Miguel Martínez

Forthcoming book cover (out in early 2027 with Bloomsbury). It will feature a microhistory of the fascinating trial of Antonio/Vitoria, plus an edition of the original 1556-7 Portuguese trial document and an English translation.

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

🎥 “Los niños necesitan aprender por sí mismos”: con esta premisa, Mamdani justifica la prohibición de la IA en las escuelas públicas

This is what I’m talking about! Our institutions should be doing the work for us and not leaving us to jury rig together the collapsing infrastructure around us. More of this. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

📢📢📢 We are hiring! 📢📢📢 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UChicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modern Iberian Studies, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. EOE/Vet/Disability. 1/2

My favourite thing about Haaland is that he spent 1.3 million ​Norwegian kroner of his football money on a rare 1594 edition of Viking chronicles - a record book sale for Norway - and then donated it to his regional library. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ha...

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

En este texto de despedida subraya la influencia de Ginzburg, un estudioso que cuestionó paradigmas y reivindicó la singularidad en el análisis histórico con una visión única. www.clarin.com/cultura/roge...

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a man, portrayed making tally marks in chalk with a glass of wine and a sword. 1529 marked on countertop on the left. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Es bastante sarcástico poner a un Papa de Roma bajo la sombra de Carlos V.

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

What a lovely day to enjoy a new translation of some sixteenth-century Spanish verse

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

University of Chicago faculty & parents are pushing back against a new “viewpoint neutral” policy that allows teachers to take a stance on “widely settled historical judgments” like denouncing slavery & the Holocaust, but discourages teachers from taking positions on current debates.

"Pensar que podemos construir un relato sobre el pasado desde otra perspectiva que no sea la del presente es un disparate de orden metafísico. La prevención contra el “presentismo” blanquea la elección de la derecha española de reivindicar a Hernán Cortés". ✍️ Ernesto Bottini ctxt.es/es/20260501/...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Hoy Vox ha traído a Soto Ivars a hablar de su libro a la Asamblea de Madrid. Y yo… pues le he contestado.

The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...

Finalmenchi. Finalmenchi a mis 34 años me voy a leer El Señor de los Anillos de la gente que le dice a Reverte "Don Arturo".

La eliminación del término "Palestina" de las salas del British es un paso más en el borrado físico y simbólico del pueblo palestino impulsado por Israel. Otra razón para, desde todos los frentes, no olvidar #Palestina.  https://shorturl.at/cHzRx

If you're in Chicago and want to understand what it's all about, don’t miss my brilliant colleagues discussing all things Benito!

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

No sé cómo explicaros lo pequeño que es este libro de horas

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant.

Si te invita Pérez Reverte sencillamente no vas. En realidad es así de fácil

Estrofa de la canción de la sociedad de tejedores de Barcelona, en 1841. "Unámonos proletarios...". Sigue

Arturo es un cagón.