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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

5 years ago today I graduated with my D.Phil in Science and Religion! Doing a PhD in a pandemic was a bit of a nightmare, but I'm very grateful for the academic career it has allowed me to build.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As two wonderful years at Cambridge come to an end, I'm delighted to be starting my new job today at @ox.ac.uk as a Research Fellow on the Quantum Worldviews Project, a major grant funded project that's been years in the making! www.ianramseycentre.ox.ac.uk/quantum-worl...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Took a brief foray out of my maternity leave bubble to record a conversation with William Lane Craig, moderated by Justin Brierley, all about God and Time. Out in a few weeks!

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Is there purpose to the universe? Can we find God in the weirdness of Quantum Mechanics? It was a pleasure to discuss this (and more!) with legendary astrophysicist Paul Davies youtu.be/kpFkwFh_rjE?...

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Paul Davies & Emily Qureshi-Hurst: Is there purpose in the Universe? | Uncommon Ground

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It was great to be back on Premier Unbelievable to discuss 'Decoding the Cosmos' - do check it out to hear a wide-ranging conversation on all things God and modern physics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUD6...

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Decoding the Cosmos: Atheist vs Christian on Fine-Tuning, Time, Incarnation & Alien Life

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Less than a week to go until you can watch my discussion with Sam McKee exploring a range of topics including whether the cosmos was designed, the nature of time, and the incarnation and alien life www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUD6...

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Decoding the Cosmos: Atheist vs Christian on Fine-Tuning, Time, Incarnation & Alien Life

YouTube video by Premier Unbelievable?

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

So much of the 'new year, new me' stuff is bollocks. But I have 9 years worth of new year goals / resolutions written down & love going over them each Jan to see how my hopes for life have changed, what has stayed the same, etc. Its also v nice to see some long hoped-for goals have now been achieved

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Now that the announcement has been made, I'm delighted to share that after my maternity leave comes to an end I will be returning to Oxford to work on this fantastic interdisciplinary project running until 2029! Really excited to get to work next year. www.theology.ox.ac.uk/article/univ...

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University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion Awarded Major Templeton World Charity Foundation Grant

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Earlier in the summer I had a great conversation with two colleagues from Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity on my research in science and religion. You can listen below! open.spotify.com/episode/4Jzy...

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11 | Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst - God, Science and 'Many Worlds'

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Only a few days left to take advantage of the huge 50% discount on 'Decoding the Cosmos' if you buy direct through my publisher's website! All you need to do is select 'Free Media Mail' at checkout and enter the code: CONFSHIP wipfandstock.com/978166678565...

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Decoding the Cosmos- Wipf and Stock Publishers

In Decoding the Cosmos, Dr. Emily Qureshi-Hurst (University of Cambridge) takes five of Christianity's most important ideas--creation, design, providence, in...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My editorial for the 'Religion and Contemporary Crises' special issue of Zygon is now live! I really loved putting this special issue together and showcasing the fantastic conversations we had at our workshop last year. www.zygonjournal.org/news/872/

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Religion and Contemporary Crises: Editorial for the September 2025 issue

In this Editorial for the September 2025 issue [click here browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a …

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 19/11/2025

Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer... So, anyway. I have books and stories out there.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Excited to see William Lane Craig responding to some of my critiques of his work in his latest episode of Reasonable Faith! open.spotify.com/episode/2M1n...

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Does God Know What Time It Is? Part One

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Very lucky to have such wonderful friends who made me a cake to celebrate the publication of Decoding the Cosmos 🥰 You can get your copy now! www.amazon.co.uk/Decoding-Cos...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

How can we understand personal identity in the context of the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? In my latest open access article, I argue that the best way to understand identity in the context of world-branching is narrative in nature... apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article...

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Many Worlds and Narratives of Personal Identity | Scientia et Fides

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Only a few days until 'Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation' is published. AND you can now get 50% off books purchased from Wipf&Stock's website. You won't find a cheaper copy! Select 'Free Media Mail' at checkout. Enter the code: CONFSHIP

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I am consistently inspired by science communicators like Brian Cox and @seanmcarroll.bsky.social - it is so important (now more than ever) to share the wonders of science with the world. Other academic disciplines should learn from this - keeping ideas locked away in the ivory tower helps no one!

