Jennifer Selby (@jselby) — Bluesky Profile

3 weeks ago

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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1 month ago

Generative A.I.
This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences.
One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

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2 months ago

Congratulations, Gary!

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3 months ago

“According to the report, 850 women and girls have been killed in the last five years, equating to a single woman or girl being killed every 48 hours.” Every 48 hours 💔

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4 months ago

Thanks #SMUReligion.

Looking forward to this talk & convo next Friday!

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4 months ago

Thank you!

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4 months ago

Jennifer Selby receiving her book "Secular Sensibilities", published by UNC Press, in 2025.

Un grand merci à l’équipe de @polrightsrev.bsky.social
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !

politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p...

Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!

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4 months ago

Thanks to Karel Leyva and the @polrightsrev.bsky.social team for featuring *Secular Sensibilities* (@uncpress.bsky.social)!

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4 months ago

😭 The spectacle of it almost equally terrifying. Just horrible.

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6 months ago

Very interesting. 💡 Thank you for sharing. Am curious as to why “secular” transition and not a “transition toward nonreligion.”

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7 months ago

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

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1 year ago

How narrow views of romance inform which marriages are seen as legitimate Numerous countries, including Canada, have laws against what are deemed fraudulent marriages, and immigrants are often made to prove the legitimacy of their love. This article examines the politics laden in the surveillance of romance.

How narrow views of romance inform which marriages are seen as legitimate

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1 year ago

2025 Conference - International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) 2025 ISSRNC Conference Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change June 23 – 27, 2025 | University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)...

Folks working in the Eco-Space -- heads up on a climate conference you won't want to miss this June at UCSB: "Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Climate Change." See you there! 😊https://www.issrnc.org/conferences/2025-conference/

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1 year ago

I’ve been waiting for these results. Important findings for faculty going up for promotion, letter writers, and administrators making the rules about whether such statements should be included

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2 years ago

If you are a college/university administrator, and you don't have a detailed, specific plan for dealing with online campaigns and targeted harassment, you are failing as a leader. And this means educating your Boards on how all this works, too. Lead, don't crumble. Because they'll come for you, too.

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2 years ago

Autoethnography Writing Workshop. Do you have 2 or more years of lived experience with un/under employment? Are you 40+ years old, a picture of a mortar board and a picture of a Avalon Peninsula map around St. John's.

In St. John's? Free autoethnography course this fall at Memorial University!!
Memorial PhD Candidate seeks study participants with long-term un/underemployment experience & university degree(s). A no-fee 10-week Autoethnography Writing Workshop starts Oct. 10.
visit tinyurl.com/2mtnh5rd

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