Elise Wang
@elisewang.bsky.social
medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
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carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
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Elise Wang
@elisewang.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Someone asked for a thread of my medieval story times (twist my arm!), so here they are. I’ll pin and add as I go!
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My incredible book cover is based on an illustration drawn from this!
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This captures so well the feeling of trying to do scholarly work right now, to maintain and communicate the joy of it publicly. It feels embarrassing to care so much about the thing itself when all people will do is sort it into two bins, for and against.
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Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
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This is too rough a year for the Bulls to be toying with my emotions like this. We all know it’s coming so please just start losing so I can watch the games in peace
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is too rough a year for the Bulls to be toying with my emotions like this. We all know it’s coming so please just start losing so I can watch the games in peace
Once again, jury nullification is one of the few, direct ways that ordinary people can make the law more fair. Don’t dodge jury duty!
See below for a quick history of the jury!
See below for a quick history of the jury!
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Once again, jury nullification is one of the few, direct ways that ordinary people can make the law more fair. Don’t dodge jury duty!
See below for a quick history of the jury!
See below for a quick history of the jury!
This is irresponsible. Best practices in phrenology means using the calipers in person.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is irresponsible. Best practices in phrenology means using the calipers in person.
This replaces a TRO and the judge’s comments make it clear she favors a permanent injunction. This means that violation (BP and ICE using force) can receive criminal and civil penalties.
A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”
Chicago federal judge to issue sweeping injunction limiting use of force by immigration agents in ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This replaces a TRO and the judge’s comments make it clear she favors a permanent injunction. This means that violation (BP and ICE using force) can receive criminal and civil penalties.
Reposted by Elise Wang
A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”
Chicago federal judge to issue sweeping injunction limiting use of force by immigration agents in ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”
If you watch the video, you can hear the children screaming in the background.
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
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The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If you watch the video, you can hear the children screaming in the background.
Reposted by Elise Wang
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
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November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
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Title Report of an Accident
Publications P.Oxy. 3 475 More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 3
W.Chr. 494
Sel. Pap. II 337
C.Pap. Hengstl 95
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries BL-online; I 323; V 76; VIII 235; IX 180; XI 144; XII 135
Translations Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 133; Lewis, Life in Egypt (1983), S. 106.; Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne (2003), Nr. 197; Straus, L'esclave (2004), Nr. 11.; Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 174f.
Origin Oxyrhynchos More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date 3. Nov. 182 More from the period between 182 CE and 183 CE
Commentary Zu Z. 20 vgl. ZPE 133, 2000, S. 190. Neudruck: Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 173-175. Vgl. Marcone , Medicina e società, S. 194-202.
Mentioned Dates
Z. 13-35:3. Nov. 182
Print Illustrations Ancient Faces (1997), 249, S. 186f.
Subjects Anweisung des Strategen an einen Amtsdiener; zusammen mit einem Arzt die Leiche eines Sklaven zu untersuchen; der einen Unfall hatte; Kopie der Anzeige des Unfalls bei einem Fest
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License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Publications P. Oxy. 3 475 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1903) = Chrest. Wilck. 494 (Wilcken, Ulrich / ; 1912) = Sel. Pap. 2 337 (Hunt, Arthur S. / Edgar, Campbell Cowan; 1934) = Hengstl, Griechische Papyri 95 (Hengstl, Joachim / ; 1978) = Winter, Life and letters in the papyri p. 133 (Winter, John Garrett / ; 1933) = Lewis, Life in Egypt p. 106 (Lewis, Naphtali / ; 1983) = Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne 197 (Burnet, Régis / ; 2003) = Straus, L'esclave. Recueil de documents papyrologiques 11 (Straus, Jean A. / ; 2004) = Capasso (ed.), Dal restauro dei materiali (Pap. Lup. 11) p. 173-175 no. 23 (Tedeschi, Gennaro / ; 2002 [2003]) = Keenan e.a. (ed.), Law and legal prac…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byohyhodi6iknxngf3oypcge/bafkreih7msk5djkz4mmodktpg6hhngjasvoarnbiybb4xpdg34njfs5m5i@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
Earnest Q for copy editors bc I might be going insane. I always thought it was “[more moderate] much less [more extreme].” As in: “I can’t afford a night out, much less a vacation.” But in three printed news sources in the last week I have seen the reverse (ie vacation, much less a night out). WHAT
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Earnest Q for copy editors bc I might be going insane. I always thought it was “[more moderate] much less [more extreme].” As in: “I can’t afford a night out, much less a vacation.” But in three printed news sources in the last week I have seen the reverse (ie vacation, much less a night out). WHAT
The attention Mamdani shows to cultural details shows that he actually loves the city, loves cities.
Dems never seem to make the affirmative case for urbanism, even though that’s how most of the country lives, and it’s nice to see a sense of city I grew up with wholeheartedly celebrated.
Dems never seem to make the affirmative case for urbanism, even though that’s how most of the country lives, and it’s nice to see a sense of city I grew up with wholeheartedly celebrated.
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The attention Mamdani shows to cultural details shows that he actually loves the city, loves cities.
Dems never seem to make the affirmative case for urbanism, even though that’s how most of the country lives, and it’s nice to see a sense of city I grew up with wholeheartedly celebrated.
Dems never seem to make the affirmative case for urbanism, even though that’s how most of the country lives, and it’s nice to see a sense of city I grew up with wholeheartedly celebrated.
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
I don’t even care about baseball and this game is STRESSFUL
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I don’t even care about baseball and this game is STRESSFUL
almost as though we know that there is a relationship between desperate poverty and crime
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
almost as though we know that there is a relationship between desperate poverty and crime
Apparently we are about to find out if a team can survive solely on James Harden’s free throws
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Apparently we are about to find out if a team can survive solely on James Harden’s free throws
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Reposted by Elise Wang
Reposted by Elise Wang
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
That was quite the season opener
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
That was quite the season opener
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This is wrong and ahistorical.
Charles I of England shut down Parliament for +10 years because it didn't do what he wanted.
Among other things, Parliament would not giving him the tax revenues he wished, so he dissolved that body and had a "personal rule" from 1629-1640.
He was executed in 1649.
Charles I of England shut down Parliament for +10 years because it didn't do what he wanted.
Among other things, Parliament would not giving him the tax revenues he wished, so he dissolved that body and had a "personal rule" from 1629-1640.
He was executed in 1649.
Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is wrong and ahistorical.
Charles I of England shut down Parliament for +10 years because it didn't do what he wanted.
Among other things, Parliament would not giving him the tax revenues he wished, so he dissolved that body and had a "personal rule" from 1629-1640.
He was executed in 1649.
Charles I of England shut down Parliament for +10 years because it didn't do what he wanted.
Among other things, Parliament would not giving him the tax revenues he wished, so he dissolved that body and had a "personal rule" from 1629-1640.
He was executed in 1649.