Sam Spinner

The flavor develops a certain complexity.

Gefilte-flavored-chrein drizzle for popcorn could get me to a movie theater.

I’ve heard about the lemon potato kugel though.

I haven’t heard about the chrein or the popcorn.

Minor insult comic. lol. What’s this about popcorn?

CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

I feel guilty about yotzros.

Happy sesquicentennial! Can’t wait to see what the next 150 years bring.

Now you’ve got me thinking that maybe McDavid isn’t an Ashkenazi surname.

This story brought tears to my eyes and made me want an ice cold Coke.

Here's my new blog post about Jewish dance cards and a recent UCL bicentennial event where we learned Edwardian ballroom dances from a Jewish dance card in @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social to the same tunes that were performed in 1909. #UCL200

In partnership with @uclhjs.bsky.social and the UCL IJS.

I’m teaching in 15 minutes. Frantically working on an updated lesson plan.

Heavy snow upends Olympic freestyle skiing and snowboard events Freeski aerials and women's snowboard slopestyle events at Milan Cortin 2026 were delayed due to weather conditions.

Can’t let snow get in the way of skiing.

When’s the slow-skating competition coming on?

Anyone can win a silver medal. You just have to come in second.

In the Winter Olympics it’s done on ice, so it’s proslipsis.

Prolepsis is an Olympic sport.

The Winter Olympics starts tomorrow but it started yesterday. It is streaming live now. The technical term for this is mise en abyme ex eventu.

One of several articles in our new issue that feel especially timely. Through an analysis of literary texts, Barnwell looks at how information is recorded, represented, and trusted (or not).

Apparently the answer to more artificial intelligence is less natural intelligence.

Come Fill Your Dance Card: A Celebration of Jewish Dances Cards in the Library Special Collections 5 February 2026 at 18:00

Looking forward to tomorrow's 'Come Fill Your Dance Fill Your Dance Card'.
Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS.

We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event).

www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....

Sorry, the pool is closed.

Campus map now with interactive live weather updates!

Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research.

This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.

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After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

Ha!
מחשבה טובה מצרפה למעשה שהיה.

I like how AI is totally ambivalent about being right. Here we go from the right answer directly to spectacularly wrong answers.

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...

LLMeh.