Will Sweetman

Take a Religious Studies paper at Otago University in 2026.
We won't tell you who God is.
www.otago.ac.nz/religion/stu...

See it every day, love it every day!

Great idea - will create more time for you to put them in groups to brainstorm responses they can then feedback to the whole meeting

Boy I hope the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (DW&RF) has a funky little dwarf as their logo

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation. https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

I’m too busy doing Religiology www.jstor.org/stable/3269522

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?" In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Oddly, they didn’t mention the title(s) of your paper

You forgot to turn selfie mode on, you gorgeous beast of a man

“We have an obligation to prepare our students for the future tulip-based economy.” - overheard in an Amsterdam faculty lounge, ahead of the Spring 1637 semester

Fastest growing religion in the United States, percentage wise at least.

The Big Reveal

My colleagues can already hear me swearing at Outlook from down the corridor, perhaps across the building, maybe throughout campus

Our Lady of the Tea Bag

I will be labelling my talks as “artisanal,” “hand crafted” or “made with actual intelligence.”

May I suggest you do not visit New Zealand?

And it is past time to revive corridor cricket

There are some reminiscences from Albie in his autobiography, mentions that Ninian was mourning his son, took long walks on the Taieri. But no trace of the Eliadian epic of the Scots settling Aotearoa

To be fair, even Homer nods and I think Smart was well aware of the distinction. He’d visited NZ more than once, there’s an interesting account in the Times Higher Ed Supplement about his time at Otago in the 70s. He spent a lot of time in the Cook, talking to student protestors.

New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic

Uh-huh, “uncle” Leo, I got ya.

Love language of historians and archivists. This here is a romantic poem in archival dialect. Note the internal rhyming structure of the first two verses and the subtle double alliteration in the main body. The coda is elegant yet plentiful, conveying perfectly the fullness of the archival fonds.

The universities still receive the money as a bulk payment. They’re not obliged to divide it up according to government priorities.

I’ve been waiting for this mashup