Joseph Stuart

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

Quick note: I love seeing the art in every newsletter.

Fantastic interview! Made me even more excited to dive into your book.

Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.

newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...

Produced by academics. Professional voice actors. Re-read/listen to a classic!

I don’t know how many of you are listening to RE: Dracula, but it’s a serialized podcast of the novel. Since the novel is based on journals, letters, etc from specific dates, they release episodes on those days. Super well done.

For #NutmegSky and others, my museum is hiring historic interpreters, living history interpreters, and a grants manager. Find out more at marktwainhouse.org/about/careers/

Utah's own little slice of Pompeii? BYU leads camp focused on archaeological excavation Under the hot summer sun, Utah middle and high school students — accompanied by BYU history and archaeology students — participated in an excavation at the Hinckley Mounds archaeological site in west ...

A nice article on our BYU History Department's inaugural summer "Young Historian Camp" activity yesterday helping Prof. Michael Searcy on an archaeology dig.

www.ksl.com/article/5135...

Counterpoint: Being on time doesn’t mean you’re “Type A,” it means you have respect for others

I just finished a draft of an essay reflecting on teaching genetic genealogy and the reality of family secrets.

WOO that was a lot.

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I’m reading chapters for an American religious writing group. The scholarly innovation in the field is staggering! So much good work being done across disciplines.

New Library of Virginia exhibit reflects on the history and collective memory of the Jackson Ward neighborhood The exhibit serves as an opportunity to share the untold story of Abraham Peyton Skipwith as the founding father of Jackson Ward.

New Library of Virginia exhibit reflects on the history and collective memory of the Richmond’s Black historic Jackson Ward neighborhood www.richmonder.org/new-library-...

we can often understand why people made choices by recognizing who they defined as "us" and who they defined as "them"

Anthropology of food.

Teaching the Limits of AI with Vonnegut’s EPICAC Earlier this summer, I attended a seminar on AI and the Humanities at the University of Utah’s Digital Matters Lab, led by Elizabeth Callaway and Rebekah Cummings. The session offered a thoughtful mix...

I wrote about how I plan to teach the limits of AI to my students using Kurt Vonnegut's EPICAC. I'd love to hear how others plan to teach students about LLMs, in particular!

usreligion.substack.com/p/teaching-t...

#beUtahful

Wise words from Steven Peck, a rare scholar who bridges disciplinary worlds like few others—a BYU biology professor who also writes award-winning literary fiction.

I thought that students would mostly be put off by old timey foods--woodcock and sweetbreads and fish they'd never heard of--but the biggest roadblock is the lack of knowledge of cooking language, the ability to read a recipe and know, in broad terms, what it's asking you to do.

I teach a couple of food-related programs at the museum for middle and high schoolers and the range of knowledge and understanding in this area is unreal. Some know so much, others look at a recipe card and say it can't be made bc the market doesn't have "minced onions" for sale.

This is what kills me. The things I do to help students end up being the tools others will use to not do the work.

At one level, I do it for those who need it, and I'm committed to that.

At another, it's so demoralizing.

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”

uh

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

10/10 would join and pay dues

I’ve set up my reading table at a taco shop that has super cheap chips and guac.

Why have I never done this before?!

I just edited a podcast for the first time in months. I don't miss doing this for hours each week.

A deal report in Publishers Marketplace for Paul Renfro’s THOSE FEARFUL DAYS. “Historian Paul Refro's THOSE FEARFUL DAYS: THE TRUE STORY OF ATLANTA'S MISSING AND MURDERED CHILDREN, a narrative exploration of the 1980s Atlanta youth murders, situating the brutal killings and the hamstrung investigation in the context of the broader forces haunting the city and the nation, to Haley Bracken at Liveright, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Lucy Cleland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world).”

Let’s gooooooooooooooooooooooo

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

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