Rob Haug
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
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"GenAI is the futu--
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
"GenAI is the futu--
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This isn't about Star Wars.
January 4, 2026 at 6:54 AM
This isn't about Star Wars.
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Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
December 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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ASPS is hiring a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Persianate Studies. Review of applications will begin April 1, 2026.
www.persianatesocieties.org/job-posting-...
www.persianatesocieties.org/job-posting-...
Job Posting: Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Persianate Studies | The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
Editor-in-Chief of The Journal for Persianate Studies: Journal of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) The Association for Study of Persianate Societies...
www.persianatesocieties.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ASPS is hiring a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Persianate Studies. Review of applications will begin April 1, 2026.
www.persianatesocieties.org/job-posting-...
www.persianatesocieties.org/job-posting-...
This describes @repgreglandsman.bsky.social to a tee. The only thing he stands for is attacking marginalized communities in the name of bipartisanship.
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This describes @repgreglandsman.bsky.social to a tee. The only thing he stands for is attacking marginalized communities in the name of bipartisanship.
Who will they get to finish teaching the classes and grading assignments? Who cares? All I'm seeing is a paid leave in the middle of a semester! Offer extra credit to any student who shows proof of filing a complaint against you.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Who will they get to finish teaching the classes and grading assignments? Who cares? All I'm seeing is a paid leave in the middle of a semester! Offer extra credit to any student who shows proof of filing a complaint against you.
@repgreglandsman.bsky.social do you have a statement about this?
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
@repgreglandsman.bsky.social do you have a statement about this?
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.
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When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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This battle against wokeness is getting ridiculous.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This battle against wokeness is getting ridiculous.
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"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
MEM Book Prize
www.middleeastmedievalists.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
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Seconded. That last line hits hard.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Seconded. That last line hits hard.
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I am voting for Consequences.
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I am voting for Consequences.
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Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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There's a short little documentary on the Super Bowl Shuffle on MAX and it's fantastic.
The clip of the New England Patriots' sad response video is worth the price of admission alone.
The clip of the New England Patriots' sad response video is worth the price of admission alone.
The Shuffle | Official Trailer | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There's a short little documentary on the Super Bowl Shuffle on MAX and it's fantastic.
The clip of the New England Patriots' sad response video is worth the price of admission alone.
The clip of the New England Patriots' sad response video is worth the price of admission alone.
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Job Opportunity - Prae-Doc position with the ERC Project Persian Jews - History, Community, Memory at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...
Offene Stellen an der ÖAW
Aktuelle Stellenausschreibungen aus den Instituten und der zentralen Verwaltung der ÖAW
www.oeaw.ac.at
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Job Opportunity - Prae-Doc position with the ERC Project Persian Jews - History, Community, Memory at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...
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700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
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Vahid Abedini has now been released.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Vahid Abedini has now been released.