What a terrible, important time to suffer through developing a mostly new course syllabus. 😫
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What a terrible, important time to suffer through developing a mostly new course syllabus. 😫
One thing that is so dispiriting about our present moment is how so much is going to just keep getting worse and new students and faculty won’t know what they are missing only the misery of shitty AI and overworked people trying to hold things together with nails and duct tape
“Very few Europeans can drink it without feeling very unhappy”—Great historical overview of and reflection on the globalization of matcha by Dr. Rebecca Corbett! theconversation.com/green-gruel-...
One of the awesome things about our calendar is that every entry gets a dedicated URL you can share even if your event doesn't have a page! And there's quicklinks to registration pages, timezone conversions, and calendar adds!
The @jppinfo.bsky.social global events calendar is relentlessly spammed by a predatory conference org but truly they don't know how stubbornly I will shut them down. 😌 P.S. Did you know you can submit your Japan-related events to our sweet sweet calendar? japanpastandpresent.org/en/global-ev...
ちなみに、JPPのウェブサイトでは、「世界の日本研究者一覧」というデータベースも管理しています。🌏 これは、日本関連の人文科学における世界的な多様性を可視化するとともに、世界中の研究者が、そのキャリアステージや所属機関の有無にかかわらず、それぞれの知識を共有し、共に新しい知識を創造していくことを支援します。ぜひプロフィールの作成をご検討ください。 japanpastandpresent.org/jp/resources...
Being an adult means promising yourself you’ll get on a better sleep schedule every day until you die
has the egg song lived in anyone else's head rent-free for two decades or is that just me youtu.be/GNndX9qua1o?...
also this reaction is so pure? like I'm so happy for them?
hearing one good piece of news these days like
🙌✨🌳CELEBRATE THOSE SWEET SWEET VIBES 🌳✨🙌
There is a register button on the page!
We are excited to share that online registration for our upcoming symposium is open! Anyone interested in premodern Japanese law and/or the law from a Global Middle Ages perspective should check it out! Abstracts all online! ⤵️
ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼントのシンポジウム「前近代日本と法―人文科学からのアプローチ」のオンライン参加登録が開始されました。⚖️ 本のシンポジウムは、2025年9月26日から37日までUCLAで開催され、ウェビナー視聴は可能です。さまざまな分野から集まった13名の発表者をはじめ、多くのゲストをお迎えし、前近代日本の法と生活文化、そして法の人文科学的研究の多様な可能性について、さまざまな観点から切り込んでいきたいと考えています。 japanpastandpresent.org/jp/jpp-event...
true facts most of my editing comments on this already excellent book manuscript were just niche jokes that's how you know you've been grad school BAEs for over a decade 🤌
my children are perfectly normal-shaped why do you ask
what could he want from me
so many questions remain
who could have possibly done this
he gotta ripen
Also powerful shout out to @damnslippy.slippy.me’s Gremlin, which gets me every time.
If you see this, quote post your cat art One of my fav digital drawings I did—my advisor’s cat.
足利義満の人事介入文書見つかる | 全国のニュース | 岩手日報ONLINE www.iwate-np.co.jp/article/kyod...
Various dates, I haven’t dated them yet, but generally 18th and 19th cens.
I haven't investigated each individual one yet, but generally the 18th to 19th centuries.
Acquired some dope early modern Japanese paper currency (hansatsu) for use in my class this quarter. 😍 Not sure how I'll integrate it yet, but excited!
The answers are as feeble as you expect!
I am big enough to admit that it is a remarkable piece of literature while also acknowledging that my tolerance of men's self-loathing as pathos in the 20th century is extremely low.
Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
who could have possibly done this
How liberated did you feel when you finally divested yourself of your copy of Kokoro?
seems like that would be fair turnabout
if academia collapses should I sell Fox's feet pics
As I recall, I texted him something like “You should know Fox loves smells and will probably sniff your feet” and this photo was the response without comment.
It’s important for the world to know how much of Fox can be summarized by this one excellent picture @afinnmac.bsky.social took when we were postdocs.
This is one of my favorite pictures of him ever taken.
Cleaning up photos on my phone and reminded that apparently all I did at the galleries of KU was take photos of things with skulls on them? 💀
I promise Fox is not AI-generated this is the real joy of natural derp.
one of those multitudes of Fox is looking angy when not angy
I feel like I need to assure folks Fox is not actually mad, that is just his face, and he contains multitudes. bsky.app/profile/paul...
he is most certainly not thinking
literally just staring at the blank wall bud
he’s been laying on my foot for twenty minutes and apparently making this face
She has her schedule, but she also has her priorities:
There’s some really lovely varieties all around the city, glad I don’t have to go overseas to see them! This is also from my neighborhood.
No idea! California plants were all very surprising to me as someone from New Jersey. I have an album on Facebook for my mom called “Plants in California that are beautiful and/or look like aliens” 😂
Just the little things being good around the neighbor today. 🌱
“Why won’t anyone just shut the fuck up and let me SCIENCE 😠”
USC is hosting a hybrid talk on Taniha and the vibrant world of ancient maritime trade along the Japan Sea Coast on 9/4! If you're in LA, come join us. If not, register for the Zoom below: www.uscppjs.org/visitors/202...
