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

So, if you are thinking of studying 'out of state' in the US, it could be cheaper for you to study 'out of country' in the UK. Consider some examples (based on last year's numbers, but still comparable):

Hey international students (including Americans!) come study in the UK - it's cheaper, takes less time, and we don't have a fascist government!

So, no AAA for me in the near future…

I spent over a decade as an international student in the US - at Columbia and at Brown. What is happening is truly devastating. I can't imagine trying to study or do research under such circumstances. What a loss.

We need to bring more of the arts and humanities into Development Studies. Here’s why: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why is mid-career classified by funders as like 2 years between early career and established?

Satire is dead.

Joining the embarrassed Columbia Alum group…

In a nutshell. on.ft.com/4kHbw0H

Whenever Republicans start going on about being pro-life, bring this up. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Playing airplane with 3 year old and was told my only meal options were a croissant or “curry pasta” and it feels a bit too real.

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

Definitely going to use this as an example to explain to students why using AI uncritically is a bad idea.

Time to stop playing politics with international students in the UK? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Feels like we live in a culture of rage baiting.

The extent of American exceptionalism and parochialism is fully on display, as Elon and his minions continue to act like they're the only kid in town. #USAID

I miss the days without doomscrolling.

Yep, this title… Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs on.ft.com/40YqOX5

Beck's uninsurability thesis meets Piketty's inequality thesis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social reviews //The Indebted Woman: Kinship, sexuality, & capitalism// by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, & G. Venkatasubramanian @stanfordpress.bsky.social 2023 #AnthroSky Find it here: ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Three postdocs positions (36 months each) are available in the School of Geography at QMUL; all working on a great ERC project on the dark side of green energy (waste, labour rights, etc) with Dr Carlo Inverardi-Ferri. Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...