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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 17h

"From 1980 to 1987, Carson taught Classics at Princeton as an instructor and later assistant professor, but was not granted tenure at the end of her term"

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 18h

I received the same message—it's offensive.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 23h

All this Bard news makes me think about a former colleague here who constantly complained about how much unlike Bard we were, how great Bard was, and how much credit Botstein deserved.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had no idea, but it explains much.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you don't need to write an actual essay to get a 5 on any ap exam these days

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Innocent until proven guilty etc, but this is so beyond.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What an upsetting story: “In a court filing on Tuesday arguing that Dr. Ha should be detained, federal prosecutors said that he “terrified” a co-worker by posting the victim’s home address, his infant child’s name, a photograph of the family’s mailbox and “countless antisemitic slurs and threats.”

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Religion Professor Accused of Harassing Colleague With Antisemitic Posts

The professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania was charged with cyberstalking in connection with what federal prosecutors say was a series of threatening messages to a co-worker.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She came by Grinnell a few years ago. One of my students had done a project on them and was so excited to have them on campus.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have that too! It's next on the agenda.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This always took place on the Tuesday following Plough-Monday. Yesterday the Straw-bear was a boy, and I saw no dancing. Otherwise there was no change.'" (553 of the Oxford World's Classic edition)

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In my boyhood, the Straw-bear was a man completely swathed in straw, led by a string by another and made to dance in front of people's houses, in return for which money was expected.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'When I was at Whittlesey yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a "Straw-bear," if not two, in the street. I had not been at Whittlesey on the day for nearly forty years, and feared the custom had died out.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"In England a custom like some of the preceding still prevails at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire on the Tuesday after Plough Monday, as I learn from an obliging communication of Professor G. C. Moore Smith of Sheffield University. He writes:

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Doing an independent study in which we're reading Frazer's Golden Bough and I regret to say that this book is not it. Frankly, it's terrible.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Presumably you took actual students. Feline safety is not taken as seriously.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression organization, the ADL, and others. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

jewishcurrents.org

What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Did Ibn Taymiyya Have a Screw Loose?" is an actual article published about him. www.jstor.org/stable/1595400

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Client Challenge

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best decision I ever made was to luck into buying a house in 2021 with an interest rate below 3%.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026

AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

an approximate graph of a poll saying that ~80% of americans think "america would be better off if more americans worked in manufacturing" whereas ~25% believe "i would be better off if i worked in a factory." the republicans polled were slightly higher in both before somebody gets mad at me for not making this about that

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have such a visceral dislike of Mayor Pete; he strikes me as no different than Emanuel or Newsom. I don't get his charisma at all. I guess he is a Temu Obama and I never really liked Obama either.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a headline, lmao. Two of every fact!

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actblue messaging me: "Wow... just wow. ActBlue's CEO got subpoenaed." Me: "Thank God."

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great place to find an AI girlfriend.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Obviously, I am not going to click on this link, but it cracks me up and speaks to how professional pols view the world, that "quitting the Democratic party" means also voting for Trump. Also, yes, just selling a book etc.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I'm out of touch, because I've only seen five of the top 10 shows, and Curb Your Enthusiasm is the only one I didn't give up on (although I'll never get around to watching them all).

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"If you bring an iced coffee... you're disqualified." "How could you say that? I actually offer people coffee!" This discourse is engineering to drive me, specifically, crazy. OP is right, ofc.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oppenheimer *was* quite fussy about his porkpie hat.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My aunt got caught in a parking lot when the tornado hit! It was a time for sure.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

High means good, generally.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our own Ben Franklin, they say.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He looks like the oldest child I've ever seen, holy moly.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been using shared OneDrives for my classes and it has been working really well, as far as I can tell.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.