It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Our combined @ucu.org.uk and @unison.org.uk household posting our YES/YES votes! We're voting to protect pay, jobs, and conditions across the sector 📮🗳️ @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social

Great to see “Theology in Scotland“ journal @theoscot.bsky.social here on Bluesky! Currently working on my first issue as its new editor. Follow along for news, events, and open access articles 📝

Through my research with church-leaving Christians I've been lucky enough to get involved with Proost: a creative, justice-seeking collective of artists reimagining faith, culture, and connection. Loved our time together in Glasgow last weekend, creating and contemplating together: proost.community

Instead of offering a vision of dignity and justice, or even one of the mildest compassion, immigration has been turned into a pariah issue at the behest of politicians who have a vested interest in offering the public a distraction, writes Kelly Given ✍️

📚Practical Theology journal is looking for book reviewers!📚 Interested? Contact our book reviews editor, Jayson Rhodes, at [email protected]. Current books for review include: "A Heavy Yoke" - Selina Stone "Decolonizing Mission" - Harvey Kwiyani con't...

www.bmj.com/content/390/... The injury patterns seen among Palestinian civilians in Gaza were “unusually severe”, with injuries suggesting the use of munitions designed for maximum tissue destruction.’

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Theology in Scotland Call for Contributions (Spring 2026 issue): Theology and Mental Health 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📓 Seeking contributions (articles, theological reflections, creative work) that explore intersections of theology and mental health 👉Full call + details here: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...

Students from Gaza have arrived in Scotland to begin their studies after months of uncertainty. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548850...

This is genocide, of that there can be no doubt. Our governments must end their complicity in this murderous slaughter. 🚫 Stop funding Israel ❌ Stop arming Israel Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions. Now!

Happening tonight! Still time to register or join us at 6.30pm UK time on MS Teams, DM me for event link.

"Incredible Women: Chronic Pain, Credibility, and Gender Bias" 📆 Wednesday 17th Sept, 6.30pm on MS Teams 📢 Dr Eilidh Galbraith discusses the findings of her @abdndivinity.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk research project with a panel of guests. 🔗 DM me for event link or see poster for details!

"Books that scare the Far-Right"- a great reading list from @versobooks.bsky.social including banned, censored, or suppressed books from around the world 📚: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

A wee bit of good news! I’ve recently become editor of "Theology in Scotland," a journal rooted in Scottish theology with a broad, inclusive scope 📝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 You can learn more about the journal here: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...

This is a disturbing development.

This is the first article in our series telling positive stories of refugees in Scotland. Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy. www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

Be a bridge with a voice radiating with light #AnasAlSharif #GazaGenocide #KeepTellingofGaza

Our summer sale continues - check out these and others on our website to enjoy reductions on theology across our lists Cc @revdwillrm.bsky.social @jennstraw.bsky.social @evepoole.bsky.social @drkatiecross.bsky.social @karenod.bsky.social 📚

Thinking a lot about Barbara Brown Taylor's words (from "Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others"): “The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbour, I will choose my neighbour...Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.”

Israel murdered five al-Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif. They did so because they're now liquidating Gaza City, and want to silence the remaining witnesses. To Western journalists silent about the slaughter of your colleagues: Their blood is on your hands, too.

UN — “Since 27 May, at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food; 859 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites and 514 along the routes of food convoys”. news.un.org/en/story/202...

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

A few days ago I responded to a post (now deleted by the author) about holding people accountable for their silence in the wake of the genocide in Gaza. I am still wondering how we do this in theology.

For those criticising people for using the term “genocide” because it is “too loaded” and “we need to be careful about using a term like that”: “genocide” is being used because that is precisely what it is; it isn’t being thrown around loosely or lightly. 1/4

Seeking the Disabled Christ Exhibition Open today until 27th August Free, @newcastlecathedral And online, www.wobblygoose.com Tactile, large print, dyslexia friendly and braille available onsite. Videos with captions available online. All welcome #SeekingDisabledChrist

Re-posting to boost! An easy action to help Palestinians to stay connected to the internet.

