I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

bored in 4 minutes 33 seconds? problematic cage gap

Immune disorder? Problematic macrophage gap.

Hey #AARSBL folks: gentle reminder to add alt text to your posts about the conference. It’s already exclusionary enough.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

New issue out in The Bible and Critical Theory journal. Special issue this time on The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...

Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!

i have seen entire scenes fall apart because someone was naive and thought they were immune from getting thrown in prison over posts. none of this is new. and also, twitter is just as bad for this. all social media sites are. every single one has led to people getting arrested for Posts

like, this affects more than just you. targets of investigations will often see their loved ones investigated as well. many times, subpoenas dont really go anywhere as long as u have a lawyer with you! but if you taunt them and say anything remotely deemed illegal, youll get targeted!

theres nothing cool about getting yourself arrested over shitposts. theres nothing cool about getting your friends targeted because you couldnt shut up. there's nothing cool about unwittingly aiding feds! if ur subpoena'd or surveilled, shut up and talk to a lawyer. goes for everyone reading! (4/4)

The Pop Tarts have invented Democratic Calvinism. I’m excited to see what they eventually cook up as their eschatology. On that day will be the end of all non-five-minute breakfasts

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We are the daughters of the cats Alf couldn't eat

I am weirdly superstitious about acceptances/rejections, such that an acceptance for a thing I don't care about feels like a bad omen if I am waiting to hear about a thing I do care about. I just bagged two good rejections in a row and everything still outstanding is stuff I really want, so 🤞.

I think it’s a moral duty of British Jews—especially senior members in Progressive Judaism—to condemn this Labour government in the strongest terms possible as an affront to core Jewish values

You have exactly one guess as to where the deer play, perhaps not the Antelope unless they are visiting from a long long way off. I am sure one of these places is, itself a discouraging word. I'll show myself out.

my heart grew three sizes when I received this call for papers, I need to know the theological reading of the Silver Surfer as a messianic figure right now, I can't go on

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

With a professional organisation like this, who needs enemies? www.predatoryjournals.org/the-list/jou...

You know I had to do it to em

The sale includes Sang-Keun Yoo's excellent Speculative Orientalism www.bloomsbury.com/uk/speculati...

Professional associations are key but overlooked guarantors of democratic freedom, especially when they possess consequential sanctioning authority over members. They're the guardians of a profession's norms & ethics, as well as its independence from corrupting influences & undue external pressure

I have just had cause to remember that the K in Phillip K. Dick stands for "Kindred".

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (Fact check: yeah kinda)

Last saved meme is your moral philosophy? @muzucthulhu.bsky.social look out

I burned through 2.5 potential career paths before the age of 24 because of this, and only managed to survive in this one because I spent a significant amount of time surrounded by men who, whatever their other faults, took the social pressure attached to their ordination vows seriously.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

O-- oh. Huh. Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy: It was only after leaving "Sesame Street" that H.R. Giger's creative vision for the Xenomorph began to truly emerge.

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (this one tracks)

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

"Guides to the profession" used to issue advice on interview attire balancing the need for female job candidates to not wear trousers against the need for female job candidates to not accidentally expose themselves while sitting on the bed during a hotel interview.

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

I love that the pope clearly hates the algorithms as much as I do

Something something money evil.

If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

What is our responsibility as SFF writers in the face of genocide and anti-Muslim violence? Read Tanvir Ahmed's excellent essay in @strangehorizons.bsky.social & Listen to our chat with him this week on @justkeepwriting.bsky.social for some thoughts www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast/epis...

Things which cannot be reformed and must be abolished: Retributive justice Borders Gender The family

That was her works, tho.

Faith leaders protesting an ICE facility the way we all (ought/want to) believe we would have protested lynchings* or Japanese internment camps* in earlier US history or internment & death camps* run by Nazis or etc. * None of these are exactly the same as the others or exactly the same as ICE.

For the morning crowd: are you interested in classic SFF but not sure you want to spend your limited reading time on it? Listen to our chats on Hugo History, where we're reading the Hugos in order! There's a detailed plot summary, then a discussion of the book's broader themes and context. It's fun!

I dunno about you guys but...

November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...

Hey, you know those incessant news articles where they go to some Midwest diner to ask Tr*mp supporters what they think? It's an aveira to read those! We are not supposed to inquire into idol worship! In fact, it's prohibited to even look at Tr*mp. Turn away if you see his image! This is halacha!