Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️‍🌈https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lwu7ls7gkc22How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this20 Aug 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwu7ls7gkc22https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ltypzwj6f22yif only a wealthy donor would endow a fund to supply classrooms with chalk and dry erase markers...15 Jul 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltypzwj6f22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lop25zieuc2gfantastic headline 10/1008 May 2025 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lop25zieuc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lnfxpi2usk27word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau22 Apr 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfxpi2usk27https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lnfkr7y5ec2eIngres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)22 Apr 2025 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfkr7y5ec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lmcgwgjtdk2qolaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)08 Apr 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcgwgjtdk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lm5glpbpxs2wnon-academic at dinner last night: "wow, so what made you care about something so much that you felt you needed to write an entire book about it?"06 Apr 2025 12:19 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm5glpbpxs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lk6jnd5vo22bI thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected12 Mar 2025 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6jnd5vo22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lk2bsmztwc26Chicago should thank me for booking a trip to Sicily this week, thereby ensuring that it would be warmer in Chicago than in Sicily10 Mar 2025 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk2bsmztwc26https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljsll72o3k23My doctor told me that my eye condition “was written about in Ancient Greece,” which is arguably the least useful information a doctor has ever given me07 Mar 2025 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljsll72o3k23https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljrzayqap22gi feel like I should be paid five cents every time I have to do two-factor authentication07 Mar 2025 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljrzayqap22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljlr537t4c26It’s actually very funny that Severance uses college teaching to stand in for work-life balance in the backstory05 Mar 2025 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljlr537t4c26https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljkujuyt7s27can an experienced cat owner explain to me how it is possible for my cat to shed his weight in fur on a daily basis?04 Mar 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkujuyt7s27https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljkkpj57g22nlet's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them04 Mar 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkkpj57g22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljj4jlebdk27it's definitely just a matter of time before Google shuts down Google Books, right?03 Mar 2025 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljj4jlebdk27https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3ljhxid5e6c2iWilliam Stanely Jevons, May 1866: "Of course one must be criticised and abused a little. The more one's name is named now, the better for my professorship appointment."03 Mar 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljhxid5e6c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lj73tvte6c2n“I am not going to get sucked into that drama” I say to myself as I get sucked into that drama27 Feb 2025 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj73tvte6c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lj4mtst46s2eciting my physical copy of the OED like a luddite because I can't stand having URLs in my footnotes27 Feb 2025 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj4mtst46s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3limr5ffkec2dshoutout to my friend who instead of asking "what is your book about?" asked "it is annoying if I ask what your book is about?"20 Feb 2025 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3limr5ffkec2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3limc37km5s2ione thing I think chicagoans don't understand is that in other parts of the country you often have to worry about using too much water20 Feb 2025 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3limc37km5s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3li5otbxp7k2vOur extremely on-brand Valentine’s Day activity is going to hear Schoenberg and Wagner at CSO14 Feb 2025 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3li5otbxp7k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3li2kdrx7ok2bFor some reason, getting up at 5am seems fine but getting up at 4:55am feels inhumane13 Feb 2025 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2kdrx7ok2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhy6jqr7vc23fun fact: every Thomas Hardy novel describes at least one sunset12 Feb 2025 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhy6jqr7vc23https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhwzpgkipk2bDoes anyone have recommendations for things to do and eat in Palermo?12 Feb 2025 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwzpgkipk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lht7tj5zek27despite my best efforts, I continue to write about the ninteenth century10 Feb 2025 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lht7tj5zek27https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhohwgxlg223in case you need another thing to worry about, my sister who works for NOAA just said "if Elon fires us, there won't be anyone to tell the Colorado River dam operators how much water to release when the snow melts"08 Feb 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhohwgxlg223https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhohk4szu22wi think i've set a record with my library fines08 Feb 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhohk4szu22whttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhjjlfnsh22tPlease, NYT cooking…not gochujang snickerdoodles…I can’t take it anymore…06 Feb 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjjlfnsh22thttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lhfbhiwgus2gfinding an piece of writing irritating and trying to figure out why is honestly where a lot of the best thinking comes from05 Feb 2025 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:vaetfa5slpubto52dgtdhuu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhfbhiwgus2g