Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...

CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

Behold, the abomination

One year post-doc at University of Exeter for my project on counter-narratives about climate change, urban planning, and health policy in the southwest UK. Feel free to email me directly with any questions but application must be via link: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Waves like mountains. A turbulent sea off the English coast.

Join us next week for our virtual book talk, Sociology of hope. Adrian Scribano will join us to discuss his books themes of revolution, utopia, social change, and collective action. 📅 Wed 21 January ⏰ 6.30pm 🎟️ Free and open to all | register to attend⬇️

Early career scholars in religious studies: Consider applying for the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise! The deadline for the 2027 Award is June 15, 2026. The Award is given to 10 scholars, and each receives a prize of € 3,000. More details: fiit-heidelberg.de/awards/laute...

📣Hiring📣 Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society. Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb#interdisciplinary#sustainability#innovation#society#AcademicJobs #STS

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This thorough and substantive handbook on apocalypticism and millennialism is now available from Bloomsbury. Includes a chapter by me on conspiracism and millennialism. One to recommend to your library. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics offers jobs for Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines. Deadline for application: January 23, 2026 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

This post was about a specific industry (music) but it could describe many different sectors that have shrunk, digitized, corporatized, with secure career paths dissolving, reducing new entrants while AI eats and shits out creative outputs. One of the reasons it feels like our worlds are ending

Have you ever heard someone say "love and light" and want to know more about that phrase and what it means? Check out my short article on light in Material Religion (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sending emails on Boxing Day, but only to Americans, as the Europeans would judge me sternly

Newly-announced scheme, supporting international PhD students and postdocs who want to come to Canada www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...

Thanks, I hate it

He's making a list He's making a spreadsheet He's making a database He's trying to find the best CRM software for his use case Santa Claus would like to add you to his professional network on LinkedIn

What if I told you the reading was the point

The current iteration of copilot in Word is like what if we remade Clippy, but it lies

What I love about academics is how chaotic we are. You can't make us like anything. We will always come up with a critique. We will never just enjoy things or get on board. And if you try to make us by waving yourself around as "objective" we will come at you like a swarm of angry hungry hornets

This is a really good book

Spiritual talk about manifesting, the law of attraction, and visualization is fast becoming part of the material culture of everyday life

I think they already tried autonomous communities in the Caribbean with their own legal systems 🏴‍☠️

You know who would love(hate) AI slop? Jean Baudrillard.

Happy to have been part of this forum at @immanentframe.bsky.social on Latour, science, trads, punks, and the feeling of (being) discipline(d)! I focused on how leftism has increasingly been cast as the politics of "you can't" while "conservativism" has taken on the mantle of "do what thou wilt."

Religious studies/theology folks: Please share word of this 3-year postdoc (junior research fellowship) at Trinity College, Oxford. Application deadline January 21. Full details available here: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

They created a discourse bot

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

Must continue to write all emails in calibri

Gender critical anthropologist has a bad time at a large American conference, makes it everyone else's problem.

1 year VAP in Religion at Hamilton College to teach courses "on religions in the Americas, with a focus on religion and politics." Special interest in research "on the intersections of religion and postcolonialism and/or decolonization movements." Deadline 1/12/26 apply.interfolio.com/177313

On this #NationalMinersDay, we draw attention to @johngav.bsky.social & Gabe Schwartzman's book, POWER & JUST TRANSITIONS, which merges historical perspective w/interviews to look at how coal’s decline impacted power & resistance in an Appalachian community www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

New from me via @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/infected-wea...

The thing about academia that no one warns you about is that if you stay in it long enough, you will be given a role that is a poisoned chalice. You will have to perform this role without real power to change it. You will have to pass on continually changing messages & policies to your colleagues

My book has page proofs! It exists!

FUCK YEAH LET’S GOOOOOOOOO Hard copy of @vox-magica.bsky.social’s new book and it rules

The @universityofexeter.bsky.social now has a PhD in Magic and Occult Sciences open for applications, check out the website www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...

I went shopping on Black Friday and I survived

I found my book, Ripples of the Universe, at the @uchicagopress.bsky.social display at #aarsbl25 so I got Nathan Petrie to take this cheesey picture for me and now I'm sharing it with you

I'm in Boston and an American already greeted me with "top of the morning to ya"

Good things can happen

Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social

Nothing is making me want to quietly end the British monarchy and sell all their properties than seeing this list of potential shame-residences they have to put ex-Prince Andrew in

We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration This is what I explore here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...