Universities are cutting faculty and programs in order to throw their money into AI "products" that will kill their students.
also no touch: leggy hour
He may be chewing on your sandal, but he is still the goodest boy! It’s #InternationalDogDay, so it’s time to love this early 19th cen carving by Mitsunori.🐾🐕 Held by the The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts: lapis.nichibun.ac.jp/zai/Detail?g...
I need to actually figure out what to put in my syllabus for next month and instead I’m fantasizing about buying primary sources to use. I just want to buy some 古文書 or maybe some old coins or something OKAY. 😤
I am trying my best frog has been my Zoom icon since March 2020 and lemme tell you it’s still bringing joy to every virtual meeting.
avoid ear touch at all costs
Wouldn’t any cat care? We test the theory of “is Fox just a consummate weirdo” with Rigatoni as control cat
This is why our wires are all now woven nylon. 🙃
no touch ears makes me laugh every time
South Jersey, seems about right.
well it certainly hasn’t impacted Sue’s glutes and shoulder routine
I choose to believe this says “Long Live Mango.” @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
Bought a couple prints on our antiquing day in PA—something to hopefully use in the classroom! Annoyingly the previous owner tacked them at the top corners with some kind of glue, but hopefully easy enough to undo with some careful work.
this is a thing of beauty
Today we're delighted to share a new #NCCSpotlight by Haruko Takahashi & Keiko Suzuki (Minpaku Costume Database Project) introducing digitized sources on modern Japanese clothing culture/history. 👘👖 See “Decoding Clothing Culture with the Shinsō Digital Archive”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Pssssssst. You may notice @jppinfo.bsky.social's menu nav has gotten a little facelift. This is anticipation of some new and exciting things coming your way soon! And now it's easier to jump right to Japan Scholar Search and Recent Publications to discover new colleagues and pubs around the world! ✨
Sounds like he needs something to help him chill out a bit.
JPPの2025年秋プロジェクト助成金の応募締切まであと1週間となりました！ 🚨 世界中の多様な研究者チームに対し、最高1万米ドルを提供し、日本の人文科学における新しい一般向けリソースの開発を支援します！ japanpastandpresent.org/jp/funding/j...
This dog appears to be the chief editor of an Asian Studies journal.
I realize that is not a fact ok but did you know that the Hawaiian islands are formed by an intraplate hot spot of rising magma and you can measure tectonic plate movement by how Hawaii is drifting?? 🏝️
I will never stop telling people tectonic/volcano/earthquake facts!!! @sunshot.bsky.social has had to hear them for 20 years and can confirm 🌋
Dang I am still over here getting excited about Wigbod after all these years.
It's been like 6 or 7 years since I've gotten to read @noahwblan.bsky.social's research in progress but reading his manuscript draft now I'm reminded what DOPE contribution to medieval European environmental history it's going to be. 😍🌳
demon child who has not sat in her trouble box for weeks would now like to occupy it for hours, blocking the flow of air conditioning to the rest of the apartment 😑
Faulty Connections, Bad Wiring, or Cat Hair?: Saturday Morning Tech Investigations of a Two-Cat Household
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
when a research position might also be a cry for help
have you ever seen such important ears in your life
according to photos still on my phone this is my last selfie
I don’t know where the summer went but I might cry about it.
We’re excited to share that recordings from our symposium on the global state of the field in the Japanese humanities are now up on the event page! ✨
simultaneously your worst nightmare and also dream 🪐
Compilado entre los siglos IX y X por un autor anónimo, este tapiz lírico de sentimiento y sensibilidad sigue siendo venerado por su profunda exploración de la naturaleza efímera de la vida y el amor. Incluye un pliego ilustrado a color con la obra Escenas del Ise monogatari, de Tawaraya Sotatsu
ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼントが最近開催した初の国際シンポジウム、「Japan Past & Present ― グローバルな日本人文科学へ」のビデオ記録の一部が、オンラインでご覧いただけるようになりました。2025年5月29日から31日まで早稲田大学で開催された本シンポジウムでは、世界各国から24名の発表者をはじめ、多くのゲストをお迎えし、日本人文科学の過去、現在、そして未来について活発な議論が交わされました。 japanpastandpresent.org/jp/jpp-event...
I diddddddddd 💛🖤💛🖤
Over here like "should I have tagged @nursingclio.bsky.social or @jackiantonovich.bsky.social on this? 🤔"
hahahaha I’m not sure my garden is manifesting that level of class 🤣
Sometimes the shape of a rock speaks to you and you gotta leave an ominous guy in the garden. ☠️ www.instagram.com/rocks_onthe_...
stop buying myself whiteboards challenge
A great read! I got to see Fantastic Four last week and it was a delight.
honestly inspired
One good thing today: a child left a rock painted like a nun in the garden, nestled seamlessly with the huddle of penguins.
he can see smells
someone will tell me when I've gone too far
