Erica Buchberger
@ericabuchberger.bsky.social
History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
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Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
1/7
📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
1/7
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':
📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
1/7
📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
1/7
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hi...
utpress.utexas.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
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Come the fuck on
The New Cliff Facing Higher Ed and How AI Might Help Solve It
There is a new “cliff” in American higher education, and it is not the demographic cliff. Rather, it is the dramatic cliff in math knowledge, skills and abilities. https://bit.ly/4rlwkhN
There is a new “cliff” in American higher education, and it is not the demographic cliff. Rather, it is the dramatic cliff in math knowledge, skills and abilities. https://bit.ly/4rlwkhN
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Come the fuck on
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Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
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Thank you for your service, @fakehistoryhunter.net! #BlamePetrarch
In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Thank you for your service, @fakehistoryhunter.net! #BlamePetrarch
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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"This wasn’t a state dinner, but it was a state funeral for a billionaire class whose gusher is rapidly running dry."
The rack of lamb has been devoured, but the putrid stench of oil and death lingers from the appalling dinner where America's business elites toasted the killer of a D.C. journalist, Jamal Khashoggi
How "woke corporations" became accessories to murder. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
How "woke corporations" became accessories to murder. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
www.inquirer.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"This wasn’t a state dinner, but it was a state funeral for a billionaire class whose gusher is rapidly running dry."
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Heckuva piece by Will Bunch.
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
#politics
archive.ph/5xVXe
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
#politics
archive.ph/5xVXe
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Heckuva piece by Will Bunch.
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
#politics
archive.ph/5xVXe
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
#politics
archive.ph/5xVXe
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Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
www.academia.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
PSA: take your turkey out of the freezer, kittens.
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I’m going to show this article to my students next semester, get them to read it, get mad, then say ‘now swap lecturers for students in the story’. Get in losers, we’re developing empathy
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’m going to show this article to my students next semester, get them to read it, get mad, then say ‘now swap lecturers for students in the story’. Get in losers, we’re developing empathy
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Good morning everyone!
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good morning everyone!
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
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First trial of a vaccine against lung cancer will be starting soon.
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/world20...
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/world20...
World’s first lung cancer prevention vaccine gets £2 million for clinical trial
People at high risk of lung cancer will soon be able to receive the first-ever experimental vaccine, 'LungVax', designed to prevent the disease, in a world-first clinical trial. The LungVax vaccine ca...
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
First trial of a vaccine against lung cancer will be starting soon.
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/world20...
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/world20...
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Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social
Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social
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So, no, what I wrote above isn’t actually about owning this schmuck on the grounds of “AI” actually having the power to eliminate jobs. As I’ve said time and again, “AI” is merely a permission structure for antilabor decisions that businesses wanted to make in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So, no, what I wrote above isn’t actually about owning this schmuck on the grounds of “AI” actually having the power to eliminate jobs. As I’ve said time and again, “AI” is merely a permission structure for antilabor decisions that businesses wanted to make in the first place.
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Here’s a kitten in a box that’s too small for him if anyone needs it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Here’s a kitten in a box that’s too small for him if anyone needs it.
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Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
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As this is reported, you’ll hear “UCLA won,” and every time you hear that I want you to remember WHO TF UCLA IS
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
As this is reported, you’ll hear “UCLA won,” and every time you hear that I want you to remember WHO TF UCLA IS
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again, I beg ppl to not frame war in venezuela as some sort of effort to distract from the epstein files.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
again, I beg ppl to not frame war in venezuela as some sort of effort to distract from the epstein files.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
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that thing where talking to smart people makes you smarter — more of that please
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
that thing where talking to smart people makes you smarter — more of that please
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“Market intelligence firms that assist institutions with optimizing degree offerings often identify small interdisciplinary programs as an asset. These data…have increasingly led firms to question strategies such as cutting small programs simply because they are small.”
University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
College and University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
msmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Market intelligence firms that assist institutions with optimizing degree offerings often identify small interdisciplinary programs as an asset. These data…have increasingly led firms to question strategies such as cutting small programs simply because they are small.”
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📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.