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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
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andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee

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Andrew Jacobs may refer to:Andrew Jacobs (journalist), reporter for The New York Times and documentary film director and producer Andrew Jacobs (lawyer) (1906–1992), lawyer, judge, and Congressman from Indiana Andrew Jacobs Jr. (1932–2013), lawyer, Indiana state legislator, and Congressman from Indiana Andy Jacobs, British sports personality .. more

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 20
well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture

I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2

Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
Gospel Thrillers: Get your copy of Gospel Thrillers
Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible is available in print and digital formats:Directly from the publisher, Cambridge University Press (digital and print)From an indepe...
scalar.usc.edu

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 7h
oh you could make that happen! have someone close to you edit it and then have someone else report it (that's a no-no).

or, you know, leave it so folks recognize you're a "prominent individual"!

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 8h
ICYMI: Katharine Huemoeller's _The Child Follows the Womb_ comes out today!

This book is a game-changer for our understanding of enslaved women's reproductive labor in the Roman world

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Child Follows the Womb
A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome’s most significant legacies is a legal framework for...
yalebooks.yale.edu

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 9h
I have no inside knowledge but it sure reads like it's automated without human editing.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 9h
yeah it's much fuller but I think that's just because it's automatically pulling stuff from all over the web without vetting (which Wikipedia doesn't do). Yes, Catherine's wikipedia page was once totally deleted for specious reasons until someone reinstated it!

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 11h
oh yeah, her Grokipedia article is like 10 times longer than her Wikipedia article, because it's not written by a person but an LLM vacuuming up and reproducing texts from websites

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 12h
just discovered My Better Half has a Grokipedia page (ugh) and it is very repetitive and gets lots of things right (and fudges a lot) and 100% mistitles her dissertation--like, there is not one word in the supposed title that matches what her dissertation was called.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump regime is targeting Renee Good’s wife now????? Low-down depraved monsters.

“Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter.”
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 13h
this whole thing is low-key brutal ("Ms. Weiss and her allies insist that she does not take orders from either Mr. Ellison or Mr. Trump") but calling David Ellison "the technology heir who controls CBS" made my soul leave my body

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com

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The Chicago Manual of Style @chicagomanual.bsky.social · 13h
Q. “Do the speaker or the characters have any faults?” Or “Does”?
Q. En dash or hyphens in “time clock punching employees”?
Q. Can you have a footnote 1 with no 2?

We answer these and other questions about Chicago style in the January Q&A at CMOS Online. cmos.style/QandA
A white, scarf-wearing Samoyed dog races down a groomed trail on a red and black snowboard and announces the January CMOS Q&A.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 14h
lol
From a law of 398 ce, we know that civilian homeowners in the late fourth century ce were required to provide one third of their house to quartered soldiers.Footnote17 However, the social reality of whether billeted Roman soldiers habitually or forcibly demanded their proverbial salgamum (pickles) from host families is a difficult question without many firm answers – only anecdotal evidence. Was the emperor indicating his care for the Roman people by assuring them of what was required of them, <highlight>or was this a common “pickle” in which people found themselves,</highlight> namely soldiers taking more than they were owed?

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 14h
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... detail from this important text, which also includes these two sentences just a few paragraphs from each other

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15h
Hello! My new article on the rhetoric and reality of Roman troop billeting from Cicero to Procopius is out now! Let me know if you want a copy. Let’s just say we are lucky to have the Third Amendment (if civil rights are, um, legally acknowledged). www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
“Feasts and Harlots, Baths and Idleness” (Chapter 7) - War and Community in Late Antiquity
War and Community in Late Antiquity - January 2026
www.cambridge.org

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h
maybe the tie length is meant to distract from his accent work?

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h
lol

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 16h
This review #2 response ratio reminded me of Pardee's 404-page response to Tropper's 1000-page Ugaritic grammar.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h
"I’ll explore what tethers our current higher education policy realities to past moments in history, leading to potential lessons on crafting an American higher education system that thrives within a multiracial democracy." this series from @bakerdphd.bsky.social look amazing!
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h
right! whereas when an acquisition editor told me, "I get promoted by publishing more books," a light bulb went off.

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17h
also the incentives are different: book editors want to publish as many books as they can while journal editors are trying to winnow a mass of submissions to keep to page limits

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17h
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17h
👑🐝

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Matt Delmont @mattdelmont.bsky.social · 17h
Two more weeks until pub day for "Until the Last Gun is Silent" @VikingBooks! It is about patriotism and protest in the Vietnam era, through the stories of Coretta Scott King's antiwar activism & the life of Medal of Honor recipient Dwight "Skip" Johnson www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736800...

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Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com · 1d
If you're interested in contributing to the rebuilding fund:

www.bethisraelms.org/rebuilding-u...

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Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d
My man Henry Louis Gates Jr will be a Futurama-style head in a jar telling horrified celebrities their ancestor was in ICE

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
not that i particularly want to hear from any of these ghouls, but has any member of this sclerotic administration said anything about the burning of a Mississippi synagogue?

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
gonna use this to introduce myself to my students tomorrow in our first class

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Sanity! Amidst the Apocalypse

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
it's just good all-around advice!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
nope!

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
lol wikipedia had to add a "show/hide other positions" toggle to his sidebar bio
Wikipedia listing of Rubio's various jobs in the current administration; there are 4, 3 of which are "acting" (and, to be scrupulously fair, his last job as head of US AID [!] he has been succeeded by Russ Vought).

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
yeah what are we, chopped liver?