Lauri Markkanen has been on a run this year folks.

Such a great book!

okay this is for a very specific audience but that was like getting to the last page of kingdom of matthias

I’ll be playtesting a prototype of the board game Algorithmic Effervescence at #aarsbl25! Sunday 4-6pm. Location TBA. Let me know if you’re interested in playing and providing feedback.

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Coming January 2026: Reunion: A Podcast about Family Histories. @jstuart.bsky.social and I have been hard at work reading books and recording and editing episodes for this, and we can't wait to share it with you! Additional info, including a separate feed, subscription link, + guest lineup, TBA.

Best things about O'Hare 4. Your connecting flight is always somehow at a gate that is 23 minutes away from where you land. 3. Related: You will miss your connection, but at least you'll kill some calories trying to make it 2. Every food option is shady 1. None of the thousands of outlets work.

The Last of Us (2023)

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Malcolm X at 100 www.youtube.com/live/2ZR3cSx...

SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai. papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...

Honored to find The Trouble of Color among so many remarkable books! Thank you TIME! time.com/collections/...

Hi y'all! I wanted to re-up the CFP for the Southern and ask if anyone would be interested in putting together a roundtable reconsidering the impact the American Revolution had on Southern religious life: www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

Like a river flows Surely to the sea Darling, so it goes Some things are meant to be youtu.be/jmU1UjGxGEs?...

To celebrate my YouTube channel hitting 10k subs(!), & to corral my various videos, essays, interviews, & etc in one place, I: 1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and 2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.

An under-discussed reason why folks in power love AI: it doesn't talk back.

It's so smart!

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Just stop your crying It'll be alright They told me that the end is near We gotta get away from here www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45-...

I hope @andyblarsen.bsky.social somehow has access to the data that haralobob on jazz over/unders mentioned today on Pablo Torre’s pod.

This changes everything

GOOD MORNING #wahoowa

I cheered for Dante Bichette and I want his kid to get a ring so badly!

Making my kids eat vegetables before trick or treating while whispering "I protect the family"

would love to hear from US historians about the carceral histories on your syllabus for next semester

My students will never think I'm cool but they WILL think about research while listening to Taylor Swift. And I think that's beautiful. #amteaching

I'll be thinking about this for awhile: "We talk about equity and excellence, but we’ve built a system where a student’s educational experience depends almost entirely on which teacher they happen to get." rodjnaquin.substack.com/p/why-school...

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....

Today we are discussing writing semester projects in my class on the US South. I'll be introducing students to writing concepts using music. Here's the game plan for today 👇

Excited to announce I've been offered an advance contract for a new book, Parley P. Pratt: A Mormon Evangelist, which will be published as part of the University of Illinois Press's Introductions to Mormon Thought series, edited by Matt Bowman and Joseph Spencer.

Today, students are writing Tinder profiles for historical figures based on changing standards of what makes one of "marriageable material." Fingers crossed that students buy in

Absolutely incredible work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever engaged Dr. Harris’s work.

Seconded

My students out here doing some impressive archival work: exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of...

Oh, you can just read stuff to students and they will just LEARN it? As a college lecturer, this is news to me

Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

Delighted to announce that the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Religion and Science. You can find more information below. Please share widely and feel free to reach out directly with questions.

Giacomo

This past weekend we hosted another round of YSAR sessions! Scholars bonded, learned, ate, and explored Indianapolis. Learn more about the program and the current cohorts: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

Given the nature of his odd defense of Balmer, I think there’s a nonzero chance that Mark Cuban if Pablo Torre’s best source and MC is covering his tracks.

Strega Nona

Must use APA Style

Bluesky links look like trash every time but

Tualitan

Thank you day-old bakery items.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Still Life with Dead Birds (and a Basket of Oysters), by Germain Ribot, 1860-80

New on my Intermountain Histories project: 6 tours (35 stories!) on Boating, Prohibition, Googie Architecture, Mountain Biking, Roadside Attractions, & Wildfires from NAU Public History students of Prof. Michael Amundson. Publishing student research never gets old. Tour links in the comments below ⬇️

I love this so much! nflpa.com/press/atlant...