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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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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An UCLA course taught by Professor Shorter has everything from teacher-led meditations to lively debates about paranormal legends. Shorter reveals how his class goes beyond an exploration of myths; it pushes students to question the very nature of truth and “immateriality.” youtu.be/Iglio4bPE7E?...

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Don't be spooked by this supernatural UCLA course | Daily Bruin

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Going on the job market this Fall? It’s time to start preparing right now. This oldie still has gems to value for the soon to be academic applicant. Best of luck. www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

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Advice for what to do over the rest of the summer to land a new job (essay)

David Shorter offers advice on what you might do between now and the next academic hiring season to help land a new job.

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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

✨Jennifer R. O’Neal (enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) highlights the power of transnational alliances and how foundational work of Indigenous activists fighting to bring awareness of Indigenous information rights paved the way for the contemporary work within repositories.

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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

REMINDER - CALL FOR PAPERS✨ This special issue, Attending to Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences in Place, aims to bring together cross-disciplinary voices within Indigenous studies to establish place as the necessary starting point for Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (IESS).

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

Btw, I almost failed that sociological statistics class, met my lifetime mentor in Religious Studies who would one day index my book, and I wrote a peer review article about the teacher of that Women’s Studies class: Chicana Lesbians.

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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 · 15/05/2026

Just published in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion: "I find it harder to assign some scholars such as Andy Smith or Ward Churchill than I do Franz Boaz; but that’s because I’ve become personally convinced about the consequences of pretending to be Indigenous." journal.equinoxpub.com/BSOR

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Bulletin for the Study of Religion

The Bulletin publishes articles that address religion in general, the history of the field of religious studies, method and theory in the study of religion, and pedagogical practices.

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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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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As the Editor in Chief, I rarely use this platform to editorialize. But this thread is timely and accurate. Please consider this valuable perspective, especially if you are a writer who expects to publish books OR ESSAYS in the upcoming years. - D Shorter bsky.app/profile/tric...

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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

WELCOME✨Amy Lonetree is a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and her research focuses on Native American history, Indigenous photography, visual studies, public history, and museum studies.

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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In our latest issue 🔥 This article offers a conceptualization of “Fire Back” through rematriation to restore rights to the intentional use of Indigenous-led and -informed fire practices, highlighting kinship of people, fire, and planet and (2) advocating for cultural fire sovereignty.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Call me old fashioned, but I’m having a hard time moving past the whole “the president posted a graphic video of a woman getting murdered” thing.

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

Religious Studies scholars have studied these for a hundred years: Waco, Jonestown, Y2K, and Heaven’s Gate, etc. These days are tough on some people, a mix of malaise and the sense, once again, that no one is coming to save us. The orbs are inside you! Be the orb. 🫧 #orbs #orbsoflight #utopia

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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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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Just published! We are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before. Thanks to our guest editors: M. J. DesRosier (Niitsitapi: Blackfeet, Gros Ventre) and Paul J. Guernsey (Settler/Greek/European descent). escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

At least they warn us before they call the cops on us since we know UC has no problem sacrificing its own. The call is always coming from inside campus at this place.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Forthcoming! April 4, 2026 Special Issue: “Indigenous Resurgence” In honor of our fiftieth year of being a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, we are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before.

Cover of AICRJ’s next issue on Indigenous Resurgence.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

When I was a kid we’d go on trips in the car and my dad would get us Yes and No Books, and these men’s faces under plastic where a magnetized pen would move filaments of magnets to form beards and mustaches. Anyway. Just saying.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We were lucky to spend our graduate student days in the height of scholarly theory while at the center of its negotiation.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

UCLA has inked a deal to give all its faculty discounted access to ChatGPT, the same company who made it possible for their owner to give 25 million to the supreme leader Trump's campaign, the same president who has sued UCLA and ruined its campus life and damaged its reputation. That's leadership!

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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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DJ Uncle Fishbits @unclefishbits.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Epstein arrested July 2019. December 2018 Epstein ordered 6 qty 55 gallon drums of sulfuric acid: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... March 2019: 2 qty 100lb hydrogen peroxide: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... That makes Piranha Solution -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha... TY @sapiosimmo.bsky.social

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Did you write it?!? I feel like no one knows more about how much an Iron Lung would suck than you.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As a current editor in chief: pretty please do this!

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

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Director of Editorial, Design, and Production (REMOTE)

Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practic...

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Be safe up there, Kim. Thinking about and yours.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

All you need to know about supposed leaders: what are they doing today? Obama, Hillary, Pete, Gavin, Harris, Biden, and who else. Strong words? Statements from their mansions? I may not know the other options. But also, I’m not a politician who would know better.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers. www.reddit.com/r/confession...

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From the confession community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the confession community

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I have been working with the guest editor for a couple years on this one. Really impressive scholarship in Indigenous Studies.

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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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OX6fOyHCRgeKJd5dHLMa7Q#/registration

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“…alien abductions will always be one of the more fascinating subjects of inquiry because it’s hundreds of thousands of stories from multiple cultures around the globe of something happening that one segment of the scientific community wants to dismiss outright...” uchri.org/foundry/on-a...

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On Astrobiology, Ontology, and Decoloniality

Gabriel Mindel and David Delgado Shorter (Ethics and Astrobiology 4/5) on Indigenizing astrobiology.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

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Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In this video, I cover a true story that turned me from a skeptic into a believer — my encounter with a psychic who predicted events in my life I thought were impossible to foresee. youtu.be/RR8mPb8-uSY?...

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The Psychic Who Changed My Mind: A Skeptic's True Story

YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter

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