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Caleb Carter

@calebscarter.bsky.social
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Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.

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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rich episode on mountaineering in Greece and globally, climate change, mountain indigenous communities, and more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Seven Summits with Vanessa Archontidou
Podcast Episode · Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures · September 10 · 33m
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sharing this, please circulate and join us if you can! @calebscarter.bsky.social @fynnholm.bsky.social @waymarks.bsky.social @nikialsford.bsky.social
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is about a new AI detector called Pangram. Looks promising (for now). Anyone tried it? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t...
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I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering. (Gift Article)
Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Starlink ad embedded in an NYT article questioning SpaceX’s IPO valuation. Rockets and satellites work as great metaphors for unprecedented heights and galactic growth. Here, Mt Fuji sits in as another icon of scale and grandeur. And unlike a rocket, it won’t come crashing back to earth.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.” There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...
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Opinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is a beautiful film about a fascinating figure, George Masa, who took his love of the mountains in Japan to the US, eventually landing in Asheville, NC, where he helped lead the conservation of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains and the construction of the Appalachian Trail.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some good ideas here for classroom writing. What’s working for you? How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
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How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Here's my review of a deeply insightful reflection on the human and environmental history of Japan's most iconic mountain, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. doi:10.1017/S1356186326101539
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict shorturl.at/NHHjI #Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking @calebscarter.bsky.social
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Had to get the iconic rural train rattling past sakura in full bloom shot
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict shorturl.at/NHHjI #Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hunting senshafuda 千社札 today at the famous pilgrimage temple grounds of Naritasan Shinshōji 成田山新勝寺. [Dad voiceover] Hmm… for such a famous temple, where are the senshafuda…
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I've signed a contract with Princeton University Press for my next book! Tentatively "Ascendance: Mountain Climbing and Spirituality in Modern Japan," I'll look at the passage of mountaineering from England to Japan in the early 20th c, esp. on various modern spiritualities that emerged through it.
One of the many cool journal covers of the Japanese Alpine Club, this one from issue 2, 1914
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thanks to Bruce Winkleton for the kind review! It focused on the narrative analysis in the book, a pet passion and something an earlier version of the manuscript centered, until I pulled it back and refocused on Shugendō’s historical development (albeit via its frequent shaping through narrative).
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is an amazing resource if you’re on the academic job market, or teaching grad students, in East Asian humanities. All thanks to the voluntary efforts of @paularcurtis.bsky.social 👏👏👏 prcurtis.com/projects/job...
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Job Market Data 2025
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Day break in Itoshima, Japan
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains. shorturl.at/DfOrj @calmandfearless.bsky.social @adambutterworth.bsky.social @katie-r-ives.bsky.social @annamfleming.bsky.social
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
After two days of immersing myself in Tim Ingold’s theories of movement through landscapes, I made an impromptu decision to move through my own for some contemplation in practice of his ideas. Mount Kaya is a dormant volcano overlooking the Genkai coast, 15 minutes from the house.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In the age of Instagram, increasing mountaineering accidents (worldwide) and in Austria, legal implications over a recent tragedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...
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A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame?
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Excited to welcome Jolyon Thomas on Monday! For those in Fukuoka… Details here www.imapkyudai.net/events
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Over the weekend, I got the chance to attend a gathering of senshafuda clubs and firefighter brigades celebrating 100 years since the start of the Showa period. Called a nōsatsu ōgai 納札大會 (“great gathering [for the exchange of] votive prints”), this was apparently the first of its kind since 1921.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A Christian doctor facing extradition from the US and years in a Japanese prison for dabbing oil on temple and shrine structures around Tokyo. Many details are left out of the article, but it does raise questions about religious practice at Japan’s sacred sites. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
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Accused of Desecration, a Doctor Faces the End of His Life’s Work
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Upcoming workshop on spirituality at Kyudai this Friday For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
First attempt at using Word's audio transcription in a while (just forgot to set it for Japanese)
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Research update from the Japanese Alps (Karasawa basin, Kamikōchi, Nagano pref)
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 05/10/2025
I've been working on this piece since last month! Please enjoy a dive into magnificent natural colours from Heian Japan, just published on #Caravanserai. majnouna.substack.com/p/kasane
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The most refined art of wearing the seasons
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Meanwhile elsewhere, a politician accepted a $400M plane from a foreign gov't, launched a crypto coin to accept million dollar bribes, had charges of a $50K cash-in-a-bag bribe dropped for one of his officials, and on and on (not to make light of sour grapes...)
