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Evan Berry

@ecothought.bsky.social
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Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️🚫🧊

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 11h
This is how good reporting sounds: “Hegseth’s decision follows broader conservative attacks on tenured faculty appointments in higher education. Those efforts to rein in tenure are often presented as bids to rein in academics with liberal views.“ apnews.com/article/hegs...
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Military academies won't give tenure to civilian faculty, Hegseth says
The Defense Department has decided to stop appointing civilians as tenured faculty at U.S. military academies.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 20h
Forced myself to read some synopses of the rape incident at Cornell. It's yet another example of violent criminal behavior by undergraduate men, who are then able to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions. We have to force the higher ups at every university to stop protecting rapists.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 23h
A few things to note about the NYT op-ed with the disingenuous title "what if writing isn't central to thinking?" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“In Roman belief, a place struck by lightning was immediately considered religiosus, having been consecrated by the deity itself.” Big storm in Phoenix last night. Hmm.
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This attack appears to single out specific disciplines (like my own!) but its real aim is higher ed as a whole. This is an assault on the idea that learning can be about anything other than job training. Higher education is *also* about self understanding and the advancing the common good.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow is liberation day 2.0 (diesel export ban)
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The average American of 2015 cannot comprehend what is on the other side of the portal.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight.” 🔥🔥🔥
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This whole thread slaps. We all need to be honing our ideas today, because the work of (re)building the humanities lays ahead of us.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worthwhile reading for religion and politics wonks: “Bolsonaro’s allies wanted to end Brasil’s practice of celebrating the Saint Day of the patron saint of Brasil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida, a Black saint…a move designed to decrease the influence of the Lula-friendly Catholic Church.”
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cyber crime enthusiast and recent child given access to the entirety of USG digital records.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fund the humanities in public universities, or we'll theorize the hell out of you.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
77% odds of 3C warming is very not good
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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
The same aircraft used in Iran and other foreign wars is now surveilling U.S. communities, with no answers on what data it collects story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns
Arizona border drone: An Army Predator built for warzones is flying over border towns, alarming privacy advocates
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
based
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A bag of wine, a clutch of breadsticks, and thou
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar invites scholars, advocates, and the public to a panel conversation about religion, energy, water, and extractive imaginaries. (Thanks to @aarweb.bsky.social and Christiana Zenner for organizing) aarweb.org/event/data-c...
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Data Centers, AI, and Extraction – AAR
Hosted by AAR's Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar The Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar (EER) invites scholars, advocates, and the public to a panel conversation about religion, energy, ...
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ASU Atomic Beta 2.0 is now here, and in response to faculty concerns, appears to be sloppier?
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Petroculture giveth and taketh away... www.editorialboard.com/diesel-is-th...
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Diesel is the new covid
Only much worse politically for Trump and the Republicans.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interested in being the inaugural holder of this endowed chair?
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Adam DJ Brett @adjb.co · 22/09/2026
Free Registration for upcoming online conference via @jcrt.org #acrel #amrel #aarsbl #sblaar jcrt.org/blog/2026-08...
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Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dare to imagine every dollar being spent on AI and EdTech instead being invested in people.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Major spits fire bars too
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc
Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads: 
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a civilian and as a taxpayer, it seems to me that reducing military staff who vet targeted sites and adding AI tools, like Palantir’s Maven, to “streamline” targeting decisions will continue to result in my country committing (and my tax dollars funding) war crimes.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s definitely fascism when the Environmental Protection Agency is adding reproductive medicine to their testing regiment and at the same time reclassifying greenhouse gases as outside their ambit. Checks the misogyny box and checks the fossil fuels oligarchy box.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I keep associating the stories about rising diesel prices with shipping costs and inflation, but I just had a little endorphin bump when I remembered that this is a real kick in the nuts for the “plays golf every week but drives a full size pickup truck to project a working class image” crowd.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Religion and science scholar @lsideris.bsky.social untangles some mythologies about "choice" and "inevitablity" in the AI discourse thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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AI’s architects made a choice. Now they’re calling it fate.
Now that the “warning shot” has occurred — OpenAI’s term for the Hugging Face incident — what can be done? Can we learn from history?
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Attended a conference at Renmin earlier this year: the sense of purpose and growing international prestige is palpable. China’s universities will do for them in the 21st century what ours did for us in the 20th. Total own goal by the Trump admin.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No need to expand the exonerative tense into tech journalism. It’s already too busy obscuring moral culpability over on the police beat, on the climate beat…
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The university—especially the public university—has never been an ‘ivory tower,’ but rather a place where we help create the public sphere we want to see in the world.” Loved this urgent article about the assault on religious studies as part of the authoritarian project
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This would appear to be a violation of our treaty obligations www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourw...
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Crimes against humanity
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I spent years writing a book on this and they just tweeted it out www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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University of California Press
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Galaxy brain meme” about energy transitions
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Galaxy brain meme” about energy transitions
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If anyone was wondering why the academic study of religion is absolutely essential for students today.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The special issue of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion focused on "Deserting the Study of Religion" (edited by yours truly) is now available online. 1/4 brill.com/view/journal...
This special issue is structured around the theme “Deserting the Study of Religion,” which signals the precarity facing public universities and aims to historicize its causes, identify the institutional challenges specific to the study of religion, and gather reflections on how scholars can respond to these in their research, teaching, and leadership. What does it mean to study religion within the infrastructures of public higher educational institutions? What does it mean to teach and research in particular places, each of them with unique cultural, demographic, economic, and ecological contexts? How might these questions reframe or refresh longstanding conversations about theory and method in the study of religion?
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The special issue of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion focused on "Deserting the Study of Religion" (edited by yours truly) is now available online. 1/4 brill.com/view/journal...
This special issue is structured around the theme “Deserting the Study of Religion,” which signals the precarity facing public universities and aims to historicize its causes, identify the institutional challenges specific to the study of religion, and gather reflections on how scholars can respond to these in their research, teaching, and leadership. What does it mean to study religion within the infrastructures of public higher educational institutions? What does it mean to teach and research in particular places, each of them with unique cultural, demographic, economic, and ecological contexts? How might these questions reframe or refresh longstanding conversations about theory and method in the study of religion?
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remind everyone you know that this young man was criminalized when he should have been cherished. Remind them this is but one of millions of stories of brutality and injustice. Abolish ICE.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“None of this is an argument for slowing the transition,” said Maria Pastukhova, a co-author of the report. “A slow but chaotic transition can be just as destabilising as a fast one, maybe even more so.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pretty insane that NYT doesn’t have story up on man linked to GOP scandal who attacked @amyactonoh.bsky.social at campaign event yesterday. www.thedailybeast.com/twist-to-dem...
thedailybeast.com
Dark Twist Emerges as Armed Republican Attacks Dem Candidate
The Havas family has a history with the authorities.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Terrible look for ASU
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honors roll student who applied for legal admission through the now-defunct CBP app. Lost his college sports scholarship when the feds revoked TPS for all Haitian refugees. Wanted to be a doctor. They're killing our kids, our neighbors www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Piker discourse is an important reminder that in US politics, candidates are always and equally judged by their worst acquaintances. This is certainly true for AES, but for all the GOP senate candidates who play golf with rapists and proud boys. That’s how this works, right @cnn.com?
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Post something random or you’ll have an awful September
Seafood counter sign that reads Krabby cakes
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