Today, December 13th, is the feast day of Santa Lucia/Saint Lucy, a saint with much meaning for my Salvadoran family, and for many in Sweden too. She’s also the patron saint of authors! Tattoo by @jack_ankersen , based on the painting ”Saint Lucy”, by Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477) 🕯️❤️🕯️

A smack of jellies, squadron of pelicans, raft of otters, or galaxy of sea stars... No matter your favorite collective noun, these groups of animals are a force to be reckoned with when they come together—a simple reminder of the beauty that blooms in community and the strength that grows in unity.

One of the best long songs ever written

My latest article, "Tears of blood for the cracking city: urban infrastructures of extraction and everyday life in Kiruna, Sweden" is now published Open Access in kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology! Read it here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin / Happy Sámi National Day to all who celebrate! ❤️💚💛💙

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I’m just going to leave this here (from LinkedIn today)

🌹💔🙏🏽🕊️ #davidlynch

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Magical underground St. Lucia concert in Sweden’s Falun Copper Mine yesterday 🕯️

RIP to one of the greats. Glad to have met Thomas several times & even join his Overheating project for awhile. My fave memory is running into him during my PhD fieldwork in Kiruna 2013, the day the architecture competition entries for New Kiruna were revealed. Small places 4-ever! Tack för allt ❤️

A few years ago my friend PJ and I created the most perfect culinary fusion of Indigenous Sámi (PJ) and Salvadoran (me) cultures: Reindeer tamales! Today we made a big batch to kickstart the winter holiday season. So good! 🎄🫔 🦌

Stockholm office views ❄️❤️❄️

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

While I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons (though I always secretly wanted to) this essay by @manigarm.bsky.social really spoke to me! Reminds me a bit of my relationship to Tarot and how its helped me see the world in new ways. Maybe not too late to learn how to play…

My Sunday tradition: Tarot reading for the week ahead + album pick from the home collection. I usually post these readings on my #tarot IG account @holymountaintarot, but this one felt right to share in celebration of this new creative space. Wishing everyone a magical week ahead! ⭐️

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer. Morning.

❗️Podcast Alert ❗️ Featuring environmental anthropologist @cameliadewan.bsky.social, discussing her book, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta'. We cover the importance of examining local ecological contexts, understanding colonial history, and climate reductionism. Watch Now: youtu.be/o_zQWKqVSkk?...

"Industrial Complex" by Hilary McDonald is the sixth post in Part IV of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social w/ Jonathan Peyton niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i... #envhist #envhum #extraction

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

"I’m tired — as are many of us [othered] others — of being asked to repair profoundly extractionist, racist, suprematist systems... You want me to repair the image of your [institution]? Why [wld] I want to repair a discipline, a process, a protocol... that clearly is for some, and not for others?"

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh

Rebecca Solnit with unerring brilliance eviscerates the sinister authoritarianism of the tech billionaire class, through the lens of a San Franciscan who tracks the alarming changes to the city wrought by wealth www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

This is fine...

"The association operating in Vollsmose said that it bases its decisions not so much on whether a building is dilapidated, but more on its location and whether it would do well on the open market." This is sociopathic. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/w...

"I see [anthropology], primarily, as a discipline that can and should confront dehumanization." Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social on anthropology as method in times of relentless fear. anthrodendum.org/2023/10/17/d...

Excited for Stockholm Anthropology's roundtable on the theme of Ruination which begins today! Tomorrow I'll join Mahmoud Keshavarz (Uppsala U) and Jenny Lindblad (KTH) in our session on Architecture & Design. So looking forward to discussing these timely, urgent issues. www.su.se/english/cale...