“In the Kalahari, one little boy who would almost certainly be diagnosed with autism in an American doctor’s office is highly valued for his abilities… the boy, his father told me, “is great herding goats. He always knows where they are in the day or night.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

This is a super helpful and interesting window into the editorial process - I learned a lot! I found the explanation of the relationship between editor and reviewer reports in final decision-making especially helpful to understand.

I was a grad student when Trump got elected in 2016, and the next day a very senior professor commented: "just goes to show the dangers of an uneducated populace." I have always remembered that remark over the last few years of social and political regression. Lest we forget what education is for.

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter 🧪

A valuable checklist. Thanks Julie. And for those seeking to explore further and challenge adultism in research, can I offer some additional resources from my own back catalogue: www.harryshier.net/docs/Shier-A... www.harryshier.net/docs/Shier-W...

It's hard to see what we're not seeing when working from the dominant or majority (normative) social position. As researchers, we share a normative but rarely critically considered position as ADULTS. This means our research has likely been shaped by adult-centrism. I made a resource.

Why do people keep trying to fo this? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Watching the US from afar, you realise the frog did notice the water heating up, it just believed the next midterm would turn off the stove.

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"What do other disciplines have to say about anthropology?" I asked ChatGPT... how accurate are these vibes? chatgpt.com/share/68584c... #epistemicrecognition #interdisciplinarity #STS #anthropology #academia

Welp, humanity, we had a good run

I’m excited about my latest publication with Sienna Ruiz in Medical Anthropology Theory Against Image Positivism: the possibilities of play as a mode of health research. Check it out and then check out the GIFs of images in the pdf (comments below) www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

#KateNash does it again in #BrassEye Parady mocking UK TERFs 😂⤵️

I have to give credit to the algorithms: my Bluesky feed is a beautiful thing

Critically important that the voice of early career researchers is heard when discussing how we fund Higher Education. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025.... #edchatie #educationalresearch

The ACYIG is delighted to present our latest Spotlight on Scholarship, featuring Chris Chapman's work on how children make stories and lives in residential care institutions in Japan: acyig.americananthro.org/spotlight-on...

You know why this is a load of shit? Scrapping DEI requirements isn't about 'merit' vs 'diversity', the key PSC guidance is focused on eliminating bias from recruitment & progression so your hiring is *actually merit-based and not racist*.

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

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This is harrowing advice. Crikey, the lack of humanities training is why the Silicon Valley tycoons are now running democracies. If our society isn't making pathways to employment for those with training in how to think about our society, then that's the problem.

Given the disproportionately high rates of neurodivergence among scientists, pretty sure we can actually say autism causes vaccines.

As of today, my new book is available in the open access Luminos series of @ucpress.bsky.social. (This means you & your students can download it for free). Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm. 🌱🌽 www.ucpress.edu/books/mal-nu...

And they don't know what they don't know. None of us do.

This draft relationships & sexuality framework seems based on the assumption that children do not experience or know things until adults decide to formally teach them. This is a false and dangerous assumption based on an adult ideal of full control over the young. insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...

Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals! Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'? @annastenning.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

In anthropology we share the saying "the fish doesn't know it's in water" for the difficulty of seeing our own enculturation. But the biggest problem isn't that the fish doesn't know it's in water. It's that it doesn't want to know. That knowledge isn't just mildly interesting and quite useful...

🧵 1/ Who cares for children matters - but how does it impact their health? 👶🏾💡 A new study explores care from non-maternal caregivers & child growth in Northwestern Tanzania by @anushe.bsky.social @abbeyepage.bsky.social @davidwlawson.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and co 📜👇

If people are feeling guilty about not following the news closely or "doing more" about the world situations to protect their own mental health and cognitive resources, this is what I have done and it's worked pretty well to manage the anxiety/guilt/exhaustion combo... /1

Please look at this list and share. These are the things that made America great.

I think everyone in academia should buy and read this book, especially if you see this post and think it’s not relevant to you

This is one of the best pain severity scales I've come across. It's incredibly helpful to be able to say not just a number but to attach a description to it - I find I get a better response when I do so. We use this scale to record my kid's abdominal pain and nausea too.

How epistemic injustice in research kills: This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?" "The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.

Fab essay from member @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social: "early childhood science implicitly promotes Western, urban middle-class skills and behaviours... a child has reached their full potential when they behave and think like a Western, urban middle-class child." aeon.co/essays/the-p...

When one of your satirical pieces breaks Google

Worst. Episode. EVER.

A third grader at the kids’ school has organized a protest ♥️

Academia is getting so scary voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Apparently it's anthropology day! Today I interviewed a scholar who spoke about bringing an "anthropologists eye" to public health. She connected historic land loss to dietary change & medicalisation for a "holistic" explanation of local maternal mortality @americananthro.bsky.social #AnthroDay

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.