📖 On 26 September our #Anthropology, #Energy, and #Economy reading group will convene to discuss selections from Adam Hanieh's @versobooks.bsky.social book Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. 📚 Time: September 26, 2025, 14:00-15:30. 📚 Zoom link upon request.

Today marks 5 years since we arrived in #Germany! 🇩🇪 Yesterday I submitted my first-ever #research proposal to Horizon Europe, and today I have registered for the B1 language test in October. Now, off to the public library to check on my interlibrary loan. Tomorrow is definitely a spa day 🏊‍♀️🧖‍♀️

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

@dschiff.bsky.social Welcome to BlueSky (a bit belatedly, since you have been here for a while)! You may also want to connect with @ketraschmitt.bsky.social here 🏞🌄

How many screens does it take to write a grant application? #AcademicSky #AmWriting #Anthropology #WomenInSTEM

Places I vacationed as a child are washing into the sea 😭 #climate #climatechange www.witn.com/video/2025/0...

📖 On 15 August our #Anthropology, #Energy, and #Economy reading group will convene to discuss three articles regarding #heating, air conditioning, and city governance in relation to embodied comfort. 📚 Time: August 15, 2025 14:00-15:30 📚 Zoom link upon request.

“I argue that two scales of ‘entrapment’ occur for CCS knowledge workers, recursively combining into ‘people capture’ by the industry:"

"Although equal pay for equal work policies may seem like a viable solution, [ . . . ] they only help those who have already secured work, but immigrants face barriers to employment that begin long before even applying for a job." theconversation.com/immigrants-i...

Listing below 5 good reasons to read my new #anthropology article "People Capture" via @berghahnbooks.bsky.social journal @socialanalysis.bsky.social as ch.4 of issue 68(4) regarding "Anthropologies of Capture": #STS #AcademicSky #Anthropology #NonFiction #Sustainability #Climate

Our special issue on Anthropologies of Capture is finally here -- co-edited with Ana Chiritoiu and published with Social Analysis!! This issue has been a long time in the making, and I'm thrilled to see it out in the world. Read the introduction here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2....

Lost a beloved relative today 💔 😭 My life feels a little smaller now. ❤️‍🩹

Omg, I haven't worked for TUM for 8 months now...whyyyyy I am still getting requests to supervise MA theses at TUM..... 🤯😵‍💫.... flattering, yes, but the fact that their department lacks energy social science (as opposed to life science ss) expertise is not a problem I was ever empowered to solve....

A few impressions of Munich's early summer 🌿

Scenes from my life: getting ready to teach Max Weber, "Science as a Vocation" at the exact same university where he gave the original lecture in 1918. 🤩 About to stop for my morning German lessons (A2.1) and then get back to work on behalf of #LMU #anthropology.

Extrem leidiges Thema aber da ich mich inzwischen wirklich tagtäglich damit auseinander setzen muss: ich persönlich finde es beängstigend dass scheinbar ein Großteil aller Studierenden & auch einige Kolleg*innen ChatGPT oder andere LLMs, evtl auch AI Image Generators benutzen. Meine Probleme damit:

I mean, the warning wasn't wrong. #proofOfCat

Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS. Not to save money, but to punish truth. A government that censors public media isn’t leading. It’s covering its tracks.

"Anthropologists bring their unique backgrounds as scholars and citizens of the world to bear in their research; this is what allows them to produce knowledge that is truly new." 🧵 #AcademicSky #AcademicWriting #Anthropology #AI wennergren.org/ai-policy/

FYI for academic writers leaning into LLMs to compose "new work": below is an example of what your reader's experience is - i.e., is what it feels like on the other end of the process.

Watched an interesting video that defines "smalling up": youtu.be/hFpQ5N_ttNQ?... #Sustainability #LifelongLearning #Courage

Still working on my #SocialMediaShift. Need a new email account. 📣 I wanted to broadcast that getting #OffTheBigFive is NOT an instance of what Tressie McMillam Cottom would consider purity politics (see her "dry January" thoughts here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/o... ) Progress, not perfection 📣

Spring is a time of renewal! 🌱🐣 I accidentally spent a large chunk of my weekend pondering to what extent I feel capable of disconnecting from The Big 5 tech companies. I think I can ditch Facebook and maybe reduce my Google use . . . 💪🏻 #DigitalExodus #OffTheBigFive #SocialMediaShift

#Digitalexodus #stopsupporting chronies www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

