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Dr. Kate Ward

@thekateward.bsky.social
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Frugal and well-behaved wage earner at Marquette Theology. Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work out Feb. 5 from Bloomsbury!

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I need someone to develop an app where I deposit like $100 at the beginning of the year and then when I click on an article that’s behind a paywall they deduct a cost per article for that specific site and send it to the publication rather than expect me to subscribe to 50 outlets.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So delighted to hear this! Thank you for teaching the book!
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
5/5 that's it, I'm no good at threading :)
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"...and readers should subscribe to publications with high editorial standards instead of armchair Substack pundits." Free link: jonmalesic.substack.com/p/how-i-unco... (4/5)
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How I uncovered a prolific AI author in religious magazines
Can we preserve the connection between personal writing and human experience in the Slop Age?
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Malesic concludes: "Editors cannot go it alone. There must be a commitment by all to old-fashioned standards: editors should combine technology with the gimlet-eyed skepticism they are traditionally known for, writers should ground personal narratives in verifiable fact (not vibes)... (3/5)
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
now, editors already stretched to the bone have to sift through a tsunami of AI slop, and the companies building the slop machines, as usual, act like the downstream crises aren't their problem. Jon Malesic identified an AI "author" who made it into several religious publications. (2/5)
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Endless respect and empathy for anyone working to publish real human thinking, writing and reporting in These Times. First the advertising model fell through, and readers started to expect info created by human labor to be free... (1/5)
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, well, well. fortune.com/article/anth...
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Anthropic billionaire cofounder Jack Clark studied literature, not code—and says liberal arts degrees will win in the AI age | Fortune
Anthropic’s liberal-arts-educated cofounder says “rote programming” is best avoided.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just can't stop thinking -- any elected could have been doing this all along.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you for teaching it!
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just a reminder that kitchens started out as large rooms for an entire staff of servants to prepare meals, and then the Frankfurt kitchen turned that into a one-woman job, hidden away, so all men had to see was a woman emerging with a cooked meal, and then the open concept floor plan made that ugly.
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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
this is a helpful skill for everybody! if you're reading humanities research: - read the intro - read the conclusion - identify the author's argument, what evidence they're using to support it, and why they think it matters - skim headers and topic sentences it's a word find, not a novel
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 14/08/2026
The conservative neural misfire about UBI schemes is that they are all convinced that everyone will just sit around doing nothing enjoying "free money." This is a complete misunderstanding of human character. People will do jobs that they *enjoy* doing if they can afford to live doing so.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.thenation.com/article/soci... Good read for folks studying/teaching worker justice, or in need of elder care--on worker-owned cooperatives in the elder care space.
thenation.com
The Dignifying Solution to America’s Care Crisis
Employee ownership turns care work jobs into good jobs—and leads to better patient outcomes.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This essay makes me cry. Is very very good.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️
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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
TV ads last night in our dystopia: -sell your clothes -sell your plasma -Ring cameras -private chef for your Airbnb -Lexus
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Gift link: performative wokeness meets economic inequality at an elite university, by Tyler Austin Harper
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Why I Quit the Tenure Track
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
amazing course of action during a measles outbreak. if you wanted to ensure it would infect more children and toddlers, this is what you’d do.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That's right down the street! Wonderful news, congratulations!!!
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Though the four-hour Mass began in sunlight, clouds slowly gathered and darkened overhead... As the host was consecrated, a torrential downpour fell on the crowd and muddied the hillside while thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky."
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The fact is that the Catholic Church has *not* budged on natural law or its teaching even as it has made practical changes that integrate it more solidly into the rest of Catholic life. It’s not pastoral or theological care to encourage Catholics in this kind of traditionalist paranoia.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.amazon.com/Theology-Wor...
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Theology of Work: New Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
Theology of Work: New Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) - Kindle edition by Guitián, Gregorio. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Theology of Work: New Perspectives (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies).
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Was just going to post about how much I'm enjoying this book and realized the Kindle edition is free (today?!) Come for Steve Long's incisive essay on the "Protestant ethic" and Milwaukee sewer socialism, stay for an edited volume whose authors are visibly in conversation and not always agreeing.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hey friends in the 518! I'll be home for vacation in July and talking about Making a Life at the wonderful Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY, 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 16!
The Book House Kate Ward presents Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work Thursday, July 16 Stuyvesant Plaza 1475 Western Avenue Albany, NY Books will be available for purchase 

