Ellen Muehlberger
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
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I say this enough that I should just make a permanent pinned post, but people: if you're feeling down, just go get yourself a hit of other people's good news---it's the richest espresso, the driest prosecco, the warmest sunshine, the gooey-ist brownie
Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!
Announcement! Ancient Jew Review is the new host of Models of Piety (MOP), the annual meeting of scholars of religion in late antiquity. If you regularly attend SBL/AAR, come join us at this year's cocktail hour. More info here:
MOP — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Announcement Bar
www.ancientjewreview.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!
listen, you'll want this for sometime today, so here you go, a song of lost things lost, fortune's terrible deal:
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
listen, you'll want this for sometime today, so here you go, a song of lost things lost, fortune's terrible deal:
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
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In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
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Ellen Muehlberger,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Late Antiquity · 11/10/2025 · 1h 14m
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November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:
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This thread right here.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This thread right here.
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A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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conservatives will never stop feeling angry and aggrieved that for roughly 20 seconds during a pandemic we got them to grudgingly sign on to projects of gender and racial justice
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
conservatives will never stop feeling angry and aggrieved that for roughly 20 seconds during a pandemic we got them to grudgingly sign on to projects of gender and racial justice
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Feminists have long been scared of looking mean, and as a result we’ve been way too nice to antifeminist women. Sorry no, you’re not submissive, servile, and dependent because you’re a woman and that’s just your feminine nature. You’re submissive, servile,and dependent because you lack self respect.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Feminists have long been scared of looking mean, and as a result we’ve been way too nice to antifeminist women. Sorry no, you’re not submissive, servile, and dependent because you’re a woman and that’s just your feminine nature. You’re submissive, servile,and dependent because you lack self respect.
Undeniably yes
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Undeniably yes
The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures---
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
TeTra | Ellen Muehlberger "Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
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November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures---
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
luminosoa.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
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Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.
<Sue Sylvester face> I am going to create a workplace that is so ruined
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
<Sue Sylvester face> I am going to create a workplace that is so ruined
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Every post 2024 op ed: “Has wokeness gone to far?” By Women Are Things
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Every post 2024 op ed: “Has wokeness gone to far?” By Women Are Things
I'm going to need everyone here to take a minute and read some Rawls
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I'm going to need everyone here to take a minute and read some Rawls
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Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.
Like, legitimately, if you are a colleague of mine and you read anything that man writes and think "yeah, this is good" don't ever tell me because I will laugh in your face, then chase you down the hall to laugh in your face while pointing
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Like, legitimately, if you are a colleague of mine and you read anything that man writes and think "yeah, this is good" don't ever tell me because I will laugh in your face, then chase you down the hall to laugh in your face while pointing
Should women be allowed in public, y/n?
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Should women be allowed in public, y/n?
Oh I am not linking that amazingly misogynistic thing by that predictably misogynistic man, but good lord---why does anyone, anywhere, take him seriously?
If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person
If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Oh I am not linking that amazingly misogynistic thing by that predictably misogynistic man, but good lord---why does anyone, anywhere, take him seriously?
If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person
If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person
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Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!
We are organizing an online session for the 2026 annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society: "Clothing and Meaning-Making in Early Christianity".
Proposal deadline is Nov. 19.
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Proposal deadline is Nov. 19.
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!
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A stereotype is NOT a generalization of how some population differs from human universals but a way to demonize members of that population precisely WHEN they act according to human universals.
very funny to reflect on helen andrews simultaneous insistence that aggressive jockeying for speaking time reflects the male nature of direct rational confrontation and that female scotus judges interrupting their colleagues demonstrates female emotionality and disrespect for law
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A stereotype is NOT a generalization of how some population differs from human universals but a way to demonize members of that population precisely WHEN they act according to human universals.
chatting with a friend who does historical role-playing games with his students, and in the midst of a Nicaea game, he reports that Arius is doing very well---"she's got spreadsheets"🤓
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
chatting with a friend who does historical role-playing games with his students, and in the midst of a Nicaea game, he reports that Arius is doing very well---"she's got spreadsheets"🤓