Reposted by Kate DavisMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 30100983397
Reposted by Kate DavisShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Are you near Xenia, OH? You can help dismantle a dam on the Little Miami River! The article has a link to sign up, the event takes place on 12 October. Also leave rocks alone when out enjoying nature. They provide important habitat! daytondailynews.com share.google/aNiOfDtjYK1w...daytondailynews.comdaytondailynews.com | Dayton Daily News 14820
Reposted by Kate DavisTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note. 543306751
Reposted by Kate DavisDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026wtf kind of pets they got in there 1804132820
Reposted by Kate Daviscaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149193713
Reposted by Kate DavisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/09/20263 hikers who say they used AI to plan their trip were rescued after becoming stranded on California's Mount Shasta 'They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required,' the sheriff’s office saidabcnews.com3 hikers who say they used AI to plan trip rescued after becoming stranded on Mount ShastaThree hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route. 91854272
Reposted by Kate DavisJoost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A strangely poetic statement of faith somehow 0212
Reposted by Kate DavisKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca 29595631526
Reposted by Kate DavisKrista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I'm thrilled to say that we are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Religion in the Islam subfield at Denison University! Please share widely among your networks. apply.interfolio.com/188984 03646
Reposted by Kate DavisClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026🚨🚨🚨MEMBERS OF THE ORDER WHO STAY IN THE ORDER ARE *ALL* EXCOMMUNICATED🚨🚨🚨 232599376
Reposted by Kate DavisDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025"God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles" — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower' 632096
Reposted by Kate DavisJames Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I will believe AI can operate at a PhD level when AI develops imposter syndrome. 0237
Reposted by Kate DavisMonterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 03/06/2026Fish as fluid as the ocean. 🌊 All California sheephead start life as female and move through an array of colors and body shapes as they mature. Some female adults may transition to male as social and environmental factors shift, balancing the delicate ratio of individuals in their population. 151038307
Reposted by Kate DavisDialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026With Arnold Friberg in the news, check out this deep dive with co-editor Caroline Kline speaking with Kate Davis about her provocative Spring 2026 article, “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/hom... 074
Reposted by Kate DavisAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6135470916424
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026An excellent thread (It’s super fascinating! I learned things!) that also demonstrates quite well what is missed when people try to replace actual expertise with AI. 010
Reposted by Kate DavisUniversity of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026From the latest special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 59, Iss. 1, check out the #OpenAccess article "Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg" by @katedavisphd.bsky.social. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art... 032
Reposted by Kate DavisTitania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" Me: 14595801356
Reposted by Kate DavisUniversity of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026"Queer Mormon Bodies, Belonging, and Identity" is a special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social 59.1. @katedavisphd.bsky.social @taylorpetrey.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @historydavis.bsky.social @nkitchen.bsky.social @gileriodekel.com scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss... 022
Reposted by Kate DavisDialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Dialogue presents "Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” For the complete experience of this article, please see the PDF/HTML version at dialoguejournal.com. And you will want to for the images alone. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aud... 031
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Slightly diminish a book Lord of the Rings: The Store Credit of the King 020
Reposted by Kate Davis🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 29/04/2026If you’re writing about the trad wife movement without writing about white supremacy…you’re not writing about the trad wife movement. You MIGHT be writing about a space that’s merely adjacent to the trad wife ~aesthetic. Maybe! But even then. Probably not. 2589
Reposted by Kate Davispublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026don't judge me frog and toad bot!! 2829
Reposted by Kate DavisStephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes" 5065201389
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026What started as a joke tweet became an AAR paper, and is now the most fun article I have ever written. Thank you @dialoguejournal.bsky.social for giving it a home, and elevating it with truly the most camp images. I am so excited to bring these glistening and brawny men to the queer studies issue!dialoguejournal.comHeavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg - Dialogue JournalA tan, bare-chested man stands in the foreground to the right, half turned away from the viewer. His right foot is perched on a rock, causing his studded leather kilt to hike up, exposing a… 075
Reposted by Kate DavisDialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Our Spring Issue is our first in FULL COLOR! “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg” by Kate Davis begins the issue exploring the queer experience in the Church. This is followed by an important roundtable and more. www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/sprin... 141
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Religious studies people: I desperately want to show my class the 1980’s episode of To Tell The Truth with Michelle Smith (of Michelle Remembers fame) but I cannot find it anywhere! Does anyone have it? 000
Reposted by Kate DavisTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist. 26732201
Reposted by Kate DavisJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/04/2026it's actually the trolley problem's monster 1338746
Reposted by Kate DavisSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22/03/2026What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts. 241106314
Reposted by Kate DavisNikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...dailynous.com“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily NousAn edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State... 11828285
Reposted by Kate DavisWhit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there 4943291438
Reposted by Kate DavisNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I can't compete with this. 224102581717
Reposted by Kate DavisLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Judith Butler in Who's Afraid of Gender?: “The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of ‘gender’ is authoritarian at its core.” Looks like we need a new category: ☑️ all of the above 23210
Reposted by Kate DavisThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...merl.reading.ac.uk"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land ArmyArchivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army. 10387136
Reposted by Kate Daviskrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor 109207784673
Reposted by Kate DavisKUER @kuer.org · 15/01/2026Why the strong link between tradwives and Latter-day Saints? Caroline Kline of the Center for Global Mormon Studies shared her theory with us.buff.lyAre tradwives and feminists two sides of the same coin on women’s labor?The online tradwife movement highlights traditional women’s roles, including homemaking and childrearing. It has also garnered feminist critique. But a Mormon studies researcher believes that… 012
Reposted by Kate DavisJudith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If you're interested in contributing to the rebuilding fund: www.bethisraelms.org/rebuilding-u...bethisraelms.orgRebuilding News and Updates — Beth Israel Congregation 066
Reposted by Kate DavisTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome. 85120792472
Reposted by Kate DavisJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments." 23877307
Reposted by Kate DavisHarry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard 144117814045
Reposted by Kate DavisAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 28/11/2025to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live. 5990235
Reposted by Kate DavisCarson Olshansky @carsonolshansky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done. 110410
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I’m only going to be at AAR for one day, but if anyone is are around on Monday let me know! And also: come to our Mormon Studies panel at 5pm rm 105 in Hynes. It’s going to be a great discussion. I had way more to say about Lawrence Foster’s Religion and Sexuality than I thought I did! 010
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I don’t feel like I do a notable amount of professing, relative to the other parts of my job. 130
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play? 000
Reposted by Kate DavisLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 08/10/2025TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it 334948871