Flyer includes images of Kate Ward and the book cover of Making a Life
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Not that the situation is funny, I mean
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
TT Job in Islam in my husband’s department at Trinity University- please pass on! trinity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trinit...
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Assistant Professor of Religion - Islam
Job Family Group: Faculty Time Type: Full time Department/Office: Religion Exemption Status: Exempt Job Description: Trinity University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in t...
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Please share this call for book proposals for a new series, Short Introductions to Engaged Catholicism! 50,000 words could be just right for so many projects. Bloomsbury Academic/T&T Clark is great to work with; your book will be peer reviewed and fairly priced. Happy to chat w/those interested!
T&T Clark Short Introductions to Engaged Catholicism Series 
Bloomsbury Academic invites proposals for a new book series, T&T Clark Short Introductions 
to Engaged Catholicism, which explores how Catholic moral theology and ethics engage the 
most pressing challenges of contemporary life. The series will publish concise, accessible, and 
academically rigorous volumes of approximately 50,000 words that address topics such as 
democracy, migration, ecology, healthcare, economics, technology, peacebuilding, gender, 
sexuality, and social justice. 
Written for students, seminarians, clergy, educators, and informed lay readers, the series 
seeks books that bring the Catholic moral tradition into constructive dialogue with 
contemporary ethical questions. Contributors should engage both the strengths and 
limitations of Catholic thought while demonstrating its continuing relevance for public life, 
human dignity, solidarity, and the common good. We particularly welcome proposals from 
scholars whose work reflects diverse global perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches. 
For further information, or to submit a book proposal, contact Kristin Heyer, 
heyerkr@bc.edu or Richard Brown, richard.brown@bloomsbury.com. 
Series Editor Kristin E. Heyer is the Joseph Chair in Theology at Boston College and one of the leading 
voices in contemporary Catholic ethics. Her scholarship focuses on immigration ethics, 
Catholic social teaching, moral agency, public theology, and political responsibility. A former 
president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and current co-chair of Catholic 
Theological Ethics in the World Church, she has published extensively at the intersections of 
faith, justice, and public life. 
www.bloomsbury.com 
Susan Abraham, Pacific School of Religion, USA 
Victor Carmona, University of San Diego, USA 
Catherine Clifford, St. Paul University, Canada 
Daniel Fleming, St. Vincent’s Health Australia 
Christine Firer Hinze, Fordham University, USA 
M.…
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Not to bust your bubble but I remember that! Now I have the credits music in my head...
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I realize more and more that a not insignificant part of my Whole Deal (see: Wealth, Virtue and Moral Luck) comes from growing up with a New York Mag subscription.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Observations in no particular order: - outsource the genuinely delightful work of choosing books for your offspring? srsly? - teachers pay teachers but AI just steals from them - by her own admission, she 👏 isn't 👏 doing 👏 less 👏work! www.thecut.com/article/jess...
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very excited that Catholic Labor Network is leading a summer book study on Making a Life! There's a discount code to order the book and you can sign up at CatholicLabor.org/events!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Missed this back in March--from a Jesuit economist, a case for UBI in light of AI labor disruption, and specific proposals for funding it www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...
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The case for a universal basic income in the era of A.I.
Do we just do nothing if artificial intelligence leads to rising unemployment and poverty?
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great piece, featuring a thought experiment on how Anthropic should be treating Claude based on their belief that it may become conscious, and the many downsides to entertaining that idea.
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 31/05/2026
If you read my recent report on the Vatican’s relationship with Anthropic — which focused on the U.S. context, which gets a mention in here — this traces some of that same history from the Vatican side, focusing on Tighe. Fascinating stuff.
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Those looking for insights on Magnifica Humanitas would do well to check out the ongoing series on CatholicMoralTheology.com. I liked this from Julie Hanlon Rubio on the proper place of "pelvic theology." www.catholicmoraltheology.com/p/ai-magnifi...
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Catholic Moral Theology | Substack
We are Catholic moral theologians who come together in friendship to engage each other in theological discussion, to aid one another in our common search for wisdom, and to help one another live lives...
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/05/2026
Have you perus’d the letters from the Pope
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It's WHAT NOW
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
- Sexist design; why do I have to do a fake Gaston voice to get "hey Google" to hear me - car's Bluetooth only remembers one phone - can't do certain tasks on car interface screen while driving even when (as the car "knows" perfectly well) there's a front seat passenger
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Black Catholic Messenger @blackcatholicmessenger.org · 26/05/2026
In his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", Pope Leo condemned the Vatican's role in the slavery—a first for the world's largest Christian church. The remarks come in the wide-ranging document on AI, human dignity, and the dangers of new technologies. www.blackcatholicmes...
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
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