Sara Mohr
@sarabmohr.bsky.social
Humanities policy researcher | Assyriology PhD | Swim, bike, run | Writing about academic cuneiform collections | She/her 🏳️🌈
https://www.saramohr.com/
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Sara Mohr
@sarabmohr.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Where is the Cuneiform?
WINNER
2024 Emerging Open Scholarship Award, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute
NOMINEE
Best DH Dataset, DH Awards 2023
www.whereisthecuneiform.com
My Twitter account is officially dead, and thus so is my pinned tweet directing all of you to my digital project. So, here it is again. I think it's pretty neat and I hope you spend some time with it.
www.whereisthecuneiform.com
www.whereisthecuneiform.com
Coming to you live at 9:30pm on a Friday night to tell you all that the ArcGIS map I've been wrestling with for 4 hours finally works how I want it to work. Good night.
September 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Coming to you live at 9:30pm on a Friday night to tell you all that the ArcGIS map I've been wrestling with for 4 hours finally works how I want it to work. Good night.
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We are excited to introduce Sidra Collaborative!
We partner with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
Learn more: www.sidracollaborative.com
We partner with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
Learn more: www.sidracollaborative.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are excited to introduce Sidra Collaborative!
We partner with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
Learn more: www.sidracollaborative.com
We partner with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
Learn more: www.sidracollaborative.com
I don't believe this for a second. There's no way Trump has friends.
Trump: "Beverly Hills, I have friends, they leave their trunk open for their car bc they know they're going to be vandalized. They don't want trunk ripped off in order for them to steal what's in their bag. They leave doors open so when they go in to steal the radio, they don't rip off the door"
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I don't believe this for a second. There's no way Trump has friends.
Worth taking a look at the recruitment strategies here in my write-up on religious studies departments. Associate's degree holders are the most likely to major in the humanities at a 4-year school. Religious studies is way ahead of the rest of the humanities in outreach to 2-year schools.
"Most departments in the survey reported engaging in one or more recruitment strategies to increase the number of majors in their disciplines, but religion departments stood out because their most popular strategy was outreach to community colleges" bit.ly/4fZch3l
New Study Offers Fresh Insights for Religion Departments - AAR
It is no secret that religion departments have faced serious difficulties in recent years, but a new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences—based on a national survey of department chai...
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August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Worth taking a look at the recruitment strategies here in my write-up on religious studies departments. Associate's degree holders are the most likely to major in the humanities at a 4-year school. Religious studies is way ahead of the rest of the humanities in outreach to 2-year schools.
Most of the time I'm wishing I could know who a reviewer is so I can ask them why they felt the need to be so unnecessarily mean. Today I'm wishing I could know the reviewer in a volunteer position who was kind, encouraging, and incredibly helpful to this early career scholar.
August 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Most of the time I'm wishing I could know who a reviewer is so I can ask them why they felt the need to be so unnecessarily mean. Today I'm wishing I could know the reviewer in a volunteer position who was kind, encouraging, and incredibly helpful to this early career scholar.
No one loves to say something like this more than someone who used to live in NYC. Look for it in between comments that name drop specific street names as they desperately try to prove that they are still New Yorkers at heart.
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No one loves to say something like this more than someone who used to live in NYC. Look for it in between comments that name drop specific street names as they desperately try to prove that they are still New Yorkers at heart.
Every once in a while I get a small wave of new followers here and it's never after I share anything that has the potential to be called even mildly interesting.
a cartoon of patrick from spongebob squarepants standing next to a giant sponge
Alt: a cartoon of patrick from spongebob squarepants standing next to a rock with a bunch of eyes looking out from underneath it. he says "who are you people?!"
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Every once in a while I get a small wave of new followers here and it's never after I share anything that has the potential to be called even mildly interesting.
Love to leave little writing notes for myself to come back to in a couple of weeks and think "ah, now what do we think I meant by THAT?"
August 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Love to leave little writing notes for myself to come back to in a couple of weeks and think "ah, now what do we think I meant by THAT?"
Have we learned nothing from watching powerful university after powerful university bend the knee only to be painted with a larger target on their backs?
California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.
California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.
NEW: Senior UCLA and University of California officials say they will negotiate with the Trump administration over lifting $339 million in medical and science grant freezes. No decision has been made about terms of an agreement, including a potential fine www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes
UCLA and University of California officials said Monday that it will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes.
www.latimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Have we learned nothing from watching powerful university after powerful university bend the knee only to be painted with a larger target on their backs?
California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.
California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.
I feel like I spent a stupid amount of time in grad school being forced to have discussions with men who think like this.
August 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I feel like I spent a stupid amount of time in grad school being forced to have discussions with men who think like this.
I know SO many academics who need to take some time with this and be sure to REALLY think about how vulnerable they truly are. There is no protest without risk. If you aren't risking anything, what are you actually protesting?
I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
halperta.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I know SO many academics who need to take some time with this and be sure to REALLY think about how vulnerable they truly are. There is no protest without risk. If you aren't risking anything, what are you actually protesting?
