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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 20h

I wonder how so called Australian universities would compare.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'While researchers typically publish in academic journals and books, the authors found, higher education managers are more likely to consult practice-oriented journals, newsletters, conference inputs and social media platforms such as LinkedIn.'

Physician, heal thyself.

HE research ‘rarely informs administrators’ decisions’

Knowledge transfer should include the university itself, says thinktank after identifying disconnect between managers and those who study them

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, by including word for word the 10 Commandments from THEIR CHOSEN VERSION of the Bible, Arkansas Evangelicals are creating precedent that other Christians don't count. This is a big deal!

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 1d

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Here's a link to the full story
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 21h

"In 4 exploratory essays a seasoned historian @emuehlbe.bsky.social examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowledge—not of the world and its myriad processes but abt something more intimate...the individuals they encountered in close quarters, those they knew in everyday life"

Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...

So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!

Things Unseen | University of California Press

How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowl...

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Brandon Bayne @bbayne.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to announce that the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Religion and Science. You can find more information below. Please share widely and feel free to reach out directly with questions.

Assistant Professor

The Department of Religious Studies is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Religion and Science. Candidates should have broad training in their field of expertise, a commitment to int...

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 1d

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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 1d

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 1d

"One week after Trump claimed that climate change was a “con job” during an address at the UNGA, Leo said that he hoped the Vatican conference would get leaders to “listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.” @sophiatesfaye.bsky.social

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel

The American Pope is confirming MAGA's worst fears

www.yahoo.com

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 1d

Job Opportunity!

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - UNC-Chapel Hill, Religion and Science Assistant Professor

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University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - UNC-Chapel Hill, Religion and Science Assistant Professor | H-Net

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 1d

Harrison vs. higher ed: How one lawmaker is weaponizing social media to eradicate LGBTQ+ curriculum

State Rep. Brian Harrison has been on a crusade against Texas universities, scouring course catalogs and university websites for examples of “gender ideology” or LGBTQ+ curriculum, and riling up his X...

www.texastribune.org

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 2d

📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector.

animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/13/i...

Is the Museum of the Future Contextless?

A photo of four paper museum labels reading (clockwise from top left): Oland. Thomson. Coll., Tetrastictus terminalis Thomson 1878 Lectotype, MZLU Type No 4922, and Loan 444 (Photo Credit: Biologic…

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 1d

"One week after Trump claimed that climate change was a “con job” during an address at the UNGA, Leo said that he hoped the Vatican conference would get leaders to “listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.” @sophiatesfaye.bsky.social

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel

The American Pope is confirming MAGA's worst fears

www.yahoo.com

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · Aug 22

Canada admitted it was committing genocide on Indigenous children over 100 years ago.

Only ghouls demand bodies after the perpetrator has admitted guilt.

Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · Nov 24

Say it with me: They weren't "Residential Schools".

They were FORCED LABOUR DEATH CAMPS that incarcerated Indigenous children as inmates.

#Genocide admitted by the chief Indian Agent of #Canada in 1914.

Read it and weep for the children, our cherished relatives.

It cannot be gainsaid that in the early days of school administration in the territories, while the problem was still a new one, the system was open to criticism. Insufficient care was exercised in the admission of children to the schools. The well-known predisposition of Indians to tuberculosis resulted in a very large percentage of deaths among the pupils. They were housed in buildings not carefully designed for school purposes, and these buildings became infected and dangerous to the inmates. It is quite within the mark to say that fifty percent cent of the children who passed through the schools did not live to benefit from the education which they had received therein.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 1d

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska

170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

yeah; Elon Musk isn't a Christian. He's coming from weird millenarian atheist circles...and again, his cuts to USAID are probably going to kill 14 million people.

absolutely as bad as anything the christians have done.

AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 3d

One of the themes in the replies here is that "At least atheist aren't ruining the country like the Christians." And like, a significant part of the Trump movement comes from GamerGate, which had serious over lap with the mid 2010s capital A Atheism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social · 2d

The Ling Long Chinese Museum in Chicago opened prior to the 1934 World's Fair hoping to draw visitors and help erase the popular view that US Chinatowns were "immoral and dangerous."

The museum housed a large altar in the rear of the main arcade to enshrine an icon of Guanyin. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Chicago

The image depicts a colorful interior scene from the Ling Long Chinese Museum, specifically the so-called “Temple of Kung Yin” [sic]. It showcases a seated image of Guanyin on a lotus pedestal. The image is centrally positioned and surrounded by intricate ornamental pillars and panels featuring decorative patterns and red and yellow Chinese text. Two lion statues flank the pedestal, contributing to the symmetrical composition. The background includes a richly decorated wall with intricate artwork. The floor consists of multicolored tiles, adding texture to the scene.
Sort available posts on Bluesky using #Buddhasinthewest | All posts archived here: tinyurl.com/4kmcwp87 🔍 🗃️ 📜

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

"The University of Texas System is auditing gender studies courses in response to [new laws] which expand university control over curriculum & define gender in binary terms. Faculty report being told to avoid discussing gender identity and homosexuality..."
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t...

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions

At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.

www.texastribune.org

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 2d

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 2d

In early 1833, William Apes, an itinerant Methodist minister and member of the Pequot nation journeyed to Mashpee Plantation, an area inhabited by the Mashpee nation. Apes had heard that nearby settlers were causing trouble for the Mashpee residents. 🧵

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