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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...

Matthijs den Dulk holds up a copy of his new book in his office

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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 · 01/08/2025

yes i had a few minor car accidents as a new father.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

agree with much of what has been said. you just have to accept the misery and enjoy the love and cuteness. you do adjust (a bit). also take care driving, sleep deprivation is as bad as alcohol for driver impairment, so drive slower and don't rely on your reactions as normal.

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

In discussion via email, the editor's English has also contained several ESL type grammatical errors. If it were a student or a colleague, I wouldn't bat an eyelid. But this is a professional who has been tasked with correcting my work. Should I say something to the journal editor or AITA here? 2/2

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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

i literally salivate proleptically (figuratively speaking)

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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 · 17/07/2025

Yes please, sorry can't message you. jonathan.robinson [at] carey.ac.nz

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

I was glad to get to The End of that abstract, let me tell you.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

yep, looking forward to reading this.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

nice one. i recently made it into double digits, but between kids, work and dog walking needs, i find those saturday mornings available for Parkrun surprisingly rare. Parkrun is one of those inclusive participatory communities, like folk music clubs, which I think churches could learn a lot from.

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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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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

and who will be cashing in on that additional demand for prison?

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

looking forward to "shut up you dickhead" new song by McGlashan

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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

has there ever been an explanation for Brill's pricing? maybe it's like designer clothes, the price is part of the appeal (for those who buy them) as it creates exclusivity. Only billionaire theologians can read this book 😆

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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

some direct words from John Barclay on Rick Strelan's 1996 Paul, Artemis, and the Jews in Ephesus. BZNW 80. 3/3

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

Book review double ouch: "Every new hypothesis is worth a try but, if it is presented with such poor historical argumentation, it is hardly worth a book. I register some surprise that this prestigious series thought otherwise." 2/3

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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 · 10/04/2025

thanks for sharing, downloaded. looks very helpful for a project that i'll get to one day

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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 · 09/04/2025

thank you for this public service. i will get a lot less work done today as a result, but i will be a happier and slightly better person.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

that guy always gave me the creeps, even long before he started pushing himself as a spiritual guru

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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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