"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Prompt: How do I start my story of my expeditions?

Some PhDoh's are still doing research like the original affluent society. Other PhA+'s have PERFECTED research with AI. Try out these *insane* Claude (Levi-Strauss) prompts and shortcut your way to a billion—yes, with a B!—dollars of research funding!!! (save this)

Encore plus de pétrole alors que la crise climatique s’aggrave. 1 million de barils/jour de plus = 27,7 Mt de CO₂/an. Miser sur le captage du carbone pour justifier cette expansion est un mirage. Le gouvernement défait d’une main ce qu’il prétend faire de l’autre. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

From a previous season of war in south Lebanon: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

"Why so biased? Where are the pro-Imperial voices on the faculty?" @mcsweeneys.net

So despite the ICE abduction this morning, Columbia didn’t take any steps to cancel classes or move them remote. No idea how noncitizen community members are supposed to feel safe showing up to study or work today.

When ICE agents began to terrorize Minnesota, climate groups helped lead the resistance. Check out our latest episode with @aru-shiney-ajay.bsky.social @benpasser.bsky.social + @emorwee.bsky.social. We explore why preserving democracy is central to climate progress. bit.ly/AMOD-Melting...

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

The long 2010s are finally over

What has hurt men so badly? FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/J_3sLLv1v0g

NEW: Men are not trash. Every time we say that, it helps the rich vampire perverts in the Epstein Files because it makes it seem like it's just inherent to men's nature to be predators. It's not!

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"