My ability to pronounce the the word "Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung" just came in handy for an in-class activity in today's 🇩🇪 language course (A2.1)! #LifelongLearning effort pays off in unexpected moments . . . #Expats #Courage #Discipline #PersonalGrowth

Seems that I'm assimilating to Germany/the EU 🇩🇪🇪🇺 : it makes me inexplicably happy to see the bright red trains 🚂 gleaming in the sunlight like a bunch of friendly, familiar toys #BesserWeiter #Sustainability #Climate #ShowYourStripes #Expats

Seeking paper presenters for the American Anthropological Association fall 2025 meeting, for a panel Asmus Rungby and I are convening regarding echoes of developmental modernism in climate change mitigation projects. 🧵 #Anthropology #2025AAANewOrleans #AAA #AcademicSky #ConferenceNetworking

I signed this ➡️ www.defendresearch.org Now, your turn ➡️ "All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation." #DefendResearch ✊ #AcademicSky #research #science #womeninSTEM

Agreed that contemporary societies need a larger vocabulary for value

Catnip party at my house! #Caturday

Finally finished this book I bought for December's vacation. Was reading for some leisure-time ♀️self-care conciousness-raising💪, and also because I seem to be getting more involved in writing and speaking about liberalism recently. #Booksky #NonFiction #Feminsm #SelfImprovement #LifelongLearning🧵

Goodbye Sandra Harding, thank you for your service to humankind 😢

The newly-created class Social Studies of Energy existed twice at Technical University of Munich, once in the “Industries & Innovation” module and once in the “NatureCultures & Sustainability” module. With IEEE journal editor @ketraschmitt.bsky.social I created a peer-reviewed record of my class. 🧵

American exceptionalism is the bill of goods they sold you so that you wouldn't realize that other countries give workers rights, reasonable minimum wages, and health care that isn't job dependent.

Although I appreciate the intensive language lessons I usually take each afternoon, I also appreciate the break this week so that I can sit & write something to share with Copenhagen University's #Anthropology Department next week! #amwriting #AcademicSky #writingcommunity #authorsky #writing

I will attend this online event on Sunday to figure out how I can help #resist the attacks on scientific livelihoods and freedom of speech in #science: actionnetwork.org/events/acade... 💪🏻🇪🇺🇺🇲🇩🇪 Solidarity > Isolation Action > Fearful waiting #AcademicSky #STS #anthropology #womeninSTEM #Courage

It always starts with one person and an idea. BTW there are more actions planned. This is one list. The more we flex our economic muscles, the more we will find we can do!

Finished A1.1, shifting to A1.2 🎓🔥 Added free apps today, towards my goal of excellent German language competence before the fall! 💪🏻🌍🇪🇺 As a teenager I was so good at languages. Channeling my inner child right now to be OK with my incompetence & enjoy the journey. #LifelongLearning #expats #Courage

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

@nytimes.com I am cancelling my subscription in re: your choice to cheapen your content with machine-generated text, and also because the tone of your coverage over the past year has been strangely pro-corporate. Who is your audience? www.theverge.com/news/613989/...

Tausende Menschen demonstrieren heute für Vielfalt, Toleranz und Gleichberechtigung und Demokratie beim ersten Winter-CSD in Berlin. Mit Blick auf die Wahlen geht es insbesondere auch um den Erhalt des Selbstbestimmungsrechts. #CSD #b1502

But so rewarding #courage #beyourself #you #change #happyness #standup

Eppur si muove 😓 #Climate #BesserWeiter #CarFree #ShowYourStripes #research #science

[...] "the lack of any other statement in this very public instance, or recognition of its wider implications, increasingly looks like a failure of moral courage" [...]

I am SO excited to teach #STS next semester at #LMU. Advanced qualitative reasoning is priceless.🐆 As software tools increasingly pretend to do it for us, and humanistic research habitats 🐅🌳are defunded, suppressed, or replaced, I feel increasingly called towards 'stewardship of endangered skills.'

Universities are major employers, and represent institutionalized efforts to serve the public good. @mybiotics.bsky.social does this summary sound accurate to you, regarding science funding changes in the USA? open.substack.com/pub/deliprao... #NIH #AcademicSky #research #science

On my way to get a little Sunday-morning exercise 🏊🏻‍♀️ I am #grateful for #public #infrastructure and the opportunity to avoid polluting the air with car exhaust as I take the same travel path so many others take (at least on weekdays.) #Gratitude #CarFree

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.