Benjamin Morgan
@benjaminmorgan.bsky.social
Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this
if only a wealthy donor would endow a fund to supply classrooms with chalk and dry erase markers...
July 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
if only a wealthy donor would endow a fund to supply classrooms with chalk and dry erase markers...
fantastic headline 10/10
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
fantastic headline 10/10
word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau
Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)
April 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)
olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)
non-academic at dinner last night: "wow, so what made you care about something so much that you felt you needed to write an entire book about it?"
April 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
non-academic at dinner last night: "wow, so what made you care about something so much that you felt you needed to write an entire book about it?"
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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected
March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected
Chicago should thank me for booking a trip to Sicily this week, thereby ensuring that it would be warmer in Chicago than in Sicily
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Chicago should thank me for booking a trip to Sicily this week, thereby ensuring that it would be warmer in Chicago than in Sicily
My doctor told me that my eye condition “was written about in Ancient Greece,” which is arguably the least useful information a doctor has ever given me
March 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My doctor told me that my eye condition “was written about in Ancient Greece,” which is arguably the least useful information a doctor has ever given me
i feel like I should be paid five cents every time I have to do two-factor authentication
March 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
i feel like I should be paid five cents every time I have to do two-factor authentication
It’s actually very funny that Severance uses college teaching to stand in for work-life balance in the backstory
March 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It’s actually very funny that Severance uses college teaching to stand in for work-life balance in the backstory
can an experienced cat owner explain to me how it is possible for my cat to shed his weight in fur on a daily basis?
March 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
can an experienced cat owner explain to me how it is possible for my cat to shed his weight in fur on a daily basis?
let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them
it's definitely just a matter of time before Google shuts down Google Books, right?
March 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
it's definitely just a matter of time before Google shuts down Google Books, right?
William Stanely Jevons, May 1866: "Of course one must be criticised and abused a little. The more one's name is named now, the better for my professorship appointment."
March 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
William Stanely Jevons, May 1866: "Of course one must be criticised and abused a little. The more one's name is named now, the better for my professorship appointment."
“I am not going to get sucked into that drama” I say to myself as I get sucked into that drama
February 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“I am not going to get sucked into that drama” I say to myself as I get sucked into that drama
citing my physical copy of the OED like a luddite because I can't stand having URLs in my footnotes
February 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
citing my physical copy of the OED like a luddite because I can't stand having URLs in my footnotes
shoutout to my friend who instead of asking "what is your book about?" asked "it is annoying if I ask what your book is about?"
February 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
shoutout to my friend who instead of asking "what is your book about?" asked "it is annoying if I ask what your book is about?"
one thing I think chicagoans don't understand is that in other parts of the country you often have to worry about using too much water
February 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
one thing I think chicagoans don't understand is that in other parts of the country you often have to worry about using too much water
Our extremely on-brand Valentine’s Day activity is going to hear Schoenberg and Wagner at CSO
February 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Our extremely on-brand Valentine’s Day activity is going to hear Schoenberg and Wagner at CSO
For some reason, getting up at 5am seems fine but getting up at 4:55am feels inhumane
February 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
For some reason, getting up at 5am seems fine but getting up at 4:55am feels inhumane
fun fact: every Thomas Hardy novel describes at least one sunset
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
fun fact: every Thomas Hardy novel describes at least one sunset
Does anyone have recommendations for things to do and eat in Palermo?
February 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Does anyone have recommendations for things to do and eat in Palermo?