Grant Macaskill
@grantmacaskill.bsky.social
Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament,
University of Aberdeen,
Centre for Autism and Theology
University of Aberdeen,
Centre for Autism and Theology
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Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Are you an established or senior researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Our British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships allow successful award-holders to concentrate on bringing a major piece of research to completion. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9
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Here’s my brief introduction to the Race & Class in UK Religious Studies and Theology project I’m co-convening with Dulcie McKenzie and Caroline Starkey. Do join us for the project launch on Wed 1st October to hear more.
The Race and Class in UK Religious Studies and Theology Project will take place over the next 5 years.
If you want to find out more about the project and how you can get involved, join our launch event on the 1st October at 4:15pm.
Register here: queens-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you want to find out more about the project and how you can get involved, join our launch event on the 1st October at 4:15pm.
Register here: queens-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Here’s my brief introduction to the Race & Class in UK Religious Studies and Theology project I’m co-convening with Dulcie McKenzie and Caroline Starkey. Do join us for the project launch on Wed 1st October to hear more.
The last week has seen the release of three U.K. university league tables and @durhamtheology.bsky.social has been ranked 1st in all of them. www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...
Theology & Religious Studies Subject League Table 2026
Theology & Religious Studies focus on the world's major religions from a non-biased, academic perspective
www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The last week has seen the release of three U.K. university league tables and @durhamtheology.bsky.social has been ranked 1st in all of them. www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...
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Now available: my new book co-authored with computer scientist Dr. Ankur Gupta. The title is REAL INTELLIGENCE: Teaching in the Era of Generative AI.
The book is open access (i.e. free), published by PALNI Open Press.
The book is open access (i.e. free), published by PALNI Open Press.
September 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Now available: my new book co-authored with computer scientist Dr. Ankur Gupta. The title is REAL INTELLIGENCE: Teaching in the Era of Generative AI.
The book is open access (i.e. free), published by PALNI Open Press.
The book is open access (i.e. free), published by PALNI Open Press.
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Ranked first for T&RS.
September 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ranked first for T&RS.
Good see @durham-university.bsky.social ranked at #5, up a place from last year. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Good see @durham-university.bsky.social ranked at #5, up a place from last year. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
It is wonderful to see Douglas Davies from @durhamtheology.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social honoured for his incredible work. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Durham professor honoured for pioneering contributions to death studies - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It is wonderful to see Douglas Davies from @durhamtheology.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social honoured for his incredible work. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
New digs (or, really, the view from my new digs). @durhamtheology.bsky.social (also, not sure if “digs” translates for non UK readers …)
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New digs (or, really, the view from my new digs). @durhamtheology.bsky.social (also, not sure if “digs” translates for non UK readers …)
I’m sorry that I couldn’t be at this year’s @bntsoc.bsky.social in person, with such a great line up of papers, many representing important interventions and disruptions in the field. This week is my first in post @durham-university.bsky.social @durhamtheology.bsky.social and I have to be in Durham
Session 1 will feature Lydia Lee on ‘Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics within Aesthetic Figural Interpretation’ and Session 2 will feature Aminta Arrington on ‘The Foreigner Who Returned: Narrative Repair and Counterstory in the Healing of the Ten Lepers’.
September 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I’m sorry that I couldn’t be at this year’s @bntsoc.bsky.social in person, with such a great line up of papers, many representing important interventions and disruptions in the field. This week is my first in post @durham-university.bsky.social @durhamtheology.bsky.social and I have to be in Durham
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Anyone here living in New Hampshire? I'm looking to fill a show in or near Portsmouth NH on Friday 17th October for Iona Fyfe! If you know any halls, concert promoters, venues or bars looking for a Scottish folksinger and pianist, please comment! 🏴🇺🇸
August 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Anyone here living in New Hampshire? I'm looking to fill a show in or near Portsmouth NH on Friday 17th October for Iona Fyfe! If you know any halls, concert promoters, venues or bars looking for a Scottish folksinger and pianist, please comment! 🏴🇺🇸
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What an opening session line up! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
August 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
What an opening session line up! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt.
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
August 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thanks to Emily Dugan and the Sunday Times for exposing this aspect of how Maeve died from ME. A Devon County Council cover up. Maeve was taking them to judical review, dying in the attempt.
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
Devon County Council may have learnt nothing from the inquest. I have learnt a lot about them.
