Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843431192
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be 67105872782
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The combination of the Jozenji Street Jazz Festival with Osaki Hachimangu's main yearly festival makes for a weekend with impeccable vibes here in Sendai. 061
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nagoya Univ is ending admissions to its undergrad program for, specifically, privately-funded international students. (But they can still apply to the international program, and govt-funded students can still come). What problem is this supposed to be solving?? www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/admissions/n...nagoya-u.ac.jp名古屋大学 受験生応援サイト | NU START GUID名古屋大学の入学情報全般を取り扱った公式サイトです。 310
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026After a few years in the making, a review article I co-wrote with colleagues at Tokyo College finally sees the light of day at Social Sciences & Humanities Open. (and it's open access!) doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... 183
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDboyzantium (samoyedcore) ("deathcore doggy @deathco.re · 02/07/2023hey "nice" manbun haha it fuckin sucks you hipster asshole [he turns around and reveals he is a samurai from the tokugawa shogunate] oh fuck 242122766
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026On today's episode of 日本平和だな, someone in Tottori prefecture keeps abandoning comically large amounts of bread (and raw chicken??) in strange places. youtu.be/8dvTXgO85hc?...youtu.be「食パン」投棄問題に新展開 大山より半月ほど前には道の駅でも…罪に問われない可能性ある?YouTube video by ちゃんねるテレポート山陰 140
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Years of process to restrict private vehicles from a major city's most popular pedestrian space, the sun cannot become a red giant soon enough 1258847
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books 301942654
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Lapras bus in Sendai brings me joy every time I see it. 080
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDPOCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 12/08/2026I've said it before and I will keep saying it. Watching the show, the movies, or reading the books puts money in her pocket. Even if you pirate them, you're contributing to the popularity of the franchise. JKR is an objectively awful person who actively harms others. Don't be an accomplice. 17825
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I don't in any way follow the live-action Sonic movies, but I feel like someone should have TOLD me that Keanu Reeves is the voice of Shadow the Hedgehog. 121
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026All the anime fukunagashi I saw at the Sendai Tanabata Festival: 1) ふつつかな悪女ですが 2) Konosuba (celebrating the tenth anniv. of airing) 3) Re:zero (for the upcoming 4th season) 4) Apothecary anime (for the upcoming 3rd season) 5) 1 million volleyball boys anime (because Haikyuu!! takes place in 2192
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD稲葉 剛 @inabatsuyoshi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026永住外国人の「生活保護」回避狙った政府 許可要件の厳格化案を発表:朝日新聞 digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 低賃金の「労働力」は欲しいが、その人たちが低年金の高齢者になる前に追い出してしまおうという政府。この国は排外主義に突き進んでいます。 8月6日 10:47まで全文お読みいただけますdigital.asahi.com永住外国人の「生活保護」回避狙った政府 許可要件の厳格化案を発表:朝日新聞出入国在留管理庁は4日、外国人の永住許可ガイドラインの改定案を発表した。日本人世帯の平均を上回る年収水準や、その年収で厚生年金に30年加入していた場合の年金受給見込み額を求めることなどが柱だ。異例の… 1152146
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys 1515348739
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDeileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925) 16686140
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Honestly, if you can find the love hotels that are also trying to serve as business hotels, even better. I stayed at one with some friends when we went to an academic conference, and it was awesome -- great room service, great amenities, and I didn't have to talk to anyone. 040
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDEmily @suika.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The Japanese government is making everyone's lives worse except for the one group that truly needs to be Detained And Deported: tourists who go on those fake-ass "Mario Kart" rides in the middle of the city. 49612
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Just minding my business walking with my family to the aquarium when 2121
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Check out this thread about some recent research by brilliant Berkeley students on how listeners attribute social identities to synthesized voices! Full paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...degruyterbrill.com 1228
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDDr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its third edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by August 15 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!events.humanitix.comCall for Papers: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures 6134101
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs. 3450991162
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026You've heard of ザ and ジ, but may I interest you in definite article 地? 1171
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I am unreasonably excited about this book purchase. 190
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDChelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Occupation des universités, manifestations contre les bases militaires américaines d’où partaient les avions bombardant le Vietnam ; lutte contre la construction de l’aéroport de Narita sur une zone agricole ; naissance du mouvement de libération des femmes… Tokyo 68! 1168
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec... 42469851625
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Well, good morning to you, too, earth. 050
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDSteven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord. 6466145
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate. 491563223
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation 546233027344
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I wish there was some centralized location where academics could name-and-shame other academics who publish (or try to publish) papers with AI-hallucinated citations, because I am at my fuuuucking limit. 0142
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDJo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Murderbot just gets it. (From Platform Decay by @marthawells.com) 125643
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDCJ @virmalised.us · 07/06/2026This guy is a colleague of mine and I can confirm that the "hard sciences" faculty at my university seem set on killing the best part of the job, which is learning 4194
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD松岡宗嗣 Soshi Matsuoka @ssimtok.bsky.social · 01/06/20266月はプライド月間。なぜわざわざ祝う必要があるのか。 「LGBTは生産性がない(杉田水脈・元衆議院議員)」 「見るのも隣に住むのも嫌だ(荒井勝喜・元首相秘書官)」 「種の保存に背く(簗和生・衆議院議員)」 「LGBT広がれば足立区が滅びる(白石正輝・足立区議)」 「変なLGBTどうでもいい、教える必要ない(神谷宗幣・参議院議員)」 政治に関わる人たちの差別や排除の発言が繰り返されてきた。この人たちにこそ”理解増進”が必要。世界を見渡すと残念ながら「ハッピー」とは言い難い状況。それでもこの景色を変えるために、「ハッピーであれ」と何度でもプライド月間を祝い続けたいと思う。 01159589
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Hopped over to Akita for AJJ, and I was greeted by my favorite namahage-themed Akita tourism poster. 0298
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Ah, yes, I love reading academic literature with twelve sources, half of which are the author himself. 050
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/05/2026the fuck it will 13210687163
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDDr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Ancient Japanese wisdom: “Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.” —Kūkai, probably 06914
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026me, living in Sendai: I would like to touch one, maybe even two trees every bear in Miyagi prefecture: 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 absolutely not 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 060
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It's basically guaranteed that if I sign up for a race of any kind (months in advance), one of my disease-ridden children will get me sick shortly before it is scheduled to happen. 030
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhDUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via @ianwalker.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comWhy do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativityMotonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressi… 420076
Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One thing I wish I knew before me moving to Sendai is that there's an actual mothpocalypse in early May. 270
Reposted by Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026inventing a new kind of LARP where we all go somewhere in public and act normal 1210719