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alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social
History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

I hate seeing folks i agree with using gAI to make propaganda-style posters for things I support. Y’all. You cannot use the enemy’s tools to fight them. ESPECIALLY if you are arguing against capitalist overreach or for environmental issues. Come ON.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Bourdieu's famous sociological concept but applied to round lil homebodies like me: Hobbitus

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

This entire Dino Thread

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the fund to support Michael Ium’s mom as she navigates bringing him (and his things) home. www.gofundme.com/f/michael-ium

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Implicit Religion US is designed to help students & ECRs develop their research& practice presenting that work. IR US 2025 Theme: Extensive Effects IR US CFP Deadline April 7 www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic... Proposal Form www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/ir-us-...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

In The Dawn of Detroit, Tiya Miles begins by teaching readers that long before the fort of Detroit & Sandwich (later Windsor) existed, the unceded Anishinaabe village of Waawiiya-a-ta-nong existed on both sides of our strait. In the beginning, this was one village. thenewpress.com/books/dawn-o...

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism #datatools #studytools #academicsky digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/14/r...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

This made me think of the best writing tip I've seen: keep a "vent file." Before you start writing "for real," open your vent file and freewrite for 10 mins about where you're frustrated, excited, mad, blocked etc. You have to honor, not hide, where your mind is. But not in your draft or article.

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Chichele Professorship of Medieval History University of Oxford - Faculty of History in association with All Souls College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Microvolunteering opportunity! On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍 📚 We published 30 new translations on the site in January. This included texts by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280), Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364), Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (1646–1714), Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu (1698–1755)...

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

We’re hiring a medieval Irish historian!

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Oxford looking for a new professor of medieval history... #medievalsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Jazz OTD: Miles Davis's "second great quintet" (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams) recorded the opening title track for their first album together, "E.S.P.," 60 years ago today, on January 20, 1965. Great beginning to a historic run. #jazzsky

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

More on Nüshu from Lisa Huang’s 2021 Letterform Lecture: letterformarchive.org/events/view/...

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

Eason Lu passed around a souvenir example of Nüshu script / 3rd day letter (with some embroidery on the cover! #DHmakes #FaceInterface #MultilingualDH

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

So glad Jorts and Jean are here, doing this good work.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling grateful this morning to my winter recess writing buddy. I was reminded of this short and sweet advice from @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social youtu.be/fYBxhO0EUtM?...

submitted 140 days ago • 2 comments

If you have a recent PhD and you're from Southeast Asia, you might want to apply for this. Tell your friends about it, too. #SoutheastAsia #research @asianstudies.org www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

And you can DM us for the Link.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

* Join us for SORAAAD's 1st Open House of 2025 and Social Media Mini Workshop: "Minimum Valuable Presence." * Meet Monique Moultrie, @drangelasutton.bsky.social 2025 @implicitreligion.bsky.social keynotes * The Big Reveal: the SORAAAD Book Club Title for April 13! Register at SORAAAD.org

submitted 148 days ago • 2 comments

There’s something surreal about being in the airport and hearing a famous scholar’s name called over the PA.

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

AI data centers could end up using more electricity than entire cities… 😩https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html

submitted 189 days ago • 16 comments

Ok SBLAAR24 friends. What panels should I go to tomorrow?

submitted 190 days ago • 1 comment

Want to talk about making study abroad accessible to historically under resourced students? Come to HB Indigo 202B at 3 pm!

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing like overhearing folks on the plane taking up your grad program’s Fancy Boat Party.

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

Alright good people, what’s your favorite beach in or near San Diego? #SBLAAR24

submitted 193 days ago • 4 comments

AAR is nigh! There’s two ways to find me officially—a book signing + after party* Sunday and a panel Monday morning *walk with us to find a beer

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment