Ray Ball

history prof, early modernist, Iberia & beyond, poet, editor, author of Cómo ser rey, Treating the Public, Tithe of Salt, & Lararium. she/her. bi. Tweets mine.

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Logging out of Twitter indefinitely. Take care folks.

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I can so imagine my herpetologist father humming along to this, riding the roads, looking for toads and other specimens.

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

(John Denver voice)

Country toaaadds,
take me homeee,
to the place,
toad belongg,
OKLA-homaa,
toady momma,
take me homeee,
country toaaadds

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Today’s Team AHN includes Meghan Armstrong, @Bibliophilenick @frankie_urrutia @Hector_LinaresG and yours truly.

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@pdforan @UCityReview Thank you, Pat! 🙏🙏

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Stoked to have two poems in this lovely lit mag!

[UCity Review Editors @UCityReview]

The June 2023 issue is live! Includes work by
@MsAubeELA @jackbedell @Martelli89 @LeePottsPoet @patriciacaspers @mrmeyerhofer @ProfessorBall @BunkongTuon @AmBusyPoeming @GaryPercesepe @BSatromPoetry & more.

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Lovely to spend time with these two absolute stars!!!

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@jjponcevazquez Ureña is my guess

[heartspocky @heartsalty]

So what, Stephen King put out 97 books in 9 months during the 80s using nothing but his incredible work ethic and cocaine

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@AKatieHarris I’m sorry I had to miss your panel! ¡Hasta la próxima!

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My fab #ASPHS52 panel on art an power in early modern Spain.

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Michael Selzer of the University of Akron looks at women’s often obscured roles in health care and ideas of wellness. #ASPHS52

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Mike’s paper depicts a Monty Pythonesque series of espionage goofs.

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Michael J. Levin of the University of Akron asks if Early Modern Spanish espionage is overrated? He gives two cases of spectacular intelligence failures. #ASPHS52

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@jriceTO Argh!

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Some of us read for a living. Some of us read for leisure. Some of us for both. Read how you want, when you want, and what you want.

[Mykail James | Gen Z Financial Education @BoujieBudgeter]

Over consumption and hustle culture got y’all thinking that reading 200 books in one year is better than reading 3-5 books slowly and sitting with the information or the story

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@jriceTO I hate that, too. It also seems to be feast or famine with getting library books.

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@susan_cogan Such a gorgeous campus!!!

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ANC 🛫 SEA 🛫 DIA 🚍 Boulder

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@jjponcevazquez @mialva11 Possibly Urente.

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@hmvanderhart @BloofBooks @Ornithopterpoem @the_ethelzine @BellePointPress @Birdsllc @backbonepoetry @BlackLawrence Happy birthday, Han!

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@OpenBehaviorist

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I'm about to lose my mind. Someone in the university bureaucracy scheduled my 5-week class first summer term as a 10-week class. The summer term started yesterday....