On limitations of survey studies... 🙈

Germany tried this. It is a disaster. Pushes ppl out of research. The positions they are supposed to transition into don't exist. I can't keep my research team here because of arbitrary contract limits like this. Tragic and demoralizing for all of us. #WissZeitVG #IchbinHanna

It's wrong to be a 'Humanities' researcher and not speak about the inhumanity reported by B'Tselem, the main Israeli human rights organization. The report "Welcome to Hell" is based on interviews with surviving Palestinian prisoners:

Level: completed 🥳 Officially #PhDone, as of yesterday! Thank you to everyone who was there, and to all who supported me over the past four years! 😊

A new documentary, recommended by our board member Lars de Wildt: "The blood on our controllers," by a group of established industry professionals, discusses the game industry's role in global conflict, and its representation of Arab communities in games. youtube.com/watch?v=g7488t…

Recently, two videos from Japan went viral on X. 🇯🇵 The only problem: they were actually from China. 🇨🇳 Why are positive videos from China not allowed to exist? Here's my theory... 🧵

💥Breaking: Shanghai will open up to the global internet, so that its citizens will have access to X, Facebook and all the other glorious American ecosystem! China is now so advanced and its young people so sophisticated that the Chinese government is not worried about US

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Assassin's Creed Experience Brian Le Duigou | Point'n Think Il y a un papier universitaire très très intéressant sur le sujet : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Not research-related (and not a meme) but a friend is collecting aid for Afghan families in need during Ramadan. Afghanistan has been scarred by decades of war and political instability. Over half the population urgently needs food and basic necessities: gofund.me/9c2e5a4d

There’s something kind of utopian and even innocent in the unabashed and direct intellectualism of the Sims recommended reading list that’s sort of been lost, I think.

sonic if he was muslim: gotta go fast

i think so much of the “trad wife” phenomenon is appealing to girls because it sells the *idea* of not having to work at a time when wealth inequality is the worst since the gilded age and not working is rarely an option. i think this alpha crap is basically that fantasy for boys

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The current university crackdown in the U.S. is not limited to pro-Palestinians, they're also targeting Chinese professors. Just today, two new cases surfaced. In Indiana, an incredibly dystopian case (arstechnica.com/security/2025/…) where a tenured professor and prominent computer

Meet the seven brilliant student-scholars disappeared off the streets of the US by the Trump Administration for criticizing Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Four are being held in brutal for-profit ICE detention centers in Louisiana. None are charged with a crime. Free them now. ⤵️

Episode 38 of the RR Podcast with Dr. Lars de Wildt is now available on Patreon! 💥 #poptheology #homoludens #publicreligion #debaters #debunkers #connectors #rejecters #roleplayinggames #videogames #rejectedreligionpodcast #illuminatingtheobscure patreon.com/posts/rejected…

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Lars de Wildt Lars de Wildt reviews //The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games// by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 2023 University of California Press (is on Bluesky) #anthrotwitter Find it here in AE 52.2: ⤵️ americanethnologist.org/journal/

I have a history of stumbling/mumbling through podcasts, which I got to do twice this week: on Beyond Solitaire¹ & Rejected Religion² Liz kindly allowed me to relate my research to current events in Palestine and elsewhere. ¹ open.spotify.com/episode/4TgCzp… ² patreon.com/posts/rejected…

The Free Content version of E38 with Dr. Lars de Wildt is now available on podcasting platforms, Vimeo, and Patreon! 🔥 …de-1-what-do-i-mean-by.simplecast.com/episodes/rejec…