Paul Dilley

We don’t want Greenland.
We want healthcare.

Happy Public Domain Day 2026! Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Reuniting James Intercisus: A Mingana Leaf Rejoins Sinai Ar. 369 A guest post by Habib Ibrahim* 1. While working on the Arabic dossier of James Intercisus,1 a Syrian-Persian saint of the 5th century, I came across a fragment in the Mingana Collection in Birmingham ...

New guest post on Membra Dispersa Sinaitica: Habib Ibrahim identifies the Sinaitic parent codex of yet another leaf from the Mingana Collection in Birmingham.
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New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Sarah Mullally Is Named as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, will lead the Church of England. She has been a vocal supporter of the rights of women in the church.

Breaking News: Sarah Mullally will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the Church of England.

Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester | Mary Jaharis Center

Job posting: Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester. Applications due October 31, 2025
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Yankees’ Aaron Judge wins American League batting title Winning his first AL batting title after finishing with a .331 average was meaningful for the two-time MVP winner.

MVP!
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That's terrible, sorry!

I've noticed this too. And prices had already skyrocketed before this administration, especially from Germany

Collections HMML Collections page

🧵 Learn more about HMML’s collections—approximately 486,000 manuscripts photographed in partnership with more than 1,500 repositories worldwide: hmml.org/collections/

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

The TikTok Trend of Writing in Margins Is Based on Real Neuroscience Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature

BookTok loves marginalia and neuroscience is down for it: 🧪 💙📚 www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-a...

Came home from traveling and found this in my post!!

What a strange feeling to finally have the actual published book in my hands. 🤯

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The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition

Just out & FREE to read for 2 weeks!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Geplante Forschungsprojekte Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology | Mary Jaharis Center

New book: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Falko Daim, and Susanne Greiff, eds., The Preslav Treasure from Bulgaria (Tenth Century): Historical Context, Excavations, Objects and Technology (Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-pre...

Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United

This is devastating on so many levels
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Very happy to see the BL digitized manuscripts continue to come back online!

2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships | Mary Jaharis Center Met fellowships are awarded to junior scholars, postdoctoral and senior academics, and museum professionals for independent study or research.

Funding opportunity: 2026–2027 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships. Applications due October 17, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026202...

When higher ed is under attack and things look bleak, I find creating academic networks helps me to feel a bit less alone and helpless

The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies
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New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

You can now subscribe to the show too.

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New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.

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What would Evagrius say?

Ethiopia inaugurates Africa's biggest dam amid regional tensions Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's sparking alarm in neighboring Sudan and Egypt.

Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse | Mary Jaharis Center

Call for contributors: Wikidata Across the Humanities: Datasets, Methodologies, Reuse, special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). Submissions due September 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/wikidat...

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.

unbelievable. one of the very few graduate translation programs in the anglosphere is shut down. america is nothing if not INSULAR