jkshields (she/they)
@jkshields.bsky.social
💙📚 #ReligionNerd #OA #ScholComm #Ekkies
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks~Dorothy Sayers
🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️.
Open borders. End Prisons.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks~Dorothy Sayers
🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️.
Open borders. End Prisons.
Pinned
⬆️interaction lately so here's a 📌 intro...
I'm a library worker, former religion/ethics prof, queer ✝️ parent. I post about library stuff, schol comm, politics, religion, the Berkshires 🏠, and daily life.
ISO: remote OA, OER, or library instruction internship (unpaid is fine) for spring/summer '26
I'm a library worker, former religion/ethics prof, queer ✝️ parent. I post about library stuff, schol comm, politics, religion, the Berkshires 🏠, and daily life.
ISO: remote OA, OER, or library instruction internship (unpaid is fine) for spring/summer '26
I was going to buy myself a little present... but this book is a wee more expensive than I was hoping.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I was going to buy myself a little present... but this book is a wee more expensive than I was hoping.
I would like to see libraries under this order interpret it exhaustively in protest.
Any book in which any character which cannot be demonstrated to be explicitly cisgender+straight by means of the text of the book must be restricted.
How many books would be left with human characters of any kind?
Any book in which any character which cannot be demonstrated to be explicitly cisgender+straight by means of the text of the book must be restricted.
How many books would be left with human characters of any kind?
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I would like to see libraries under this order interpret it exhaustively in protest.
Any book in which any character which cannot be demonstrated to be explicitly cisgender+straight by means of the text of the book must be restricted.
How many books would be left with human characters of any kind?
Any book in which any character which cannot be demonstrated to be explicitly cisgender+straight by means of the text of the book must be restricted.
How many books would be left with human characters of any kind?
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Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please share widely! 📜
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104...
The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.
Nice 🧵
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Nice 🧵
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Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...
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Fish biologists! My colleague, the incredible Liz Mandeville, is looking for a master's student. Please pass on this opportunity to any interested students.
I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.
Mandeville Lab
Fish are so delightfully weird. We study the evolutionary genetics and ecology of freshwater fishes, plus a few more things, at Northern Michigan University
lizmandeville.github.io
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fish biologists! My colleague, the incredible Liz Mandeville, is looking for a master's student. Please pass on this opportunity to any interested students.
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The Times identified 120+ instances in which guards were described as having punched, kicked or stomped on inmates, smashed their fingers in cell doors, held their legs apart and struck their genitals with batons, and even waterboarded them — all while they were handcuffed or otherwise restrained.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Times identified 120+ instances in which guards were described as having punched, kicked or stomped on inmates, smashed their fingers in cell doors, held their legs apart and struck their genitals with batons, and even waterboarded them — all while they were handcuffed or otherwise restrained.
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
This just came into our stacks... looks good!
@katehanch.bsky.social have you read this, seems like it might be of interest to you
@katehanch.bsky.social have you read this, seems like it might be of interest to you
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This just came into our stacks... looks good!
@katehanch.bsky.social have you read this, seems like it might be of interest to you
@katehanch.bsky.social have you read this, seems like it might be of interest to you
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lots to learn from this research—but this graph was especially striking to me
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
lots to learn from this research—but this graph was especially striking to me
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We are here at #AARSBL25 ! Come visit our booth, browse our books, and chat with an editor!
Check out our virtual exhibit: www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/AAR...
Use conference promo code <10AAR25> for 40% off select books through the end of the month!
@sblsite.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
Check out our virtual exhibit: www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/AAR...
Use conference promo code <10AAR25> for 40% off select books through the end of the month!
@sblsite.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are here at #AARSBL25 ! Come visit our booth, browse our books, and chat with an editor!
Check out our virtual exhibit: www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/AAR...
Use conference promo code <10AAR25> for 40% off select books through the end of the month!
@sblsite.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
Check out our virtual exhibit: www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/AAR...
Use conference promo code <10AAR25> for 40% off select books through the end of the month!
