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Dr. Paula R. Curtis
@paularcurtis.bsky.social
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Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hello new folks! If you've just followed, I'm a historian of medieval Japan working on metal caster networks & documentary forgery. I manage @jppinfo.bsky.social, which facilitates greater equity and inclusion in the Japanese humanities. I also do East Asia + digital humanities and post cat chaos. 🐾
Four images side by side. The first is a photo of a cream tabby named Fox who is making a one-brain-cell face with his eyes wide and mouth hanging open. The second is a medieval Japanese handwritten document with black calligraphy on dark gray recycled paper. The third is a tortie cat named Rigatoni, gazing sadly at the viewer from her Trash Jail (a black mesh trash can turned upside down on top of her because she is a naughty demon child). The fourth is an early modern painting of several Japanese metal casters in various states of sweaty dress pouring hot metal into a mold.
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Is this a litmus test of which weird part of my life you’re privy to? 😬
zoewithasword.bsky.social Zoe Tunnell @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 1d
Ah, the Twitter classic. Go nuts.
post this on your profile and let your followers associate you with a fictional character that you remind them of
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
In a shocking display of courage, Fox did not run into the next room at top speed when confronted with a sneeze
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reposted by Dr. Paula R. Curtis
thebananaspodcast.bsky.social
When in doubt: Listen to Bananas
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Excuse me I went to campus and gave a lecture today after working all morning and ran an office errand and answered eleventy billion emails it is time to bury myself alive in my pillow garden for a spell thank you. 😴
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
is there a word for the inconceivable depths of how tired I am and is that word in German
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
that panel from Watchmen
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
catching up with the last few hours of the feed like
bart simpson is sitting at a podium talking to a man
Alt: bart simpson is sitting at a podium. Grandpa Simpson enters, takes off his hat, and turns around and puts it back on again as he leaves
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
21 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 551 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
A screencap of the introductory text for the webpage "East Asia-related Job market Data in Progress (2025-2026)," which showcases job data information in East Asian Studies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Amazon Guy: Here you go. (hands packages)
Me: Thanks! Another day I can put googly eyes all over things in public.
Amazon Guy: omg that's YOU doin that?!!
Me: ...👀 😎
plastic packages of googly eyes of varying sizes. so. many. googly eyes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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yanaiinitiative.bsky.social
The Yanai Initiative is pleased to invite proposals for a symposium entitled “Experimental Translations in/with East Asian Languages,” to be hosted at UCLA on April 10-11, 2026. Deadline November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (PT). See more information threaded below. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Describe your cat's personality with one photo
A tabby named Fox reaches one paw up while making an extremely derpy blep face with big alien eyes. Behind him a tortie named Rigatoni is lurking, peeking menacingly over his head.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Are you more likely to reach Inbox Zero or more likely to finish using up those hotel lotions and shampoos you compulsively hoard?
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted by Dr. Paula R. Curtis
josie.zone
"Magneto for Genosha" in Zohran font
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Welp. Anyone who sees me within the next ten years will notice my glamorous sparkle, thanks to Fox.
Closeup of a carpet with a broken plastic vial out of which an immense amount of ultra fine white glitter has spilled absolutely everywhere. In the background is a plastic container and some scattered rocks, along with the plastic bag Fox so desperately wanted to chew on that he has cursed me to glitter hell for the next decade.
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Put. It. Back.
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 3d
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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We're honored to have @jppinfo.bsky.social featured in the NDL's Current Awareness Portal! We hope many more colleagues based in Japan will sign up for Japan Scholar Search, our project opportunities, and more! 🥰
jppinfo.bsky.social Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 3d
国立国会図書館の『カレントアウェアネス』最新号で、「ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント」を紹介する文章を掲載させていただきました。JPP の概要や、研究者・図書館員・学生の皆さまへの活用については、ぜひ下記の記事をご覧ください。 current.ndl.go.jp/e2838
E2838 – 日本の人文学のためのハブ構築の試み：ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（Japan Past & Present）
カレントアウェアネス-ENo.512 2025.11.06E2838日本の人文学のためのハブ構築の試み：ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（Japan Past & Present）柳井イニシアティブ UCLA、早稲田大学・マイケル・エメリック柳...
current.ndl.go.jp
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Had to help a friend too anxious to touch frogs move these little cuties into a travel case. 😍 Kinda miss owning frogs!
A green tree frog resting calmly in my hand. A dark green tree frog resting calmly in my hand, looking slightly majestic.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
Rigatoni, an innocent girl who has never even *seen* a laundry basket in her life.
A mischievous tortie named Rigatoni sitting fully immersed in a laundry basket on top of all the clean laundry, murder mitten outstretched toward the camera with claws showing.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
when you tear down the wing that contained the calligrapher’s office I guess an HP OfficeJet has got to do
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reposted by Dr. Paula R. Curtis
aurorapeachy.bsky.social
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Dr. Paula R. Curtis
tessahill.bsky.social
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
We have been gifted persimmons from a colleague’s garden and they are being regarded with GREAT suspicion. ಠ_ಠ
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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jeffreykotyk.bsky.social
Examining an astrological scroll (III 520) from Turfan, 9th century. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Humboldt Forum. Several researchers are taking an interest in this object!
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Dr. Paula R. Curtis
spavel.bsky.social
Snorlax from Pokémon saying the below skeet.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
paularcurtis.bsky.social
please enjoy these very cursed dog boxes I found
Two small boxes shaped like dogs with weird humanoid chubby faces and tails that curl back onto themselves. They are shades of off-white and brown with age and covered with patterned motifs. They appear both stoic and also judgmental, and their faces are made creepier by changing with each angle you look at them from. Or are they looking at you? Two small boxes shaped like dogs with weird humanoid chubby faces and tails that curl back onto themselves. They are shades of off-white and brown with age and covered with patterned motifs. They appear both stoic and also judgmental, and their faces are made creepier by changing with each angle you look at them from. Or are they looking at you? In this picture they are seen from behind with their butts facing you. Closeup of an extremely cursed dog face, giving you side eye with its mouth slightly open. Closeup of an extremely cursed dog face, looking slightly alarmed for an unknown reason.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM