🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨 Over months of reporting, Dina Bass and I looked at thousands of images from Stable Diffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world. 🧵 1/13

Comparison at work. Are Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima similar (site of devastating attacks bookending World War II in US, significant to collective memories of each nation) or different (attack on naval base vs civilian target)? theguardian.com/world/2023/jun… AsianStudiesUA UA Dept. of REL

As I say to my students all of the time: Ask who does the narrative benefit and then you'll know why it exists.

Getting ready for a new semester UA Dept. of REL takes a lot of hands behind the scenes

Dean Messina of @UA_AS recognizes Russell McCutcheon for his eighteen years of service as chair for UA Dept. of REL at the conclusion of the Chairs Retreat (my first as incoming chair)

The Fall semester is about to start, so campus is shifting from construction barriers and noise to crowds of eager students, which means it’s time to take stock of all we have accomplished #WhatRELdidthissummer (e.g., construction fence around our neighbor Garland hall is gone)

This is why I am so fortunate to have colleagues like this and excite to be department chair (alongside the normal trepidation)

Cross-cultural examples, often from unexpected sources and different times, to illustrate key concepts (such as meaning, authorship & intention) is at the heart of #RELteaching. #RELexamples

We are hiring! We are pleased to announce a search for a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Social Theory and Digital Studies of Religion. You can find the full job ad here: careers.ua.edu/jobs/19427d31-…

Connecting religion and football OR illustrating the challenge of maintaining the boundaries dividing them

Words matter