Ekaputra Tupamahu
@ekaputrat.bsky.social
Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
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I was asked again today what book focused on ancient medicine I have undergraduates read. I gotta say, I adore Jane Draycott’s ancient prosthetics book. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I was asked again today what book focused on ancient medicine I have undergraduates read. I gotta say, I adore Jane Draycott’s ancient prosthetics book. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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You know, there *is* such a thing as a Chotiner interview that isn't cringe upon cringe---you just need to be a consistent, clear-eyed thinker like Kate Manne:
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Costs of Male Entitlement
The philosopher and author of “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women” discusses Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and what differentiates sexism from misogyny.
www.newyorker.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
You know, there *is* such a thing as a Chotiner interview that isn't cringe upon cringe---you just need to be a consistent, clear-eyed thinker like Kate Manne:
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.
global.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.
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Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.
Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal
In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...
madeinchinajournal.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.
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My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden, who worked in the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations, walks our columnist Ezra Klein through the government shutdown’s policy stakes.
Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden, who worked in the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations, walks our columnist Ezra Klein through the government shutdown’s policy stakes.
Opinion | What the Shutdown Is Really About
Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the shutdown’s policy stakes.
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden, who worked in the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations, walks our columnist Ezra Klein through the government shutdown’s policy stakes.
Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden, who worked in the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations, walks our columnist Ezra Klein through the government shutdown’s policy stakes.
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Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.
Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.
If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.
Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.
If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.
Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.
If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.
Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.
If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.
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Archaeologist of early Christianity Irene Selsvold has an interesting new (open access) article on streetscapes at Ephesus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I do question the entire process of “Christianization” as a framework but this is an interesting dive into spatial studies in 1 street corner.
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Archaeologist of early Christianity Irene Selsvold has an interesting new (open access) article on streetscapes at Ephesus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I do question the entire process of “Christianization” as a framework but this is an interesting dive into spatial studies in 1 street corner.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Eric Adams started with strong support among Black and working-class voters. By the time he dropped out Sunday, his re-election effort was polling below 10%. Here’s how a swirl of scandals and accusations of corruption led to his decline. nyti.ms/3IMncRE
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Eric Adams started with strong support among Black and working-class voters. By the time he dropped out Sunday, his re-election effort was polling below 10%. Here’s how a swirl of scandals and accusations of corruption led to his decline. nyti.ms/3IMncRE
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Letter to NYT by Elizabeth Castelli &
Hilary Callahan (via the former FB)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Hilary Callahan (via the former FB)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | Struggles for Free Expression on Campus
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Letter to NYT by Elizabeth Castelli &
Hilary Callahan (via the former FB)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Hilary Callahan (via the former FB)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
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It's custardy. It's crustless. It has five ingredients. It's Basque Cheesecake. It’s the ideal low-effort, high-reward dessert.
Basque Cheesecake Recipe
Generously burnished and with a velvety, custardy interior, this rustic, crustless cheesecake from the Basque region of northern Spain is the platonic ideal of a low-effort, high-reward dessert The caramelized exterior evokes a toasty marshmallow, but the cake itself is not too sweet Marti Buckley adapted this recipe from La Viña, a small bar in San Sebastián, for her cookbook, “Basque Country” (Artisan, 2018)
nyti.ms
September 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's custardy. It's crustless. It has five ingredients. It's Basque Cheesecake. It’s the ideal low-effort, high-reward dessert.
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Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026 - University of Pennsylvania Press
Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue
www.pennpress.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...
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There isn't much evidence of Alaric's sack of the city of Rome in 410 CE, but I taught the moneychangers in the Basilica Aemilia in the Forum yesterday & hundreds of melted and destroyed coins were found in the destruction level dating to 410 CE. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...
September 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There isn't much evidence of Alaric's sack of the city of Rome in 410 CE, but I taught the moneychangers in the Basilica Aemilia in the Forum yesterday & hundreds of melted and destroyed coins were found in the destruction level dating to 410 CE. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...
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Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."
Opinion | When Universities Become Informants
A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.
www.chronicle.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."
Sigh.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Sigh.
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In Opinion | In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes that instead of focusing on talks between Ukraine and Russia or the Israelis and Palestinians, Trump should “make peace at home. Make peace between Americans.”
Opinion | A Plea for President Trump With a Fragile Country on Edge
Even if it sounds unrealistic, Trump can do something important with the entire country frayed and on edge: push for calm and unity.
nyti.ms
September 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In Opinion | In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, our columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes that instead of focusing on talks between Ukraine and Russia or the Israelis and Palestinians, Trump should “make peace at home. Make peace between Americans.”
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Well.
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Well.
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News that will be unsurprising to AI realists, but worrying to the hype-generating marketing departments at the tech companies
gizmodo.com/ai-adoption-...
gizmodo.com/ai-adoption-...
AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says
A dip in corporate AI adoption isn't a great sign for an industry hellbent on world domination.
gizmodo.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
News that will be unsurprising to AI realists, but worrying to the hype-generating marketing departments at the tech companies
gizmodo.com/ai-adoption-...
gizmodo.com/ai-adoption-...
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History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
September 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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sometimes when i’m reading others’ research, i think, “ohhh, look at that. this person *loves* to write.” and it’s a tiny joy every time.
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
sometimes when i’m reading others’ research, i think, “ohhh, look at that. this person *loves* to write.” and it’s a tiny joy every time.