Ellen Muehlberger

Fellowship The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.

Jewish studies folks: The Posen Library has announced their Fellowship competition for this year. Fellows will be paid $8000 and will create teaching materials on specific topics to be published on the Posen Library digital platform. This year's topics and all the deets in the link. Due April 13

Second measles case confirmed in Washtenaw County -- Mall, gym added to list of exposure sites A second measles case has been confirmed in Washtenaw County, and now a mall and a gym have been added to the list of exposure sites.

The week after spring break in a college town always means new crud circulating, but this year, it's 🌟special🌟

Michigan's first two confirmed measles cases of the year, right here at home, with exposure at Briarwood and Sidetrack, among other locations😬

www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

I'm honestly floored that this episode hasn't become everyday canon for us all

Basically, I think of them both like this:

Listen, I am only half joking when I say this

If you can manage not to use AI and not to gamble for the next five years, you will be among the most capable people on the planet

You know it!

Disasters of Biblical Proportions How people have reimagined the story of the ten plagues of Egypt, from antiquity to our own era of relentless catastrophe

what book, you ask?

Steve Weitzman's new one:

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

order it and you, too, can get exclamation points in your inbox!

just ordered a physical book and the confirmation email was

"Your Princeton University Press order!"

and I, for one, am here for the spread of the exclamation point, may they bloom everywhere!

And staff!

lol I also clicked "Reply" to add "And Staff!"

OR STAFF!!!

saaaaame

the private helicopter, if memory serves, was my breaking point

worddddddd

The new JECS editor @emuehlbe.bsky.social is on 🔥🔥🔥 the next issue has been sent to press (with an exciting piece in line from @isaactsoon.bsky.social on deck!). Stay tuned!

The academic equivalent of "you can judge someone by how they act with the server" is "you can judge someone by how they act with students whose success isn't tied to them/doesn't reflect on them" or maybe just "you can judge someone by how they act with students"

I once got an email from a student that started out in regular human voice, but switched into AI voice when it shifted to giving condolences about a recent loss I had mentioned in office hours

flames on the side of my face

Current* conditions near St. Helena Island, MI:

Fantastic!

No, really: you've got a piece that makes a substantial scholarly contribution to the study of early Christianity (100-700 C.E.) on the basis of wide engagement with the primary sources in the original languages and relevant scholarship on the topic in multiple languages?

Come on down!!

[forgive me]

<youth pastor voice>: hey, you know where you can actually get expert review, along with editorial comments from some of the best writers in the field?

mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jecst

One pair lived through a four-day, four-state, one-day-of-deluge trip last and looked like they were new again after I washed em

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Handup is doing really great wool socks and they stand up to gross weather
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If you still think what Grammerly is doing is “enshittification “ and recent but not committed to the long history of slavery, women’s ghost writing , colonialism and anti DEI

that’s why they did it

And will continue to until they learn

My beloved did mid-term feedback in one of her classes yesterday, and one submission said "I don't think people really hear me in this class---I'm not sure they even see me"

she was struck, for a moment, until she realized: it's a class on ghost stories, and someone turned in feedback as a ghost

What’s Going On With That Michigan Boarding School Report? There is something fishy going on with a state-sponsored investigation of Indigenous boarding schools in Michigan. As one headline put it, “Michigan Spent $1.1M Probing Tribal Boarding Schools Then…

Why did Michigan shelve a report on the state’s history of Indigenous boarding schools after paying more than a million dollars to have the report completed?

I don’t know, but I read the report and have some thoughts.

Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century!

Basically, new apocryphon just dropped.

You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...

immediate follow

😬

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

I've got a tenner that says they'd be happy with you using it for everything *but* grading