Anestis Karasaridis

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🏺 Archaic Religions 🏛 Pre-Modern Epidemics 🦠 Computational Historiography 🧮 Historian of religion & PhD student @municedrr.bsky.social. Also QA/QE.

Red figure in the House of Composers' Creative Work at NOMUS Nowe Muzeum Sztuki, Gdańsk. The Collections Room: Out of the Corner of the Eye. Curator: Maja Bieńkowska.

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A new encyclical dropped just a few days ago 🔥 Funny how it condemns the idolatry of profit while still calling unemployment a "grave evil". If AI can do the work better, but forced unemployment is a "grave evil," how much profit-seeking is actually acceptable?

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Can distant conflict increase religiosity? Led by R. Chvaja, we found that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was associated with increased religious engagement in nearby countries, but in different groups: mainly among the religious in Czechia, and among the non-religious in Poland. shorturl.at/euxSh

How remote conflict shapes religious engagement: the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on religiosity in Europe

War and its associated suffering often lead people to turn to religion. Yet, it remains unclear whether this effect is limited to those directly impacted by war or whether the mere anticipation of ...

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How can digital methods help us study underprivileged groups in past societies? 🗓️ Join us Wed., 25 March at 10 am for the lecture "From Archives to Algorithms: Digital Methods for Studying Imperial Commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640-1822)" by Agata Błoch of the Polish Academy of Sciences!

CEDRR talk: From Archives to Algorithms: Digital Methods for Studying Imperial Commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640-1822) | Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET)

Join the DISSINET team for another CEDRR talk as Agata Bloch from the Polish Academy of Sciences demonstrates how algorithms, archival research, and critical digital humanities approaches transform ou...

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📖 New publication announcement! 📖 Our study published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities uses network and temporal data from Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) to examine how information gathered from deponent testimonies affected subsequent interrogations.

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition?

Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

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🧑‍🎓 Funded Ph.D. Opportunity! 🧑‍🎓 M.A. graduates are invited to apply for fully funded Ph.D. studies within our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discourse. 🗓️ Proposals are due 16 March 2026! 🔁 Please repost and share.

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 16 March 2026

M.A. graduates are invited to apply for fully funded Ph.D. studies within our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discou...

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🎓 Funded Postdoc! 🎓 DISSINET is offering support for MSCA postdoc applications to work on our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discourse. 🗓️ Preliminary proposals are due 16 March 2026! 🔁 Please repost and share.

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF), expression of interest by 16 March 2026

Doctoral graduates are invited to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action postdoctoral fellowship (MSCA-PF) within our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study med...

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Turkish religious groups characterizing art as satanic propaganda 😆 pathetic it's absurd such dumbfucks have the leverage to block artists from performing 🤬

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Z těch vyjádření mi přijde, že po nějakém tom kolečku s právníky bude navržena dohoda k ukončení pracovního vztahu. Jestli ta oznámení nemaj trestněprávní povahu a ombudsmanka je spíš jen interní kontrolní a konzultační orgán než něco jako policie, tak to uzavřou dohodou s odstupným. Jestli vůbec.

Deník N@denikn.cz · 10mo ago

Dění na filozofické fakultě v Brně rozvířila suspendace známého profesora Ivana Folettiho. Mnozí kritizují přístup děkanky a profesora se zastávají. Deník N mluvil s kritiky postupu vedení, ale i s řadou lidí, kteří chování suspendovaného profesora naopak označují za dlouhodobě nevhodné.

New paper - we try to test a classic secularization theory w/ longitudinal data: is material security in early adolescence associated with later decrease in belief in God in young adulthood? tl;dr: it is, a little bit.. w/ @lnpx1thetadelta.bsky.social & R.Chvaja www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans - Volume 8

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