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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · 2d

How I conclude my lectures on days when I want to check if my students are paying attention

ceej @ceej.online · 2d

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · 5d

It was such a joy to look at mss together! Thanks for having me

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · 5d

New favorite little guy just dropped:

Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 5d

I think my previous post got censored, but I do think you need to see this little guy and his enormous tooth - as he points to where it hurts! 🦷
(From a medical ms - Edinburgh CRC ms 314)

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 28d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Logging back on after a few days of travel and seeing the chip bag has been such a gift

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · Aug 15

The Very Sad Case of the University of Chicago.

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Aug 13

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

The Treachery of Images painting by René Magritte

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Aug 13

I literally could not be doing what I do without the UChicago Classics Department and the many excellent and patient grad students who helped me through years of Latin

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jul 29

There is some GREAT stuff in here

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 29

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

loom.ly

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · Jul 19

Can’t argue with that

disasteradio / eyeliner @disasteradio.bsky.social · Jul 19

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here’s a 14th c panel showing cosmas and Damian, long after their deaths, miraculously replacing the cancerous leg of a dedicated cleric with the leg of a recently-dead Ethiopian man

A 14th century panel painting that shows cosmas and Damian gathered around the bed of the sick man, at left, with a transplanted right leg, and, at right, the saints taking the leg from an exhumed coffin. A black man in the coffin has had his right leg replaced with the sick patient’s leg.

C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jul 14

I cannot stop watching this; it is extremely Cosmas and Damian coded

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 14

This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring.

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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · Jun 26

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"

Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."

Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"

Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Shout out to John of Greenborough, serving “I did my own research” realness in the early 14th century

Page from a book with a passage highlighted in a red box. The passage says “many things in the new quotes written above have been tested in practice, but several doctors refuse to approve of them because they do not know anything about medicine in practice, but waste time on spinning empty words”

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jun 21

This is very cute hi both

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Small town central PA. We are so back.

Intersection in front of a us post office filled with protestors in the rain

Overflow of protestors onto the other side of the street

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · Jun 12

The UK AIDS quilt in the Tate Modern. Gosh. Overwhelming. It's the teddy bears, and the poems, and the little touches of entire lives.

A top-down view of a display of hand-painted and sewn textile art in bright colours.

A low shot of a long display of memorial textile art in bright colours.

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jun 12

A break from your doomscrolling: I saw a magnificent truck today

Large truck stuck in traffic. Ad for local plastic company on the back. Mascot is a beagle wearing sunglasses named Jerry.

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C.B.Boxer @cbboxer.bsky.social · Jun 11

Even more exciting publication news from our household:

Chase Gregory (they/them) @chazegregoir.bsky.social · Jun 11

my book (dukeupress.edu/as-if) has official cover art now and yes I am looking at a picture of it on my phone every five minutes for my mental health thank you for asking

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · Jun 10

lmao imagine getting this "thats you" ass letter in 1642

Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · Jun 8

"In 1642 in the town of Lemgo, Germany, local pharmacist David Welman was accused of witchcraft and being a werewolf. Anonymous hate mail was sent to him, one of which included this sketch."