigor in the humanities and social sciences fails to provide a single shred of empirical, quantitative evidence, relying instead on anecdotal evidence.

Interestingly, the recipe as published is titled simply “David’s Cholent,” not “David’s Erotic Cholent,” in *By Special Request*, in Rochelle R. Isserow, ed. (Brookline, 1978), 183-185, where the adjective erotic appears only in the introductory essay, in which the author remarks that cholent without the requisite long, slow Sabbath cooking “ceases to be cholent, and becomes merely another erotic, ethnic dish”; it does not appear in the recipe’s title. The recipe itself, alongside many of his other writings, is available on his Academia page (academia.edu/37452516/David_…). A fitting reminder, perhaps, that attention to the material text can sometimes complicate even the best stories about it, @AnnetteYReed (and cc: @yitzlandes).

A link to a version w/no paywall = dash.harvard.edu/entities/pu… (with thanks @gamzeyaavor for the push to take seriously accessibility)

Open Call for Fellows: @PRRIpoll seeks applicants to join a diverse cohort of 9 non-residential Public Fellows who are engaged in public scholarship at the intersection of #Religion, #Culture, & #Politics. Stipend included. Apply by June 19, 2026. prri.org/open-call/

New position: Professor in Yiddish Literature and Culture, Harvard University, deadline for applications 15th September 2026 eurojewishstudies.org/positi…

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/202… ON SALE NOW! What is the Talmud? The State of the Question: The Proceedings of a Conference at Harvard University The CJS and the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law are excited to announce this new publication.

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Department of Classics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Salzburg Tenure Track Position “Jewish Studies”, deadline for applications: 27th May 2026 eurojewishstudies.org/positi…

Job opportunity 📣 The Jewish Studies Program, in association with the Department of History at Queen's University, invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. Apply by June 10, 2026. queensu.ca/history/about/emp…

in light of the canvas hack, it's worth remembering that canvas/instructure is a private ed tech company that seeks profits from "aggregating and monetizing student data." much like the hackers, the company aims to profit from access to student data. chronicle.com/article/the-cr…

Our annual JHI Graduate Symposium will be held virtually on October 17. The theme is "Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity.” Members of the journal’s editorial board will offer feedback on students’ papers. Proposals are due June 22. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/20…

My gratitude for a wonderful event @ProfTCSchmidt - debating core questions of text & history through the fascinating lens of Josephus on Jesus & sparking lively conversations with an engaged audience of students from across Harvard 🙏

Rereading *Josephus and Jesus* in preparation for our event on Monday—a debate btwn @ProfTCSchmidt & Giovanni Bazzana! For a FREE PDF of this Open Access book = josephusandjesus.com/purchas…

My first debate will be at Harvard Divinity School on April 6. I’ll be in conversation with Harvard Professor Giovanni Bazzana about the authenticity of Josephus’s testimony about Jesus. Unfortunately, it’s only open to Harvard affiliates, but if you qualify please stop by! ancientstudies.harvard.edu/e…

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/fel… Attention Graduate and Undergraduate Harvard students! The CJS is pleased to announce that the application process for the following funding opportunities are now OPEN Click below for details and deadlines!

Marquette Theology is hiring for two tenure track positions, in New Testament and Historical or Systematic Theology. We have a Ph.D. program, reasonable cost of living in a vibrant city, and obviously, awesome colleagues. Please share! 🧵