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

I hate seeing folks i agree with using gAI to make propaganda-style posters for things I support. Y’all. You cannot use the enemy’s tools to fight them. ESPECIALLY if you are arguing against capitalist overreach or for environmental issues. Come ON.

Bourdieu's famous sociological concept but applied to round lil homebodies like me: Hobbitus

This entire Dino Thread

Here’s the fund to support Michael Ium’s mom as she navigates bringing him (and his things) home. www.gofundme.com/f/michael-ium

Implicit Religion US is designed to help students & ECRs develop their research& practice presenting that work. IR US 2025 Theme: Extensive Effects IR US CFP Deadline April 7 www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic... Proposal Form www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/ir-us-...

In The Dawn of Detroit, Tiya Miles begins by teaching readers that long before the fort of Detroit & Sandwich (later Windsor) existed, the unceded Anishinaabe village of Waawiiya-a-ta-nong existed on both sides of our strait. In the beginning, this was one village. thenewpress.com/books/dawn-o...

In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism #datatools #studytools #academicsky digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/14/r...

This made me think of the best writing tip I've seen: keep a "vent file." Before you start writing "for real," open your vent file and freewrite for 10 mins about where you're frustrated, excited, mad, blocked etc. You have to honor, not hide, where your mind is. But not in your draft or article.

JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27

Chichele Professorship of Medieval History University of Oxford - Faculty of History in association with All Souls College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

Microvolunteering opportunity! On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org

🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍 📚 We published 30 new translations on the site in January. This included texts by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280), Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364), Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (1646–1714), Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu (1698–1755)...

We’re hiring a medieval Irish historian!

Oxford looking for a new professor of medieval history... #medievalsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

Jazz OTD: Miles Davis's "second great quintet" (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams) recorded the opening title track for their first album together, "E.S.P.," 60 years ago today, on January 20, 1965. Great beginning to a historic run. #jazzsky

More on Nüshu from Lisa Huang’s 2021 Letterform Lecture: letterformarchive.org/events/view/...

Eason Lu passed around a souvenir example of Nüshu script / 3rd day letter (with some embroidery on the cover! #DHmakes #FaceInterface #MultilingualDH

So glad Jorts and Jean are here, doing this good work.

Feeling grateful this morning to my winter recess writing buddy. I was reminded of this short and sweet advice from @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social youtu.be/fYBxhO0EUtM?...

If you have a recent PhD and you're from Southeast Asia, you might want to apply for this. Tell your friends about it, too. #SoutheastAsia #research @asianstudies.org www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...

And you can DM us for the Link.

* Join us for SORAAAD's 1st Open House of 2025 and Social Media Mini Workshop: "Minimum Valuable Presence." * Meet Monique Moultrie, @drangelasutton.bsky.social 2025 @implicitreligion.bsky.social keynotes * The Big Reveal: the SORAAAD Book Club Title for April 13! Register at SORAAAD.org

There’s something surreal about being in the airport and hearing a famous scholar’s name called over the PA.

AI data centers could end up using more electricity than entire cities… 😩https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html

Ok SBLAAR24 friends. What panels should I go to tomorrow?

Want to talk about making study abroad accessible to historically under resourced students? Come to HB Indigo 202B at 3 pm!

Nothing like overhearing folks on the plane taking up your grad program’s Fancy Boat Party.

Alright good people, what’s your favorite beach in or near San Diego? #SBLAAR24

AAR is nigh! There’s two ways to find me officially—a book signing + after party* Sunday and a panel Monday morning *walk with us to find a beer

Can’t wait to pick up my copy at the AAR book signing this Sunday.

Hello New Followers acknowledging those coming over from twitter W/ a focus on religion, religion-like stuff & qual methods always, this account will also circulate publication and event announcements, news where religion is a factor, news re Higher Ed: labor actions, governance, & protests. 1/x

Hag Pesach sameach, all. Collective liberation or it’s not freedom. Next year in peace and justice.

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

Saddened to learn of the sudden closing down of the Tibet Sheep (ལུག་ཚང་དཔལ་ཡོན། Lugtsang Palyon, 羊兄乐园) WeChat channel on 2 April, 2024. It had been operating since 2013 updating daily on Tibetan culture, education, medicine, literature and much much more. RFA report: www.rfa.org/english/news...

Thinking about how to create space for healthy balance of research with everything else? Want to connect w/ other scholars? Not sure how to get that project going again? Join us for this open house.

The CFP submission for IR UK closes in 24 hours. The theme is Gender, Agency & Representation. Please know that the form will not have a hard close, if you need a few more days to work through an idea use the form to reach out. www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic...

REMINDER: SORAAAD Open House SUNDAY 3 December 2023 Registration will close 45 minutes prior to the start of the event at 10:15 AM CST. Meet @alana-m-vincent.net and @drfstewart.bsky.social The next Open House will take place 20 January 2024.

Meet @alana-m-vincent.net at this Sunday's Open House. They will be taking questions regarding the ISRLC's 2024 CFP Religion in the Global Age.

Meet @drfstewart.bsky.social Executive Director of @implicitreligion.bsky.social @ this Sunday's Open House. Learn about the approach; IR is a useful way to tease out collective behaviors & how they function. Determine which conference UK or US ⬇️ is a better fit for your work. #AcRel Sociology

SORAAAD (the Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline) is having a remote open house on December 3rd. Please join us if you’re interested in supportive community space for the academic study of religion.

EVENT Open House Sun 3 Dec 11:00 am-12:30 pm CST * Discuss social media in the post-Twitter world. * Meet Francis Stewart, Exec Director of our co-sponsor Implicit Religion. Hear abt their 2024 UK & UK CFPs * Help design SORAAAD’s 1st ever “Merch” suggest a 4 word slogan To register: soraaad.org

'Mountain Witch of the Ashigara Mountains' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1845. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

New translation of Kūkai’s commentary on the ❤️ Sutra!

The annual Implicit Religion conference will take place 17 -19 May 2024, #IR46. Theme is Gender, Agency and Representation. Full details are here: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic... Proposals due 6th March: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/ir-uk-... Scratch session for UG, Masters, PhD

NEW on BlueSky, follow @implicitreligion.bsky.social CFP! Implicit Religion UK 2024 Gender, Agency, and Representation Deadline 6 March 2024 #AcRel Sociology