I've been saddened today to learn that the University of Alberta is going down MAGA road and wants to abolish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. So I've written to University President Bill Flanagan, warning him of the legal risks. Because the University may need suing.

Excited to share my latest peer-reviewed article published in BMC Primary Care ( @springernature.com) with Ruth Lavergne & Myles Leslie from my time at the @ucalgary.bsky.social School of Public Policy leading #research for a CIHR-funded project on Virtual Primary Care #AcademicSky rdcu.be/e26xa

Wait did i successfully sign up for the AAA job board yet??

"We will never be after Gaza, for Gaza encompasses us," @sarahaziza.bsky.social writes in The Weekend Read. "She represents the dark underside of our choices, the extreme cost of our passivity." thenation.com/article/world/there-is-no-after-gaza/

How did the Covid-19 pandemic lay bare and exacerbate changes in work and labor? Our latest Hot Spots series is a global look at how labor has changed as a social form and object of study.

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

You will be delighted to know that there is an annual crossword puzzle awards event, happening this year on 2/23. Details are below (I'll be a presenter!), along with info about how to receive the nominated puzzles in advance - namely, by donating to the Trevor Project, which we should all do anyway

In solidarity with the statewide shutdown in Minnesota protesting ICE/CBP, I'm sharing some of the most insightful reads about the powerful, beautiful community response there - these pieces should inspire similar collective action everywhere. please link to others.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Refusing to participate in the electronicification of your entire life stays winning

Taught Hamlet this last semester and Cladius's (and, to some extent, Polonius's) bloviating and contradictory speech resonated quite viscerally with students.

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

“It's disappointing to see universities fold under pressure to terminate faculty for expressing themselves online, as if the First Amendment is an expediency to be discarded at a whim.”

In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology." “The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.” — @drleonardbright.bsky.social

Just want to note: Part of what we're missing is *exactly* what we're all doing in this thread folks! Just sayin. #anthrosky

AAUP Portland State University secured a crucial win: Admin will reinstate laid-off faculty & comply with an arbitration decision after violating @psuaaup.bsky.social's contract. This win proves that higher ed unions are key to protecting faculty livelihood at our universities. Read more here👇

The military & migrants are central to Maine’s economy & the effects of that dependence take on a brutal reality in the fight over the location of a small ICE facility in a rural community. Catherine Besteman in our 2021 series on immigration & Trump

In 2018, we published the Hot Spots series "Im/migration in the Trump Era." The series sought to generate discussion between scholars & activists working in the US about the potentials & challenges of practicing engaged anthropology with (im)migrants.

Hoping to join anthropology & activism in protest of the U.S. illegalization system, I decided to break the law. On Dec. 10, 2013, 7 activists & I rose early. We chained ourselves together & laid down in the snow outside the Elizabeth Detention Center, a 300-bed facility operated on behalf of ICE.

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

A text that was influential to me as precocious final-year undergrad, writing a short senior thesis and trying to decide if it was morally correct for me to pursue further studies in anthropology. RIP.

RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

Great conversation happening here and under the original post! Don't miss out!

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

Zero percent chance this is true.

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Good question. It would be great if we could find some ways to rebuild some of those networks (while also avoiding what happened with Twitter in which it could all be destroyed with a change in ownership). Many anthros are on here...it's a matter of finding/creating ways to bring folks together.

What would it take to make #AnthroSky what #AnthroTwitter was?

What, after all, is wrong with settler good faith? Being a settler is not inherently a moral failing, but a position in a structure of ongoing domination. Joseph Weiss writes in "The Ruse of Settler Colonial Morality"

The US is withdrawing from the UNFCCC and 65 other international other organizations. apnews.com/article/unit...

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works. Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Ive said this off-hand on panels and interviews over the last few years sort of as a joke, but after Trump’s invasion of Venezuela I realized I am dead serious We need to start talking like the chemtrail people

'When a president deploys military might and taxpayer dollars to expand Big Oil’s power, journalists and climate advocates shouldn’t be afraid to say why that’s really happening—or to use the kind of language that makes it finally click in people’s brains.' substack.com/@heated/note...

Chatbots are not your friend. They have no ability to care about you. They experience no social repercussions from sociopathic behaviour. Yes, talking to humans is hard, but the alternative is dangerous for your literal grip on reality

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.

👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.

turns out best way to beautify your city is also best way to adapt to climate change: deprioritize cars & on-street parking prioritize sustainable mobility and sponge city principles (de-paving streets for trees) bonus points: cleaner air, reduced urban heat islands, better public health outcomes

1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths 2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...

Ça aurait eu encore plus de succès avec ce titre et ce sous-titre 😏