Noah Blan
@noahwblan.bsky.social
historian. teacher. friend to all cats. anti-fascist. space dust for your fuel rods.
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As course evaluations open, don't forget the importance of telling students *why* evals matter. I like to explain their use for TT faculty vs. contingent faculty and how students contribute to ed processes through them. I also explain biases, with this helpful viz: benschmidt.org/profGender/#...
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
As course evaluations open, don't forget the importance of telling students *why* evals matter. I like to explain their use for TT faculty vs. contingent faculty and how students contribute to ed processes through them. I also explain biases, with this helpful viz: benschmidt.org/profGender/#...
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"He and other teachers hand-picked students who looked like they might be isolated, or might be into darker art and music — kids who might be potential metalheads. More than fifty students initially enrolled. By the end of the first semester, kids were sneaking out of other classes to join."
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"He and other teachers hand-picked students who looked like they might be isolated, or might be into darker art and music — kids who might be potential metalheads. More than fifty students initially enrolled. By the end of the first semester, kids were sneaking out of other classes to join."
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Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.
Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Some incredible news: yesterday's AMA with r/PritzkerPosting raised over $1,000 for the NIJC! Thank you to all who came out and participated! www.reddit.com/r/PritzkerPo...
From the PritzkerPosting community on Reddit: A message from Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker: celebrating over $1000 raised for the National Immigrant Justice Center!
Explore this post and more from the PritzkerPosting community
www.reddit.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Some incredible news: yesterday's AMA with r/PritzkerPosting raised over $1,000 for the NIJC! Thank you to all who came out and participated! www.reddit.com/r/PritzkerPo...
This slaps🤘🏻
it would mean the world if you watched & shared the video for “horseglue,” which is a treatise on the media’s complicity in genocide, authoritarianism and most importantly… climate change.
video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.
video directed by me and john lee, edited by @jdrllc.bsky.social.
Ekko Astral - "horseglue" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This slaps🤘🏻
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Today for my materiality class we read a chapter in Karen Gerhart's book The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan, and based on her fastidious work I created a competitive "set up the medieval death scene" game. 💀 My students competed to set up the corpse with the correct trappings.
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Today for my materiality class we read a chapter in Karen Gerhart's book The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan, and based on her fastidious work I created a competitive "set up the medieval death scene" game. 💀 My students competed to set up the corpse with the correct trappings.
This is great too lol
books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is great too lol
I love this.
Books are like food. Some are meant to be tasty snacks, and some are meant to be gourmet meals. Either can be equally delicious, depending on what you’re craving.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I love this.
Important: “What unites these professionals is their expertise in designing and delivering on the academic mission of the university, with special emphasis on student success…In essence, they do academic work, but without academic protections.”
Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)
Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.
www.insidehighered.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Important: “What unites these professionals is their expertise in designing and delivering on the academic mission of the university, with special emphasis on student success…In essence, they do academic work, but without academic protections.”
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COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
www.press.jhu.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
All-day wildcard baseball and a series-concluding W matchup this evening featuring a supremely gutsy Fever team and on the other side the league MVP makes for quite a day of consequential sports viewing.
September 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
All-day wildcard baseball and a series-concluding W matchup this evening featuring a supremely gutsy Fever team and on the other side the league MVP makes for quite a day of consequential sports viewing.
Blood and thunder!
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Blood and thunder!
The W is where it’s at!
The W.N.B.A.’s Growing Fan-Base
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The W is where it’s at!
Well, at least we know with certainty that the bears are not a serious team. Changes my commitments for the season probably for the betterment of my mental health 🙃
September 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Well, at least we know with certainty that the bears are not a serious team. Changes my commitments for the season probably for the betterment of my mental health 🙃
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It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
This book looks fantastic!
Cover of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy"!!! published by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social.
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
I can't tell you all adequately how proud of & eager I am to share this with the world!!!
Coming January 20, 2026
Pre-order NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This book looks fantastic!
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ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
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the turf at Soldier Field does not look great
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
the turf at Soldier Field does not look great
Nostalgia is corrosive. It dwells on remembrances of the past at the expense of the present or future possibilities. Memory is imperfect. We tend to privilege what makes us feel better. Related, I for one look forward to the Chicago Bears at Arlington Heights and the end of the “Bear weather” myth.
September 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Nostalgia is corrosive. It dwells on remembrances of the past at the expense of the present or future possibilities. Memory is imperfect. We tend to privilege what makes us feel better. Related, I for one look forward to the Chicago Bears at Arlington Heights and the end of the “Bear weather” myth.
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Oooo we got a Sunday night classic on our hands!
September 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Oooo we got a Sunday night classic on our hands!
The great khan has spoken
Why is Trump totally bitching out on his threats to Chicago just because @jbpritzker.bsky.social bitchslapped him a few times?
Q: "Do you have plans for Chicago this week?"
Trump: "No. Not really. We're going to go some place, but we're picking."
Q: "You've been talking a lot about Chicago?"
Trump: "No, Chicago's been talking a lot about it."
Trump: "No. Not really. We're going to go some place, but we're picking."
Q: "You've been talking a lot about Chicago?"
Trump: "No, Chicago's been talking a lot about it."
September 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The great khan has spoken
An all-NFC North matchup on CBS feels very 80s.
September 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
An all-NFC North matchup on CBS feels very 80s.
🤭
Audacious strategy for Michigan to use Kirk Ferentz's playbook tonight
September 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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