Laurie Pearce

Maybe ......

Revenge will come when she's old enough to spout things you have said and realizes OMG I sound (or worse: I've become) like my mother!

understood!

Asking for technical information: would that help in view of the fact that a fair amount of uni activity (emails, e.g., and I assume anything else done on uni computers?) are archived?

Second proofs thing sent!

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Stand Up for UC We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel Cambridge Core - Economic History - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Planning to spam the timeline for the next 2 weeks to make sure as many people as possible can get a copy during the free period. Stay tuned for increasingly unhinged posts as I find ways to amuse myself

Did you feel it?

Just sent a thing back to the editors. Two things crept up to fill its place!

You get a night off!

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.

Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

Elementary Phoenician – Grammar and Inscriptions

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And here in the US, with the shutdown of the weather service, those 20,000 residents might get no warnings.

vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

That 10% of what just got cut from Education.

Priceless ;)

letter sent to my rep (former speaker Pelosi)! @homophonous.bsky.social has gotten me into active letter writing mode

My Superb Owl pick

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”

A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Give the workshop talk. There is no excuse for such inconsiderate treatment of a guest speaker.

Thank you for posting Miriam! I've never made such calls, and there is no better time than now to start. Thanks for the head-start with the script and list of contacts!!!

Please post when/where that appears!

alf mabruk!

I learned the word from an episode of Wait, Wait (I think---it was definitely NPR)

editor asked for acceptance of a number of small changes. done and thing sent back.

At least you can find eggs!

I was going to say it has a blue cover, but then I saw the rest of your post.