NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

This and other atrocities can be tracked at the substack of the amazing @emilybass.bsky.social

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

Karoline Leavitt is apparently fine with her nephew’s mother being unlawfully deported to a country she hasn’t called home since she was 6.

This is huge.

While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

My birthday is coming up and as it gets closer I will post links to the people, places and initiatives I will be trying to raise money to support. I hope you’ll join me. A Gaza Giving Circle will be one. chuffed.org/project/hope...

For my friends and colleagues in North Carolina, Siembra NC has a new took to track ICE activity in the state - please check it out, contribute, and share! www.instagram.com/p/DRA64OZjWcR/

Job in feminist/queer STS at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo: #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

The Athens (GA) Immigrants Rights Coalition, which I volunteered with for several years, is currently fundraising for their Support for Immigrant Families in Crisis fund. 98.5% of donations go straight to families in need. Please boost & contribute if you can! www.athensimmigrantrights.org/donate

TODAY! #ActionforHigherEd #StandUpDuke

At this point, how is anyone believing anything the IDF/Israeli govt says about what's happening in Gaza? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Hoje às 19h no Intercept, vamos debater as reiterações do golpismo, ontem e hoje.

This administration is actively murdering people.

The MESA Board of Directors has released a critical statement addressing the repression of academic freedom in the United States. Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let... #AcademicFreedom #MESA #HigherEducation

25 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp on how disabled people and their families are especially impacted by this administration's budget slashing and disappearing of statistics on public programs: americananthro.org/present-tens...

Dr. @gavinyamey.bsky.social & I highlight the serious risks of the U.S. withdrawing from the WHO,both for American & global health security. When the WHO is supported, the world benefits. In the face of rising infectious & chronic disease threats, we need solidarity, not isolation. #GlobalSolidarity

"[S]evering the long-standing ties and scientific collaborations between the United States and the WHO and slashing future U.S. financial support to the WHO will have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global health." @gavinyamey.bsky.social @boghuma.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to engaging with scholars in the Moral Economies of Medicine working group at UNC Chapel Hill #Anthropology later this week. We'll discuss a chapter of my book manuscript in progress, Care After Zika, on #disability and #care in the wake of the Zika virus epidemic in #Brazil.

"[T]he problem was never “handouts”; it was disdain for disabled lives." @danilynrutherford.bsky.social for Time Magazine time.com/7260543/medi...

Just received a long email from my university unit (global health) on "staying safe" while working on "politicized" issues (like health equity, HIV prevention and treatment, social determinants of health). It includes a promise of an active shooter training. 🫠

Me: This whole thing about daycare recording every diaper change, ever meal, plus photos of playtime is really weird and surveillance-statey. Also me: *Checking the app every five seconds at work to see if there's a new photo of my baby eating a snack*

Long overdue intro post! I'm a medical anthropologist writing about #care, #reproduction, #epidemics and #pandemics, and #disability, though not necessarily in that order, and not all at the same time. Currently writing a book manuscript on the aftermath of the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil. 1/?

I wrote a review about Jacob Blanc's Book The Prestes Column:An Interior History of Modern Brazil (@dukepress.bsky.social 2024) for NACLA. I hope you like and decide to read it! nacla.org/prestes-colu...

This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.

Some good news in these surreal, dystopian times: two of my former students/mentees, for whom i wrote letters of recommendation, have been admitted to their schools of choice! An MA program for one, med school for another. Small rays of hope in an otherwise harrowing landscape.

I beg of you, I implore you, PLEASE STOP USING TRIGGERING FEATURE IMAGES IN ARTICLES ABOUT MISOPHONIA, FFS. I'm looking at you, @thecut.com.

We have an urgent situation 🚨 An abortion seeker from the South traveling to NY tomorrow has a $2,200 gap in funding. National funding groups cannot help. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Our new book is available for preorder: Family and Disability Activism: Beyond Allies and Obstacles edited by Pamela Block, Allison Carey and Richard Scotch. www.inkspellbooks.com/book/9781439... #disability #disabilityjustice

Some rad work colleagues and I have been up to: dukeforpalestine.org/palestine-li...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

We are joining together to declare July 9th to be World Misophonia Awareness Day. Learn why at misophoniaday.com Misophonia

This is huge news in the #misophonia world. Congrats to all involved, and fingers crossed for a positive response from the WHO!

Happening now! #AAA2024Tampa #AnthroSky

I'm a breastfeeding academic heading to first multi-day conference sans baby. What am I inevitably forgetting to take with me? Got pump & parts, cleaning stuff for parts, pads/liners, ice packs & insulated case... ??

Intro post coming soon, I promise

I'm here :)