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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In 1992 I went on a road trip to Mexico from Arizona to Mexico with a guy I had never met before, Felipe Molina. He was the governor of his Pueblo, a poet, and respected deer singer. The trip was rife with all these signs of something meant to be. So started 21 years of fieldwork. #throwbackthursday

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New Reception Date: October 6, 4:30pm Shorter’s exhibit counters each photo with a short narrative, rather than simple museum labels of place, date, and media type. Twenty-One Years in the Pueblos: David Shorter’s Yoeme Fieldwork Kaufman Hall, UCLA. October 10th to December 12th, 2026

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

How old I am. As an undergraduate we would read a printed booklet of possible college classes, request classes in pen on a carbon copy form, that had to be hand delivered to registrars office. They mailed us which classes we got into, or you could walk to the department main office and ask.

A photo of a college enrollment form from early 1990s.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My slowly-becoming-an-annual gripe that my employer forces me to take, every year, an online training for data security; this said employer #UCLA has caused my data to breached four times, and counting. Can someone make them a required video training course about keeping our data secured?

a capture of a wikipedia page about the Instructure (canvas) hack by ShinyHunters from May 2026.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Orbs Rising From the Ocean False Prophecy Day to all those celebrate!!! If you don’t know of which I speak, this is yet another day that was foretold by another millinarian about an other worldly event that connects ancient knowledge with Utopianism.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What if alien contact isn’t coming as a war — but we’re preparing for one anyway? The space race is essentially an extension of colonialism — a continuation of resource extraction, territorial conquest, and power consolidation beyond Earth. youtu.be/wue0_s--k94?...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Is it open access though? If someone needs institutional affiliation? It sounds like a great article.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force. Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I cannot recommend this book strong enough. Wolf helps us understand the current political and educational crises unlike any other because she connects the far apart dots of reading physical books/printed media and society’s slide away from empathy and reason. Get the actual book. Seriously.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We Are Colonizing Space (an Excerpt) Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In a round table with artists, curanderos, and scientists, Dr. Shorter discusses ways we must reorient ourselves for planetary health. The West is a construct; as is the notion that one culture (“Native People”) has all the answers. Those are both built upon prejudices. youtu.be/JktIe15LttI?...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m floored that a student’s dad made t shirts for my Aliens, Psychics, Ghost class. His explanation is chef’s kiss. To buy one and support humane society: 1111dimensions.printful.me

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Press Release: May 22, 2025 Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been awarded an Institute of American Culture Research Grant for his project, “Archiving Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage.” www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VSfiRlP...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

2025 marks a new beginning for me: ONE Unifying Website! It melds the multidimensional aspects of my life into one professional website. Working with artist / designer Katie Fang, we created a new all encompassing website, bringing David Shorter, the Professor, Author, Reiki Sensei and Curator.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Wow!! Truly honored. UCLA created this year the first ever Award for Graduate Student Mentoring Excellence. And I’m one of the finalists!! I know this means a collection of current and previous graduate students had to prepare a tedious nomination package with letters etc. They rock.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just published! I share my near death experience for the first time publicly. Check out my YouTube channel for full story: youtu.be/0gjOBb3-EW0?... Follow @theothersidende #paranormal #outofbodyexperience #neardeathexperience

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Dr. David Delgado Shorter will lead a workshop on the diverse modalities of healing in the Koreatown Latine community, which includes bonesetters, limpias, botanicas, and curanderismo, which incorporates folk medicine, scientific medicine, and spiritual practices.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This Saturday: "Mutualista: Towards a New Cosmic Methodology" at 1pm. An experiment to develop an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the planet’s current existential condition. Dr. Shorter has written about cross-species communication, and el curanderismo. RSVP at @armoryarts.bsky.social

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“Which endeavors can help us practice those ways of existing that address and heal the hostile environments? . . . to focus on the resilience, the vitality, and the practicality of Indigenous knowledge and expertise.” -Craig Torres (Tongva) seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...

Kuruvungna Village Springs. Photo by David Delgado Shorter with permission.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Just published! “If we are to avoid continued environmental collapse, we must decolonize our sense of the possible, to deverticalize our worldview, which commonly positions Western educated humans as above all other forms of intelligent life.” seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...

