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Susannah Crockford

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author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 26d

Things seem bleak, and that's been the way of things for a few years now. Which is exactly the feeling that led me to write this book - that now has its very own webpage where you can preorder it!

(guaranteed to help with feelings of impending doom)

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 5d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 6d

Well, fanny does have a different meaning here, so I think we had to go with an alternative

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 6d

In Britain, we call it a bum bag

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 6d

"Information Sick" explores how misinformation erodes public health—and how new media innovations can help create healthier communities.

https://ow.ly/zJQk50X8xzS

The book "Information Sick: How Journalism's Decline and Misinformation's Rise Are Harming Our Health—and What We Can Do About It" by Joanne Kenen, Lymari Morales, and Joshua M. Sharfstein in an outdoor setting.

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of money in clowning right?

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

I will be ok though because I'm also a modestly skilled circus artist

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

The only degree programme I support cutting is PPE and even then only at Oxford

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7d

Newspaper editors who will all fall behind this 'what's the point of humanities degrees' bunkum when that's exactly what most of them studied in the first place.

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

Or in other words, good luck reducing the deficit by cutting arts and humanities and social sciences we didn't get that much funding from the government anyway

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

What's it like working in a sector that isn't perpetually in crisis? Spending over a decade qualifying for a job that when I finally get that permanent contract seems constantly on the precipice of redundancy not just of my position but my entire discipline is really harshing my vibe

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

More importantly, the only way we stop Reform is offering a viable, inspiring alternative. Not doing Reform-lite for the more squeamish members of Middle England (side eye at both Conservatives and Labour here)

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 7d

I really enjoy reading about British news from the AP. The framing is so much more particularized than the BBC.
apnews.com/article/uk-c...

Britain’s once-mighty Conservative Party is battling to avoid extinction

The Conservative Party once dominated British politics, but is struggling to remain a force after being ousted in 2024.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 7d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 8d

Change is possible; good things can happen

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 8d

Spending my evening reading about the untimely deaths of some of the original Power Rangers actors

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12d

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

www.independent.co.uk

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 12d

You could start with Webb Keane's work, for example

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 12d

There's a repeated argument in religious studies that new religiosities in America just end up being protestantism in new clothes. Tradcath converts are one of the most convincing examples of this phenomenon

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12d

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you 😊

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13d

We’ve opened a call for our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships which enable established scholars to have the time to complete a significant piece of humanities or social sciences piece of research, through a one year period of leave
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a signi...

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 17d

We need more Milton Keynes

Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 17d

Thank YOU!

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 17d

Okay, y'all, I want to do something nice. If you have a new book about to be published, or that was just published, reply! Let's make a thread of orders and pre-orders. I'll start with mine: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...

Book cover for "Newsies, Newsies - Read All About It! Essays on the film and Broadway productions." Edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey; forward by Vincent DiGirolamo. The cover shows a black and white photo of a denacing newsboy. The text is black on a yellow background, and loose pages of newsprint frame the edges.

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 17d

Mine is available for pre-order now: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A Perturbed System

press.uchicago.edu

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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 21d

Excellent example of new age aesthetics