Our latest Under the Rubric brings together Mary Neuburger, Adam Hanzel, and @omrielisha.bsky.social, authors of two essays that explore alternative ways of predicting the future: clairvoyance and astrology. Enjoy! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/04...

Join Webb Keane for a thought-provoking discussion of his 2024 book, “Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination,” with discussants Omri Elisha and Danilyn Rutherford. Free and open to all—RSVP now ———

For those in the NYC area on 14 April, come join us for the NY book launch of Picturing Aura! Details in the image below. Please note that, although this event is free and open to the public, registration is required. You can use the QR code in the flyer or via this link: forms.gle/kqs8v2VMb8yg...

State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews.

i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

Trump wants to remake America in his image, that of a miserable and lonely bully. Think about the bullies you knew as a kid. Did they have any real power? Did they have any real influence? Did they have any real friends?

It is not Zelensky and Ukraine that should be thanking the West. It is the West that should be thanking Zelensky and Ukraine.

A geopolitical wake-up call from @rhodesben.bsky.social 🧵

Everyone will focus on the shouting match with Zelensky, but notice that the moment when Vance starts berating him is directly in response to Zelensky's critique of Putin, not the US. Trump/Vance are shameless and spineless puppets for a hostile foreign power.

Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

Over the course of last week, the two largest American Jewish denominations, the Reform and Conservative movements, also issued statements objecting to Trump’s plan.

Who's organizing panels for AAR? I haven't been in a few years but hoping to join interesting convo's on US religion, spirituality, occultism, astrology, secularism, ritual, expertise, and media.

Very pleased to have my article on astrology and historical consciousness published in this outstanding journal!

Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard

We're fighting to ensure our students, colleagues and neighbors are protected from threats based on their immigration status. PSC members, join our Immigrant Solidarity Working Group and access the resources we’ve collected here: psc-cuny.org/ISWG

TikTok is back, complete with a message thanking Trump. We know that Trump initially got the TikTok ban talk rolling, but Democrats did his dirty work, signing the bill into law. In catering to conservative logic they handed him today’s win on a platter. Read more: www.jphilll.com/p/things-fal....

RIP David Lynch. Still the scariest scene of all time.

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

The media since 2015.

Bible be like:

End of term blues: I honestly didn't think anything could be worse than Blackboard. I hadn't yet met Brightspace.

Check out an interview with Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp about their recent book "Disability Worlds, via CaMP Anthropology:

NEW VOCAL FRIES EPISODE!! So fun getting to finally jump on the line with the podcast I've been following for a couple years now! This was myself and Dr. Ayala Fader talking DLP! Podbean: www.podbean.com/podcast-deta... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6OdA... And, ALL the other places too!

There’s a deli on the UWS advertising their special “open-faced bagels.” In other words, half a bagel.

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

Meanwhile in the U.S., colleges and universities are urging their foreign students to return to campus before Tr•mp has a chance impose a travel ban against them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

It's ritual! #archaeology 🏺

One of the oldest "goofs" in the history of cinema: A dancer loses a shoe during this scene from Georges Méliès's Le Rêve de Noël (1900) and the rest of the cast work around it

Who took his mug shot? Tom Ford?

Where yr sweet potato fries actually come from

Chin up, it's Monday!

Nearly half a dozen institutions of higher education announced plans this week to make tuition free for undergraduates whose families make below a certain income threshold, starting in fall 2025.

https://buff.ly/3YN4Bcg The SETI Institute is pleased to offer three community college students the chance to intern with researchers during the spring semester of 2025. Travel expenses and a stipend will be provided. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2024. 🧪 👩‍🔬

There's a big difference between "niche" as in an issue that not that many people are fully engaged with/informed about and "niche" as in dismissive of "the fate of life on earth for the next 10,000+ years and a whole lot of death, displacement, and destruction right now."

"While belief in demons is widespread, these beliefs take center stage during politically divisive times," writes @thedemonologist.bsky.social. "And they have for the entire history of the US." Read more: ow.ly/sZCH50UcNZj

And once again, this is the administration elected by the people who insisted that the *Democrats* were secretly guilty of sex crimes

Today, RD joined the movement to #eXit Elon Musk's Twitter. From today on, you'll find our newest articles right here on Bluesky. Follow us for the latest on religion, politics, & culture as we head into this coming period of authoritarian repression and much-needed Left resistance.

Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life https://buff.ly/3UYK3wv #space 🧪