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Emily Gathergood

@emilygathergood.bsky.social
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New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love this institute. I’ve had the honor of presenting and learning alongside amazing scholars of Black feminist thought. This is this beloved institute’s last year. I’ll miss it deeply. Grad students, you should apply ❤️🌺 (link is here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...)
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BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

Abundance

AUGUST 2-6, 2027

Kemi Adeyemi
Moya Bailey
Margo Natalie Crawford
Crystal Donkor
Uri McMillan
Petal Samuel
Marisa Solomon
Shatema Threadcraft
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Strikes start today at Nottingham. “These are not cash-strapped universities.” Dr Jo Grady on R4 this morning. 700 jobs. 48 courses. All to drive a surplus. Show your support. ✊
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This was a very fun one to write. Rule of open questions in headlines applies. Many thanks to the various institutional policies which allow image publication rights in scientific publications and the DAI which offered high quality photographs for a low fee
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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 10/09/2026
Publication day is one of my favourite days! Even better when its shared with a friend (@josephscales.bsky.social) Hot off the presses: "Did the Romans Think Jews Wore Trousers?" brill.com/view/journal...
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It is well established that Jews in the ancient Mediterranean were indistinguishable from their neighbours in terms of their dress behaviours. As Greco-Roman clothing (of the Second Temple era) did not include trousers, one should not expect to see representations of Jewish bodies in artwork of the period where they are depicted as wearing trousers. Yet, there are three such representations of Jewish trouser-wearers claimed in scholarship. The first is found on the enigmatic Bacchius Iudaeus issue, the second on a Titus capta issue, while the third is found on a Flavian period cuirass. This article will examine whether any of these images can credibly be claimed to be depictions of captured or submissive Jews, which would imply that Roman and particularly Flavian authorities intended to use the image of the trousers to associate the Jews with “barbarians,” most particularly in their defeat.

Keywords: Judaea Capta; Bacchius Iudaeus; clothing; dress; propaganda; Flavians; iconography
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A lawyer on Instagram just said that Catholics can refuse to use AI in work for religious reasons now that the Pope has made his position clear on it.
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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
#ZenBadger #WhenBeastsSpoke #WildlifeArt #Mindfulness
Zen Badger
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We’re seeing the reemergence of academia as a sport of the leisure class.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Important views on 'writing' with genAI and disability:
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There will be more to say - and this is far from over - but this is one giant step toward justice for our grantees at the National Endowment for the Humanities. #NEH staff have awaited this day for more than a year - for you, and for us. 🙏✊
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
More and more colleges and universities are cutting Religious Studies, just as current events make it more and more obvious how necessary Religious Studies education is to understand today's world.
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Attacks on Jewish people on the streets of Britain are attacks on us all. I am so incredibly sorry that these disgusting and horrifying things are happening.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."
Richard Brooks photographed the three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a local church one evening in July after staking out the site most evenings over a three week period. Anglia News on 23 February 2010.  http://www.richard-brooks.co.uk/3BarnOwls.html
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Do you know how much of a devil you have to be to threaten Parkrun, one of the most socially progressive, inclusive, beneficial and fucking good vibes organisations we have, with legal action? Demonic! Utterly satanic.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm incredibly excited to announce that my new podcast, Dreaming Against the Machine, is launching next week with @multitude.productions! Join me for conversations about what a better future could look like. Available wherever you get your podcasts! Here's the trailer for the show:
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Mathematicians make the case for academic freedom, freedom of movement and association.
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Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Exemplary 'video abstract' here has got me dreaming about the possibilities and challenges of replicating this for biblical scholarship. Imagine a world in which every research article was rendered this accessible.
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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Experience Days!⁣ ⁣ We're excited to welcome offer-holders today! ⁣ 👉 distinctive and diverse modules⁣ 👉 outreach and placements⁣ 👉 teaching⁣ 👉 bursaries⁣ 👉 employability⁣ ⁣ Also: campus rabbits! More: nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy%E... ⁣ #philosophy #alevels #uni #study
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UoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Siobhán Jolley and Dawn Llewellyn will be discussing ''Faith, Art, and Feminism' in response to the wonderful exhibition of Lilian Delevoryas’ work, ‘Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles’ at Chester Cathedral on Tuesday, March 31st at 2pm. Free to attend. chestercathedral.com/events/event...
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Mary Magdalene | Faith, Art and Feminism - Chester Cathedral
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good things happening in our field
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 18/03/2026
this highly anticipated volume is almost here!!
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Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
”We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other”: hear from me and other staff and students who joined picket lines at Uni of Aberdeen today 🪧✊🏻 www.gaudie.co.uk/wpress/index...
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“We are not only fighting for our jobs, we are fighting for each other” – The Gaudie
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📅 We hope you'll be able to join us on 16th March to celebrate the project launch and hear from the artist, Sarah Lightman and her long-time collaborator @dawnllewellyn.bsky.social - book your free ticket at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
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Encountering Biblical Bodies: Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women
Join us for an informal research cafe and exhibition viewing of Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 10/03/2026
Just a shout out to magnolias. Aren't they the most magnificent blooms?
A huge swathe of dark pink magnolia flowers clustered across the branches of a tree with clear blue sky behindA fan of delicate light pink magnolia flowers on a tree with bright blue sky behindA close-up of dark pink magnolia flowers clustered on the bare branches of a tree with light blue sky behindWhite and pink magnolia flowers on a small magnolia tree on a grassy lawn covered with yellow daffodils
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There’s two weeks left to apply for this position. I appreciate everyone who has shared this so far. If anyone has questions about the position, then please contact me.
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Madison N Pierce @madisonpierce.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Call for Papers: "Paul's Letter to the Romans and Christian Theology" Conference We (St Andrews and our friends at Princeton) are hosting a conference in Princeton on 23–25 October. You can propose a paper (until 31 March) and/or register at this link: ptsem.edu/event/pauls-...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/03/2026
The view of Tehran’s skyline overnight on Sunday was apocalyptic: Billowing smoke and towering oil fires turned the horizon orange as Israeli strikes ignited fuel depots outside the Iranian capital. By morning, dark, oily smoke hung over the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
A woman stands on a dirt mound, her back to the camera, looking toward a horizon filled with dense, dark smoke. A label in the top left reads "Tehran." Photo by Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times.
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please watch this short film by Together, an organisation working for the full inclusion and celebration of LGBTQIA people, disabled people, GMH people, and so on, in the Church of England. I burst into tears halfway through … youtu.be/xcSHRh6l2EE?...
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Together for the Church of England
YouTube video by Together for the Church of England
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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My forthcoming book! www.routledge.com/Selling-Phar...
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Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome: Retail Therapy
This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to att...
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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“The Reverend Dr. Gabrielle Rachael Thomas named as the next Dean and President of Berkeley. She will also serve as Associate Dean of Yale Divinity School. Gabrielle will assume office on July 1, 2026, after Andrew McGowan retires after 12 years of exceptional service.”
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Announcing the 15th Dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
We celebrate the appointment of Gabrielle Thomas as the next Dean and President of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!
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Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul
Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Two new studies deepen our understanding of the link between motherhood & labour market outcomes: 1) shows the link between motherhood penalties and broader gender inequality 2) explores how motherhood penalties are stratified www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/two-new...
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Two New Studies Deepen Our Understanding of the Link between Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes
Two recent publications by Sander Wagner (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science) provide new evidence on how becoming a mother affects women’s careers, and why these effects matter for gender ineq...
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