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Sara Ronis

@sararonis.bsky.social
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associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things. She/Her

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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a striking cover!
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
how about a sector by sector analysis of 40 years of wage theft, particularly in fields related to public service, education, and care work?
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A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t
College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This quote by @aaup.org President Todd Wolfson hits HARD. 3/3
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"More importantly, the process by which these decisions were reached appears to have violated core principles of shared governance and relied on evaluative tools inappropriate for personnel actions of this kind." 2/3
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The elimination of entire departments to achieve relatively modest short-term savings risks long-term damage to research capacity, student enrollment, and institutional reputation. 1/3
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UNL's bid to rejoin AAU draws opposition from faculty group over program cuts
A national organization of professors is urging the Association of American Universities to block the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from rejoining the group due to concerns over last year's budget cu...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm so used to sending these emails to spam that I accidentally sent an email from the press's actual marketing director to spam before double-checking...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My new book went up on the UC Press website on Friday (though not yet available for pre-order), and already I have four scammy emails from purported book clubs and publicists who want me to pay them to promote it.
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Fetal Positions by Sara Ronis - ePub + PDF
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was me. I did it.
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you're an early career scholar looking for mentorship, or a seasoned scholar willing to help mentorr others in the fields of religion/medicine in Late Antiquity, consider participating in our mentorship program! You can still apply today to get matched in September!: www.remedhe.com/events
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Events | ReMeDHe
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've at the point of reviewing copy edits where I question everything I know about grammar and syntax. What even is a sentence?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*clears throat loudly* It is forbidden to benefit from one about whom it is assumed that all that they have is from stolen property. (Sefer HaChinukh 229:4)
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A Jewish Case for AI work exemptions
or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...
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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
That's number one on my list!
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I love this!
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
:( :( :( more like cantvas
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Canvas hack is yet another reason we need to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. <please imagine a gif of that scene where Adama unplugs the ship's computers from the network bc I couldn't find that scene as a gif online anywhere>
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In which you learn all about an amazing Jewish woman from late antiquity, and about all the romantasy I read....
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That is also the answer for the New Testament God...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Planet Money just did a really interesting episode about tanking and laid out some alternative pathways!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trafficking girls: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/esthertraffi...
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on the other trafficked girls in Esther
because the girls in the harem matter, too
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our current context creates an environment of fear and distrust, as well as real barriers to Socratic learning. And that is by design, and to the detriment of our students.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
❤️
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I am genuinely honored when students choose to talk to me about their lives outside of class, to explore how theology can speak to what is going on with them and their communities. And I'm always aware that our conversations may have dangerous consequences I'm not trained to handle.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.
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Rabbi Megan Doherty @rabbimegan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Thinking about this midrash I learned with @sararonis.bsky.social The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I have to keep an open Word document on my computer where I immediately everything I do, because otherwise, my annual reports would be blank - but also somehow some things just magically...happened?
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
One of my fav NYE fun facts: We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
1. This is stressful, and the world is stressful enough. and 2. Now I have to find a place to print it when I get to the conference. Folks who do this regularly, what is your secret to success?
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Joining the club of people finishing their conference papers on the plane, and boy do I not like this.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Everyone else on the panel works on medieval/early modern questions, so I'd love for folks in ancient Judaism to come and share your thoughts too!
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Going to be at AJS? Come hear my truly wild paper, as part of the panel "Getting Together, Splitting Up: Representations and Realities of Marriage and Divorce in Premodern Jewish Communities." Mon, December 15, 3:15 to 4:45pm.
List of conference presentations at this panel. The second presentation reads "Bad Romance: Rereading the Divorce Formulae in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls" - Sara Ronis, St. Mary's University, Texas.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is excellent!
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This bowl is HS 3034 in Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections: volume 1 (2020).
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For all my concerns about the Babylonian incantation bowls, you cannot deny that this demon's shoulder pads are absolute🔥
An image of a demon drawn in the middle of a Babylonian incantation bowl. The demon has wide horizontal hair and triangles where shoulders should be.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time, the tobacco industry pointed to research it subsidized at universities to claim its products were healthy.’ - Olivia Guest. Curious about folks' thoughts on this.
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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
to what that means for gatekeeping the vast amounts of unpublished materials. These bowls are so important, and SO cool, but with this scholarly ecosystem, it's such a hard field to wrap my brain around - or to encourage others to join (2/2)
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Doing some reading of publications of Babylonian Incantation Bowls this morning, and reminded all over again about how unhealthy the infrastructure of this field is, from its very foundation on unprovenanced materials, to the requirement to receive the patronage of wealthy collectors (1/2)
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I would read the heck out of academic pamphlets on ancient religions.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Absolutely! I'm really interested in the multiple modes of propaganda this sign represents.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Get this book!
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Particularly interesting to me that the "West" here is represented by Israel, with Bibi kneeling, and the message doubled in Hebrew on the right.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Ack, apologies for the wonky capitalization. On my phone on a plane...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Check out the muslim public affairs committee - MPAC.
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Congratulations!!!
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a cat is raising its paws in the air with the words `` grabby hands '' written below it .
Alt: a cat is raising its paws in the air with the words `` grabby hands '' written below it .
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What a gift to have people read your work so carefully and generously!
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"masterful" and "an indispensable resource"--Max Strassfield's glowing review of @sararonis.bsky.social's DEMONS IN THE DETAILS at Reading Religion readingreligion.org/978052038617...
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Demons in the Details - Reading Religion
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara R...
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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I'm so sorry to hear that. Her book was really formative for me as I was thinking about my dissertation topic.
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