I’ve got the library’s basement at Duke all to myself today, it seems

I’m going to be unemployed and at a loose end fairly soon so if anyone has any teaching that needs to be done…

Highly recommend!

I was just told that Finns call mozzarella "Moomin meat" & I cannot unsee this

Imagine my surprise seeing this hi viz at Newark today, for half a second I thought it was someone from Oxford University Press. The logos really are kind of similar, I do miss the old OUP logo

The eighteenth century, very demure, mindful, even

Excited for this. Just arrived in Lund

The History of Knowledge Summer School Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) was great! I'm dead tired after 4 days, but grateful for the wonderful scholars I've met, the ideas and discussions we've had, and all that we've learned. Thank you to Björn Lundberg for organising and to all the instructors!

Went and saw the Vasa Ship, for the first time, before my flight home

Time to start answering some emails

Back in Oxford

Excellent paper (with a personal and emotional punch) by Tom Emanuel, who is also a wonderful speaker, at Oxonmoot 2024

Met one of the translators of The Hobbit to Norwegian this weekend

It really does not bode well for our society that politicians and corporations keep trying to destroy both entire repositories of knowledge and culture and our access to them while also championing AI tools that consistently plagiarize and provide incorrect information

Curious how I keep getting ill whenever I'm in England

Once again been charged the Staff rate for dinner at my college. I guess I look (or dress) old, but I'll seriously consider making a t-shirt stating "I'm a graduate student"

Beautiful evening yesterday Magdalen College, between the rain showers

All very exciting