Rspinelli

The stars in the sky don't know we exist and I think that's nice for them

Today is the official release day!

I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living. "As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."

I applaud Dr. Morgan Goheen for her willingness to engage infectious disease skeptics...especially when they are sitting next to you on a flight & you can't get up and leave!!!

#MedSky

www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

Donuts with names that sound like prostitutes

Open box displaying author copies of a book.

This is what I came home to after work today. A bit creepy to see those eyes staring, but exciting nonetheless!

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Anyone local should come say hello if you are able to attend.

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The white nationalist ambitions of this regime are just plain as day. Anyone from that world would recognize these images or the Manifest Destiny references employed by DHS as a call to genocide in service of a white nation.

Thank you to everyone who has helped work on and encouraged the creation of this book!

That could be incredibly valuable right now.

Exactly what I was thinking about.

Wait till they hear about Superman fighting Nazis and the KKK in the early comic book days...

We have been working hard on this volume for the past few years. It has been a great collaboration and it's incredibly rewarding to see a final product emerging!

Please consider submitting a paper to this panel that I will be chairing at the SAMLA conference in November.

samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19363

I echo this feeling quite deeply. It makes it difficult to go back to The X-Files as entertainment sometimes.

The volume I am putting together with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social has a few more weeks left accepting submissions. If you've been considering sending along an abstract, there's still time!

www.robert-spinelli.com/call-for-pap...

"'It will present evidence that suggests ancient serpent or lizard-like aliens came to earth thousands of years ago,' the narrator says." 😐 It won't because there is no evidence for this. Unsurprising, but still disappointing, to see pseudoarchaeology themes taking top spots on this media platform:

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Promo poster for upcoming books.

Great to meet @mcfarland.bsky.social at PCA this last week in New Orleans.

Only a few weeks left to submit a proposal for what promises to be a fascinating collection in collaboration with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social!

Follow the link for more info: www.robert-spinelli.com/call-for-pap...

This is going to be a great conference!

A lamppost covered in dark vines that resemble a creature with long hair bent over. When the light is on, it looks like the head/skull is glowing.

I grew up on a diet of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark... I swear these vines covering a lamppost in Wroclaw, Poland are straight out of my childhood nightmares.

Begging for the return of the humanities and social sciences to remind the tech bros that "spitballing a few bullet points" into AI does not mean an author will write 1000 books, it means that *AI* will write 1000 books.

This volume is a labor of love that has been long coming. @graveyardarch.bsky.social has been a most astute and incredible individual to help nurture this project to completion.

How rebellious!

Everyone Hates Academic Writing. They’re Wrong. In praise of scholarly prose.

"Which brings us to the problem obscured by the perpetual denunciations of academic writing:what has been lost is the material support for this kind of work,this kind of reading.We need not romanticize the golden age of the university...to say that things are materially worse now." shorturl.at/B5F6Q

I would be interested in discussing this idea with you!

Time for a new project!

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