"If we let only our opponents tell the story, then it becomes a parable about the hazards of striving for progress and equality, rather than about the institutions that reduced equality to a mere PR exercise." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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If you are interested in this assignment, here's how I designed/used it.

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is a sort-of annotation assignment that I had my students do and it might be adaptable for you. I sounded productive to have them type it out separately but that was well in the past. It starts extremely basic on purpose.

Details of celebration of life for Mike

Absolutely chilling that this is happening to a colleague in our field, a specialist of Cambodian Buddhism, who has served on committees for @asianstudies.org

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"

I had the pleasure of reviewing Nadine Attwell's wonderful Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949 (www.sup.org/books/histor...) and also writing about women seafarers. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...

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While everyone is reading that LRB review of a celebrated film about seafarers… Deeply appreciate being read by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social for an article on women and seafaring and seafaring women.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 4w ago

I had the pleasure of reviewing Nadine Attwell's wonderful Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949 (www.sup.org/books/histor...) and also writing about women seafarers. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

I think Emily Wilson has earned the right to have whatever opinion she likes about adaptations of Homer. Her translations are amazing achievements and she's already survived several rounds of outrage about a female translator of such a manly poet.

🎉Applications are OPEN for Emerging Translator Mentorships 2026–27! Mentees receive six months of personal mentoring with a mentor in their language or field, as well as invitations to industry events for their professional and creative development.

Are you experienced with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and looking for a new role? Or do you know someone who might be looking? We are recruiting for a Staff Scientist position at UBC. Find out more 👇 Please repost. 🧪🔬 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Research Scientist: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Title Research Scientist: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy Department Research | B. Britton| Department of Materials Engineering | Faculty of Applied ...

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My cousin Michelle Sylliboy wrote the words in Mi’kmaq language for an opera being performed in Edinburgh next month! So cool.

Get to Know: Indigenous Voices of Canada | Edinburgh International Festival

Two Indigenous poets. Two composers. This is the story how the first half of Voices of Canada came together, where Indigenous artists and voices take centr

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Since our founding last summer Trans News Network has taken on everything from the New York Times' bigotry to Epstein's anti-trans cronies and much, much more. As a worker-run news org, we're dedicated to journalism that's in-depth, hard-hitting and unrepentantly radical. Help us keep doing it:

Trans News Network's First Anniversary Fundraiser

Since our founding nearly a year ago, Trans News Network has exposed how The New York Times' bigotry is directed from the very top , revealed Epstein's extensive network of anti-trans cronies, sh...

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Hunting for a #FathersDay gift? How about a book that blends history, science, & pop culture? HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/

8. I so appreciate too that Dr. Fleming is naming that gut sense, developed only from that deeply embodied place, as the actual knowledge that carried this moment. she's absolutely right about how intensely that form of knowledge being so deeply discredited in intellectual space.

5. the thing I think we look to AI for is precisely market success. it's why it's so tempting to have it write all job cover letters, especially when speaking from a place of confidence and authority over myself does NOT come naturally.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

What a thread! read the whole thing! We all need to be the @alwaystheself.bsky.social in this story… trying to help each other see our value as humans, and using our intuition and speaking our truth..

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Some exciting postdoctoral research opportunities in East Asian religions at University of Oslo, where you can work with the excellent Aike Rots! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in East Asian Religions (303894) | University of Oslo

Job title: Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in East Asian Religions (303894), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, August 31, 2026

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Researching East Asian medical history? Dr. Matthew Hayes recently announced the digitization of Duke Library’s late Edo period medical manuscripts! The collection shows the diversity of medical knowledge in the early 19th c. Explore 63 volumes: archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/japa... #NCCSpecialist

Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology. In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI literate, it’s him.

On AI Safety Concerns, Mark Carney Is Out of Step with Canadians | The Tyee

The public is right to be concerned about AI. But Carney and his ministers have framed our reluctance as ignorance.

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Some wisdom from the great Mary Bassett, whom Harvard forced out of her leadership role at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights last winter www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

There’s No Room for Palestine in “Viewpoint Diversity” | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s guiding imperative is defending the restoration of $3 billion in federal grants, which apparently means appeasing those in the Trump administration who have decreed that any discussion of Pa...

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L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », indique un communiqué de ses proches, transmis jeudi 4 juin à l’Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Black White Feminism: Melancholy Smoke

Alt: Anime d'une femme accablée qui fume une cigarette. Issue du film Persepolis de Marjane Satrapi.

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elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very sad news

Karen is one of those wonderful people I'm happy to have found over the years on social media. A true champion for our most vulnerable. Please help if you can, and share. 🫶🏻

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

guys I found permanent housing but I need some help with the deposit and groceries and basics if you can chip in, everything helps appreciate you so much e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

guys I found permanent housing but I need some help with the deposit and groceries and basics if you can chip in, everything helps appreciate you so much e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hi. shit remains bleak and I have a bill to pay this week so I can live indoors, and I need to ask for help. Please if you can pitch in, I greatly appreciate it e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

start by asking what's up with all the Yemeni coffee cafes in Oakland, end up learning about how the end of the Bracero program brought Yemeni folks to CA as seasonal farm labor in the 60s www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/yemeni-coffe...

Arrived early and staying late

The deep roots of the East Bay's no-wave Yemeni coffee shop revolution.

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It cannot be the case that engagement with histories that aren’t North American or Western European becomes the preserve of 5-10 universities in Britain, but that’s where we’re headed.

Are you an early to mid-career scholar working in art history, book history, literary studies, libraries, museums, or heritage fields? This initiative invites researchers from Southeast Asia and Latin America to explore print culture as a medium of transcultural exchange across the Pacific. (2/7)

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NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.

"Xinjiang has the world’s highest prison detention capacity relative to its population size — evidence that authorities continue to rely on mass incarceration. Researchers and rights groups say repression in the region now extends towards the long-term remaking of Uyghur society."

Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We spoke with dozens of people for this report who provided unprecedented levels of detail and insight into what is happening in Xinjiang and with the Uyghur community. Read the full thing here: as.ft.com/r/2930ff71-2...