now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Not going to click on the link, because its the NYPost, but what in the actual world is this??? When did basic makeshift infrastructure become luxury?

LSE’s @gsos-lse.bsky.social has awarded funding for Living with Heat, a new research initiative led by Dr Sohini Kar and Dr Mahvish Shami exploring the impacts of extreme heat in South Asia. Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

I was saddened to hear of the passing of my PhD committee member Kay Warren. My favorite memory of Kay was being in a seminar where she said she had an invisible buzzer & she would ding anyone (mostly women) who apologized before speaking or sharing an opinion. I still carry that buzzer with me.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Google Scholar is now suggesting I add something that is clearly an AI hallucination to my profile.

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

Remembering Professor Tim Allen The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department. One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.

Aren't these the people who just drink Soylent?

today is the 2 year anniversary of Hind Rajab being shot 335 times by Israeli forces. she was 6. I cannot look at her pictures of her face without crying. I genuinely, in a soul deep way, cannot understand people who can look upon this and think "good."

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

As a parent of a similarly aged child, but more importantly, as a human being, this picture really breaks me.

The centre-left's determination to thwart anyone with charisma is a real superpower. bsky.app/profile/jess...

All empires fall. You just don’t think you’ll observe it in real time.

Searching for "Traitors" on here when I just want to see chatter about Harriet's meltdown on television, but ending up with depressing political discourse...

When was the last time you could honestly say "Happy New Year!" without silently adding "despite everything..."?

while simultaneously working to undo or lessen some of the harms caused by extractive industries. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,

Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Don't tell me it's about legal pathways. Unbelievably cruel. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's been a few years in the making, but a global pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby (now 4...) later, my work on financial activism is now out in the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (open access)!

Well played, London Underground.

Have always loved Tagore's Kabuliwala. A lovely piece on its meaning now.

I had debilitating nausea in pregnancy that required anti-nausea tablets. Perfectly safe, but even as a well-informed, pro-biomedicine person, I was anxious to take it b/c of the discourse around medicines in pregnancy. Putting this kind of anxiety on women for taking a Tylenol is unconscionable.

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

Sorry to disappoint.

Deleted. Please get in touch with me if you would like access to one of my papers. Always happy to share.

on.ft.com/3Vi46FW Memo to women: get ready to work for free again

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

“I am looking directly into a tent at another mother who is in hell.” www.vogue.co.uk/article/gaza...

Every day of this administration I wonder how it’s the same country I did my undergraduate and graduate degrees in as an international student. (Even given the changes after 9/11…)

“On Tuesday, the government announced a “nationally significant” water shortage in England, which means the whole country is at risk of running out if the dry weather continues” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The second piece in our AI series explores how the growing energy demand for training and running artificial intelligence models is driving increased investment in fossil fuels - and how accounting techniques distract from the surge in tech company data centre emissions on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

"If these practices continue to expand, and trying to buy things or earn money begins to feel increasingly like making a series of bets in the dark, then more and more people will start to suspect the corollary: that the house always wins." on.ft.com/4od2MRM

Why did Alberta's response to health concerns over oil sands extraction in Peace River include an extension to Minecraft? It was a long enough story (and important enough for thinking about geology and politics) for me to write this article: doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #oilsands #alberta #minecraft

Important findings: "Access to university has not yet had a great deal of attention from the new Government. But given its importance as a route to social mobility, it should be considered a key part of the Government’s Opportunity Mission." www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

Solidarity to international students and scholars at Harvard and beyond. Photo from my time there as an international postdoc on campus.

❤️ CC Class of 2025.

I understand looking for historical parallels when we’re at the stage of warning signs, but when the evil arrives the priority is to deal with what’s actually in front of you.

Does anyone have a PDF of Das & Poole's 2004 Introduction to 'Anthropology in the Margins of the State,' before I have to recall the book from the library?

What could possibly go wrong with using data that is inherently flawed and biased to predict murders? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Remember, the oligarchs always live in other places, as we in London well know... on.ft.com/4lo57b5

On crashing the economy, Trump to Liz Truss: "Hold my beer." Anyone have a lettuce going?

Time to pull out Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism again.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

Fascism is talking to American students in the UK, who feel they cannot write about topics they are interested in for the fear of being targeted.

Revisiting this essay for a paper, and it's making me cry: "The undoing of the plot begins when everything has been taken. When life approaches extinction, when no one will be spared, when nothing is all that is left, when she is all that is left." feministartcoalition.org/essays-list/...

It turns out it’s always veep and never house of cards