Hot off the press! The Ends of Time explains why the Chronographia of George the Synkellos & Theophanes -reading which I nearly quit grad school- was powerful & influential in its era. 100% FREE e-book thanks to @mjcbac & @wesleyan_u & @Brill_History! 1/ brill.com/view/title/58361

Where does "Christian" or "Western Civilization" originate? EUROPE?!? LOL Try: Jerusalem, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, Carthage, Caesarea, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople) ... The @VP is mispronouncing "The Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa"

1/ I am a historian and Israeli citizen. For over a year, I’ve been documenting the war in Gaza and periodically publishing my findings here & in link. Today I update the section on hostages. Here’s what I found 🧵: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/

We are delighted to inform you that the website of the 25th International Congress of #ByzantineStudies has now been launched. Please visit us at icbs2026.org/ #ICBS2026 #ICBSVienna

1/ I am an historian and Israeli citizen. Over the past year I have been writing publicly about events in Gaza during the war, while collecting and documenting thousands of pieces of evidence and dozens of reports.

Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion. To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals. Fortunately, science is not confined to institutions. It lives in my mind and heart, and I can enjoy it fully—even from the solitude of my imagination; even if I were to become homeless. Home, however, is precisely what I am fighting for. I only wish I had the privilege to contemplate nature, without the existential threat of Zionism. From my perspective at the margins here at MIT, I have come to see academia for what it truly is: a stronghold of racism, classism, and spiritual rot masquerading as enlightenment. Apologies in advance if I don’t respond to comments on this post—this is a deeply personal reflection, shared primarily for myself.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The years ahead will be rough. Now is not the time for despair or to quit, but to shift energy. Get into community. Learn how to organize. Get grounded physically, spiritually, and creatively. If you haven't already, start NOW.

I don’t think it’s appropriate for universities to invest in weapons manufacturing even if there wasn’t a genocide happening.

on point

UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

It is *possible* the #MNTwins make the playoffs. But having just gone 1-3 vs Cleveland 1-2 vs Boston 1-2 vs MIAMI … I do not WANT the emotional crush that this team will inevitably bring us in the playoffs. We know you tried, guys. This season was a massive Front Office Fail.

FanGraphs' projection of the #MNTwins playoff odds throughout the season definitely captures the mood. fangraphs.com/standings/play…

“we live in a time of comrades and cowards, the dividing line between the two becoming starker by the day. all love to the comrades, nothing but scorn for the legions of cowards in academia and beyond…” -geo maher

Good morning my fellow teachers and students. Remind each other that education is essential and is more needed and desired than ever. Meanwhile the Business of #HigherEducation(TM) continues to exploit our energies, and profit off our pedagogies. Make sure to give it the finger.

📣Join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 12pm ET/7pm Palestine with @FranceskAlbs, @luigidaniele10, & @PeruginiNic to discuss how Israel appropriates International Humanitarian Law to mask atrocities in Gaza. The event will be live-streamed. Register: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…

The Department of African American and African Studies at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American history. hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMP…

Join our first edition of “What Have We Learned?” after one year of Israel’s Genocide with Noura Erakat @4Noura, hosted by Bassam Haddad @4Bassam. Scholars, journalists, activists, and authors select 5 themes/topics and analyze what we have learned about them in ~ 35-40 minutes. Tuesday, 17 September, 2pm EST. Gaza in Context Project is billing this series as lessons learned, one year on, to break through the fog of observations, narratives, data, propaganda, and images we unfathomably continue to access/witness every day. These conversations are relatively short, intense, and insightful, delivered by thoroughly engaged speakers. Catch our next Episode this week with Ussama Makdisi @UssamaMakdisi. More on PalestineInContext.org With Noura Erakat on Tuesday, 17 September, 2pm EST, 9pm Gaza, here on X.com/Jadaliyya and Youtube.com/Jadaliyya

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

Had this idea right as I woke up