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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
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andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
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another happy arrival! many thanks to @maiakotro.bsky.social for this highly polished gem!

get yours for 40% off (code: E25KTRST)!

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@dukepress.bsky.social
Maia Kotrosits, AFTER TRANSFORMATION: A LYRICAL HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY with a cover featuring a late ancient textual with a leaf
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
has everyone already done this one?
the ZOHRAN for NEW YORK sign made into WAITING for GODOT
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
and now for something soothing: the view from my home office
Carter Mountain covered with blazing fall foliage overlooking a serene townhome community
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Clayton Hollingsworth!
Blanche and her gay brother Clayton (Monte Markham) from GOLDEN GIRLS
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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shiny and new and all mine!

thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!

get yours (open access link!)

luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
Paperback copy of THINGS UNSEEN: ESSAYS ON EVIDENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE LATE ANCIENT WORLD by Ellen Muehlberger
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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my favorite part about mandatory trainings is definitely the random photos of people they put on the slides. i can tell from her power pose that this lady is serious about the criteria for records destruction!
A woman with a slightly severe expression with a hand on one hip looking straight ahead. She has long hair and dark glasses and is wearing a somber gray paintsuit. She's standing in a semi-surreal "office" landscape and next to her is a text box that says: "Criteria for Records Destruction. You're in charge of cleaning out the department shared drive. To begin you need to determine which of the records are eligible for destruction. Continue."
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Marge Simpson saying: "Just like I got used to saying 'Courteney Cox-Arquette'"
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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"But maximizing teacher ratings is very different from providing quality instruction. In fact, those aims are largely opposed."

archive.ph/Hap5C
Headline from The Atlantic: How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University: "We gave them all As, and they gave us all fives" by Rose Horowitch (the link below is to a nonpaywalled version)
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
this book looks really interesting but more interesting (to me) is the obvious clash of two subtitle tropes ("The Rise and Fall of..." versus The Rule of Three) and which one ultimately won out. Guess we can shutter this Wikipedia page!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ris...
Book cover with the title: BLAC GOLD: THE RISE, REIGN, AND FALL OF AMERICAN COAL
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
oh hello
Giuseppe the cat on a leopard blanket caught mid groom looking up quizzically at camera
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Michael and Jennifer would like a word
Social Security Administration most popular children's names from the 1970s: Boys: Michael, Christopher, Jason, David, James Girls: Jennifer, Amy, Melissa, Michelle, Kimberly link here: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1970s.html
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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& consider I haven't been full time faculty since 2018-19
folder status bar: Dropbox>correspondence>507 items
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I voted today! sticker
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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thrift store purchase (if any Charlottesvillians recognize the subjects let me know...)
two 80s (?) caricatures lovingly professionally framed. left: woman in shorts and a t shirt with a messy bun vacuuming. she has blue eye shadow. right: a guy in shorts and a t shirt running. they are clearly a set.
October 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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these are 2 different books?
two titles in the latest BMCR "books received" list, which are from the same press, on the same topic, with the same number of pages: Holton, John. Alexander’s successors and the creation of Hellenistic kingship. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350399020. Holton, John. Royal traditions and the consolidation of power by Alexander’s successors. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350399112.
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Josh Girard from 30 Rock, the character based on Jimmy Fallon
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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simpsons image of a psychic telling Chief Wiggum "But I'm afraid it's splitsville for Delta Burke and Major Dad"
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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all right TJ let's do this
sign for Th Jefferson:s Monticello
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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friends who read Arabic! what did Burton put below his name. here?
Richard F. Burton. some arabic
September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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we're talking about Malcolm X's hajj in my 1st-year class today & for the first I time looked at the NYT article that appeared before his return; some really interesting stuff in his Letter Home that didn't make it to the Autobiography, like this closer!
"But as American's insane obsessions with racism leads her up the suicidal path, nearer and nearer to the precipice that leads to the bottomless pits below, I do believe that whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, through their own young, less hampered intellect, will see the 'handwriting on the wall' and turn for spiritual salvation to the religion of Islam and force the older generation of American whites to turn with them."
September 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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@andytobo.bsky.social looks like Harvard accidentally changed the exclamation point at the end of your workshop title into a question mark
flyer with a very comber looking Tobo in front of a comedy store–style brick wall: Harvard Hebrew Bible Workshop Prof. Andrew Tobolowsky Water G. Mason Associate Professor of Religious Studies at William & Mary Title: Why New Comparisons — And How? (with attendance info below)
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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it was both a beautiful drive and delicious cheese. and Greek archangel icons inside!
Geek icon of archangel Gabriel Greek icon of archangel Michael
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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UVA is committed to providing an inclusive environment and equal opportunity to students who have sincerely held religious beliefs. <highlight> This includes making reasonable efforts to accommodate students' religion. </highlight> Accommodations are not required where they would cause an undue hardship or fundamentally alter an essential element or function of the course, program, or activity.
September 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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enjoyed some gouda from local nuns today!
www.olamonastery.org/cheese-makin...
entrance to Our Lady of the Angels Monastery with a sign on the door with the hours you can buy their cheese
September 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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the stone with googly eyes from EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM