📝 Five important recommendations to root '(unin)habitability' research and policy-making in climate justice - including the recognition of people's rights to stay and to adapt in places abruptly labelled as '(soon-to-be-)uninhabitable'. @cameliadewan.bsky.social

I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social. Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.

The environmental humanities finalists include books by @benspky.bsky.social, Joanna Page, @cameliadewan.bsky.social, @pederanker.bsky.social, & Mauro José Caraccioli @ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Amazing papers and panels at the Health, Environment and Anthropology conference @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

Eid Mubarak from Sweden ❤️ in solidarity and hoping for strength in these challenging times. May the tides change for the better of those oppressed and subjected to countless violence and withdrawal of rights

“We’re failing to appreciate the people and institutions who’ve propelled these remarkable advances, undermining them without offering credible alternatives, and risking the loss of future breakthroughs that many patients are counting on,” said @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

Columbia. Harvard. A lot of pressure on a bunch of less prominent programs with all the programmatic cuts to language and area studies funding These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine

UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm. This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.

People disappeared off the streets Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.

UNRWA reports that hundreds have been killed since Israel resumed its bombing [genocide] of the Gaza Strip, including 180 children in a single day.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year. Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old. → europa.eu/!XvkvCk

“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it

Help please! I used to take the most amazing picture with a tiny little Canon PowerShot. I want a powerful camera with an amazing Auto function that is tiny and discrete and fits into a really small lady's handbag without needing separate lenses or its own camera bag. Any recommendations? Thank you!

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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Appalling. What happened to Truth and Reconciliation? www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...

Prof Ian Cousins explains levels of PFAS deemed "safe" in tap water vary wildly from country to country, with Denmark leading the pack, the US & Sweden taking second place & the UK & EU limping in way behind - with levels of PFAS permissable in our tap water 50x higher than allowed in Denmark. 2/3

The 35-year old man, who committed the deadliest mass murder in Sweden's history, was a native and his name was Rickard Andersson and had licenses to keep 4 guns. The Far Right has gone silent because he was not an immigrant or a Muslim!

Den här historien blir bara mer och mer bisarr. I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵‍💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...

Reading this makes me even more proud I did a joint degree with Birkbeck as a main college ❤️

An honour to be interviewed by two extremely senior and knowledgeable Bangladeshi engineers on my book misreading the Bengal delta youtu.be/LlBdvN4k5gA?...

3 year postdoc @dept of Social Anthropology UniOslo Norway to do ethnographic fieldwork in rural Europe. German language required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

And it’s only the morning of January 9, 2025

Co-organising 2 panels at Health, Environment, and AnThropology (HEAT) 2025 (23-24 April) (Durham and Edinburgh universities w RAI) on planetary health & environment. Please submit your abstract to participate! Deadline: 13 Jan 2025. Panel abstracts d72qb09is4it8.cloudfront.net/event-ckedit...

Seems Zuck is going to team up with Musk to fight EU and UK content moderation rules. Worrying. Big trouble ahead www.ft.com/content/7693...

Livestock mass confinement provides a perfect environment for the spread of disease. Consider your food sources.

Current Covid varieties in Sweden.

Fucking hell... Seriously, there's no going back from this. If it were not from Haaretz, nobody would believe it. Worse part? Nobody fucking cares. archive.ph/NVG4p#select...

A little short notice, but there is an Environmental Reading Group event today. You can find all the important information here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... Happy Reading! #rccevents #readinggroup #rcc #ecocriticism #poetry

A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...

CFP: Uneven Toxic Worlds: Rethinking Medical-Environmental Anthropology and Environmental Justice @ Health, Environment, and Anthropology (HEAT) Conference @durham_uni April 23-24, 2025. Submit abstract shorturl.at/c22sy Deadline: 13 Jan -25

Anthropologists! There's a new call for special issues out with Social Analysis. Deadline is 15 Jan 2025 - please get in touch if any questions www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/sa...

After seven years of rejections and revisions, my article "Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’" is now published with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... OA: Please check it out!

5 paid PhD positions at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS), University of Oslo Start date: August 2025 Deadline for application: 24th February 2025 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Amazing presentations on messing with methods in anthropology! Check it out m.youtube.com/watch?v=CULz... Impressive work organised by @malinisur and @morethanhumanwprlds Sophie chao

Let’s vaccinate against COVID. It reduces the risk of long COVID. This should be a no-brainer.

“Last year, 8,489 tonnes of chemicals banned on British farms due to health/environmental concerns were sent abroad, according to export data shared with the Observer. Of those, 98% were made by the Chinese-owned, Swiss-headquartered chemical company Syngenta” amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

PhD Position at Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

Infections are bad. Sometimes right away. Sometimes later. It's a myth that children need to be infected with pathogenic viruses and bacteria for their own good.

Israel has killed three World Central Kitchen aid workers and at least two others in an air attack on Gaza's Khan Younis, in the third deadly attack on the aid group this year.

On 29th November 1781, the crew of the Zong threw 130 kidnapped Africans into the sea to drown. The crew said there was not enough drinking water to go round and they had no choice, which meant they could claim for the deaths on insurance. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Israeli attacks have destroyed huge areas of land used for crops (70%), with 90% of cattle killed. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

December 5th, NYU. The Bangla phrase “shothik itihash” (correct history) has many meanings. An early, sardonic use can be found in Mohaiemen’s 2014 book Prisoners of Shothik Itihash. Mohaiemen revisits this project in the present of post-uprising power-vacuum Bangladesh. as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

It’s #ReadPalestineWeek, folks. I’ve just started this, a new reissue of Edward Said’s seminal The Question of Palestine via @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. As Edward’s daughter Najla recently told @amkdurie.bsky.social in a LitHub i/view, readers on Palestine ought to go back to the source material👇