A. M. Vincent
@vincent.northsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
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In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
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ESPECIALLY if interdisciplinary, theoretical, and/or continental approaches to TRS are your jam and you don't fancy a trip to the US in November, you should check out the full CFP. Obviously I'd love to see everyone in the RS panel, but there are many others!
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
ESPECIALLY if interdisciplinary, theoretical, and/or continental approaches to TRS are your jam and you don't fancy a trip to the US in November, you should check out the full CFP. Obviously I'd love to see everyone in the RS panel, but there are many others!
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
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Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately?
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic publishing rates sharing
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April 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately?
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Thread as Hugo candidate for short story. (content warning: bleak)
By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
January 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Thread as Hugo candidate for short story. (content warning: bleak)
The Mandalorian serving breakfast in bed:
This is the tray.
This is the tray.
The Mandalorian giving a tour of a farm:
This is the hay.
This is the hay.
The Mandalorian giving a tour of the waterfront:
This is the bay.
This is the bay.
January 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The Mandalorian serving breakfast in bed:
This is the tray.
This is the tray.
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Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?
Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.
disinfoinstitute.org
Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.
disinfoinstitute.org
Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute
Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?
Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.
disinfoinstitute.org
Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.
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Ruin a band by changing a letter
Hush
Hush
Ruin a band by changing a letter
Counting Craws
Mounting Crows 😳
Counting Craws
Mounting Crows 😳
Ruin a band by changing one letter.
Counting Brows
Counting Brows
January 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Ruin a band by changing a letter
Hush
Hush
How does Twitch streaming work and is it possible for me to go live for an 8 hour session of me frowning at a blank Word document, occasionally typing and then deleting the word "The"?
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
How does Twitch streaming work and is it possible for me to go live for an 8 hour session of me frowning at a blank Word document, occasionally typing and then deleting the word "The"?
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Boarding up the Overton Window to keep more zombie ideas from crawling through
January 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Boarding up the Overton Window to keep more zombie ideas from crawling through
ICQ status messages.
Okay, let's get nostalgic
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
ICQ status messages.
Airport food that makes me actively look forward to layovers:
Best Old Fashioned? One Flew South, ATL Concourse E
Best Chicken Soup? Shan Shui, Heathrow Terminal 3
Best Old Fashioned? One Flew South, ATL Concourse E
Best Chicken Soup? Shan Shui, Heathrow Terminal 3
Here’s a topic outside the news.
What’s the most unlikely place you’ve ever had the best particular food or drink you’ve ever had?
Like, not the best steak at the world’s top steakhouse. Something weirder.
Best burger I’ve ever had? Fresno airport.
Best cup of coffee? Crater Lake Lodge.
What’s the most unlikely place you’ve ever had the best particular food or drink you’ve ever had?
Like, not the best steak at the world’s top steakhouse. Something weirder.
Best burger I’ve ever had? Fresno airport.
Best cup of coffee? Crater Lake Lodge.
January 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Airport food that makes me actively look forward to layovers:
Best Old Fashioned? One Flew South, ATL Concourse E
Best Chicken Soup? Shan Shui, Heathrow Terminal 3
Best Old Fashioned? One Flew South, ATL Concourse E
Best Chicken Soup? Shan Shui, Heathrow Terminal 3
The new winter tourism campaign goes hard.
January 15, 2026 at 10:01 AM
The new winter tourism campaign goes hard.
I spend ten years writing about memorialization as a process of forgetting and @older.bsky.social gets it in a tight paragraph.
January 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I spend ten years writing about memorialization as a process of forgetting and @older.bsky.social gets it in a tight paragraph.
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reposting then best syllabus tool ever
huge shoutout to whoever at Rice who made this syllabus generator that calculates when all the dates of your classes are going to be
additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made
saved me an hour
wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made
saved me an hour
wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
January 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
reposting then best syllabus tool ever
I am very, very tired and have been task switching all day AND have an evening meeting and it is my next door neighbour's normal piano practice time and while she plays beautifully (retired piano teacher) the cheerfully repetitive etude she's working on is making me twitch.
January 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I am very, very tired and have been task switching all day AND have an evening meeting and it is my next door neighbour's normal piano practice time and while she plays beautifully (retired piano teacher) the cheerfully repetitive etude she's working on is making me twitch.
shoutout to outlook for repeatedly autocorrecting “midcareer” to “miscarried”
January 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
3 postdoc positions available in the Democratic Vistas programme at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Goethe Universität.
January 14, 2026 at 11:32 AM
3 postdoc positions available in the Democratic Vistas programme at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Goethe Universität.
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do you need to collect that data?
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
do you need to collect that data?
There were two comics in the local paper that purported to present "adult life": Dilbert and Cathy.
Dilbert at least had some recognition that management existed on a spectrum from evil to incompetent; Cathy's boyfriends and mother were just facts of her life from which she couldn't imagine escape.
Dilbert at least had some recognition that management existed on a spectrum from evil to incompetent; Cathy's boyfriends and mother were just facts of her life from which she couldn't imagine escape.
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 14, 2026 at 5:59 AM
There were two comics in the local paper that purported to present "adult life": Dilbert and Cathy.
Dilbert at least had some recognition that management existed on a spectrum from evil to incompetent; Cathy's boyfriends and mother were just facts of her life from which she couldn't imagine escape.
Dilbert at least had some recognition that management existed on a spectrum from evil to incompetent; Cathy's boyfriends and mother were just facts of her life from which she couldn't imagine escape.
I wonder if this would work with peanut butter.
A couple months ago I filled the almost empty jar of vanilla bean paste up with whiskey and now I am sipping a maple vanilla old fashioned and I regret nothing.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 AM
I wonder if this would work with peanut butter.
I have to play Assassin's Creed for work and I simply do not want to.
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
ESPECIALLY if interdisciplinary, theoretical, and/or continental approaches to TRS are your jam and you don't fancy a trip to the US in November, you should check out the full CFP. Obviously I'd love to see everyone in the RS panel, but there are many others!
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
ESPECIALLY if interdisciplinary, theoretical, and/or continental approaches to TRS are your jam and you don't fancy a trip to the US in November, you should check out the full CFP. Obviously I'd love to see everyone in the RS panel, but there are many others!
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
I just got a couple abstracts for ISRLC2026, which reminds me that I should remind EVERYONE that the CFP closes on 31 January.
www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
Religious Studies Panel — ISRLC
www.isrlc.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I just got a couple abstracts for ISRLC2026, which reminds me that I should remind EVERYONE that the CFP closes on 31 January.
www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
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Writing isn't easy and fun! It's more like a long drawn out death where the only positive thing anyone says is at least the will is still there! Sit up and write that book you were meant to! What are you even doing here? Doomscrolling for the answers? The answer is survive to tell the story.
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Writing isn't easy and fun! It's more like a long drawn out death where the only positive thing anyone says is at least the will is still there! Sit up and write that book you were meant to! What are you even doing here? Doomscrolling for the answers? The answer is survive to tell the story.
Nor did I, and nor do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf the rapidly greying
I never really imagined that my mid life crisis would be fighting fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Nor did I, and nor do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf the rapidly greying