Troy Osborne

My morning joy!

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

This is pretty striking: in just 20 years, Canada has gone from being a country where 45% of people aged 25-64 had a post-secondary credential to one where 65% had one. How did we do it? A mix of aging-out of the less-educated, strong post-secondary participation, and immigration policy.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

(walking into an academic's office) wow! have you skimmed all these books?

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

My home region of West-Flanders is asking people to register old fruit trees on their properties into a central database. Once the species has been identified by an expert, they can then be introduced into modern orchards, preserving their historic DNA and flavors.
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YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium 2 Hours of Nudibranchs to Relax/Study To! | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio

Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧

Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

The Onion Magazine: Acts Of Profound And Unspeakable Evil Get A Bad Rap: Do They Really Deserve It?

The Onion Magazine:

Acts Of Profound And Unspeakable Evil Get A Bad Rap: Do They Really Deserve It?

Yes, please! Thanks.

I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️
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Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."

I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

Good to see there's an active #earlymodern community on here, so you may be interested in our digitised collections of 16th-18th century manuscripts #histmed #medhums #skystorians archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

I also made one specific to History of Christianity

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Now that more people are arriving on this page: pulled together some of the #earlymodern centres & journals that already are here into a neat starter pack, for easy following or simply to check those posts as a list. go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

I’ll know the right Third Act moment to open the compound to the zombie horde because “Our time is done - now the world belongs to them.”

A reminder to my academic colleagues that the incoming freshman class was born in 2006 which means that

- they have no memory of the Roman Republic
- for them, Julius Caesar has always been dead
- they consider Virgil to be old people’s poetry
- they don’t care about Sulla’s proscriptions

Me and Anubis are laughing at how heavy your heart is, man. He’s doing bits. Like acting like he can’t even lift it with both hands haha. Acting like he’s doing bicep curls with it. I’m like, damn, Anubis is in his bag

I guess it's time to "condemn the Anabaptists" once and for all.

"Unaltered Augsburg Confession"- As a Reformation historian, I'm delighted to see that the Walz pick has revived interest in 16th-century Lutheran intraconfessional controversy.
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A sweaty history teacher! Finally, a politician I can relate to.

"Our school didn’t have air conditioning, and he would just get all sweaty and really passionate about whatever he was talking about. And it was just, you know, his shirt would get disheveled, but the passion would transfer over to us."

Student recalls MN Gov/VP candidate Tim Walz's history class.

Thanks David. I lived in his district when he first ran for congress and saw him give his stump speech. I was excited to vote for him then, and I'm glad to read that he's continued to do good things.

CfP: “Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective,” to be held July 22-24, 2025, Elizabethtown College (PA).

The conference will focus on c16th and c17th Anabaptism, esp. the global context in which Anabaptism emerged and spread.

For more information, see the full call below:

#earlymodern

Visitors To The UK An attempt to capture and disseminate information about earlymodernists visiting the UK.

Hey #earlymodern #skystorians! If you are not normally UK-based but are planning to be in the UK in the coming academic year: let us know!

UK-based people might like to invite you to give a paper, cover a lecture, grab coffee, meet with students, etc.

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My father's go to exclamation was "Judas Priest," which I'm trying to revive. That and "tickety boo."