David Delgado Shorter
@davidshorter.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA. Editor-in-Chief, American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Curator, settler on Tongva land, Digital Publisher, Science of the Paranormal, colonialisms, including extra-terrestrialilty. Www.davidshorter.com
I have been working with the guest editor for a couple years on this one. Really impressive scholarship in Indigenous Studies.
JUST PUBLISHED! Our December issue guest edited by Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis, a descendant of First Nations and Métis people) focuses on reviving cultural practices, protecting Indigenous lands, and challenging systemic colonialism.
Cover: @ Gil Scott (Diné), Within His Storms (2017)
Cover: @ Gil Scott (Diné), Within His Storms (2017)
December 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I have been working with the guest editor for a couple years on this one. Really impressive scholarship in Indigenous Studies.
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AI Is Not Inevitable
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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“…alien abductions will always be one of the more fascinating subjects of inquiry because it’s hundreds of thousands of stories from multiple cultures around the globe of something happening that one segment of the scientific community wants to dismiss outright...”
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On Astrobiology, Ontology, and Decoloniality
Gabriel Mindel and David Delgado Shorter (Ethics and Astrobiology 4/5) on Indigenizing astrobiology.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“…alien abductions will always be one of the more fascinating subjects of inquiry because it’s hundreds of thousands of stories from multiple cultures around the globe of something happening that one segment of the scientific community wants to dismiss outright...”
uchri.org/foundry/on-a...
uchri.org/foundry/on-a...
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
In this video, I cover a true story that turned me from a skeptic into a believer — my encounter with a psychic who predicted events in my life I thought were impossible to foresee.
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The Psychic Who Changed My Mind: A Skeptic's True Story
YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter
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November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In this video, I cover a true story that turned me from a skeptic into a believer — my encounter with a psychic who predicted events in my life I thought were impossible to foresee.
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Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
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Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...
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Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
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Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
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Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
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November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!
uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
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Any of you kids hoping to get into politics, watch a true master do his thing.
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Any of you kids hoping to get into politics, watch a true master do his thing.
Available today! After working together since 1992, two ethnographic collaborators reflect on their two decades of friendship, their shared kinships with other than human beings, and their hopes for interspecies relation building.
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Episode 47 Felipe S. Molina and David Delgado Shorter
In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Felipe S. Molina (Yoeme) and David Delgado Shorter about their relationships with plants. You can learn more about the Archive of Healing here: https://archiveo
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November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Available today! After working together since 1992, two ethnographic collaborators reflect on their two decades of friendship, their shared kinships with other than human beings, and their hopes for interspecies relation building.
on.soundcloud.com/rKBTVid6G5nx...
on.soundcloud.com/rKBTVid6G5nx...
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The Kid Who Saw Ghosts: Short Teaser of Next Video
YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter
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October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I cannot recommend this book strong enough. Wolf helps us understand the current political and educational crises unlike any other because she connects the far apart dots of reading physical books/printed media and society’s slide away from empathy and reason. Get the actual book. Seriously.
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I cannot recommend this book strong enough. Wolf helps us understand the current political and educational crises unlike any other because she connects the far apart dots of reading physical books/printed media and society’s slide away from empathy and reason. Get the actual book. Seriously.
In the first episode of Professor Paranormal, I explore the chilling true story of my real haunted house experience that defies logic.
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This Story is 100% Real and It Will Change Your Mind About Ghosts
YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter
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October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In the first episode of Professor Paranormal, I explore the chilling true story of my real haunted house experience that defies logic.
youtu.be/SCiIG1baQi0
youtu.be/SCiIG1baQi0
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Because they're facist 😭 i think people keep thinking I'm exaggerating when I say that but I'm not. And it's not new. A newspaper that would knowingly employ a nazi sympathizer as Berlin bureau chief because he got them access to Hitler is not a paper that will help uphold democracy.
I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Because they're facist 😭 i think people keep thinking I'm exaggerating when I say that but I'm not. And it's not new. A newspaper that would knowingly employ a nazi sympathizer as Berlin bureau chief because he got them access to Hitler is not a paper that will help uphold democracy.
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
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- put down the damn AI.
October 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
- put down the damn AI.
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In an interview, Dr. David Shorter (UCLA) describes what led him to understand that we are energetic beings and that our health practices should consider those implications.
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Are We Really Energetic Beings?!
YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter
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October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In an interview, Dr. David Shorter (UCLA) describes what led him to understand that we are energetic beings and that our health practices should consider those implications.
youtube.com/shorts/e_Lib...
youtube.com/shorts/e_Lib...
We Are Colonizing Space (an Excerpt)
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We Are Colonizing Space (an Excerpt)
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
As a professor I see a fresh new crop of 17-18 year olds every year. I’ve come to realize that students have slowly been changing due to the changes decades ago in the American education system. To parents and students of all ages, please don’t prioritize obeyance.
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As a professor I see a fresh new crop of 17-18 year olds every year. Every year for decades. And I’ve come to realize that many students have slowly been changing due to the changes decades ago in the...
TikTok video by David Shorter
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September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As a professor I see a fresh new crop of 17-18 year olds every year. I’ve come to realize that students have slowly been changing due to the changes decades ago in the American education system. To parents and students of all ages, please don’t prioritize obeyance.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT63augFN/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT63augFN/
I am honored to be featured in this asynchronous webinar featuring Congresswoman Grace Meng, Ranking Member of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Subcommittee. I encourage you to take a few minutes to share this 14-minute video with your representatives.
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Asynchronous Webinar: A Conversation with Congresswoman Grace Meng
YouTube video by Biochemistry Channel
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August 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I am honored to be featured in this asynchronous webinar featuring Congresswoman Grace Meng, Ranking Member of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Subcommittee. I encourage you to take a few minutes to share this 14-minute video with your representatives.
youtu.be/cn2a89qHcLY
youtu.be/cn2a89qHcLY
Caring for the whole individual is not something U.S. healthcare provides due to pharma and insurers, as well as narrow training in medical schools. Medical schoola should require not just community engagement, but also the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
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Healing the Whole: There No (One) Thing Wrong With Us.
YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter
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August 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Caring for the whole individual is not something U.S. healthcare provides due to pharma and insurers, as well as narrow training in medical schools. Medical schoola should require not just community engagement, but also the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
youtube.com/shorts/JdGuJ...
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For those not paying attention, the Univ of California has in the last month sent letters to faculty saying they cannot earn money outside their job; that social media posts will be reviewed and linked to promotions; and that faculty allegiance to UC will be reviewed by a non-local committee.
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ALT: a black and white photo of a man wearing a suit and tie .
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August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For those not paying attention, the Univ of California has in the last month sent letters to faculty saying they cannot earn money outside their job; that social media posts will be reviewed and linked to promotions; and that faculty allegiance to UC will be reviewed by a non-local committee.
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It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
August 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.