After two days of #SnowdenLecture , I get the treat of being at an event I didn't help organize: Smithsonian’s NMAAHC is celebrating Howard University sculptor Akili Ron Anderson & his Last Supper Studio Acting Conservatory si.edu/newsdesk/relea…

Looking forward to Howard University #SnowdenLecture Phi Beta Kappa Day 2: Teaching Transformative Texts from Antiquity & the African Diaspora. Thank you to Center for Hellenic Studies for hosting & NEH Teagle for helping make this possible. Key notes Dr. Carolivia Herron & Dr. Anika Prather (please call me Aneeeeeka)

Also, it’s been damn near a decade. If your critique is based on pacing I don’t know how to help you.

As an Official (dues-paying) Johnsonian, let me bastardize Sammy J:

“If you watch CR for the plot, you will hang yourself. You watch for the sentiment (or wait for animation”)

Enough people have felt it necessary to communicate to me *directly* what they do(n’t) like about the same Actual Play — often contradictory — that it’s reasonable to conclude that maybe there’s multiple pleasures available to multiple audiences, not all simultaneously available.

Thrilled to listen to this year's #SnowdenLecture & Phi Beta Kappa Liberal Arts Roundtable by Anika Prather (please call me Aneeeeeka) (@HowardU alum! FMI drprather.com/about-2/) There's a complimenting workshop tomorrow Center for Hellenic Studies chs.harvard.edu/event/teaching…

LeVar Burton Read LeVar Burton's powerful message supporting library workers in its entirety this #LibraryWorkersDay : nypl.org/blog/2024/04/0…

Today and every day we celebrate the people who keep the doors of knowledge open for all: library workers! Thank you for making sure we have the opportunity to learn about ourselves and the world around us. 📚 #NLWD24
(📷 Department of Labor, US National Archives)

On #LibraryWorkersDay , check out one of these reading recommendations set in libraries! These stories showcase how libraries and librarians bring people together, safeguard books, and champion reading.

→ 25 Books About Libraries and Library Workers
on.nypl.org/3UcNUWN

Happy National Library Workers Day! A huge shoutout to all the hard-working, dedicated, and often underpaid library professionals who keep our libraries thriving, especially during these challenging times. Thank you for all that you do!
#NLWD24
#NationalLibraryWeek

Happy National Library Workers Day!
Our work is more vital than ever.

Excellent episode of one of the best new podcast.
I got into Wikipedia editing because of a colleague who was also a Wikipedia ambassador. But I've been negligent lately and need to get back into it.

New episode of Better Offline w/ Ed Zitron: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White 🧠

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wik…

New It Could Happen Here 🏫

This week we explain Trump’s 2025 policy proposals. Garrison and James start by discussing Trump’s promise to empower parents and fight the communists ruining American schools.

Gare (transsexual john dee) james stout

iheart.com/podcast/105-it…

I am delighted to announce that I am now the Editor of the new book series on Superhero Studies published by Lexington/Rowman&Littlefield. The series will take a transnational and multidisciplinary approach. More details coming soon! If you have a project in mind, get in touch 🤩

Here are the slides from my Keynote Lecture at Johns Hopkins University's Symposium 'Skeletons in the Academy' today, re: Penn Museum, #FindingCeremony , etc:

'Faculty Accountability and Human Remains at Universities, a Case Study'

(video link to come)

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Helping out colleagues:

Is there an extant book series that focuses on the relationship between history and games (rather than the histories of games)?

I have found it surprising these days how little I have to explain about my work — even among 18th century scholars. (Some of my colleagues report that their students know who I am, which is strange but not unpleasantly)