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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. .. more

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 19d
A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...
Annette Yoshiko Reed '91: Rediscovered Stories - Phillips Exeter Academy
Annette Yoshiko Reed ’91 examines cultural and religious forgetting.
exeter.edu

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 1d
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social Β· 2d
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:

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Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social Β· 2d
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Β· 2d
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the β€œspacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 2d
Ahem
Cute black cat with little blep

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social Β· 3d
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Β· 4d
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Β· 4d
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Β· 4d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Β· 4d
Morning, #AARSBL2025 attendees! We're here all morning and afternoon so drop by and check out our latest books on Religion.

If you can't make it, our AAR website has all of displayed books on sales for 40% off: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 8d
Grab a bunch of order forms from the book display with *discount codes* to give to students and colleagues!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 8d
If you workout regularly, find a local gym and do drop-ins!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 8d
Make time to go to some talks on something you don’t know anything about!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 8d
Make handouts for your talk & put your email address on them!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Β· 8d
Bring powerbars/granola!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social Β· 8d
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Β· 8d
JOB POSTING!

Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu

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Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints
The Folger Shakespeare Library knows that an exceptional staff is the backbone of any great organization. We hire exceptionally qualified individuals who are committed to the mission, vision, and valu...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Β· 8d
My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social Β· 8d
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
Notice from the Anthropic Copyright settlement website

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Β· 8d
Very grateful to see this roundtable of responses to my book *Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin* ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion!

This grew out of a book session at last year's American Academy of Religion annual meeting. ->

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social Β· 9d
So the so-called intellectuals who spent the last 8 years writing "Has DEI gone too far?" columns were all sleeping with each other or sexually harassing or assaulting junior colleagues?

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social Β· 9d
"What is history if not an attempt to fish out or pronounce life's strangest, most inscrutable turns?" - @maiakotro.bsky.social

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Β· 9d
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Β· 9d
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Β· 9d
Update from The Harvard Crimson on Summers: he’ll step back from public commitments, but remain in the classroom, continue his directorship of a center, & keep his University Professorship. How is this in any way holding him accountable for his actions? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort β€œto rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Β· 9d
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is β€œdeeply ashamed” and hopes β€œto rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social Β· 9d
Think about how much of that scholarship was enabled by funding from institutions like the NEH, the NPS, and the Smithsonian, all gutted by Trump, and (relatively) extant academic job & funding opportunities for people to do the work (all basically gone now).

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social Β· 9d
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.πŸ—ƒοΈ

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Β· 9d
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social Β· 10d
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Β· 10d
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.