Annette Yoshiko Reed

@annetteyreed.bsky.social

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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 · Nov 8

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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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 1d

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Colleen Theisen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Important notice: AI-generated archival references

www.icrc.org

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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Davis X. Machina @ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social · 1d

True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.

Tony Judt was right.

Passage from Tony Judy s THE MEMORY CHALET:

"By far the best thing about America is its universities. Not Harvard, Yale, e tutti quanti: though marvelous, they are not distinctively American - their roots reach across the ocean to Oxford, Heidelberg and beyond. Nowhere else in the world, however, can boast such *public* universities. You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards, Motel 6s, and a military parade of food chains, when - like some pedagogical mirage dreamed up by nineteenth-century English gentlemen -- there appears...a library! And not just any library: at Bloomington, the University of Indiana boasts a 7.8-million-volume collection in more than nine hundred languages, housed in a magnificent double-towered mausoleum of Indiana limestone."

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 1d

The news from Oklahoma and Nebraska is so depressing. The US public university system is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century, created to democratize liberal arts education, and it's being destroyed by greedy people who think only the rich are deserving of such learning.

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d

“Faculty sexual misconduct targeted at students is a widespread problem. The consequences of such incidents include direct harm to victims and may also entail a loss to science if students who encounter misconduct become discouraged from continuing their studies…”

www.nber.org/papers/w34456

The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d

"Not everyone is keen on edu-bots. Only 22% of American school-district heads believe that AI harms students’ critical-thinking skills, but 61% of parents [and] 55% of high-school students believe so... the least happy with AI are those whose schools use it most" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

At home and at school, AI is transforming childhood

It brings many benefits, but also hidden dangers

www.economist.com

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

War and Community in Late Antiquity | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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Tracy Frank @drtracydfrank.bsky.social · 2d

And despite the fact that the department has large endowments and loyal alumni, and despite the fact that the department has brought in a lot of external funding. They can't change their minds in a few years and try to bring back something that took 150 years to build. It's devasting.

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2d

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

www.dailynebraskan.com

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 3d

At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 3d

“More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year…
predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...”
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...

University to cut or pause 23 programs next fall amid restructuring - The New School Free Press

This story was updated on Dec. 4 at 5:45 p.m. More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year, according to information shared with faculty in an email from the provost’s office sent No...

www.newschoolfreepress.com

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 3d

all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...

NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!

Grants and Prizes – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society

www.patristics.org

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 5d

Winter tip from Shlomo: On cold days, warm your paws in your human’s beard 🐾

Man with beard napping, while cats takes the opportunity to warm paws

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 6d

academic.oup.com/book/60683

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 6d

The humanities are struggling at universities nationwide — but fields from Silicon Valley to politics need them more than ever, four Harvard professors said at a talk hosted by the English department last week.

Ellen P. Cassidy and Catherine Jeon report.

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

Humanities Departments Are in Trouble, but ‘Applied Humanities’ Are in Demand, Harvard Panelists Say | News | The Harvard Crimson

The humanities are struggling at universities nationwide — but outside the ivory tower, fields from Silicon Valley to politics need them more than ever, four Harvard professors said at a talk hosted…

www.thecrimson.com

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cjsharvard.bsky.social @cjsharvard.bsky.social · 6d

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/12/...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, we are pleased to announce the online publication A Centennial of Jewish Studies at Harvard.

Celebrating the Littauer Centennial & Jewish Studies at Harvard

Celebrating the Littauer Centennial & Jewish Studies at Harvard In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Phil...

websites.harvard.edu

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Tim Lubin @timlubin.bsky.social · 6d

Astonishing finds excavated at Berenike in Egypt include Buddha images & other artifacts from India and some made locally in Indian style, plus a bilingual Sanskrit & Greek dedicatory inscription found near a marble Buddha head in an Isis temple courtyard.
publications.dainst.org/journals/jdi...

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 6d

Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 6d

A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475.

The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment...

(GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection)

#incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6d

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.

arstechnica.com

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 7d

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.

Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun