I’m really concerned lately to see a range of (mostly white, male, older) academics – some of them theologians – who find themselves out of the limelight and convert from scholar to demagogue. They are richly rewarded.
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Signs of courageous dissent at Amazon. Consider boycotting this week: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/17/bezos-becomes-richest-man-modern-history-amazon-workers-mark-primeday-strikes #primeday
So excited to announce that @PTRBirmingham is hiring a lecturer / sr lecturer in Practical Theology (that’s asst/assoc prof for you in the USA): details here: https://t.co/mwOgDVLpyt (dm me if curious)
Really fascinating (and troubling) piece in @chronicle about education deserts: https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-lives-in-education-deserts Well researched with fantastic #dataviz – highlights the importance of geography to education!
So pleased our special issue of @EnvHumanities is out. Read our introduction ‘Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time’ here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/10/1/213/134711/IntroductionUnexpected-Encounters-with-Deep-Time with @mhbastian @David_Farrier and Franklin Ginn
Holy cow #ipfs went nuts. Was just a cool idea for a decentralised protocol last time I checked. Now this: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
Whole family is grieving destruction to @GuineaGardens and our allotment after flash floods in Brum. Also reckoning with the realities of soil contamination after floods in #UrbanGardening. It is good for privileged folk like us nonetheless to experience #ClimateChange impacts.
My 6yo: ‘papa, when you get to the late Cretaceous, you have to run really fast because you don’t want to die’ #extinctionstories
Terrific piece in @aeonmag by @Swykstr providing an orientation to experimental philosophy: “Beyond the armchair: must philosophy become experimental?” https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-the-armchair-must-philosophy-become-experimental
The bar is just. So. Low. “Facebook, Microsoft and others sign anti-cyberattack pledge” https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/18/facebook-microsoft-and-others-sign-anti-cyberattack-pledge/?guccounter=1