Dr Basil Arnould Price

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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These are communications degrees. This is literally what communications is for.

Can't have fine arts, but we can have hyper-specific degrees in influencing. Because a liberal arts education is only for the wealthiest scions, everyone else goes into debt for glorified job training.

Hey #medievalsky ! I’m designing a medieval hero & monsters literature class. If anybody has some syllabi they would be willing to share, I would super appreciate it !

Are they sexy at the very least?

Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...

Almost certainly. Pure shit.

what the hell is this

#CADHE statement in support of Texas Tech Faculty. #MADC

Research Vacancies | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

4 year fully funded PhD at University College Cork in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings for the ERC-funded @norsemap.bsky.social project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #medievalsky

transgender for everybody, especially me.

should we form a committee about this?

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TT job in open field of Indigenous Studies/Literatures, St. Thomas More College, USask: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

and i think i’ve also seen them use these terms for sámi, at least “berdache” which is…… something …..

The Arctic Great Game America risks losing it.

"Mary Thompson-Jones’s recent book, AMERICA IN THE ARCTIC, offers a timely and informative narrative of how the United States acquired and maintained its status as an Arctic power."—Heather A. Conley, Foreign Affairs

It’s 🏳️🌈COVER REVEAL💪🏽 Friday for @crileysnorton.bsky.social & Darius Bost!

A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE US is the first-ever Black history to center queer voices, tracing the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day.

Watch this space in January 2026!👀

Cover design: Louis Roe

Yes, exactly! Do read this on academia edu and AI in general.
"Some things seem inevitable, even though, or rather because, they are forced upon us. This is accompanied by a certain type of pressure that is already beginning to change research practices."

Finally website official with SUNY Oneonta ! suny.oneonta.edu/english/facu...

Is there anything a chip burger can’t solve ? With enough chip burgers, we could end fascism.

New book by one of my best friends :-)

"Gender Ideology" is do-I-get-to-exist. "Just asking questions" - yes, the question is, do-I-get-to-exist. "Shoving it down our throats" - Existing. "Debate" - yes, over whether I get to exist. "I was shut down by the far left" - when you said people don't/shouldn't exist.

Ugh, I’m so sorry to hear this !! It’s a brutal market this yr.

Writing about this literally right now with my colleague Liam Waters !

Scumbag medievalism! It's not about the fact that we've got a South Asian dude (who looks like the lead in a stoner comedy who, through a series of preposterous events, finds himself in way over his head) invoking Norse mythology in memory of a Christian, it's about the vibes and the signaling

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You still have time #medievalsky to submit to the coolest sessions at Leeds ! 👇