Happy Saturday! Just 5 $100 donations or 10 $50 donations gets this student to the next level! C’mon it’ll feel great do it do it ✨❤️

I Am Once Again Asking for Your Financial Support 😅

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I Am Once Again Asking for Your Financial Support 😅

Ok everyone we can still do this! I need 5 $100 donations or 10 $50 donations to get this student to the next level! C’mon it’ll feel great do it do it ✨❤️

Ok everyone today’s the day. I need 5 $100 donations or 10 $50 donations to get this student to the next level! C’mon it’ll feel great ✨❤️

Hello! Have you helped a Syrian refugee PhD student finish his dissertation today? It’s not too late! It’ll feel great! 😀

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It’s been 4 days since the last donation. Help me get it moving again! It would be amazing if we could get him over the finish line this week. Thank you! We can do this!

c’mon stop doomscrolling about that one guy and help a Syrian refugee PhD student instead ✨

c’mon stop doomscrolling about that one guy and help a Syrian refugee PhD student instead ✨

Update! We’ve crossed over the $3K hurdle this Syrian PhD student needs to publish his open access article, a requirement for graduation! 🎉🎉🎉 Now we need to be sure he has enough for research and living expenses through graduation. Thank you for any contribution you can make, large or small!

$134.00 more will push decades of work over the finish line. The deadline is 15 September, in FIVE DAYS.

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I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

Just 3 donations of $75 and this Syrian student will be able to submit his (already written!) open-access article: a requirement for graduation in his program. Who’s got $75 out there today? It might be you! Let’s get him that publication!

Just 3 donations of $75 and this Syrian student will be able to submit his (already written!) open-access article: a requirement for graduation in his program. Who’s got $75 out there today? It might be you! Let’s get him there today!

We’ve crossed the halfway point on this fundraiser for a Syrian PhD student! 🥳 So excited! Just 4 donations of $75 and he’ll have money needed to submit an open-access article: a requirement for graduation in his program. Who’s got $75 out there today? It might be you!

Just $110 is all we need to get this fundraiser for a refugee PhD student to the halfway point! Who will be that wonderful person? ❤️

Update on the dreadful situation eastern Afghanistan. Now more than 800 killed.

Just $110 is all we need to get this fundraiser for a refugee PhD student to the halfway point! Who will be that wonderful person? ❤️

Just $120 and we’ll cross over the halfway point on this fundraiser! C’mon let’s make it happen for him today! We are so close!

We are so close to the halfway point on this fundraiser! Just a couple hundred dollars and we’re there. C’mon Bluesky fam help him out! 🥹🥹🥹

Good morning! Happy weekend! Have you helped a refugee student preserve endangered heritage today? C’mon do it it’ll feel great ✨

Hi! Click here, help a refugee student help preserve endangered heritage! What could be better, I ask you

Crucial thread for anyone looking to support evacuees from Gaza City. This is literally life-saving work. Please consider helping someone survive, if you’re at all able.

Good morning! Happy Friday! Today you can help a refugee student finish his PhD and save endangered heritage! It’ll feel great ☺️ givebutter.com/fgQG3V

Good evening to you and have you helped a very deserving student finish their PhD today? No? There’s still time! All it takes is a click on this link! 😊

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We’re already at 25% of his goal! 🥳 If we can get just ten $100 donations, we’ll be nearly halfway there. Help a refugee student, feel good all day!

Good morning! Here’s how you make the world just a bit better today!

17th first day of school on UT Austin’s campus and despite everything I am just as excited as ever. The kids are alright everyone ❤️

We’re at 25% of our goal, for a fundraiser I just started yesterday! Thank you so much for helping to make this happen!

Incredibly touched by a gift from a generous donor who has gotten us off to a strong start. Please help if you can! The time is short, and your donation will have an impact for years to come.

Click and read. It’s worth it. Then give something. It’s deserving.

This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria. There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖 givebutter.com/fgQG3V

We are so excited to announce the launch of the Shii Studies Network, a space for PhD students researching Shiism to forge personal and professional connections, share their research with and learn from each other, and push the field forward.

Only a few days left to vote for our #sxsw & #swswedu proposal Gaming Islamic History, which seem to be the only entries on an Islamic topic out of 3K proposals! That's plain crazy, ya’ll. Help us out! Username and password and you’re in! tinyurl.com/gamingislamS... tinyurl.com/gamingislami...

Kinda jealous, tbh. On my first dig, the best thing I found was a colonial-era nail. 🧪🏺

Please vote for @stephenniem.bsky.social’s Gaming Islamic History panel to be featured at the next SXSW! While gaming is well represented among the slate of panel options, Islamic gaming (indeed ANYTHING having to do with Islam) is not.

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When I visited Indiana University in 2024 to do research at the Lilly & give a talk, I could not get over what a fantastic, vibrant institution it is, even knowing before I went that it’s one of the best places in the country to do medieval studies. This is calamitous.

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See you at the Texas Capitol at 5 PM! Celebrate freedom, democracy. Oppose tyranny. #NoKings

Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.

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my take on the 'Can video games be art?" debate is that yes, they can, which is why it annoys me when so many of them opt for mediocrity