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An appeal to folks on this platform…pls consider supporting grassroots mutual aid work regularly in Palestine, Congo and Sudan. I recommend @friendsofthecongo.org.web.brid.gy and @workshops4gaza.bsky.social and @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social but there are so many others too! Bcm a monthly donor! (1/2)

An easy action for Gaza that you can do right now! Buy an e-sim or set up a weekly/monthly donation (I give monthly and you get live updates when the e-sims are activated). Help Palestinians stay connected to the internet and the world 🇵🇸📱 Get involved/more info: andalu.com/products/pal...

Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column which is on the hypocrisy of politicians pronouncing themselves horrified over images of starvation they did nothing to prevent. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

The UK government is blocking Palestinian students in Gaza from taking up UK scholarships. Some have been killed while waiting @theguardian.com We’ve written to the Home Secretary demanding action and @drjogrady.bsky.social will be on @lbc.co.uk at 4 PM urging the govt to step in. tr.ee/HjzPtS

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Williams #LatineStudies program is looking for a new colleague who specializes in #LatineReligions. I loved working in Williams LATS program. Please help my old colleagues find a wonderful new colleague: apply.interfolio.com/169944

Wrote a short reflection on #bodytheology for Practical Theology Hub, ft. some amazing contributions available to read on the site. Writers from all corners of the world, themes inc. #endomentriosis, #purityculture, abortion bans, and metaphors for suffering: practicaltheologyhub.com?p=1842

Racism takes different forms..it's all racism and it's all appalling and must be resisted but it's idiotic not to think racism doesn't take different forms. Do you know what it takes to live in my skin? And I'm aware that my brown skin doesn't get half of the hate that someone with black skin does

This is deeply concerning for civil liberties in the UK. ‘In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”’

So good to have @alexianafry.bsky.social and @profchrismjones.bsky.social here in Aberdeen this week. We've been chatting all things trauma pedagogy + making plans for new resources. Mushrooms have become our unofficial mascots, a symbol of the mycelium/network/community involved in trauma work! 🍄

We're crowdsourcing here, ya'll! If you teach "religion" - yes, obnoxiously broadly speaking - and encounter trauma in some way, shape, or form, please interact and share!

If you... 📝Teach in #theology #religiousstudies #Biblicalstudies or a similar discipline 📝Encounter #trauma in your teaching (teach on trauma/related subjects, or have experience of it in your classroom/with your students) Please like or interact with this so we can see you + share widely!

Every day, at least 10 children in Gaza lose one or both of their legs. Read that, and then read it again. In the coming reckoning, the politicians who facilitated this will go to prison, and the journalists who cheered it on will have their careers and reputations destroyed.

Any thoughts on this folks? Brainstorming this morning with @alexianafry.bsky.social + @profchrismjones.bsky.social 👀 looking for a good platform to create networks, publish resources, host conversations etc...

"Anarchy" by French street art duo Murmure, Aberdeen. In their words: "There are many ways of interpreting this work, and we hope that viewers will develop their own based on their sensitivity and personal background. But almost as a 'mise en abyme'(literally meaning: 'placement into abyss')...

Excited to be speaking to @karenod.bsky.social and @drkatiecross.bsky.social this afternoon as we begin to craft our chapter 'Moving From Feminist Trauma Theologies to Masculinities' for my forthcoming edited volume with @scmpress.bsky.social on masculinities and trauma in church and theology!

Interrupting the relentless academic highlight reel/cycle of self-promotion to announce my ✨third✨ funding rejection in six months! #hattrick Sharing in case this helps anyone who's feeling the pressure/weirdness of academic life. You're not alone, rejections are ok, and you're more than your work!

🚨 We'll be at today's Palestine Action protest in London as the group is set to be proscribed by the UK Government Follow our live blog for all the updates www.thenational.scot/news/2525860...