Anestis Karasaridis
@ane57.is
🏺 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.
Wroclaw panelák at NOMUS Nowe Muzeum Sztuki, Gdańsk. The Collections Room: Out of the Corner of the Eye. Curator: Maja Bieńkowska.
Power Dance Hardcore Ele[c]ktro by Rafał Kucharczuk at NOMUS Nowe Muzeum Sztuki, Gdańsk.
📣 @tomasglomb.bsky.social v novém podcastu Náboženství z Šaliny! 🚋 z FB: Co vás v podcastu čeká? 🔬 Mezioborově, náboženství jako lidský jev, zkoumaný humanitními, sociálními i přírodními vědami 💬 Lidské chování a instituce v pramenech, laboratoři, chrámech i simulacích 🎧 is.muni.cz/go/relipodcast
you guys know that not recognizing them doesn't make them disappear? 🤭
Pentagon drops 180 religions from its recognized faiths list
A former Army chaplain called the reported changes a ‘tragedy’
independent.co.uk
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 ] ___________________________
vatican.va
New paper by @martinlangcz.bsky.social et al.!
New Perspective in the journal: Social cohesion in crises depends on how much people depend on each other and the government, the (un)equality of these dependencies, and whether people’s interests conflict or align. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, enabling digital reconstruction. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
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 ...
tandfonline.com
New paper: costly signals are not reliable simply because they are costly. Intuition may help stabilize high-cost signaling, but signal reliability seems to depend on the interaction between intuition and context-sensitive deliberation. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Intuitive and deliberative processes underlying commitment signaling for cooperative assortment
Health sciences
cell.com
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...
dissinet.cz
📖 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...
dissinet.cz
🧑🎓 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...
dissinet.cz
🎓 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...
dissinet.cz
Reviewing some old links before deleting my Twitter account I was reminded of "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship: Resistance and insubordination in science" (doi.org/10.1080/0898...) which contains a great table on deciding authorship order:
Turkish religious groups characterizing art as satanic propaganda 😆 pathetic it's absurd such dumbfucks have the leverage to block artists from performing 🤬
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.
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.
Podle ombudsmanky šlo o věci, které „mají potenciál narušit psychologické bezpečí studentů“. Asi to chce soudní spor, I guess 🤔
Propuštění známého profesora Ivana Folettiho z Masarykovy univerzity vzbudilo ostrou kritiku ze strany části studentů a zaměstnanců. Školní ochránkyni práv viní z předpojatosti, na škole se někteří z nich prý již necítí bezpečně. Ombudsmanka jednotlivá nařčení rozporuje.
Tento príbeh je smutný 🥲 a zjevné to bylo už od prvních informací o popisu účelu toho jeho slavného fondu esf.justice.cz/ias/isesf/re...
Evidence svěřenských fondů - Ministerstvo spravedlnosti České republiky
esf.justice.cz
Na prvním místě obrana dotací, potom teprve obrana státu. Hlásím, že rozumím. www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domac...
No tak ještě že Prcinke do toho nemá co mluvit a zastoupení ČR je již domluveno 🤡 kašpar
Nemohu dopustit, aby prezident Petr Pavel vedl delegaci na summit NATO, hrozil v úterý ministr zahraničí Petr Macinka (Motoristé) hlavě státu. Česko by měl na významné akci podle něj zastupovat premiér. 🔗 irozhl.as/A0r
🥁 NEW Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/10
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome - Nature
A metagenomic survey of babies attending the first year of nursery detected extensive baby-to-baby microbial strain transmission, pointing to social interactions in infancy as crucial drivers of infan...
doi.org
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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Do projektu GAČR Junior Star Socio-Spatial Situatedness of Roman Professions and its Impact on Religion in the Roman Empire: A Formal Modeling Approach (SIPROME, MUNI) hledáme postdoc výzkumníky. Pozice geografie www.phil.muni.cz/kariera/voln... Pozice matematika www.phil.muni.cz/kariera/voln...
Scientists have combined lab-grown human brain tissue with an electronic circuit in an attempt to create a more powerful computer. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4qjjPSE
Scientists fuse human brain cells with electronic circuits—and make it ‘think’
Hybrid “biocomputer” performs simple calculations, recognizes speech, albeit imperfectly
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Cannot help but keep wondering how does Paul benefit from getting KO’d 🤔 I'm still not persuaded anything he does would be trustworthy 😅 #pauljoshua