Someone said to me at the AAR that if used to be that we all came to worry about jobs, now we all come worrying whether our institutions will survive.

Australia is showing its concern… by buying body bags.

Fascinating discussion with Annie Bourneuf about the discovery by RH Quaytman that beneath the watercolor of Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) lies a 19th-century engraving of Luther which itself acts as a reproduction of Cranach the Elder's 1521 portrait.

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Reading the S Taubes- J Taubes correspondence. S to J, Paris, Feb 1952.

I'm just now having to report on a grant I won 2 years ago. Realising how much time I have spent administering it, and how little time it has actually given me to research. The university is totally onboard with this. By their metrics, the outcomes are great. Who cares what I've done?

A chance to rebrand, I guess.