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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Look at this noble, furry creature sitting on an issue of The New Yorker

Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

From a letter of recommendation I've just sent off: "______ is that rarity of rarities: a born researcher, a subtle thinker, a curious mind, a scholar of the highest ethics, and—perhaps rarest of all—a pre-modernist." 😀 #premodern

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Please enjoy this moment of quacky levity, brief respite for trying times

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Just inhaled The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, on the heels of reading There Are Rivers in the Sky. Both dark _and_ life-affirming, the ideal antidotes/escapes for the current moment :-/ More of this, so please share recs

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.

"I wrote: "Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.""

"The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past."

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

No one warned me that embroidering was addictive. I’ve quit my academic gig — this is my full time job now

Photo of a miniature embroidered Christmas sweater with the face of a black and white cat on it.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

UMass-Amherst is hiring “a specialist in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world” ! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Bummed that I’m gonna have to report this student for submitting work that is not their own

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.

Photograph showing the opening pages from a juz' (section) of a Mamluk Qur'an manuscript

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Does anyone I know have an image of documenta XV (2022)? Ideally one showing after artworks were taken down??

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The job market for human-type ministers will now tank

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 04/10/2025

Here's an 11th-century Jewish manuscript that refers to God as Allah and wishes for the reader to have "jihad of his soul in love for his Creator"

Torn and crinkled brown-ish parchment manuscript with about 30 lines of Judaeo-Arabic text, set on a light blue grid background. The uploader has highlighted portions with red boxes and transliterated with inserted Arabic text, reading الله and واجهاد نفسه في حب خالقه

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:

Screenshot of text from the AI website reading: “The Art Recognition award-winning AI system verifies the authenticity of an artwork based only on a photograph of it.”

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Excited to share my friend/colleague Melissa Kerin’s hot off the press @hyperallergic.com piece on Tibetan Buddhist museum shrine rooms. It’s likely to ruffle some feathers of our curator colleagues, but it needed to be said hyperallergic.com/1038180/the-...

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The Fetishistic Fiction of Museum “Tibetan” Shrines

Institutions peddle a Western aesthetic of “traditional” Tibetan shrines without scholarly backing, negating their limitless lived variety.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

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Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students

Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My first concert was the Violent Femmes. I was 13.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?

Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3 percent.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Amherst College is hiring a full-time lecturer of architectural design, candidates should have an M.Arch or equivalent and ideally bring experience teaching arch design studios in a small liberal arts college setting apply.interfolio.com/171730

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Please vote for @stephenniem.bsky.social’s Gaming Islamic History panel to be featured at the next SXSW! While gaming is well represented among the slate of panel options, Islamic gaming (indeed ANYTHING having to do with Islam) is not.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If you're in the vicinity of Middletown CT on September 16, come on out to this public lecture I'll be giving at Wesleyan (and if you're not there but ARE in Boston, I'll be giving it again at Tufts the following week). I'd love to see folks there! www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2...

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Art History Lecture: Sonja Drimmer Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue,
Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and the practice of art history in lecture "Extracting the Past: How the 'AI' Industry Exploits Art History and What We Can Do to Stop It."

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.

Peter Hegseth tweet announcing reinstallation of Arlington Confederate Monument

photograph of the Arlington Confederate Monument before removal

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Many congrats to the award recipients, but worth also underscoring the fact that the awardee projects are largely limited to to U.S., Greco-Roman antiquity, Shakespeare, and AI.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

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How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer

Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

NYPL fellowship to use their Islamic Studies/Middle East/N. Africa-related collections: networks.h-net.org/jobs/68904/n...

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The New York Public Library - Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship | H-Net

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Marsely Kehoe @marselykehoe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Awesome new tenure-track position posted at Middlebury: early modern Mediterranean art history plus digital art history/digital humanities/data #dh #dah #earlymodern apply.interfolio.com/170982

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is so brilliant and intersectional, and I love that they’re utilizing title vi for this purpose!

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This week my university announced its proud partnership with the ADL. I feel safe already.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Anyone have a contact with COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) in Israel? Trying to help someone who's been admitted to a U.S. uni but has been unable to get COGAT approval to leave. (Please feel free to contact me privately.)

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Food people: is Scottish tablet basically the same thing as barfi? Is there any historical connection between the two?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Universities should be the places rapidly raising the alarm about AI, not adopting it

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is absolutely amazing, not least the way that the amicus brief turns Title VI on its head. The authors are 100% correct: universities and colleges have no business adjudicating who or what is authentically Jewish.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This accords with my sense that SLACs like Williams will be among the few higher ed. institutions in the U.S. that will be able to reject these strings-attached federal grants & still get by. Now is the time for well-resourced SLACs to step up and be among the vanguard.

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Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Western writers have long hesitated to call Byzantium what it was: the Roman Empire. Historian Anthony Kaldellis calls this “Roman denialism” & has spent years critiquing it. Now he takes the fight to a popular audience. By Luka Ivan Jukić in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/overc...

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Overcoming the Deep Roots of Byzantine Orientalism

A new book masterfully lays out the history of the Eastern Roman Empire and its legacies

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

That time I presented a paper at a Rubens conference at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp and didn’t get booed off the stage 😀 Was so lovely to be there in springtime with old friends and new colleagues!

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

As dictated by custom, Pope Francis lies in state on…an Iranian carpet.

Official press photograph showing Pope Francis in an open coffin , which rests on a large Iranian carpet.

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It’s gotten so bad in the US that I, a Jew, have taken to masking the word “antisemitism” in emails and texts with colleagues. I do this to protect others from a federal administration bent on destroying higher ed on “behalf of Jews,” and also to protect myself. Are we safer yet?

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Persian #etymology of the day: عید پاک ʿeyd-e pāk "Easter", from Arabic ʿīd "feast, holiday" (from Aramaic or Syriac ʿīḏā) + French Pâques "Easter", from Latin pascha < Greek πάσχα páskha < Aramaic פסחא pasḥā < Hebrew פסח pesaḥ "Passover". Happy Easter!

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

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