Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Enjoyed talking with JL Schellenberg about his recent book "WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE KNOWN: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine" (@academic.oup.com, 2025) on New Books in Secularism, a #podcast on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/what-god-wou...

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Just throwing this out there. Cosplay Academic Conferences.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social Hi! Recently discovered you and really enjoy the podcast. Just last week suddenly I can neither download nor stream. I just get “queued” or “failed.” This happens with your episodes in both Apple Podcasts and Pocket Casts, but I have no problems with other podcasts.

Going to do another listen to Akhenaten in celebration.

After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...

I'm BACK on New Books in Secularism, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, joined by @dnewheiser.bsky.social to talk about his book "Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding" (Bloomsbury, 2025). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/art-making-a...

Delighted to see that my conversation with Miranda Melcher about my book Magazine promoted anew on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It's a fun little book -- and now an audiobook, too. www.bloomsbury.com/us/magazine-...

Tis better to have shoved an ass Than never to have shoved at all

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

Breaking: The ATA picked up an unexpected signal… turns out it was Santa, piloting a saucer through the Saturn system. He was navigating the icy fractures of Enceladus to deliver presents to any single-celled residents who might be hiding in its subsurface ocean. 🎅🪐🛸 Happy Holidays!

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Pretty great, unexpected news. (Also, it’s not just about “driving the whales crazy” 🙄)

@michaelburns.bsky.social did I hear you say you had a book in the works, or was that wishful thinking?

Self-loathing is the mother of good invention 😂

News flash: university students really love science fiction in the classroom too (but you think anyone has a budget for such a professorship? 🙄)

A Meal of Thorns pod is far and away my favourite recent find. I’ve been looking for academic book chat on my interests (science fiction & adjacent) for years and really never found it. Can recommend this one highly enough 🐉🙌🏻

@piatpod.bsky.social she beat Anna to it: www.threads.com/@charlenekay...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete. This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪 (via @smutclyde.bsky.social)

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott

Where do you sell that?

Loved these books as a kid. My teacher read the first one to the class and I read the sequels the library had.

I love a good “adversarial”, “malicious” poetry story 📚

Always exciting to see a Musk property so embarrassingly surpassed 🛰️

Robert Charles Wilson called it 20 years ago www.space.com/space-explor...

Um … I literally don’t know what any of those words mean.

Smart people keep saying… “AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills… Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.”

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Please reply with your favorite No Kings photos!

Mange la résistance ! 💪🏻🥰

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Friends...it's Wednesday. Do you feel like something is missing? It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that! Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer. 🗃️🧪

Myth, Magick and Mystery is on at Colchester Castle today. Come for the legends, stay for the science. Plan your visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/myth-magick

I was so fascinated/freaked out by mantises when I was small. Wish I could have seen this 🌸

@piatpod.bsky.social have you guys seen “Mazes and Monsters”? Tom Hanks goes crazy from playing (essentially) D&D!! 🤯

New nickname for the ex-husband 👍🏻

Look forward to this every year 😎

The Wrong Machine is the best nickname I’ve heard for AI!

Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

After the Trump admin uprooted the funding that has upheld most colleges’ scientific research, there were some who optimistically felt this moment might bring the sciences to the side of the humanities, which have been fighting against flagging funds for some time. I was skeptical, and this is why.

Slightly diminish a band: Eight Inch Nails.

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies

Eagle-eyed cinephiles will note the use of killer robots as a recurring motif in the Terminator film series