jonas
@jh1791.bsky.social
Sociology and/of religion. Semi-pro dilettante. A damned Vermont person™ in the Shenandoah Valley. The Arsenal. We need more heavy metal. And whiskey. Probably.
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jonas
@jh1791.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Very happy to announce the availability "Religion in Sociological Perspective, 8th edition."
Many thanks to David Yamane for taking me on for this new edition. It will be available in the coming weeks, and definitely ready for your spring courses!
collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/rel...
Many thanks to David Yamane for taking me on for this new edition. It will be available in the coming weeks, and definitely ready for your spring courses!
collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/rel...
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
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NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees
(RNS) — ‘The Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of Christianity,’ the legal complaint reads.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Spiral Architect
Without saying Iron Man, fav Black Sabbath song?
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Spiral Architect
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.
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2-yr postdoc opportunity in @ndsociology.bsky.social at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). iei.nd.edu/initiatives/...
CREO Postdoc Promotion | Institute for Educational Initiatives
iei.nd.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
2-yr postdoc opportunity in @ndsociology.bsky.social at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). iei.nd.edu/initiatives/...
As per usual, listen to Victor.
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
As per usual, listen to Victor.
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With an entire country's ages 5-17 kids (England), this study again confirms the benefits of Covid vaccination. Meanwhile, just 15% of eligible US kids are up to date on this vax.
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With an entire country's ages 5-17 kids (England), this study again confirms the benefits of Covid vaccination. Meanwhile, just 15% of eligible US kids are up to date on this vax.
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Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
@tim-stillman.bsky.social Katie Reid...ACL? Right after Manu.
This has become a reeeeallly bad pattern.
Club needs to turn itself inside out to figure out what's happening. Can't just be shit luck at this point.
This has become a reeeeallly bad pattern.
Club needs to turn itself inside out to figure out what's happening. Can't just be shit luck at this point.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@tim-stillman.bsky.social Katie Reid...ACL? Right after Manu.
This has become a reeeeallly bad pattern.
Club needs to turn itself inside out to figure out what's happening. Can't just be shit luck at this point.
This has become a reeeeallly bad pattern.
Club needs to turn itself inside out to figure out what's happening. Can't just be shit luck at this point.
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Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
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NEW from me: In a rare dissent in Trumpland, two conservative-leaning Catholic bishops who are tied to Trump's own religious liberty commission are criticizing the administration, voicing concerns for ICE detainees who are allegedly being denied access to Communion. religionnews.com/2025/11/04/c...
Catholic bishops tied to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission voice criticism of administration
RNS — ‘It is important that our Catholic detainees are able to receive pastoral care and have access to the sacraments,’ Bishop Kevin Rhoades told RNS in an email.
religionnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
NEW from me: In a rare dissent in Trumpland, two conservative-leaning Catholic bishops who are tied to Trump's own religious liberty commission are criticizing the administration, voicing concerns for ICE detainees who are allegedly being denied access to Communion. religionnews.com/2025/11/04/c...
@amylawrence.bsky.social fwiw, Metallica has used "The Ecstasy of Gold" for their intro music for decades.
Great choice!
youtube.com/shorts/HvWnU...
Great choice!
youtube.com/shorts/HvWnU...
Metallica: Ecstasy of Gold + Creeping Death Intro | Denver, CO
YouTube video by Emir's Garage
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
@amylawrence.bsky.social fwiw, Metallica has used "The Ecstasy of Gold" for their intro music for decades.
Great choice!
youtube.com/shorts/HvWnU...
Great choice!
youtube.com/shorts/HvWnU...
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🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
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Tfw Marxists debate theology - for you theology heads and for you DSA religious socialist types
Here it is! Contra Paulum (1944), Adorno’s draft for a critique he planned to write with Horkheimer of Paul Tillich’s ‘43 program for religious socialism. Conceived as a defense of revolutionary socialism from the materialist POV of their work on Dialectic of Enlightenment!
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October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Tfw Marxists debate theology - for you theology heads and for you DSA religious socialist types
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Job Opportunity!
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 at University of Cambridge
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 on jobs.ac.uk!
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October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Job Opportunity!
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
University of Cambridge - History and Philosophy of Science
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG062/a...