Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done.

I’m only going to be at AAR for one day, but if anyone is are around on Monday let me know! And also: come to our Mormon Studies panel at 5pm rm 105 in Hynes. It’s going to be a great discussion. I had way more to say about Lawrence Foster’s Religion and Sexuality than I thought I did!

I don’t feel like I do a notable amount of professing, relative to the other parts of my job.

Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play?

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts. www.popsci.com/environment/...

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Is there anything more Sisyphian than checking the "keep me logged in on this device" box?

Staring wistfully out the window, wondering what my cat is up to right now.

When historians talk about the coming “archive apocalypse,” this is what they mean.

Major Dorimus Church's mother was formerly enslaved to his father. Born in Tennessee in 1869, in the aftermath of the Civil War, he and his mother and his siblings were listed in the 1870 census as Black. 1/6

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

In England they call it vocal chip

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

A.I. is just Spiritualist seances for the 21st century

A newly published revelation from the LDS Church's 3rd president raises interesting questions about history and canonization. We asked a historian about it.

Free to Access article until June 30: “Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by @katedavisphd.bsky.social from Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 12. cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Free to Access article until June 30: “Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by @katedavisphd.bsky.social from Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 12. cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

"What influencers choose to share, and what they choose to conceal, contribute to the public perception of what it means to be a Mormon woman." @katedavisphd.bsky.social in a Mormon Studies Review Vol. 12 forum, "Mormon as Spectacle." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

“Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised. In some cases, Trump’s declarations are meant to test the waters, but in other cases, the outrageous claim is its own accomplishment.” As always Butler cuts to the heart of the matter.

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

So excited to have an article in the new issue of Mormon Studies Review!

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

This is an infuriating interview wherein the interviewer asks many lazy questions, but Butler’s responses are vital and incisive. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

What items in your cart makes things weird when you encounter one of your students working at the grocery store? Asking for myself, who just had to make small talk while juggling two gallons of sweet tea and a mini glue gun.

I’ve presented at AAR several times, but this is the first time that I have helped to put together a panel, and it is going to be amazing! “Material Culture and the Boundaries of Masculinity” Sunday at 5pm in HB-Cobalt 502A. Come hear me talk about homoerotics in Arnold Friberg’s Mormon paintings!

I had a great time talking with Maria about MomTok and Mormon influencers! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/0...

Spending our 10th wedding anniversary at a @themountaingoats.bsky.social show in Philly, which is absolutely perfect. 10 years ago we had our first dance to 02-75 and the Mountain Goats have been the soundtrack of our life together.

I’m getting to attend MHA in person for the first time this year, and I am feeling some big new kid at school feelings. The trials of being an interdisciplinary weirdo!