Everybody in higher ed has questions these days. For example, admins ask "how can we get faculty to incorporate AI into their classes?" while faculty ask "can I come in to campus to teach my classes without being abducted by an unlawful paramilitary force?"

Looking for great books or an excellent podcast series? Here is our *annual list of winter reading and listening recommendations.* Featuring excellent work by @thislynne.bsky.social, @katherinestewart.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social, @judithweisenfeld.com, @adriennekrone.bsky.social, & more!

It’s an honor to have Free-Range Religion included on this @therevealer.bsky.social list alongside some amazing religious studies books!

How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today? @adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️ uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...

Free-Range Religion is here!!! It’s not officially out until November 11 but you can order your copy now on the @uncpress.bsky.social website! uncpress.org/978146969032...

@uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including pre-orders of mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50! uncpress.org/978146969032... Plus there are new blurbs from @therubellion.bsky.social and @rachelbgross.bsky.social!

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Day 3 of the Summer Institute begins! “Academic freedom is a job condition, not a privilege…this is a matter of democratic education.” —Rana Jaleel, Chair of AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure, Morning Plenary “Protecting Academic Freedom: How to Build an Effective Issue Campaign.”

Solidarity dinner (okay really mostly drinks) with the other Penn @aaup.org chapter members tonight! @aaup-penn.bsky.social @adriennekrone.bsky.social @rosibarbera.bsky.social

This is a concentration camp

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

The act of writing can serve many purposes. It can be used to inform. It can be used to resist. It can be used to heal. Jasmin Graham & I wrote an essay about our terminated NSF grant, and hopefully, it accomplishes some of those goals. www.advancejournal.org/post/3147-gr...

"The fact of the matter is that trends in American religious life have been fundamentally ambiguous for decades." Zaid Adhami dives into transformations in American religious life and his new book DILEMMAS OF AUTHENTICITY on the blog ⤵️ uncpressblog.com/2025/05/14/t...

Young Scholars in American Religion applications are open until May 19th! Apply to be part of an amazing program, but don't just take our word for it, hear from past YSAR member Adrienne Krone! Learn more and apply for the 2025-2027 Cohort: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

My book is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site! It won’t be out until November but if you’re as excited as I am about religious alternative food movements, you can use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I don’t know how Hulu’s algorithm works, but childless Jews watching Abbott Elementary can’t possibly be the target audience for ads about Liberty University’s K-12 homeschool program 👀

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop.

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hand's Off Rally Takes Place in Perry Square

Dive into gender and the Jewish Community Farming Movement tomorrow with HBI and @adriennekrone.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability and Religious Studies at Allegheny College, online at 12 pm EDT. #hbiseminar #jewishfarming #jewsky #jewishcommunity #hbischolar

Join HBI on Monday at our next seminar “Humans and Honeybees: Gender and Human-Animal Relations in the Jewish Community Farming Movement” with HBI Scholar in Residence Dr. Adrienne Krone @adriennekrone.bsky.social. March 31, 12 pm EDT online, register: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

More of this energy, please!

I was a Fulbright scholar in the fall and losing that funding while I was out of the country would have been devastating! Fulbright, like so many other programs, is funded in part by Congress and it’s totally unacceptable for DOGE to take money that was already allocated

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Meadville and Erie friends - as the House enters into budget negotiations, it may help to know that our congressman, Mike Kelly, is on the Ways and Means committee, which is where the tax cut discussions will be happening. In fact, Congressman Kelly is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Tax!

Hey fellow PA16-ers, our congressman, Mike Kelly, is Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax and I often get a real person when I call his Erie office so call along with me!

I thought we were doing Job not Jonah… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

📣 The HBI Scholar in Residence application for the 25/26 academic year closes this Friday, Feb. 7. HBI offers scholars, writers & artists the opportunity to be in residence & is open to those working on any aspect of Jewish women’s & gender studies to devote time to research. bit.ly/HBIScholar

So far Lacey Chabert’s Character has excellent hats! #HATM

I unapologetically love Netflix Christmas movies so I’m super excited to watch a new one, Hot Frosty, with #HATM tonight! ⛄️

I love them 🥰 And Arthur because he’s a doodle-y doo 🎶 #HATM

I love the phone conversation scene - so much miscommunication and adorable awkwardness! #HATM

I love that there’s a tiny bit of Hanukkah in this Christmas movie! #HATM

I couldn’t agree more - what a delight!

here's a partial #AARSBL24 starter pack. if you're going to be part of the conversation at or around AARSBL, like this post and i'll add you! repost to signal boost! i'm hoping combos of starter packs, feeds, and hashtags will help folks connect, whether they can come or not.

OK, I guess someone had to do it and I guess today that someone is me. Academic Study of Religion starter pack! I am sure I have left people out, so please let me know if I need to add you! go.bsky.app/9CdZTiN

I’m trying to leave that other place for good so here I am. If you know any cool food, environment, religious studies or Jewish studies people I should follow, let me know!