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Really enjoyed sitting down with @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social to discuss my new book 'Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation' - an atheist's take on the relationship between God and modern physics. You can pre-order the book now! youtu.be/1e_PZdg3Kmw?...

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Does God Know What Time It Is? - Emily Qureshi-Hurst

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Its been two years since I recorded an episode of The Lesbian Supper Club, a brilliant podcast for queer women hosted by my oldest friend. We discussed religion (mainly Christianity) and homophobia creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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26 - Religion & Homophobia by Lesbian Supper Club

*Content Warning* The use of homophobic slurs is used within this episode to give context to the abhorrent views and actions by the extremist anti - homosexual religious groups.In this episode, we sit...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

First day back at Cambridge after the summer. Looking forward to kicking off this year's course on Theology and Natural Science!

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

One month until publication day! 'Decoding the Cosmos' is an atheist's take on the relationship between Christian theology and physics. The difference is, I'm not trying to use science to disprove religion. See an extract below. PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW wipfandstock.com/978166678565...

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Decoding the Cosmos- Wipf and Stock Publishers

In Decoding the Cosmos, Dr. Emily Qureshi-Hurst (University of Cambridge) takes five of Christianity's most important ideas--creation, design, providence, in...

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A new book responding to Pope Francis’ social teaching on ecology and climate crisis is now available as a free digital download: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1882 From the Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm often surprised at how much researchers are using LLMs for intellectual work. It's not that I disapprove, or at least not on principle. It's more that I'm surprised at the trust being placed in the process. And by that I don't just mean LLMs can give wrong information...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Last year I ran a workshop 'Religion and Contemporary Crises', bringing together 10 early career researchers whose work focuses on various global crises that interact with - are exacerbated or ameliorated by - religion. The first paper is out now! More to come www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/1...

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Faces of the Peaceable God: Religious Imaginaries and the Challenge of Peace in Colombia

After more than fifty years of civil conflict and nearly a quarter million casualties, Colombia finally signed a peace agreement in 2016. Subsequently, a Truth Commission was tasked with producing a r...

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I really enjoyed recording this episode of The Human Podcast. We talked about my research and my journey through academia so far. You can check it out below! youtu.be/Hm6knClxaqY?...

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Meet The Philosopher of Quantum Physics, Time & Christianity | The Human Podcast #2 (New Series)

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

For various reasons I've not had the most productive summer, but as the new term fast approaches I feel myself getting back into the swing of things and gearing up for the year ahead!

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I find it very disheartening that however hard you try to create pockets of joy, supportiveness, and collaboration, the competitive and toxic nature of academia sometimes finds a way to seep through. I wish there was a way to fundamentally change this ugly aspect of academic life.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Its an honour to have been awarded the International Society for Science and Religion's 2025 Book Prize for my book 'Salvation in the Block Universe' I am so grateful to the ISSR and to everyone who supported me as I wrote the book! www.issr.org.uk/issr-stateme...

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ISSR 2025 Book Prize - International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR)

ISSR 2025 Book Prize Professor Fraser Watts, Executive Secretary of the International Society for Science and Religion This is the sixth year of the Book

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 12/08/2025

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It's been six months since the publication of my book 'Salvation in the Block Universe' - although it's a tad pricey, anyone with institutional access can download it for free If you've read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Salvation in the Block Universe

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - Salvation in the Block Universe

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

There's a national firestorm over Bob Vylan's chants about a genocidal army. Rather than about the mass butchery of innocent people. It is depraved, it is grotesque, it is beyond shameful. New column about the world turned on its head 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones

The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

What's astonishing about this is that "violence against a military force currently shelling civilians at food distribution points in the occupied territory they have been starving out" becomes equivalent to "calling for a genocide". It's just an insane moral reversal of the actual situation.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Cambridge in the summer is absolutely beautiful

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 26/06/2025

In 1975, when Animal Liberation was published, I thought that simply telling people about the cruelty of factory farming would lead to meaningful change. But 50 years on, I’ve had to reckon with a difficult truth: facts alone are rarely enough.

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Last week I spoke at a conference for sixth formers on the question 'Is God Dead in the 21st Century?' - I argued for atheism, of course. It was such a pleasure to meet so many bright, engaged, teenagers who are hoping to study philosophy and/or theology and religion at university!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

There's nothing quite so daunting as opening up Word and staring at a blank page at the beginning of a new book project

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