Kriti Kapila
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Anthropologist. London mostly.
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The word "Sabzi" (lit. vegetables) is trademarked by a deli on the
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estate and defended by the Duchy. How about South Asia trademark "Roast" as fair play?
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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/recipe-book-sabzi-vegetables-yasmin-khan-trademark
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Defector
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Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI:
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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…
https://defector.com/higher-eds-rush-to-adopt-ai-is-about-so-much-more-than-ai
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Emil Privér
3 months ago
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Bailey McCann
about 2 months ago
This person took this when they called the race
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Alondra Nelson
about 2 months ago
In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
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Jelena Brankovic
2 months ago
The secret life of university data? In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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Together, universities can take back control of their data
A single university can do little to demand accountability from rankings companies, but together institutions can demand reciprocal transparency, nego...
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2025102112035471
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This is a very excellent read - how the accelerated adoption by universities is once again a case of public funds subsidising private industry and assisting the further vocationalising of higher ed.
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Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here:
thewire.in/politics/twi...
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Twilight of the Patriarchs: How Old Men Wage Wars on Futures That Are Not Theirs to Live
At the helm of nation-states sit men on the brink of their biological expiry, curled around launch codes and bunker-buster fantasies. It is not the young who want the world to end – it is the dying, d...
https://thewire.in/politics/twilight-of-the-patriarchs-how-old-men-wage-wars-on-futures-that-are-not-theirs-to-live/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLGVCJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHl3Y3e3m3TktnoBTFgrvga7k1vpz3mTwZYv4GTwVnD2V5fJPqEg8DPpQCUjW_aem_Jrujf5Uds-N5vC-dzhXaZA
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There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into
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's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable
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#Podyssey
. And that's just the music! Pure gold.
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey
Arts Podcast · Updated weekly · Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
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Margot Finn
10 months ago
Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld
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Patriotic Millionaires UK
10 months ago
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to ÂŁ460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
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Sobering.
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You could not make this up... neither the use of the tech, nor the use of the law..
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A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.
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King's India Institute
10 months ago
Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with
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on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Sign up to attend:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...
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Sam Brody
10 months ago
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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King's India Institute
10 months ago
Join us on March 5 for a seminar with
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on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group. Sign up to attend:
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...
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The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference
Dr Kriti Kapila will deliver a talk on the discovery of the rare blood group.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-bombay-phenotype-descent-heredity-and-the-physiology-of-difference
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
11 months ago
One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music
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Please share.
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Chris Brooke
11 months ago
Oh!
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Always worth listening to Professor Wendy Brown. This, especially today, is salutary.
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William Shakespeare
11 months ago
Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
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Lilly Irani
12 months ago
Caltech UC Riverside study finds that tech companies report ai carbon consumption but diesel and other particulates data centers generate go unreported. Public health costs from cancers, asthma, other diseases, and missed work and school days approach ~$20 bil a year.
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AI’s deadly air pollution toll
Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electrici...
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/12/09/ais-deadly-air-pollution-toll
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An incredibly literal exchange of food for thought.. How American university libraries came to have rich South Asia collections..
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Jonathan W. Gray
about 1 year ago
Ok, now that I'm rested it's time to talk about AI, writing & the Black Radical tradition! I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.
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Alondra Nelson
about 1 year ago
Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms"
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Henning Hansen
about 1 year ago
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
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