Dr Basil Arnould Price

The unspeakable cruelty and grotesque behavior of our government continues to shock.

This is the only way I’m going to get my marking done.

I now feel compelled to re-share this on the perils of citing writers of a certain age when doing history.

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So the next time someone tries to draw you into a conversation about that piece they saw on 60 Minutes or read in the NYT about how educators are coping with/ combatting/whatever students using GenAI, don’t accept that framing. Make it about the industry that is impoverishing their education.

It is a waste of educators’ labor to worry about policing students’ work or jury rigging AI-proof assignments.There are desultory ways of going about responding to such papers. But that doesn’t mean acquiescence. That means working towards and demanding structural changes at our institutions.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2026–2027

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2026–2027

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2026–2027 grant competition.
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Have you also considered: napping to catch up on sleep after a conference

What a great looking set of sessions !

It’s cold here. ❄️

#medievalsky, don't forget to submit your papers!
#CFP !!! We want to hear all about your favorite antagonists, outlaws and troublemakers! @leedsims.bsky.social

Last day for sending them in is Dec 8th!

Flight back to NY is word time !

DADA: December Academic Deadline Achievement ?

Y e s !

Paying danegeld pre-emptively has always worked out remarkably well for the appeaser. Don't look it up.

Excited to see you- and to crash the early medieval Europe wine reception 🍷

Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities.

Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling.

www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...

Delighted to be heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a very full dance card - don’t miss Dan Reeve and I’s four sessions on queer and trans temporalities ! 🏳️‍⚧️⏰ #imc2026

book title page in gothic print, dano-norwegian and sami facing one another

A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi

Crashed my bike and broke my radius but mostly worried about deadlines 🥲

Just a broken radius 🦴🥲

The peas are not helping me write

How does one cope with loads of writing deadlines, a pile of grading, and, as of yesterday, a broken arm?

No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe by Rowan Dorin

Rowan Dorin

Congrats to Rowan Dorin, whose book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe is the Finalist for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture category!

Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0

The incredible @jameyj.bsky.social deserves all the accolades in the world, and this article is 🔥🔥🔥

My copy of EV Gordon’s Introduction to Old Norse is in two separate pieces and I simply refuse to get rid of it.

Hi! This is today ! Please come along !

They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT.

It's obscene.

Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

“the loss of deep literacy is not an organic development or an accident without an author but rather the intentional consequence of concrete actions undertaken by the unholy alliance of capital and the state, which has availed itself of technology to slowly erode our capacity to understand…”