New from #PracticingAnthropology: “We Want to Do It All”: A Place-Based Model for Access to Higher Education by Brusi, Yace, Tossas, González-Barreto & Dika doi.org/10.1080/0888... @rimabrusi.bsky.social @practicinganthro1.bsky.social #SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Finally published the model guiding our work in PR:place-based+maps #highered access at 2 levels: external (eg neighborhoods excluded) + internal (institutional landscapes students navigate). Model integrates research, outreach & inquiry—adaptable to other institutions, including my current NAU! 🇵🇷 🏔️

Hoy se cumplen 8 años del paso del Huracán María. Hoy se conmemoran los más de 4,645 boricuas que perdieron la vida, que fueron asesinados por la negligencia calculada de un gobierno colonial corrupto y un imperio racista.

#Academia rant: went looking for a gorgeous old paper I wanted to cite, only to find a newer one that basically plagiarized it. Guess which one people cite? 🙄 Publish-or-perish is no excuse. Cite your colleagues. Rescue invisible knowledge. Create with joy, not theft.

What’s next?Guinea pigs and rabbits? 🐇 🐝🌺Birds, bees, flowers? Or,for that matter, cells,chromosomes,or even atoms? “[In] some districts[..]a keyword search-such as “sexual reproduction”-may be all that’s needed to get a book pulled from the shelves.” #BannedBooks #DontStopReading #DontStopWriting

✨ Buenas noticias ✨ (🧵 My memoir Fantasmas, published in Puerto Rico by Editora Emergente (2019), is growing into a new life. Born on the island, matured with me in the diaspora, it will soon reach new readers in a new language as Phantoms (Arte Público Press, 2026). 🌙

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And in the latest news from the land of “free speech”, Maya Angelou is “out” because any reference to racism is “DEI” and “bad”, but Hitler stays because apparently nazism and white supremacy are “history” and “good.” (Added a link to the NYT gift full article in the first comment.)

“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Armed mob attacking the capitol? Pardoned! #FreeSpeech!! Students protesting peacefully on college campuses?? Deport them! Dox them!! #Treason!! The cognitive dissonance must have required the mysterious and important #severance procedure…

"They are abducting people off the streets because Marco Rubio or Donald Trump disagree with their speech. That's unAmerican, unconstitutional, and outrageous." – AAUP President Todd Wolfson

Historical revisionism includes things like book banning ✔️forbidding topics of study K-16 ✔️, attacking academic freedom ✔️harassing teachers AND silencing the past ✔️👇🏽.

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

“Voting with our wallets” is a dangerous oxymoron. A system where the $$ you have dictates the amount of power you wield and the rights you deserve is the opposite of democracy. We are not worthy because we consume-we are worthy because we are human. (That said, #DontBuyATesla and #ShopLocal)

Before Social Security, roughly half of all elderly Americans were living in poverty, relying on family and charity to survive. And that's almost certainly where we're headed, especially if the stock market tanks everyone's 401Ks.

¡Nuestro Educational Research and Attainment Lab (ERA) ahí!!! My students Mig,Beau and Marijose (from @nausociology.bsky.social) featured in this fantastic video. Más contenido sobre educación K-16 #enespañol disponible en el sitio web de @univisionaz.bsky.social 😄 www.univision.com/local/arizon...

Instant classic post.

NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio invokes an obscure statute to have Trump administration deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal US resident married to a US citizen who is 8 months pregnant. Judge issues a stay. Khalil was in pro-Palestinian rallies at Columbia. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

Friendly reminder that the fantastic team at @propublica.org has a database of non profits that we can all peruse to get a sense of what they (especially the ones that are weirdly profitable) do with their funds. Here’s a screenshot of NRA’s(tax-exempt status= under the “civil rights” category,btw.)

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said Mexican officials had a call with President Trump scheduled for Thursday, and that if the tariffs remained in effect, Mexico would announce countermeasures, including retaliatory tariffs, on Sunday. “We don’t want to enter into a trade war,” she said.

I want to read this book next. Reality,when delivered right, can be weirdly soothing. I suspect this to be the case here. (Gift article)https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/books/review/omar-el-akkad-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k4.nKzw.znDko4ZVvOuq

“No Other Land” just received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature! And, yet, one cannot watch the film on any streaming service in the U.S.

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

Texas Banned #Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

A quick internet (mostly AP) search suggests that Elon Musk,who is now cutting,constraining and dismantling federal funding, has benefited from *billions* in federal funding (actual funds,not just exemptions) for his business ventures and research interests. How convenient.

Amen to that.

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

A federal judge barred the U.S. government on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan men to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to a lawyer for the migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Scholars Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social and Daniel Jenks @jenksd.bsky.social examine the structural causes of child migration from Central America to the U.S. in their book Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration. An essential read ! tinyurl.com/3hexts74

First #fakenews and now, #fakescience. 😩 @naomiaklein.bsky.social ‘s framework (doubles+mirror world, explored in her book #doppelgänger) hits the nail on the head. 👀

Looking forward! Educación K-16, derechos humanos y una mirada del micro al macro, del cantito al mal-llamado contexto. ❤️🇵🇷🔥 #space #place #geography #inequality #humanridghts #puertorico

Lo último en la colu de relevo #SeraOtraCosa en Claridad. Ojo, es sátira. Ya saben, reír para no llorar y todo eso. claridadpuertorico.com/reunion-de-a...

Haitians and Dominicans rounded up by ICE in Puerto Rico.

Almost there!! The President’s office is MATCHING donations, so now is a great time to contribute. Spare a dollar, or five, or more? 🙏🏻

Some good news and a little ray of hope. 💕 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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The U.S. Education Department announced on Monday that it had canceled student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the tally of Americans whose loans were forgiven under President Biden to over five million.

Pharmacists can prescribe the pill in over 40 states. This is good news. Let’s added tk the list “things and people we need to protect”- your friendly neighborhood pharmacist. #reproductiverights www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/h...