The acronym we all rely on to remember the names of the Great Lakes is HOMES. Trump's stupid executive order results in the fitting acronym SHAME.
Matt Thiessen
@mattthiessen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
Post your grumpy AI remarks in your syllabus: "The Final exam will be an in-person, invigilated exam. You will notice that more than half of your grade is depends on work done in-class or in-person. Welcome to the world that generative AI has built. I hope you hate it here as much as I do."
Today I saw a bear and a fawn while hiking, read for hours on a beach, and then swam to the setting sun. Today was a good day.
Not the main takeaway here but a grown man saying ‘ding-a-ling’ instead of ‘penis’ is so embarrassing.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3d agoWatters: You think it’s ok to slash a ding-a-ling off El-Sayed: Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Watters: Yeah El-Sayed: Then you probably want to move on.
Throw a few million my way because I also have $30 trillion revenue potentials!
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3d agoExclusive: Anthropic is likely to tell investors its potential revenue opportunities are above $30 trillion, topping SpaceX’s $28.5 trillion estimate. on.wsj.com/4zBs69V
A huge accomplishment and contribution to the field!
McMaster Religious Studies@mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 3d agoCongratulations to Eileen Schuller (Professor Emerita) on the publication of her book (co-written with Carol Newsom) The Thanksgiving Scroll in the Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls Series! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Anglo Canadians being forced to conjugate être in the fourth grade: god I hate Quebec, French is the worst Anglo Canadians when an American insults Quebec:
"Forming a close bond with your coworkers is toxic, which is why we only advocate for a healthy relationship between you and our proprietary GPT, Tom." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wor...
Work is Not Your Family, but AI is Your Friend
“At Trustus, we firmly believe that forcing vulnerabilities on coworkers in the name of ‘family’ is manipulative. Encouraging you to develop an increasingly ...
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post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
Paul Foth@paulrfoth.bsky.social · 6d agoPost a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
About to watch The Odyssey with my 13 y.o. She: what’s it rated? PG? Me: I don’t know. She: I mean it’s Greek mythology so how explicit can it be? Me: …
Babe, wake up, a new theory of atonement (or something) just dropped!
very niche biblical reference incoming.
Mark McEntire@markmcentire.bsky.social · 7d agoIs Natalie Harp a modern Abishag?
It's late August and almost the start of the academic year. I haven't been a graduate student for over 15 years, but every year at this this time I remember the excitement and anxiety that I experienced entering into my PhD program. So a thread for those doing so now. 1/6
Happy to see my former student, Fady Mekhael, appointed a research fellow at McMaster Divinity College!
McMaster Religious Studies@mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 2w agoCongratulations to Fady Mekhael (PhD 2024) on being appointed research fellow at McMaster Divinity College for the 2026–2027 academic year! mcmasterdivinity.ca/news/four-sc...
Cecil Rhodes nods approvingly from the grave.
Andrew Tobolowsky@andytobo.bsky.social · last wk.I guess if I were OUP I'd probably have phrased this differently
Of course Natalie Harp went to Liberty University. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie...
Natalie Harp - Wikipedia
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Seriously one of the most liberating lessons to learn as a grad student.
Jeremy Pober@jpober.bsky.social · last wk.Twelve years after starting my PhD, I've finally figured out that writing something bad and then making it good is quicker and easier than writing something good from scratch. I think I hate it.
Microcredentials! Nanocredentials! Picocredentials!
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.Fifteen years and i have never seen good evidence of this.
Does anyone's college or university or school have any policies in place about "smartglasses"? Seems like an absolute nightmare and wondering whether we need to include such policies in our syllabuses.
And now we have the definitive answer to the question of whether anything is uglier than Tesla's Cybertruck.
Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸@sgtrick.bsky.social · last wk.Is truly sad how much money and time some people will spend to upgrade a garbage bin. 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Nigel Bigot, former Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology...
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · last wk.A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word. Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
You know how those annoying people are always telling exhausted parents of young children, "Enjoy it because they grow up so fast!" Bad news: those assholes are right.
Not only was Jan Joosten a small blip in the media in 2020, he also *just* published an article in the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society so apparently he's still welcome in (some parts of) academia despite his heinous crimes. janes.jtsa.edu
Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
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Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w agoanyway, anyone remember Jan Joosten? An Oxford theology professor, he downloaded over 28,000 images of CSA materials. I want to understand where the outrage over "standards" and "professional expectations," was back then. Social media was around then. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j...
School/University starting before Labo(u)r Day is morally wrong. I don't miss teaching in the United States one little bit.