@sblsite.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
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In 11 years, Marjorie Taylor Greene will turn 62 and start living with a basic income floor for the rest of her life of about $1,230 a month, thanks to having served 5 years in Congress.
5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million.
Just some facts to know.
5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million.
Just some facts to know.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In 11 years, Marjorie Taylor Greene will turn 62 and start living with a basic income floor for the rest of her life of about $1,230 a month, thanks to having served 5 years in Congress.
5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million.
Just some facts to know.
5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million.
Just some facts to know.
Spending much of the afternoon updating assets in lib guides. It's not thrilling work, but there's something sort of soothing about something finishable.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Spending much of the afternoon updating assets in lib guides. It's not thrilling work, but there's something sort of soothing about something finishable.
I hate this crap.
Let’s “trap” students
And then crap on their choices in the hellscape environment we’ve bequeathed them, with the incentives we offer…
Let’s “trap” students
And then crap on their choices in the hellscape environment we’ve bequeathed them, with the incentives we offer…
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I hate this crap.
Let’s “trap” students
And then crap on their choices in the hellscape environment we’ve bequeathed them, with the incentives we offer…
Let’s “trap” students
And then crap on their choices in the hellscape environment we’ve bequeathed them, with the incentives we offer…
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Postdoc at Case Western's Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, with Religious Studies of special interest + "speculation and the speculative, global Afrofuturism(s), and/or decolonial methods and approaches."
Deadline 12/1
apply.interfolio.com/176179
Deadline 12/1
apply.interfolio.com/176179
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Postdoc at Case Western's Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, with Religious Studies of special interest + "speculation and the speculative, global Afrofuturism(s), and/or decolonial methods and approaches."
Deadline 12/1
apply.interfolio.com/176179
Deadline 12/1
apply.interfolio.com/176179
Why do Massachusetts libraries only have @johnironmonger.bsky.social's works in German... what am I missing here
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Why do Massachusetts libraries only have @johnironmonger.bsky.social's works in German... what am I missing here
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Academic publishers can be shifty weasels,... and the legal publishers may be among the worst of the lot.
(Although I am still watching you out of the other eye chemists and medical literature.)
(Although I am still watching you out of the other eye chemists and medical literature.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Academic publishers can be shifty weasels,... and the legal publishers may be among the worst of the lot.
(Although I am still watching you out of the other eye chemists and medical literature.)
(Although I am still watching you out of the other eye chemists and medical literature.)
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The Fugitive Slave App
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Fugitive Slave App
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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Ok ok I’ll see if they’d be interested in what’s happening up here in the Great Lakes.
NGL, I would love to contribute to Project 2052 but I’m not from New York. I don’t think I could write something that is true enough to the city. I’m so excited to see where this goes!
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ok ok I’ll see if they’d be interested in what’s happening up here in the Great Lakes.
I love it when books I request come in. Hello delightful treats!
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love it when books I request come in. Hello delightful treats!
I refuse to have sblaar FOMO.
Would I love to see friends and listen to all the things they are doing in their lives and careers? YES.
Do I want an enforced weekend (and honestly the month after) re-evaluating my life choices and my sidelined vocation? NO
I may have to take a Bluesky break.
Would I love to see friends and listen to all the things they are doing in their lives and careers? YES.
Do I want an enforced weekend (and honestly the month after) re-evaluating my life choices and my sidelined vocation? NO
I may have to take a Bluesky break.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I refuse to have sblaar FOMO.
Would I love to see friends and listen to all the things they are doing in their lives and careers? YES.
Do I want an enforced weekend (and honestly the month after) re-evaluating my life choices and my sidelined vocation? NO
I may have to take a Bluesky break.
Would I love to see friends and listen to all the things they are doing in their lives and careers? YES.
Do I want an enforced weekend (and honestly the month after) re-evaluating my life choices and my sidelined vocation? NO
I may have to take a Bluesky break.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Lake Forest College. Deadline January 5, 2026. #AcRel
www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...
www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
www.lakeforest.edu
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Lake Forest College. Deadline January 5, 2026. #AcRel
www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...
www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...