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Kelly Holob

@kholob.bsky.social
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Fellowships Advisor | PhD in Early Christian Studies | she/her

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Dr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer @libbiesp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's true! Villanova is hiring a tenure-track position in Eastern Christianity! Please share far and wide. aarsbl.org/job/tenure-t...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Do you work in late antiquity? Like church councils? Appreciate northwestern Anatolia? Then you should submit a paper for this Sept '26 online conference on Nicaea hosted by the SBL Greco-Roman Religions unit! www.samreligions.org/virtual-conf...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16/06/2026
reading an academic paper
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Grad students and early career scholars, nominate your work for the NASSCAL Sisters of Sinai prize for outstanding scholarship in Christian apocrypha. Nominations close Sept. 1. Details here: www.nasscal.com/the-sisters-...
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The Sisters of Sinai Prize
The Sisters of Sinai Prize for outstanding scholarship in Christian apocrypha is named in honor of Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, sisters who are responsible for a number of signific…
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Every day there’s some new ridiculous thing tied to my PhD institution. Oh boy I wish I was in a position where I could speak more freely
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Nearly 3 months later I finally have my office again!
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Jamie Bernstein @uajamie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It’s important to understand how the right’s obsession with “protect the children” is a smokescreen to push through policies to legislate the existence of all queer people, but particularly targeting trans people. It doesn’t stop when a person turns 18.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/05/2026
i need people to understand that calls for "ethical ai" are calls for more ai it's like saying cops need more training. it sounds like criticism but functions as reason for more funding and does not ask if we need them at all
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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/05/2026
i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’ve been getting into nail polish for the last couple years, and stuff like this is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a fun hobby. Would recommend. 💅
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just got off the phone with a customer service rep who I’m 95% sure was AI. Before I hung up she asked if I could do her a favor and then she said “keep smiling for the rest of the day!” Bizarre, dystopic experience
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So happy I had the opportunity to be a fly on the wall for @maiakotro.bsky.social and @madelinevosch.bsky.social’s conversation about their books about early Christianity (and extra proud that I have the privilege to hang out with them sometimes)
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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The Video Game History Foundation hiring Fundraising Manager in Emeryville, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 12:59:43 AM. Apply if this sounds like a match:We are seeking a growth-oriented, self-starter with prior…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This Tax Day 287 major companies are avoiding $139,256,870,000 in taxes on $1 trillion of their 2025 profits.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
having been through this system a couple times it is just a truism that prestige breeds prestige, regardless of actual merits, but it feels good to have the data
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The mass repression of student protesters under Biden set the stage for Trump's on-campus escalations, which have, indeed, stifled student protest during a crucial moment. Everyone who supported that repression should feel guilty and foolish now, and the people who perpetrated it deserve worse.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 07/04/2026
It's now the obligation of every nation to intervene to prevent this.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Artemis II is GO for launch, 6:24pm eastern, live stream HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...
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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
More on the fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Center for Messianic Studies www.uni-wuerzburg.de/cemes/
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Cemes - Käte Hamburger Center for Messianic Studies (CEMES)
Messianic ideas of a more just society and the belief in their realization through chosen figures are rooted in traditions dating back more than two and a half millennia. Throughout this time,…
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I know that this is almost entirely due to publishers and is ultimately in the service of clarity, but I really dislike the trend of academic books being named “Descriptive and Boring Name: Fun Name the Author Wanted”. I wish the phrases could be switched :(
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tech Company: We have lost $100 billion creating Breado the talking toaster that loves you
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22/03/2026
kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:
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FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'
The FBI is teaching its agents that ordinary American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that Islamic charity is no more than a “fundin...
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 01/12/2023
wouldst thou like to Learn Mas?
placard advertising Taco Bell's Live Más scholarship
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Update on this: my office has been deemed unsafe to work in and I’ll be hanging out in our conference room or remote until mid summer at the earliest lol
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas but everyone agrees it's fine to continue the atrocity as long as the child is trans
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
My office at an R1 institution flooded three times this calendar year. Over the weekend the ceiling finally collapsed. 😇
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American Society of Church History @aschurchhistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Nominations for the 2026 ASCH Book Prizes and Research Fellowships are now open! Learn more: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/... Stay tuned as we highlight each of our prizes/fellowships on social media in the coming days!
2026 ASCH Book Prizes and Research Fellowships nominations now open in white text on a red background
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is bad, and part of what makes it so bad is that this is clearly pulling from *genre* understandings of reality, which the statistical linguistic machine seemingly cannot distinguish from other text included in the training data. Truly an ideology machine where every episode of CSI is true.
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Does anyone know of any critical, scholarly sources on American language education and the military-academic-industrial complex? It’s extremely disturbing to me that sources of funding for learning, e.g. Arabic that are often taken as a net good or neutral are often funded by the State Dept or DoD
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The NYT style guide
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Kenneth Kovacs @kenkovacs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Christofascism "knows the cross only as a magical symbol of what Jesus has done for us, not as a sign of the poor man who was tortured to death as a political criminal... [it is] a betrayal of the disappointed, a miracle weapon in the service of the mighty." ~Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003)
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Learning things about my institution and AI that I don’t want to share publicly but are very bad. 🙃 Nightmare world.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!
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Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia
Apply for Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virg...
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
friends! come work with me and the amazing folks on this team at UVA! happy to answer any questions about the position, feel free to reach out! jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
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Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia
Apply for Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virg...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Roman 'voodoo doll' from Eining: Hand-modeled clay figurines with puncture holes are commonly referred to as 'voodoo dolls'. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence indicates that these figurines were pierced with nails or needles by individuals attempting to influence or harm a person. 🧵1/2 📷️ me 🏺
A clay figurine with a roughly humanoid shape, displayed against a neutral wall. The figure has a rounded head with small, hollowed-out eyes and a faint, worn-down nose. The body is thick and cylindrical, with two protrusions on the sides that resemble arms. The lower half is fractured
 Cracks run throughout the surface, smal holes can be seen
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