Gee I wonder why I am getting targeted ads on Twitter about the Israeli embassy in South Africa? Perhaps I’ll have to ask Grok…

Platypus is hiring! 📣📣📣 The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor! blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...

Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."

One of the best outlets covering politics is being gutted and replacing their politics coverage with.....lies about the future young people will never see.

In honor of spooky season, I'm resharing a GeekAnthro article I wrote on Midsommar, the dynamics of exploitation and assault in the academy (looking at you Comaroff), and what we consider "sacred" in Anthropology thegeekanthropologist.com/2020/10/30/b...

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down. If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid. #mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...

Hi friends mutual aid call: a survivor I work with in Cape Town is at risk of being evicted. Please donate and circulate with your networks! www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/hel...

I am trying so hard to let my brain rest and recover post PhD and focus on dealing my auto immune issues. But the academic goblin in my brain keeps telling me I need to adapt my thesis into articles and be “productive.”

Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social. Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

The news outlets refusing to name Charlie Kirk as a right wing white supremacist and condemning “political violence” are the very same who have refused to name Israel’s violence against the Palestinians as genocide.

"Sonja Burns just wants officials to stop putting people like her twin brother in jail. He has cycled in and out of incarceration, hospitalization and homelessness because he is living with a serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, autism spectrum disorder and seizure disorder."

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

ICE body slams man's head hard into pavement—for eating crabs in public. Agents shove him into ground with arms twisted behind his back—bleeding severely from his forehead. "My head! You're breaking my arm!" he cries out. "Why are you doing this? I was just eating crabs!" Washington, D.C.

Everyone’s been asking what I an doing post PhD. The main thing is that I am resting and relaxing after developing an auto immune disorder during my PhD. But I’m also helping to do rapid response research on the impacts of USAID cuts in Cape Town, especially for sex workers, people living with HIV.

“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon.

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

Just a heads up that @haymarketbooks.org's summer sale ends Friday. You can currently get 40% off all books, including my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You.

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

Good morning from Rhodes University and the Anthropology of Southern Africa Conference in Makhanda.

Read this, share this with everyone you know, and you can also sign this petition. 🧪 🩺 www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

Get in touch if you're planning to teach cyborgs this fall and want to have one of us in for a guest (Zoom) lecture!!

*stares at camera*

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

1/ THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

In my latest blog post I lay out some things we as faculty can do to ensure that higher education remains an incubator that prepares future generations for a multiracial democracy as opposed to an incubator for Trump's fascist agenda. Check it out! educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/a...

Donate to help out Mohammed and his little one here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

Please help out Nour and her family if you can - donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/i-want-hel...

do NOT apply for the scab jobs at columbia

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus. All were Black girls hurt by police.

Being a feminist academic on Twitter never ceases to be a delight 🥲 I could write a whole new PhD thesis based on these comments to my tweet about Johnny Depp alone.

BREAKING: At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza this morning, sources at local hospitals tell our team. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m4ewkf

This is moderately terrifying but I’m trying out TikTok to provide some much needed context around Trump’s claims of a white genocide, why rates of crime and violence are so high in South Africa, and what simplistic narratives about the need for more policing leave out. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MXG1q2/

Actor Jonathan Joss, best-known for voicing Native characters on King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation, was murdered in a hate crime perpetrated by a San Antonio homophobe. Here is what his husband wrote about what happened.

“One in six female survivors surveyed felt forced to engage in ‘survival sex’ for necessities after 2023 catastrophic Hawaii fire.”

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

When you’re dead inside but can finally call yourself a doctor and a book author.

Today's the day! Join us on the National Mall from 10 AM to 5 PM to celebrate trans freedom with a day full of music, fun, and the unveiling of our historic Freedom to Be quilt. Get details at aclu.org/freetobe-dc #WorldPride

More conversations with GBV and trauma-informed practitioners need to happen to disrupt narratives of “mutual abuse.” But this episode from It’s Been a Minute is a good start, especially to contextualize the Diddy case, Depp v Heard, and why survivors stay in abusive relationships.

Wrote about Adriana Smith, who has been kept alive for months on a ventilator, brain dead, against her family's wishes—all because of Georgia's six-week abortion ban. www.thecut.com/article/adri...

"RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) has removed more than two dozen resources for L.G.B.T.Q. people, immigrants and other marginalized groups from its list of permissible referrals…employees…are instructed not to deviate from that list"

My grandma was the first woman in the family to go to college. And now I’m the first PhD in the family. #phdone