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Russell T. McCutcheon

@mccutcheonsays.bsky.social
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I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When do the routine economic laws of supply & demand turn into price gouging? Discuss.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Once again elite university prof has opinions. Last paragraph that quickly brushes aside issues of workload, deans, requirements, etc, tells you everything you need to know about the disconnect between his world and the world where most of us labor in #highered www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Humanities Need to Do More to Reach Non-Majors
What we can learn from the “service departments.”
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Proofs done. No thanks to Cora.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oct 23-24 at Macalester College. ope.macalester.digital
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fair to assume the study of religion is on this list…?
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What kind of name is "Page Six reports"?
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Attending the second of 2 faculty town halls on my Univ’s development of a state-mandated 5 year post-tenure review policy—a process to be rolled out in the coming months.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Different time zone explains it.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Timely book just arrived, no? @teemutaira.bsky.social @equinoxpub.bsky.social www.equinoxpub.com/projects/uni...
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Downgrade a movie It’s a Mad World.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Programmers screw up, supercomputer kills people, and, while being unplugged, sings old timey song about tandem bicycles.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Wars between writers blaze up frequently, but I have observed that they settle down eventually into smudges” - Sylvia Beach (1956)
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Universities often ask faculty to sit on special committees, claiming "shared governance" and "having a voice" when really they are asking professors to take part in their own undoing. It is 2026, and if academics cannot see through this then US highered really is doomed
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North American Association for the Study of Religion @naasr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our next virtual event is coming! Mark your calendars for September 2nd! 💻 #naasr #religiousstudies #religion #highered #digitalhumanuties ua-edu.zoom.us/j/84942191810
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not all relationships are transactional…
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@teemutaira.bsky.social My copy is in the mail.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New book alert.: “Neoliberalism and authoritarian populism are some of the main forces endangering contemporary universities. This applies to the study of religion in several ways…” @teemutaira.bsky.social @equinoxpub.bsky.social @naasr.bsky.social
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
History of Religions Vol. 66, No. 1 (2026) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hr/2026/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Review Symposium @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @adeler.bsky.social
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History of Religions | Vol 66, No 1
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@vtouna.bsky.social — our grad director — ran an orientation today for our new MA cohort (joined here by two second year grad students). It’s the program’s 10th anniv. #RELMA10
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just as a matter of interest, *any* use of AI in scholarly writing is tantamount to plagiarism. You don’t know whose work the AI has trained on, so you can’t give them proper acknowledgment or make an appropriate citation.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just published by Studies of Religion. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A long while ago, I wrote a pretty good piece on O Brother, Where Are Thou?, lies, & Oz. It was rejected on the explicit grounds that Real Classicists had no interest in engaging with "low-brow shallow comedy". Anyhow, at this moment of #Odyssey reception, here it is. medium.com/@anisestrong...
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All Coens Are Liars: O Brother, Where art Thou? and Homer’s Odyssey
All Coens are Liars:
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Both sides make valid points. No
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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
hello I am 57 years old and I still can't spell rhythm on the first try
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A colleague who studies discourses on the past is in Greece, and so what movie do you think she just went to see…? #TheOdyssey @vtouna.bsky.social religion.ua.edu/blog/2026/07...
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Nolan's The Odyssey and Debates about Authenticity
Discussions of the movie The Odyssey are more interesting than the film as everyone employs different notions of authenticity that reflect present concerns
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NPR @npr.org · 31/07/2026
The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years. n.pr/4fEgpWM
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450k borrowers say they were ripped off. Their student loans are being erased
The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In academia you get used to smart people. @suscrockford.bsky.social isn't one of them. She's something else altogether. I'm 28 pgs into her new A Perturbed System - it's brilliant. The kind of scholarship you read before bed, because you can't put it down. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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A Perturbed System
A moving study of how religion shapes Western climate discourse.   Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we’ve built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction,...
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The typical religion & film people are probably all exited by it though….
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Halfway done Disclosure Day and, so far, I feel a bit stupid watching it—it’s ET for adults with a simplistic narrative and treats me like an undergrad in a residence debating big issues late one night.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Then these little plastic 45 inserts will blow their minds
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
23 skidoo.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
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Steve Buscemi: Fellow Kids Meme
ALT: Steve Buscemi: Fellow Kids Meme
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Don’t we all own a copy of the World Book Encyclopedia…?
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The AI Copyright Lawsuits Have Finally Produced an Actual Payout
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The AI Copyright Lawsuits Have Finally Produced an Actual Payout
Anthropic’s massive $1.5 billion settlement just received final approval.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What are you reading?
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New book. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/07/2026
My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Its not scary movies, it’s the bible” #TheBear5
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
By the way… From 2011 @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The World Religions paradigm Time for a change - Suzanne Owen, 2011
The teaching of religions has long relied on the World Religions paradigm to guide curricula throughout education, which has led to a widening gap, on the one h...
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There’s an important article to be written on the manner in which everyone cites this book despite all still studying world religions let alone a bunch of scholars all still studying “eastern religions” etc.
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
They’re no longer used or vintage. Now I hear they’re “pre-loved.”
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Out here doing some Luddite praxis.
A library card catalogue in a 1970s looking room
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I hear there’s a opening for a custodian over at the mayor’s office… #widowsbay
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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@naasr.bsky.social
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