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Kelly Holob
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Fellowships Advisor | PhD in Early Christian Studies | she/her
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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · May 1
I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding
SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...
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kartoonistkelly.bsky.social
Achtung-tied.

@theonion.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
today i am thankful to caleb mcdaniel, who i’ve never met, but whose generic syllabus maker saves me every term: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
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January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
buttpraxis.bsky.social Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 2d
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
kholob.bsky.social
I’ve spent the last few months advising for a language fellowship funded by the DoD explicitly about national security concerns. The fact that this and less visibly imperialistic fellowships (like Fulbright) are almost never talked about critically in professional fellowships circles is shocking
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
AI guys are like we can’t use it to cure cancer but we can suck all the joy and purpose out of life so that dying isn’t sad
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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markreel.bsky.social
The first two hours this morning
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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catbus.phd
I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
kholob.bsky.social
This spooky boy is keeping me company while I play 20-year-old Pokémon games
Black and white cat hovers over a small lamp. He looks at the camera. The same cat is closer to the light bulb and licks his nose. The same black and white cat puts his chin on the light bulb.
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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hannahlock.bsky.social
Snowboarding with Wooper ❄️✨
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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sleestak.bsky.social
Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942
Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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amplifypalestine.bsky.social
Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities.

lithub.com/you-can-help...
You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.
Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza, after Israel’s war and genocide destroyed nearly all existing libraries, schools, and universities. The two men, Omar Ha…
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December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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markhisted.org
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.

This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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Science in reviewing grant proposals. The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded. They are described in an internal 1 December staff memo that Science has obtained and mentioned briefly in an update to NSF's grantmaking manual posted on 8 December. A major reason for the smaller staff is the elimination of hundreds of so-called rotators, scientists on loan from academia who served as program managers as well as higher level administrators. Their absence, combined with the new review policy, represent a major change in how NSF
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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chancebonar.bsky.social
Go to central Minnesota this summer and learn Ge’ez!
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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meau.bsky.social
For scholars interested in illustration and writing for children, we’re offering a research fellowship — $4,000 to support research, and a very easy application. Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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nasscal.bsky.social
NASSCAL, AELAC, and Beyond Canon are collaborating on a conference/workshop to take place in Regensburg, 8-10 July 2025. The theme is "Early Christian Apocalypticism (II-V saec.): Contours, Contexts, and Social Functions." If you are interested in taking part contact tburke@yorku.ca.
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
kholob.bsky.social
The R1 university I work for can’t give me an ETA for when they can remove a days’ old rotting mouse corpse on the floor by my desk 💀
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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catacombsociety.bsky.social
We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000.

Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026.

More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...
2026-2027 SHOHET SCHOLARS GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN The Shohet Scholars Grant of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars cohort. Awards up to $30,000. Submission deadline is February 1, 2026. This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean. Projects need not focus on the catacombs. Shohet Scholars may do their research in archaeology, art history, classical studies, history, comparative religions, or related subjects. We welcome interdisciplinary projects that approach traditional topics from new perspectives. For further information and to apply go to the ICS website: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-scholars/. Email questions to ShohetICS@gmail.com Image of fresco of a bird and a shepherd with a sheep over his shoulders. Paintings from the Catacombs of Domatilla in Rome.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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mjcbac.bsky.social
Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Applications for 2026–2027 Publication Grants are due February 1, 2026. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/grants/publi...
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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esqueer.net
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · Dec 2
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Nov 25
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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drewjakeprof.bsky.social
okay, finally deciphered the smiley face line (greek and translation in alt-text) and think it might be... an angel???
(sorry no accents), starting on the second line: ειπεν τω επισκοπω κελευσον ο αγγελοσ [weird drawing] μων [?] δια ταχουσ παρα γενεσθαι δθο διακο she said to the bishop call, o angel [something?] right away to be brought two diac(onesses)
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
kholob.bsky.social
This won’t come as much of a surprise, but it’s now clear that any source of funding tied to the State Department will almost certainly not fund projects related to queer/trans people.
Below are examples of Fiscal Year 2024 grant abstracts from the IFLE Fulbright-Hays Programs. These abstracts demonstrate that these grant programs have deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness: • $37,000 was awarded to a doctoral student for a dissertation project on the relationship between collective movement, like boxing, walking, and dancing, and systemic conditions of anti-trans violence. The student proposed traveling to Bogota, Columbia’s red-light district and comparing experiences there with a boxing club meeting in Los Angeles’s Macarthur Park. • $27,000 was awarded to a doctoral student to investigate non-binary and trans francophones’ linguistic attitudes and ideologies towards inclusive French in Montreal, Canada. • Over $72,000 was awarded to a doctoral student for a dissertation on the Queer and Trans Community Building in Czechia and Slovakia. The funding would allow the student to travel and “create an interactive map of Czechia and Slovakia online, similar to Queering the Map.” • A doctoral student was awarded over $20,000 for a dissertation on transgender surgery in Taiwan. • Lastly, a grant awardee requested over $34,000 to complete a project to examine how queer and transgender Thai Buddhist artists in Bangkok, Thailand and Berlin, Germany are re-shaping contemporary Thai Buddhism. ED and State commit to utilizing available statutory authorities to promote innovation and system integration in pursuit of better outcomes for program participants by establishing a partnership that (1) streamlines agency policies and programmatic requirements; (2) provides process improvements to enhance the experience for program participants; (3) restructures and consolidates international education programs; and (4) connects ED education programs with State’s international education expertise to create coordinated Fulbright grant and international education programs.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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arturoviaggia.bsky.social
Fellow profs, they're trying to ruin our industry, so why not?
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM