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Meanwhile, @RLPGBooks just announced that _ #FairyTales in American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them_ will be released in paperback in Sept. 2022! Preorders should be available on their website soon. Many thanks to everyone who bought a hardcover!
ALT The image is a flier including the book title and reviews. The discount code is LXFANDF30. Full details can be found on the Lexington Books sales page: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793612779/Fairy-Tales-in-Contemporary-American-Culture-How-We-Hate-to-Love-Them
people doing academic honorifics discourse come back to me after you’ve been on a panel with three men & introduced to the audience as professor jones, professor smith, professor mccoy, & alexandra
*The Last Missionary* and *Pastors, Chiefs, & Warlords: The Ministry of Being With*, the two books I worked on with the late Rev. Dr. Bob Walters, are on sale 50% off the cover price now through November 30th when purchased through the publisher’s website with the code CONFSHIP.
The books can be read together or separately. The second, *Pastors, Chiefs, and Warlords,* was published after Bob’s death and includes the reflections of his Congolese counterparts on the team.
Please recommend them to your local library and your church!
Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Extremely concerning Exec. Order establishing ideological test for admission, requiring extreme vetting of views of visa holders in US already. Bars admission to those who “espouse hateful ideology” or have “hostile attitudes toward" the "government." 🧵
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights
If you believe it's now safe to fly without a protective mask, you might want to think again. New research shows the COVID-19 virus has been found on nearly every flight tested.
airspothealth.com/a/blog/cor…
Your child is not sick from lack of exposure to sickness. They do not have immunity debt. Your child born after lockdowns does not have intergenerational immunity debt. The immunity debt that your child’s mother never had was not passed on to them via her mitochondria…
A new longitudinal cohort study found that children who were sick more often in early childhood were more likely to continue being sick in later childhood with more moderate to severe infections and require more antibiotic therapies. /1
ALT Early childhood infections do NOT strengthen your immune system...they only make you sicker throughout childhood.
Data from a new study
In my new piece on the #Positionality Stories peer-reviewed blog, I tell the story of my own awareness of racial politics in the undergraduate classroom, the complicity of whiteness, and the power to change the story.
Please help me share widely!
link.medium.com/XDq31xGb6Pb
The Positionality Stories project looks at issues of identity and power in writing and #composition. The blog comes from the overwhelming response the editors received to a CFP for an edited collection with WAC Clearinghouse.
I have a new piece up on #Positionality Stories, a peer-reviewed blog project about identity in #writingstudies, in which I talk about my experience of racial identities and power dynamics in the undergraduate writing classroom.
Please share widely! medium.com/positionality-sto…
🧵 Psych thoughts re: the Seine:
This was obviously a policy failure that we watched unfold in real time. ("Wait! Stop! Come back!" says Willie Wonka.) But it also demonstrates how people selectively trust authority figures when those leaders are...
1/14 cnn.com/2024/08/04/sport/bel…
I have a new article out in the Journal für Schriebenwissenschaft vol. 26 special issue on generative AI in writing centers and programs. If you don’t have institutional access, lmk and I can send a pdf.
wbv.de/shop/Exploring-Genera…
Of course, AI tech is developing so quickly that articles are out of date upon publication; nonetheless, the model presented in this article can adapt as the tech continues to change.