Looking forward to talking with @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social about our work reimagining Religious Studies & the Humanities at UNI. April 29 at 3pm ET.
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Art Vandelay is in the new season of Friends & Neighbors. #ImporterExporter
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I would feel really disheartened if I learned that someone I asked to be my referee, based on what they knew of me, had outsourced that to their pet AI.
We have met the enemy and it is us.
“We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting…”
Vice President JD Vance was greeted by thousands of empty seats at a Turning Point USA event where all the tickets were free.
Losing SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) is absolutely a sign of American academia's decline and the gutting of the humanities in particular.
I'm pretty sure SLACs are a uniquely American phenomenon. Most countries don't have hundreds of small, non-research-oriented colleges dedicated to teaching.
Mulder would 100% have a podcast that he runs out of his cluttered office in The Unremarkable House. Scully would indulge him but never participate, except to occasionally appear in the background or yell at him to finish recording already, the baby is trying to sleep
@sunypress.bsky.social — wow, you only took 8 months to notify authors of a data breach of their info in your “secure” system. I guess that was time enough for you to lawyer up and get the discount group plan from @experian-us.bsky.social
Feels like an appropriate day to continue teaching the debate over Byzantine iconoclasm.
Victor Orban’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
Season 2 of #Deadloch. If only there was more yelling.
Upcoming book launch for this edited volume, which includes quite a few NAASR folks!
When: 29 April 2026, 17:00 BST (12:00 EDT)
Where: Aga Khan Centre, London, and online via Zoom
Registration: www.iis.ac.uk/events/pract...
Join us on April 22nd at 4PM EST for our next NAASR Conversation on Early Career Scholars!
This is the third conversation regarding the "profession" and will focus on the particular issues facing early career scholars. See you there!
Zoom Link: ua-edu.zoom.us/j/83280408612
I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII
Assume the Gov. will now sign it.
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The students were victorious again over faculty last night. #trivianight #PresidentsCup #annualtradition
"80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on - who are afraid of death and insignificance."
He diplomatically left out one word. 😆
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
"If intelligence in biological systems depends on embodied, intervention-rich learning, then treating ever-larger datasets as a substitute for experience is not merely incomplete. It may be fundamentally misguided."
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Sisters.
It was the meeting where a former doctoral supervisor read a paper criticizing my work. It was also the meeting where I bought an ABBA cd coz it was blaring on speakers at a music store in the Ginza district — cultural irony.
Photo of partial page from C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game
@mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I think you would like this book
I was in Tokyo for an IAHR conference 20 years ago, so that book has traveled as much as me!
McCutcheon 教授から Manufacturing Religion 第2版を頂戴しました。わざわざ日本まで...ありがとうございます。
So grateful to receive the 2nd edition of Prof. McCutcheon’s book.
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