Sarah M. Hedgecock

When you use your personal social media accounts for research.

Maybe a decade ago, I walked past a woman on the phone complaining about "Marco Rubio and his water-drinkin' ass," an epithet I still use today.

Mr. Cuban sir I have the answer to all your questions but if you will not engage with the peer reviewed literature I will be forced to unleash my Coterie of Christmas Hauntings

Incredible fact-checking by the "Adventures in Odyssey" team.

Been meaning to e-mail you! I'm presenting two papers on it at a conference next month, happy to send them along when they're written.

Thanks to @shamuswrites.bsky.social for interrupting my "Adventures in Odyssey" research with this disturbing new picture of John Avery Whittaker: Zaddy Edition.

Picture of the video list of Christian influencer Ashley Hetherington, titled “becoming THAT christian girl”

@smhedgecock.bsky.social with a super smart talk on prayer closets as contemporary evangelical gendered practice. #aarsbl25

Met my editors in person for the first time! "Good Christian Girls: Nostalgia and the Making of Evangelical Girlhood" is as of a few weeks ago under contract with @uncpress.bsky.social. #AARSBL25

2. Identify the religious movement, founded in South Korea in 1954, which teaches in the Divine Principle that a sinless man could redeem the world and establish God's kingdom on Earth.

BI BIM BAPTISTS

#LL106 #bestwronganswers

i recommend stopping what you are doing and watching the single greatest Wealth Mindset thing i have ever seen

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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Okay, but do you think they'll make all the archives Dobson took with him public again? Asking for a friend.

h/t @monicalmercado.bsky.social for the term, which I use all the time.

A copy of the 2008 Revolve "biblezine".

A CD of Christian contemporary music inside the Revolve biblezine

eBay religion (ThriftBooks religion?) is grabbing a cheap copy of this bad boy and finding a CCM CD still inside.

Hot take: academic paywalls should be abolished, in order to encourage academics to return to more traditional forms of gatekeeping like writing in Latin or using ciphers

2. But the more pernicious risk may be what I call "self-alienation" that is you gradually remove yourself from the experience of your job until you've entirely lost touch with what is and meaningful about this work. Processing student writing with an LLM is not the same thing as reading it...

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

Three guesses what I'm revising right now.

Welp, I guess bsky doesn't do hashtags...

Poster that says, "Hands off our universities / libraries / students / funding / research / FUTURE"

The toddler and I are ready for the #5051 protest today.

Give the people what they want.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

Annual (late) birthday reminder to give blood! Especially if you're O- like me -- it's both the universal donor type AND the only type we can receive, and I think a lot about the O- donors who gave me their blood when I needed it.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

The secret is that Columbia hates to dip into their endowment for anything, even supporting students during a pandemic! (We were told that to expect them to use their vast financial resources was "naïve".)

Paging @miketheprofessor.bsky.social

Poking through my current institution's archives to see what girlhood stuff they have lying around and now I'm thinking about all the archives yet to be lost to climate change. I hope anything lost in the LA fires is noted in catalogues with this kind of specificity because that's historical, too.

So, uh, how are you gonna teach it this semester?

#asch2025 let's goooooooooooo

If you're looking for a way to waste time this Nonsense Week, might I recommend @puzzmo.com's first Bongo puzzle of the year, created by someone really cool? puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...