Now available (toll-free): P.Y. Burlakov, A.S. Cherkashina, C.G. Häberl, & S.V. Loesov, The Church Militant: A Modern Western Aramaic Account, pp. 667–692 in A.D. Hornkohl et al. (eds), Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures vol. 2 (Open Book, 2025).

Now available (toll-free): Charles G. Häberl, War and Fieldwork, pp. 711–726 in A.D. Hornkohl, N. Vidro, J.C.E. Watson, E. Coghill, M.M. Connolly, & B.M. Outhwaite (eds), Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan vol. 2 (Open Book, 2025).

From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . .
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

Now available (from a toll-free link!):

Anna Bromirskaya, Nikolai Grishin, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey Loesov, Of Rare and Obscure Words, Journal of Semitic Studies 70.1 (2025): 67–86 (Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester)

it's hard to read the chart in the screenshot but what this moron is actually complaining about isn't "DEI" staff, it's special education teachers. these ghouls are coming for people with disabilities and they aren't even shy about it.

What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

Immigrant round-ups as entertainment is Verhoeven levels of dystopia

An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:

“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Newark congresswoman says she's pressing for info on an ICE raid in her district, saying it happened without a warrant + swept up citizens including a military vet.

Gonna be really real with you, shit like trump a) getting inaugurated b) for a second time, c) on MLK Day makes it VERY difficult Not to feel like we're in some kind of hamfisted hell dimension, be that Basilisk-type "AI" simulation, Cartesian epistemic evil demon, or demiurgic Yaldabaoth situation.

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

Item Number: SCP-1688

Object Class: Euclid

Description: SCP-1688 is an inflatable figure of the god Caishen (财神 Cáishén, lit. 'God of Wealth') which appears annually in the lobby of Coronation Shopping Plaza in Bukit Timah, Singapore, in anticipation of the lunar new year.

We've just published a new book with @cambridgeup.bsky.social about queering language revitalisation in the cases of Irish, Welsh, Breton & Catalan. Thanks to co-authors @michael-hornsby.bsky.social Jon Morris, Sam Parker, Renée Pera-Ros, Eva Daussà & Holly Cashman.
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glad to see the automated debate bots are still around lol

I've just published my latest article in the open access journal Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, for the special issue dedicated to Fabrizio Pennacchietti. Such a great experience to work with it! The article is on the Arabic loanwords in Modern West Aramaic.

New in Paperback!

The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire

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