More cowards. Brown will be receiving a strongly-worded white lady email from this alum.
Brown University is caving to Trump.
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
July 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
More cowards. Brown will be receiving a strongly-worded white lady email from this alum.
First publication from the new job! This gathering is the beginning of more work to come from the Academy on cultural spaces and their communities.
As part of a new Academy initiative on cultural organizations and their communities, we gathered leaders from a wide array of institutions for a meeting in Chicago. A report: bit.ly/4mefC0j
Forging New Relationships Between Cultural Spaces and Their Communities
Recent surveys administered by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Alliance for Museums, Americans for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts show that U.S. cultural institu...
bit.ly
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
First publication from the new job! This gathering is the beginning of more work to come from the Academy on cultural spaces and their communities.
Thinking about this CONSTANTLY the more conversations I have with faculty friends, especially up here in the rust belt. We're seeing a lot of concerning policies come down the pipeline, and whenever I ask "what are you doing about it?" I am met with claims of powerlessness.
Here are my opinions:
Yes, it is very hard to leave a job, and yes it requires privilege to do it. There are definitely faculty and staff at Columbia who cannot leave.
And also: it is part of the culture of academia to perform lacking privilege and options when in fact you have both.
Yes, it is very hard to leave a job, and yes it requires privilege to do it. There are definitely faculty and staff at Columbia who cannot leave.
And also: it is part of the culture of academia to perform lacking privilege and options when in fact you have both.
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thinking about this CONSTANTLY the more conversations I have with faculty friends, especially up here in the rust belt. We're seeing a lot of concerning policies come down the pipeline, and whenever I ask "what are you doing about it?" I am met with claims of powerlessness.
Reposted by Sara Mohr
According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
July 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.
Who was the president in 2018?
SCOTT TURNER: In 2018, Powell brought down interest rates during the Biden administration
BARTIROMO: Right
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BARTIROMO: Right
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July 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Who was the president in 2018?
Back on my bullshit (designing logos and stickers for things that don’t need logos or stickers)
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Back on my bullshit (designing logos and stickers for things that don’t need logos or stickers)
We're back in New Forest Cemetery! Oneida County History Center intern, Caroline, starts the process of recording data from headstones for the next section of the Digital New Forest project. Thanks to @ach.bsky.social, she is getting paid for her work!
July 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We're back in New Forest Cemetery! Oneida County History Center intern, Caroline, starts the process of recording data from headstones for the next section of the Digital New Forest project. Thanks to @ach.bsky.social, she is getting paid for her work!
It was a little over a year ago that staff had their retirement benefits cut. Pretty much crickets from the faculty after. And now... As a former higher ed staff member often treated poorly by faculty, it's hard not to see a "first they came for..." kind of pattern here www.wktv.com/news/educati...
Utica University Will Cut $5 Million From Annual Faculty Budget
Dr. Todd Pfannestiel, president of Utica University, announced that it will cut $5 million from its annual faculty costs through layoffs and the elimination of programs with low enrollment.
www.wktv.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It was a little over a year ago that staff had their retirement benefits cut. Pretty much crickets from the faculty after. And now... As a former higher ed staff member often treated poorly by faculty, it's hard not to see a "first they came for..." kind of pattern here www.wktv.com/news/educati...
Cowards.
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Cowards.
Beyond bleak to be getting advertisements on Instagram for ways to immigrate and find a job in Canada. But also 👀
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Beyond bleak to be getting advertisements on Instagram for ways to immigrate and find a job in Canada. But also 👀
If you are inspired by Mamdani, now is a great time to do some research on your local elections and find out how you can get involved. NYC's election results are buoying, but keeping up the momentum for all local elections is crucial.
June 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If you are inspired by Mamdani, now is a great time to do some research on your local elections and find out how you can get involved. NYC's election results are buoying, but keeping up the momentum for all local elections is crucial.
First of all, this IS ripping healthcare away from Americans.
Second, you can't just keep labeling every awful thing Republicans do a "distraction." By this logic, the only "real" thing happening is fighting over this one bill.
Second, you can't just keep labeling every awful thing Republicans do a "distraction." By this logic, the only "real" thing happening is fighting over this one bill.
June 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
First of all, this IS ripping healthcare away from Americans.
Second, you can't just keep labeling every awful thing Republicans do a "distraction." By this logic, the only "real" thing happening is fighting over this one bill.
Second, you can't just keep labeling every awful thing Republicans do a "distraction." By this logic, the only "real" thing happening is fighting over this one bill.
This episode is full of great reasons why serious readers of this book shouldn't be lapping it up and why readers looking to "understand how the other side thinks" also shouldn't read this book.
Episode 40: In Covid's Wake
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
"In Covid's Wake": Lying About… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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June 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This episode is full of great reasons why serious readers of this book shouldn't be lapping it up and why readers looking to "understand how the other side thinks" also shouldn't read this book.