Yael Rice
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
Bummed that I’m gonna have to report this student for submitting work that is not their own
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Bummed that I’m gonna have to report this student for submitting work that is not their own
Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.
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Does anyone I know have an image of documenta XV (2022)? Ideally one showing after artworks were taken down??
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Does anyone I know have an image of documenta XV (2022)? Ideally one showing after artworks were taken down??
The job market for human-type ministers will now tank
Nothing says “stopping corruption” like appointing a sock puppet to your cabinet www.politico.eu/article/alba...
Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.
www.politico.eu
October 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The job market for human-type ministers will now tank
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Here's an 11th-century Jewish manuscript that refers to God as Allah and wishes for the reader to have "jihad of his soul in love for his Creator"
October 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Here's an 11th-century Jewish manuscript that refers to God as Allah and wishes for the reader to have "jihad of his soul in love for his Creator"
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As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.
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When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:
I grew up in Florida, still have lots of family down there, but Bugs was right
a cartoon of bugs bunny holding a fish in his paw
Alt: a cartoon of bugs bunny sawing the state of Florida off the United States
media.tenor.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I grew up in Florida, still have lots of family down there, but Bugs was right
Excited to share my friend/colleague Melissa Kerin’s hot off the press @hyperallergic.com piece on Tibetan Buddhist museum shrine rooms. It’s likely to ruffle some feathers of our curator colleagues, but it needed to be said hyperallergic.com/1038180/the-...
The Fetishistic Fiction of Museum “Tibetan” Shrines
Institutions peddle a Western aesthetic of “traditional” Tibetan shrines without scholarly backing, negating their limitless lived variety.
hyperallergic.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to share my friend/colleague Melissa Kerin’s hot off the press @hyperallergic.com piece on Tibetan Buddhist museum shrine rooms. It’s likely to ruffle some feathers of our curator colleagues, but it needed to be said hyperallergic.com/1038180/the-...
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Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
www.forbes.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
My first concert was the Violent Femmes. I was 13.
What is your biggest concert flex?
August 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My first concert was the Violent Femmes. I was 13.
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good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?
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Amherst College is hiring a full-time lecturer of architectural design, candidates should have an M.Arch or equivalent and ideally bring experience teaching arch design studios in a small liberal arts college setting apply.interfolio.com/171730
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August 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Amherst College is hiring a full-time lecturer of architectural design, candidates should have an M.Arch or equivalent and ideally bring experience teaching arch design studios in a small liberal arts college setting apply.interfolio.com/171730
Please vote for @stephenniem.bsky.social’s Gaming Islamic History panel to be featured at the next SXSW! While gaming is well represented among the slate of panel options, Islamic gaming (indeed ANYTHING having to do with Islam) is not.
Our panel Gaming Islamic History has made it to the first selection round for @sxsw.com!
Want to see gaming embrace richer, more accurate representations of the Islamic world? Vote for us! @gamingislamshow.bsky.social
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Want to see gaming embrace richer, more accurate representations of the Islamic world? Vote for us! @gamingislamshow.bsky.social
sxsw: tinyurl.com/gamingislamS...
sxsw edu: tinyurl.com/gamingislami...
August 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Please vote for @stephenniem.bsky.social’s Gaming Islamic History panel to be featured at the next SXSW! While gaming is well represented among the slate of panel options, Islamic gaming (indeed ANYTHING having to do with Islam) is not.
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If you're in the vicinity of Middletown CT on September 16, come on out to this public lecture I'll be giving at Wesleyan (and if you're not there but ARE in Boston, I'll be giving it again at Tufts the following week). I'd love to see folks there! www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2...
August 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you're in the vicinity of Middletown CT on September 16, come on out to this public lecture I'll be giving at Wesleyan (and if you're not there but ARE in Boston, I'll be giving it again at Tufts the following week). I'd love to see folks there! www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2...
Amherst College is hiring a full-time lecturer of architectural design, candidates should have an M.Arch or equivalent and ideally bring experience teaching arch design studios in a small liberal arts college setting apply.interfolio.com/171730
Apply - Interfolio
{{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio
apply.interfolio.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Amherst College is hiring a full-time lecturer of architectural design, candidates should have an M.Arch or equivalent and ideally bring experience teaching arch design studios in a small liberal arts college setting apply.interfolio.com/171730
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Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
Many congrats to the award recipients, but worth also underscoring the fact that the awardee projects are largely limited to to U.S., Greco-Roman antiquity, Shakespeare, and AI.
NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k
NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects
tinyurl.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Many congrats to the award recipients, but worth also underscoring the fact that the awardee projects are largely limited to to U.S., Greco-Roman antiquity, Shakespeare, and AI.
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📣 College professors -- We can choose to not comply with authoritarianism. We should reject state infringement on our classrooms. It must articulate, precisely, what we value.
For me, I introduced offense statements on syllabi a few years back. I'll keep them this academic year. #humanities
For me, I introduced offense statements on syllabi a few years back. I'll keep them this academic year. #humanities
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📣 College professors -- We can choose to not comply with authoritarianism. We should reject state infringement on our classrooms. It must articulate, precisely, what we value.
For me, I introduced offense statements on syllabi a few years back. I'll keep them this academic year. #humanities
For me, I introduced offense statements on syllabi a few years back. I'll keep them this academic year. #humanities
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Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
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NYPL fellowship to use their Islamic Studies/Middle East/N. Africa-related collections:
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68904/n...
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68904/n...
The New York Public Library - Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship | H-Net
networks.h-net.org
July 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
NYPL fellowship to use their Islamic Studies/Middle East/N. Africa-related collections:
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68904/n...
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68904/n...