1/4
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The Scotsman: “Charities quit SNP Government's Long Covid network over 'broken promises' as £4.5m fund not spent”
‘Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network’
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
‘Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network’
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
Charities quit SNP Government's Long Covid network over 'broken promises' as £4.5m fund not spent
Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network.
www.scotsman.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The Scotsman: “Charities quit SNP Government's Long Covid network over 'broken promises' as £4.5m fund not spent”
‘Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network’
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
‘Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network’
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
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So many of us living with long covid have no idea if this is our soon-to-be fate. One of the reasons we talk about it so much is we don’t know how long we’ll have to do so. Saddened to hear of yet another advocate losing their life.
Graphic designer & advocate Derrick Kardos passed away last month due to complications of Long COVID 🕯️
"I am 52 and I have experienced more discrimination and stigma for being openly disabled by #LongCOVID than I ever did for being openly gay," he wrote in 2024.
thesicktimes.org/2025/08/08/b...
"I am 52 and I have experienced more discrimination and stigma for being openly disabled by #LongCOVID than I ever did for being openly gay," he wrote in 2024.
thesicktimes.org/2025/08/08/b...
‘Black Swan’ graphic designer, Derrick Kardos, dies at 53 due to complications of Long COVID - The Sick Times
Derrick Kardos, an Oscar-nominated graphic designer and Long COVID advocate, died on July 18 at the age of 53 due to complications of Long COVID, his family recently announced.
thesicktimes.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So many of us living with long covid have no idea if this is our soon-to-be fate. One of the reasons we talk about it so much is we don’t know how long we’ll have to do so. Saddened to hear of yet another advocate losing their life.
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New job:
Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media
University of California - San Diego
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68946
Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media
University of California - San Diego
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68946
August 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
New job:
Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media
University of California - San Diego
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68946
Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media
University of California - San Diego
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68946
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Reupping this job ad too - applications due 9/1!
Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard (deadline 9/1) academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958
Tenured Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks to appoint a tenured professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialization in Jewish history, religion, and culture in antiquity and/or la...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
August 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reupping this job ad too - applications due 9/1!
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Edited version of BBC 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell phone-in (53 mins) on the DecodeME results. Professor Chris Ponting explains the findings, and callers share how stigma, misdiagnosis, and severe illness have shaped their lives with #MECFS.
youtu.be/U9mc8lWvF-w?...
youtu.be/U9mc8lWvF-w?...
5 Live - Nicky Campbell - DecodeME phone in
YouTube video by Broken Battery
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August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Edited version of BBC 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell phone-in (53 mins) on the DecodeME results. Professor Chris Ponting explains the findings, and callers share how stigma, misdiagnosis, and severe illness have shaped their lives with #MECFS.
youtu.be/U9mc8lWvF-w?...
youtu.be/U9mc8lWvF-w?...
I hope it is okay to share this version of The Hollow Man by @marillion.com The song has been in my head for the last few weeks, triggered by the cynicism of our politics, especially at the international level (but an optimistic coda below). It is from the 1994 album, Brave. youtu.be/t-tXbVLe8-I?...
Marillion - The Hollow Man - Official Music Promo Video
YouTube video by marilliononline
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August 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I hope it is okay to share this version of The Hollow Man by @marillion.com The song has been in my head for the last few weeks, triggered by the cynicism of our politics, especially at the international level (but an optimistic coda below). It is from the 1994 album, Brave. youtu.be/t-tXbVLe8-I?...
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I interviewed Dr Rob Wüst about his team's new study comparing effects of exercise on people with ME/CFS and Long Covid vs effects on healthy controls who were deconditioned after 60 days of bedrest: virology.ws/2025/06/04/t...
Trial By Error: Dr Rob Wüst on ME/CFS, Long Covid and Deconditioning | Virology Blog
By David Tuller. DrPH Proponents of psycho-behavioral interventions for ME/CFS and, more recently, Long Covid, have argued--unconvincingly and with a shorta ...
virology.ws
June 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I interviewed Dr Rob Wüst about his team's new study comparing effects of exercise on people with ME/CFS and Long Covid vs effects on healthy controls who were deconditioned after 60 days of bedrest: virology.ws/2025/06/04/t...
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@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience
July 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience
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Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature at University of Oxford
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY803/d...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY803/d...
Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature at University of Oxford
Apply for the Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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July 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Departmental Lecturer in Classical Arabic Literature at University of Oxford
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY803/d...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY803/d...
Nothing says “vacation” like being able to kick back with a good book.
July 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nothing says “vacation” like being able to kick back with a good book.