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Cosmos on the autumnal equinox, Fukuoka, Japan
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Nuts! Fuji is one of those iconic mountains that has long attracted new climbing records (I've found a range of them from the late 1800s and early 1900s). I never thought I'd read this. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/8/...
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102-year-old fights back from heart failure to become oldest person to summit Mount Fuji
Kokichi Akuzawa (Japan) has become the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji at the age of 102.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“The meek compliance of military leadership with the ban sends a chilling message to all service members — namely, that our ranks are open only to those who fit a specific ideological mold, regardless of their ability to serve.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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Opinion | I’m Not the Person You’d Expect to Oppose a Ban on Transgender Troops
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
No regrets on missing this for the No Kings Boston Pride parade
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Shaun Griswold @shaun505.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
ICE arrested an Albuquerque man. He ended up in the hospital. Now no one knows where he is. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/i...
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ICE arrested an Albuquerque man. He ended up in the hospital. Now no one knows where he is. • Source New Mexico
Last Saturday around 8 a.m., as she followed her husband to a mechanic in Albuquerque’s South Valley, Daniela Marina Diaz-Ortiz says she and her 5-year-old daughter watched, terrified, as federal immi...
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Another cornerstone of American education and research severely damaged. I benefited from a Fulbright grant in 2012 that allowed me to research and later write a book about mountain religion in Japan. So much will be lost in knowledge production and international ties www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article)
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
2023年に星野靖二先生と平藤喜久子先生が私を國學院大學でのシンポジウム「見られることで何が変わるのか--ツーリズムと宗教文化」に招待下さいました。なかなか魅力的なテーマで、やはりそれぞれの発表は大変面白かったです。 今月その報告書が出ました:https://k-rain.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001633 その中で私は修験道の事例を上げ、どのようにツーリズムと交錯しているのかを考慮しました。⬇️ tinyurl.com/3z7v7w6m
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A courageous guest essay. Intimidation of faculty and threats to academic freedom should concern all Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
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Opinion | Did One of My Students Hate Me Enough to Lie to Get Me in Trouble?
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Alleged relics of the Buddha up for auction at Sotheby's dating back to Asoka's era, if not earlier. These are priceless to Buddhist communities across Asia, not to mention world cultural heritage. Looted by British colonialists, now going to the highest bidder... www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We’re not going to change our history. #ScrubNothing news.artnet.com/art-world/mu...
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Museums Sustain Unprecedented Assault in Trump's First 100 Days
In the 100 days since president Donald Trump was inaugurated, he has launched an unprecedented assault on museums their funding structures.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Go Harvard! This is what every university needs to be doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands (Gift Article)
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/04/2025
SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Arlington, MA #HandsOff
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The time for only shock, dismay, and despair is over. It’s time to get out in the streets. This Saturday.
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As we slide toward autocracy, isn’t that $50 billion endowment meant to give you a buffer of independence? Use it. Stand up not just for Harvard but for our entire university system. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
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As Republicans Target Colleges, Harvard Cower
Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway.
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HandsOffOurVote @bostonmapper.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#HandsOff #April5 #rally #protest This is for everyone! Hands Off: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Veterans, Education, National Parks, Federal Workers, Unions, the Environment, the Post Office and more! #Boston #NYC #DC #MoveOn #Indivisible #DemCast #SEIU #CWA
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
there's a rally near tufts today for any boston area people. i'd be there if i could
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Shouldn’t faculty everywhere be out in the streets protesting in support of Columbia, academic freedom, and freedom of speech?
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Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Inspired by this essay to do more than short-term boycotts (which are just symbolic if you return). Where are the boycott lists covering which companies to avoid and which to support on diversity issues? So far, I’ve switched from Whole Foods to Trader Joe’s 🛒 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Like What Trump Is Doing? You Have More Power Than You Think. (Gift Article)
Church-led campaigns against businesses for retreating from D.E.I. promises are a form of pastoral ministry for those who feel ignored or forgotten.
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