KnowledgeFight has been my #1 podcast since 2018. I’m very happy that Dan and Jordan are moving on to bigger and better things, and I’m excited to see where they go. But damn, this stings.

I fucking called it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

“Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.” Fantastic. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Here is a gift link for my latest in Le Monde. (If anyone can get a gift link in English, that would be awesome!) www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Today, I told Le Monde why Senegal’s new anti-homosexuality law is not just bad for public health, it’s out of step with the country’s historic reputation for exceptionalism. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

The very first lecture I ever heard in a cultural anthropology class was about "couvade," and I just seized onto it and never let go. Here I am, 16 years later, talking about it for BBC. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

“The Upside Down” presupposes a flat earth. Stranger Things should have called it The Inside Out. In this essay…

Huge congrats to @eyatesd.bsky.social for winning the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for her book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

Thanks to Nathan Fielder, I now hum Evanescence whenever I see two pilots walking together

We're all just dogs wearing shock collars in the background of God's Twitch stream.

Yesterday, my cat kicked a turd out of the litterbox and the robovac came and ate it up, so I'm kinda not worried about Skynet just yet

I switched from a desktop computer to a laptop in 2003 and earlier this year I've made the switch back to a desktop. It's been very freeing, but I'm not sure why. Maybe because I want work to stay at work, and studio to stay in studio, but even this is fairly new in my life (since 2021).

Always a joy to see my Women’s Health students do class presentations on books by my colleagues like @kateclancy.bsky.social and @ratnagiri77.bsky.social

Well, this was jarring to read

This would go hard as an album cover

Wow I’ve always wondered what the early days of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would look like if we had social media and AI and it is worse than I imagined

Good news! The intro article for our special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is now Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The full special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is out now in #MedicalAnthropology! Both the introduction and my article are OA, but don't hesitate to reach out (email or DM) if you need access to the other articles. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

She applyin’ on my anthropology until I conference #sfaa2025

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Wtf, I don’t even remember putting this in my calendar. Was this you? Do we have a meeting???

New article just dropped with @adriennestrong.bsky.social

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My Letterboxd reviews are finally getting the recognition they deserve

A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me. My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here: americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

This is the “opposition party” 🤡

Damn, I was hoping for a David Lynch-inspired dance number

Gonna send my public health students for extra credit: events.berkeley.edu/bscm/event/2...

My latest with @sciam.bsky.social "Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex". Please do read the linked Executive Orders and HS statements that this piece is in response to. I am hoping of a better dialogue on this... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

hi! i wrote something for @rewirenewsgroup.com’s campus dispatch about student worker unions and repro justice! it would make me very happy if you could read it and let me know what you think or, the greatest sign it was good: share it with others!

This like saying I don’t understand electricity so I’m anti-electrician. I don’t understand cars, so I don’t go to a mechanic. I can’t cook, so I’m anti-restaurant. It’s almost as if there is something else entirely that puts people off of the humanities 🤔

Tl;dr: PRAMS asks “DEI” questions Lol these people aren’t pro-life

Damn way too young

The greatest threat to public health is a lack of imagination.

Morbidly curious about what Trump is gonna tweet about the halftime show

Me (and a long line of development scholars): USAID is, since their inception, a weapon of soft-power and global capitalist propaganda Musk: USAID is “a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America.” Me: lmfao sorry wtf

That’s a yikes from me

Love to live in a free country

I’m about to write the most boring ass funding proposal to do the dumbest Silicon techbro research (its call “ethnography-maxxing,” cuck), and then I’m gonna turn around and do what I always do with grant money: whatever I want lol

This is never going to stop.

I am FASCINATED by this trend of superimposing authoritarian fatherhood onto Donald Trump and his administration, and by a group of people who also use the term “nanny state” unironically

Thanking www.thesaurus.com for my daily dose of body horror, god wtf

sir you are the moon

Goodnight, sweet prince🖤🖤🖤https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.html

Black people w/ ALS face unique challenges navigating a medical system entrenched in anti-Blackness. In Dr. Carter’s (@audretaughtme.bsky.social) comic, we see how these challenges can manifest in the healthcare system. To read Dr. Carter's corresponding paper go to: www.theleithlab.com/gaslighting

I’m dying to read a deep dive investigative piece on store credit and tech. I have $1.51 here, 63¢ there, $2.03 with this store, $1.03 with that one. I bought a hat once, so Fanatics gave me $1.61. Somehow I earned a few nickels on Shop. It’s money I’ll probably never use. So what does it do?

here is a small thread of some new policies effective 1/1/25 related to work and families: first is NY is offering at least 20 hours of prenatal care leave for privately employed workers with pregnancy-related appointments including medical care, end of pregnancy care, fertility treatments, etc.