Matthew McMullen
@mcmullen.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
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Our next Religious Studies colloquium event!
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Our next Religious Studies colloquium event!
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
I don’t think these petitions do much but I signed it as a NY voter. The closest I’ve ever gotten to voting against Chuck since there’s never a primary challenger.
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I don’t think these petitions do much but I signed it as a NY voter. The closest I’ve ever gotten to voting against Chuck since there’s never a primary challenger.
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premodern Japanese lit job in Hawai'i!
Assistant Professor (Japanese Pre-Modern Literature)
Title: Assistant Professor (Japanese Pre-Modern Literature)Hiring Unit: East Asian Languages and Literatures/College of Arts, Languages & LettersLocation: ManoaDate Posted: September 24, 2025Closing D...
urldefense.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
premodern Japanese lit job in Hawai'i!
Goddamn the new Mac OS fucking sucks. Can’t find anything. Can’t click in and out of windows. Search settings not working. Enshitification on all fronts.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Goddamn the new Mac OS fucking sucks. Can’t find anything. Can’t click in and out of windows. Search settings not working. Enshitification on all fronts.
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21 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 551 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
21 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 551 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
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JJS invites you to the following live, online event:
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
JJS invites you to the following live, online event:
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Find an action near you at this link👇
STUDENTS RISE UP: NOVEMBER 7TH DAY OF ACTION
Students and education workers across the US are organizing our schools towards mass non-cooperation on November 7th! Find an action on your campus!
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Find an action near you at this link👇
Hell welcomes home one of its own.
Can't wait for all of the accusations of not mourning correctly.
Former US VP Dick Cheney dead at 84, Punchbowl News says
Former U.S Vice President Dick Cheney has died at 84, Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman said in a post on X on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hell welcomes home one of its own.
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Register for our webinAAR happening tomorrow (November 4) on "The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding," featuring @prri.org's Robert Jones, Katherine Stewart, former AAR President Eddie Glaude, and Rachel Mikva: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Register for our webinAAR happening tomorrow (November 4) on "The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding," featuring @prri.org's Robert Jones, Katherine Stewart, former AAR President Eddie Glaude, and Rachel Mikva: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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Viral on Twitter in Japan: Prime Minister Takaichi used to be TV presenter and gave a magazine interview in the 1990s in which she said Japanese men were too timid if they directly asked for consent from women.
She criticized men who ask “Can I kiss you?” instead of just taking decisive action.
She criticized men who ask “Can I kiss you?” instead of just taking decisive action.
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Viral on Twitter in Japan: Prime Minister Takaichi used to be TV presenter and gave a magazine interview in the 1990s in which she said Japanese men were too timid if they directly asked for consent from women.
She criticized men who ask “Can I kiss you?” instead of just taking decisive action.
She criticized men who ask “Can I kiss you?” instead of just taking decisive action.
Lower the voting age. Kids have more skin in the game of politics than anyone else. Also legal residents should be able to vote regardless of nationality. You pay taxes? You can vote.
I sincerely feel the voting age should be “when they are old enough to enter a voting booth on their own and vote.”
No mail ballots for children, bc there are too many potential consequences to them if they refuse to let their parents vote for them, but a private voting booth? Let them vote.
No mail ballots for children, bc there are too many potential consequences to them if they refuse to let their parents vote for them, but a private voting booth? Let them vote.
Talking to the 5-year-old about the election tomorrow has backfired spectacularly because she asked if she gets to vote, and I explained to her that she needed to be 18, and she is now crying and vigorously arguing that you should be allowed to vote “whatever age you are”
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Lower the voting age. Kids have more skin in the game of politics than anyone else. Also legal residents should be able to vote regardless of nationality. You pay taxes? You can vote.
So it’s a chockcollar that cuts off oxygen to the brain. And the company convinced people that this prevents concussions? That’s “drinking bleach prevents Covid” levels of stupidity.
"We crave simple solutions to complex problems. When data disappoint, we substitute belief. . . . Regulators see public demand and think, why stand in the way? The phrase 'worth a try' becomes federal policy."
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway
“This is not just about one device. It’s about what happens when institutions grow comfortable living in their own ambiguity and hiding behind opacity.”
www.statnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So it’s a chockcollar that cuts off oxygen to the brain. And the company convinced people that this prevents concussions? That’s “drinking bleach prevents Covid” levels of stupidity.
This👇🏻 at the very least for children. If the US can give 10s of billions of dollars in handouts to a dictator in Argentina, a Gatsby-esque ballroon, AND fund a genocide in Gaza, it can feed people.
Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This👇🏻 at the very least for children. If the US can give 10s of billions of dollars in handouts to a dictator in Argentina, a Gatsby-esque ballroon, AND fund a genocide in Gaza, it can feed people.
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Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.
November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.
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12/21(日)15時〜のイベント、「Xジェンダーやノンバイナリーの視点から、男女二元制を考える」に登壇し、日本の非二元的な性をめぐる活動史について研究発表します！
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November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
12/21(日)15時〜のイベント、「Xジェンダーやノンバイナリーの視点から、男女二元制を考える」に登壇し、日本の非二元的な性をめぐる活動史について研究発表します！
排除的な言説も目立つなか大事な機会をいただき、初めてご一緒するゲストの方も多く、楽しみにしています。ご関心ある方はぜひ。
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Yet another reason not to go home for the holidays.
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yet another reason not to go home for the holidays.
The JCP remains undefeated with the best posters. And best ethics.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The JCP remains undefeated with the best posters. And best ethics.
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SSJR is running another book talk! Please join us in two weeks for @sdahl.bsky.social's talk. Register here: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
SSJR is running another book talk! Please join us in two weeks for @sdahl.bsky.social's talk. Register here: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reading this line: “More voters believe Japan should strengthen its national capabilities, including its military, or risk being dominated by foreign powers.” I can’t help but wonder what these people think has happened over the last 80 years.
The greatest challenge for Sanae Takaichi will be navigating relations with Donald Trump. Former prime minister Shigeru Ishiba secured an agreement on tariffs. It falls to Takaichi to implement it.
Sanae Takaichi sees herself as the successor to Shinzo Abe. But changes in Japan’s politics present big challenges
The new Japanese prime minister and LDP leader has been elected partly to see off a surging far right, at a time of significant change in society.
www.chathamhouse.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Reading this line: “More voters believe Japan should strengthen its national capabilities, including its military, or risk being dominated by foreign powers.” I can’t help but wonder what these people think has happened over the last 80 years.
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Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation
I think we might need to get a little sharper about class analysis in "rural" states. Iowa farmers (mostly millionaire landowners) =/= farm workers =/= John Deere Dealers =/= small town service sector =/= public sector =/= Des Moines normal white collar. I can imagine fractures in that formation.
Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation
This was a very informative discussion on the history of the term antisemitism, and I am looking forward to reading the book.
Mark Mazower,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Religion · 10/26/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This was a very informative discussion on the history of the term antisemitism, and I am looking forward to reading the book.
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If you live in Japan, I recommend printing some of these out and just having them on you. Sadly, I could have really used one last night at dinner...
t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit)
#NoHateOsaka
t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit)
#NoHateOsaka
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If you live in Japan, I recommend printing some of these out and just having them on you. Sadly, I could have really used one last night at dinner...
t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit)
#NoHateOsaka
t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit)
#NoHateOsaka