Connecting cool research to work done in the 70s to the Trump admin funding cuts to the Iran conflict - this video covers a lot of ground in under 2 minutes.

Does it feel good to punch down instead of looking inward? #Auckland #recycling #nzpol

RNZ simply copy-pasted a condescending technocrat’s report that is all too eager to blame consumers, celebrate the penalties put upon them, and give marching orders to do it their way or no way instead of investigating how #recycling in #Auckland works and leads to such poor outcomes. #nzpol

This ridiculous Luxon govt is not informing us about anything during the fuel crisis. Pharmac are already showing shortages of some medicines due to the fuel crisis and no-one is saying anything, not media, not Luxon. Keep on top of your prescription meds people.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

This is her time

I want the kind of food that makes a therapist nervous and all I’ve got is coleslaw and pears. 🍽️ 🍐

Current NZ coalition messaging: "The recovery from the economic downturn caused by our incompetence has been set back by the actions of a US president whose policies we completely support." #NZpol

National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic. Labour saved 20,000 lives. National are saving landlords and tobacco

Ardern is a national asset & remains extremely popular in #NZ. Unfortunately death threats & vitriol fanned by right wing accounts & media as far as Fox News meant her family isn't safe Australia's gain is NZ's loss. NZ has also lost ~3% of its citizens since the right took over #nzpol #auspol

Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

Announcing the launch of the Sydney STS network, bringing together more than 50 science and technology scholars across the city - thanks to @sonjavw.bsky.social Friday March Feb 27, 3-5 pm, at USyd, + reception events.humanitix.com/sydneystsina... @aussts.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social #sts

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Supreme Court: Colleges can't use race as a factor in college admissions. Also the Supreme Court: ICE can use racial profiling to stop people on the street. The underlying legal principle: The concept of race can only be used as a tool of oppression, as it was intended to be.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The half time show showed the importance of walkable mixed use neighbourhoods. House, bodega, nail salon, Ricky Martin… all in walkable distance.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Precisely why I canceled my subscription.

As we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

10/10 ICE protest sign

Ros Sereysothea - If You Wish To Love Me [Cambodia,Psychedelic Rock] (1960s-70s) https://redd.it/d7miwi https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk

My colleagues at University of South Pacific (Fiji), National University of Samoa, Griffith University (Australia), University of Auckland, and I wrote this short reflection on the use of #VisualMethods for understanding #ClimateMobility in the #Pacific. #APN www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...

like human terrain systems

yeah at this point i'm pretty convinced the new york times is a recipe and puzzle company that also launders fascism

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

The depth of his hate for disabled people is and always has been breathtaking. It’s born of an arrogance I’ve rarely seen-he believes that he is some kind of ubermensch, and the only way he could ever become disabled is if some insidious conspiracy did it to him. Evil, evil man.

it’s so wild when you read Black theorists all throughout the 1900s literally predicting all of this… you cannot maintain a white supremacist, patriarchal state without those same genocidal logics being visited on its own people… it’s only a matter of time.

minneapolis is doing community care & mutual aid while exercising constitutionally protected legal activities

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

Honestly, I think the first thing Democrats should do is remind Americans that DHS and ICE didn't even exist until 2003. It's not like it's a long standing institution that must be preserved. It was created in the wake of 9/11 to combat terrorism and it's exceeded its mandate. We don't need it.

We used to be a society.

OMG! I just got internal bleeding from pretending to be hit by a car.

I’m biased, but I usually want to hear anthropologists weigh in on most topics. Often something will hit the news (Venezuela, weight loss drugs, rare earth mineral mining) and I want to know what someone who’s been living that topic for years has to say. Anthros are good for social media like that.

Good question. It would be great if we could find some ways to rebuild some of those networks (while also avoiding what happened with Twitter in which it could all be destroyed with a change in ownership). Many anthros are on here...it's a matter of finding/creating ways to bring folks together.

What would it take to make #AnthroSky what #AnthroTwitter was?

@dramandar.bsky.social #CryingLaughing listener (and fan) here. Hi! And HNY! Did you publish your end-of-year top 10 lists (yours and Ariel's) somewhere (e.g. on a blog somewhere or other social media)? Thanks for the fun and good work you do on this podcast, and for Severance as well.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.