The main item of news in Moscow today is not the invasion of Ukraine, but the completion of the BKL, the Big Circle Line of the Moscow Metro. Its 31 stations have been opened gradually over the last five years, with the final 8 being opened today.

Editor rant: if you're publishing academic journal articles, you should be reviewing journal articles. Otherwise, you're just freeriding. The number of times we're getting well into double figures before 2 people say yes is causing delays and hurting fellow academics' careers.

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

lol who did this

SPSR 50.2: Sharon A Kowalsky, "The Group Rape of Mariia N.: Gender, Violence, and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Early Soviet Russia" brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Edward Geist, "From Khrushchev’s Kulish to Chicken Kyiv: How Soviet Power Redefined Ukrainian Cuisine" brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Nicholas Ganson, "Truth Reveals Itself through Love: Fr. Vsevolod Shpiller’s Critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a Pastoral Admonition" brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Edward Roslof, "The Black Savior and Control of Extrainstitutional Sacred Sites in Communist Moscow" brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Jeffrey Jones, "A Cold War Crusader: Andrew Eiva’s Ethnic Anti-Communist Dream" brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Kristy Ironside, A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union (Julie Hessler) brill.com/view/journals/…

SPSR 50.2: Lakhtikova, Brintlinger and Glushchenko, eds., Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life (Maria Fedorova) brill.com/view/journals/…

Braves need to hire him as a commentator.

Academics Panels: 1. Senior Prof: offended by time limit 2. Mid-career I: forgot about panel. Post-it note of content 3. Mid-career II: 900 slides 4. Discussant: offended by time limit 5. PhD student: prepared for 3 hours of questions, receives none

I am an editor-in-chief for an open-access journal. A submitted paper had a reviewer that contacted the author and asked for cash in return for a favorable review. Thanks to the author for calling this to our attention. #publishing #ethics

Dear August, Please go as slow as academia travel reimbursements.

It’s August 7th. Is your syllabus done?

The new Chicago Manual of Style is out and it's no longer required to mention place of publication. It's a sad day for Basingstoke.