Traditional thatched kiiy at Kuruvungna Village Springs. Photo by David Delgado Shorter.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“…If you want to start asking yourself how to Indigenize or unsettle anything like your professional field, ask yourself how you’re benefiting from the colonial structures that made that field possible and that make it continue.” uchri.org/foundry/on-a...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Just published! With the support of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time funding, I interviewed Tongva elder, Craig Torres about Indigenous knowledge, relatedness, and ethical collaborations. This book is now available here: armory-center-for-the-arts.square.site

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

I am excited for the opening of a show years in the making for which I served as Researcher-in-Practice. Soon I'll share news of my essay and interviews with Craig Torres (Tongva) and Leah Garza. From the Ground Up is part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Exhibition Opening: Sep 8, 1:00pm.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Just two weeks away from the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference in Krakow, Poland with more than two dozen presenters assembled and remotely connecting space, science, technology, and more.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Forthcoming! 🔔 In mid-July we will be publishing our second issue with exciting new scholarship on Land Trusts in Northern California, Taxation, Collaborative Curatorial Practices, Osage Political Relationality, Indigenous Marxism and more! Stay tuned to this account! 🔔

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

LOS ANGELES (June 24, 2024) – California Humanities recently announced their Spring awards. Koreatown Storytelling Program was awarded $25,000 for its project entitled “Traditional Healing Arts in Koreatown” to work with Dr. David Shorter and the Archive of Healing!

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Just accepted to the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference hosted by the European Assoc for the Study of Science and Technology. Wish I could make it to Krakow but classes start and an exhibit I helped curate opens at the Getty. See ya on Zoom I hope! tinyurl.com/3czc8ah7

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Chomsky wrote me an unsolicited email in 2012 as I was being slandered for teaching about Palestine. He said it was a shame how @UCLA was treating me, that it was a sign of things to come, and to be steadfast. Rarely are scholars so generous with other (unfamiliar) scholars. RIP.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Job! UCLA American Indian Studies Center seeks new Deputy Director! universityofcalifornia.marketpayjobs.com/ShowJob.aspx...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

I'll be speaking at Environmental Justice in Space Workshop on Jun 20 - 21, 2024. I would love to see you there!🎉🎉 Register here: whova.com/portal/registr… - via #Whova Event Platform

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Call for papers for a special issue on Alien encounter narratives in judicial proceedings. Contact info on image.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

This is a really great take on the world, @theatlantic.bsky.social on the day the world is seeing headless torsos of children we are asked to consider if the children were killed legally. Children.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

“The Ontological Turn toward Space Justice” David Delgado Shorter, UCLA June 20-21, 2024 Totally Virtual Conference w/ Free Registration Go to Just Space Alliance

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Today is the first time I've taught this edition and trust me, this is THE edition to teach. The Intro by Robin Kelley is fantastic.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

"Little did Shorter know, his dream was one of a set of recognized dream tropes that convey messages from the huya ania. The elders met later on that week to determine that ... they understood the dream as coming from the huya ania, which somehow overrode their humancentric concerns."

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

I think it’s safe to say that the AI marketing bots do not have me figured out yet. This is what they show me. Not Buffalo Wings and nerdy t-shirts. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Please join me in counting down to Clockshop’s 20th anniversary in 2024 by making a donation! As an added bonus, donate $50+ and you’ll receive a thank you gift from us. @clockshop ——- Click the link to donate here → www.clockshop.org/donate

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Dr. Kēhaulani Kauanui became my grad student mentor when I started my PhD 27 years ago. I still admire her fortitude, intelligence, and ethics. We’ve come a long way since History of Consciousness, dear friend. Malama I kou kino e me kau olakino. Great sharing space again!

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Our latest issue 46.3 is out now! Available on our Open Access eScholarship platform, free to all. To access 46.3, click on the “linked posts” hyperlink found in our bio.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

In two days!! Reservation Dogs @RezDogsFX Billy Wilder Theater November 4, 2023 - 7:30 pm Q&A with producers-writers-directors Sterlin Harjo and Tazbah Rose Chavez, moderated by David Delgado Shorter,@davidshorter cinema.ucla.edu/events/2023/11…

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Another day I get to lecture on the connection between the double slit experiment, multidimensionality, and the visionary epistemé.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

If you're in Los Angeles and love Reservation Dogs, then please save the date for a very special event!

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Eight years ago today was the premier of the film I produced and directed. It went on to three international juried selected festivals. cuttingthecord.wacd.ucla.edu

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I was a guest on Against Everyone with Connor Habib and we talked everything science, paranormal, and esotericism. Check out his new book! Hawk Mountain is getting great reviews. @connerhabib.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/ptA2K

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Congratulations to Mishuana Goeman who just had her latest book published in a series I have the pleasure of co-editing with Randy Lewis at UT Austin. Stunning cover for a fantastic book. Perfect Indigenous scholarship to help students unpack Malick's "The New World."

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

We are excited to announce the opening of our Early Career Writing Award! AICRJ wants to support an emerging Indigenous studies scholar through a 4-month, collaborative experience that will focus on developing a scholarly piece. Visit the AICRJ linktree for more info!

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