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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🌍amazing opportunity here for the right person. Lecturer in Theology and Creation Care. 5 year, full time. at Otago Uni in NZ otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Working at Otago - Your Career, University of Otago (s01)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Disagree: Everybody hates your AI images and thinks you smell like poo

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very happy to receive my copy of @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul this morning! Hartelijk dank!

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Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul is now available in hardback + paperback and I happen to have some spare copies. ***Repost if you’re interested and by March 31 I’ll randomly select a few people who will get a free copy in the mail.*** Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Coming soon, to a database near you...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So, I think the (professional) copy editor has introduced a number of grammatical errors into my manuscript - presumably caused by not understanding the sentence, and possible prompted by an AI grammar checker. 1/

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

proofs day! (first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

is it me or has LOEB online gone up in price dramatically? I am no longer allowed to buy it in USD, but have to buy in pounds or Euro.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

AI is not powerful enough to dominate. Right now a lot of its biggest investors are panicking because it doesn't work as promised. So they're trying to offload their debt onto consumers by making AI seem inevitable. It's a Ponzi scheme, and once they get their money back the marketing will stop.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

book recommendations wanted please: what are the key important eco-theology / creation care books / resources that a theological library should have in stock?

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)

Generative Al Statement:

The goal of this course is to help you improve as thinkers, scholars, and community members. The use of generative Al and LLMs (including Chat GPT) is antithetical to these goals. I strongly encourage you not to use generative Al to complete readings or assignments. There is growing evidence that the use of generative Al facilitates labor exploitation of workers in the Global South, causes severe local and global environmental damage, relies on stolen labor of writers and artists, fails to provide accurate information or citations, and may be causing a microgeneration of students to struggle to think/write critically and become less employable after college. Beyond all of these, generative Al-written papers are (more often than not) poorly argued, woodenly and generically written, and obvious to humanities professors.

This course aims to help us practice the acts of critical thinking, analyzing, discussing, producing knowledge, and engaging with the communities in which we live. Accordingly, I ask that you embrace the difficulty of that process rather than attempt to outsource these skills. At the same time, I am not interested in attempting to surveil you through Al-detection software because this creates a hostile classroom environment between students and their professor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be and how you want to engage the work set before you.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I never really researched Nuremberg, so I was unaware until today that the famous “Nuremberg Defense” (“we were just following orders”) was not, in fact, the only defense offered by Nazi criminals at Nuremberg. (1/5)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

need to sample this for a bass synth! also, yay for kākāpō!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Book Review ouch: "There is a basic historiographical nettle here which Strelan refuses to grasp, or grasps so weakly that he comes away badly stung." 1/3

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

yep. i don't care how many crimes a person has committed this kind of punishment is a crime against humanity. there should be heavy sanctions from right thinking nations against the USA and El Salvador over this.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

genius. this needs an update to include the use of AI. possibly on the topic of Vegetative Electron Microscopy. Happy Birthday Tom.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦‍♂️

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Archaeoethnologica @archaeoten.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Archaeoethnologica: Conversing with Chaos in Antiquity - Book / Conversando com o Caos na Antiguidade - Livro +INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv... #AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

ok, i hadn't thought about it like that. hmmm.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

one part of me think 👼, stay out of all the pointless culture war antagonism online, the other part of me 😈, I'm saving this meme for later!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

always love it when a journal offers me an open access charge for publishing a book review.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

sometimes only some ALLCAPS insanity will do the trick

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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!" not on copy-editing anyway.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

CFP: book chapters for a forthcoming volume: “Place as Presence: Time, Country and the Bible.” seeking indigenous / post-colonial / ecologically aware contributions. mcusercontent.com/201e1aeaca73...

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

CFP Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society. "Scripture in Early Christianity." apecss.wixsite.com/apecss/call-...

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Call for Papers | apecss

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

CFP Evangelical History Association in Australia. "Discerning Patterns in History." David Bebbington keynote. www.evangelicalhistory.org/2025-confere...

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EHA Conference 2025

2025 conference

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

$1000 Essay prize on "AI and the Quest for Wisdom". 1 each for student and open category. Use of AI not allowed. events.nd.edu.au/ai-and-the-q...

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If Word is no longer letting you "save as" PDF with using Adobe (bloodsucking leeches) you can still use the export and/or print to PDF function to make a PDF.

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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I made my students take selfies with one book that they got from the campus library to cite for their first paper. I also banned all websites (except for online databases like JSTOR).

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Megan Lewis @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This isn't the flashiest segment of a Neo-Assyrian palace relief, but I absolutely love it. It shows two scribes, one writing on parchment (probably Aramaic), and one writing cuneiform on clay. Little details like this make my heart sing!

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IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Neu im IxTheo-Zweitveröffentlichungservice: Ab sofort sind zahlreiche Publikationen von Prof. Dr. Peter Lampe (Neues Testament, Universität Heidelberg) unter ixtheo.de/AuthorityRec... recherchierbar und viele sind #OpenAccess !

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Staff View: Lampe, Peter 1954- :: IxTheo

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ancient Greek for Everyone. Just found this creative commons open access/source introductory Greek textbook, looks really good on first glance. And also looks like a very useful platform for creating textbooks. pressbooks.pub/ancientgreek/

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Ancient Greek for Everyone – Simple Book Publishing

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

*How to publish in Biblical Studies/Theology journals for PhD Students and ECRs* [recycled historic thread from the other place] My response to Chris Tilling's post on Facebook has been getting a lot of love, so I thought I'd turn it into a 🧵 here. click on my friend . . . 👇👇👇 1/

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I still harbour a secret ambition to study something at the Manukau Institute of Technology so I can tell people I graduated from MIT.

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