Benjamin Morgan

Benjamin Morgan

@benjaminmorgan.bsky.social

Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder πŸš²πŸ¦©πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

1,160 Followers 825 Following 110 Posts Joined Jul 2023
6 months ago
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How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this

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7 months ago

if only a wealthy donor would endow a fund to supply classrooms with chalk and dry erase markers...

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10 months ago
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fantastic headline 10/10

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10 months ago
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word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau

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10 months ago
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Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)

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11 months ago
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olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)

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11 months ago

Alongside that: β€œso when are you going to write a novel?”

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11 months ago

non-academic at dinner last night: "wow, so what made you care about something so much that you felt you needed to write an entire book about it?"

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11 months ago

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

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11 months ago
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I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected

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1 year ago

Chicago should thank me for booking a trip to Sicily this week, thereby ensuring that it would be warmer in Chicago than in Sicily

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1 year ago

My doctor told me that my eye condition β€œwas written about in Ancient Greece,” which is arguably the least useful information a doctor has ever given me

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1 year ago

i feel like I should be paid five cents every time I have to do two-factor authentication

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1 year ago

It’s actually very funny that Severance uses college teaching to stand in for work-life balance in the backstory

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1 year ago

my robot vacuum is begging for mercy!

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1 year ago

can an experienced cat owner explain to me how it is possible for my cat to shed his weight in fur on a daily basis?

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1 year ago
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let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them

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1 year ago

it's definitely just a matter of time before Google shuts down Google Books, right?

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1 year ago

William Stanely Jevons, May 1866: "Of course one must be criticised and abused a little. The more one's name is named now, the better for my professorship appointment."

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1 year ago

β€œI am not going to get sucked into that drama” I say to myself as I get sucked into that drama

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1 year ago

citing my physical copy of the OED like a luddite because I can't stand having URLs in my footnotes

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1 year ago

shoutout to my friend who instead of asking "what is your book about?" asked "it is annoying if I ask what your book is about?"

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1 year ago

But couldn't you plausibly read this graph in the opposite way: that more queer visibility occasioned more repression?

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1 year ago

one thing I think chicagoans don't understand is that in other parts of the country you often have to worry about using too much water

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1 year ago

Our extremely on-brand Valentine’s Day activity is going to hear Schoenberg and Wagner at CSO

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1 year ago

For some reason, getting up at 5am seems fine but getting up at 4:55am feels inhumane

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1 year ago

there are so few "fun" facts about hardy!

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1 year ago

fun fact: every Thomas Hardy novel describes at least one sunset

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1 year ago

Does anyone have recommendations for things to do and eat in Palermo?

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1 year ago

despite my best efforts, I continue to write about the ninteenth century

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