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Meira Kensky
@meirazk.bsky.social
Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
It’s called Shabbat, amirite? Eternity opens a window
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf)@religionprof.bsky.social · 2d agoWe Are Made for Restorative Rest
New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed
You can wait longer than you think. If you wait, students will offer answers and ideas. Don’t rush to fill the silence!
Nyasha Junior@nyashajunior.bsky.social · 2d agoHey faculty! A colleague is teaching their very first undergrad course. What one piece of advice would you offer? 📚
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
“Just remember,” says my husband at dinner, “it’s not whom you share blood with, it’s whom you’d shed blood for. That’s family.” 💪💪💪
Without downloading new pics what’s it like dating you
Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3d agoWithout downloading new pics what’s it like dating you
Hope everyone is ready for my new photo series, “Meira and Izzy in Alaska”
Well my AD and I came up with a continuity of action plan for if I died., but failed to consider the possibility that I could get thrown into a brig for going apeshit on my whole family
Never in my life have my explanatory powers been as taxed as trying to explain to the 6yo that if she no longer wants bangs, she needs to grow them OUT, not cut them OFF. I tried drawing a diagram. I’ve had an easier time explaining Foucault to 19yo’s.
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d agoNotetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary
All day long, on my chaise longue (thanks to @epikt.bsky.social for this apt ear worm) 🐛
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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We are on a cruise to Alaska and my dad went to a Shabbat service and immediately ran into two friends from Skokie
Tomorrow, I am going to Vancouver, and on Friday, I am going to ALASKA
Moose Hunt
Alt: Moose 🫎
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Sure, because the source material has been read much more widely and for literally thousands of years, so people have opinions about it
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · last wk.Really feels like The Odyssey might end up being Nolan's most polarizing film to date. Genuinely can't think of another movie of his people either loved or hated or otherwise Had Opposing Thoughts About so viscerally.
and just like that, all of first year orientation in person sessions for 2026 are DONE. See you next year, Georges Center!
Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature at University of Toronto www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK114/a...
Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature at University of Toronto
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
Has there ever been a better burn than “there are no sex scenes and all the food looks horrible”?
