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Apt historical commentary from local vintage shop (Hope St, Providy, RI)

Minute Cryptic - 20 August, 2025 "HARdLY ReMaRKABlE!?" (3,1,3,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dear @jtkantor.bsky.social we would like to request Girls and Boys by Blur tonite 🙏🙏⚾⚾🎹🎹

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social

Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.

If you are embracing AI in your schools, this is what you are agreeing with and contributing to.

Just let us know how to turn it off, sir

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

I just switched over to DuckDuckGo last week too. You can tell it to NEVER give you stupid AI summaries and then it doesn't! Reduces stupidity and also saves water (actual ducks approve) 🦆

The degree to which scientific research at universities has been tacitly underwriting technological innovation in the private sector is a fact this admin seems determined to learn the hard way Once upon a time there was a kind of fiscal conservative who might begrudgingly acknowledge this

My colleague David Kertzer (who knows about popes) quoted in the @nytimes.com: Leo XIII (head of the church from 1878 to 1903) "'called on the church to reach out to the working class [and] to work out an amicable relationship between capital and labor'" @brownanthro.bsky.social

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

🇵🇪 🌭 '“Chicago” and “Chiclayo” almost rhyme' --- Carlos Lozada in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

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#Breaking: Canadian academics are being urged to avoid all non-essential travel to the U.S. amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on research and education along with fears of being turned away at the border.

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained ‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says www.theguardian.com/...

We're thrilled to share that our authors @ievajusionyte.bsky.social and Matthew Morrison have won 2025 PROSE awards from the Association of American Publishers! Please help us spread the news 🎉 #proseawards @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Heads up! Shop our Flash Sale, today and tomorrow only. Save 50% on all books (including pre-orders) and journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 & don't delay. Ends March 26 at 11:59 pm ET. buff.ly/7EcSYhw

Saturday, 4/12 - Sunday, 4/13 — “Seed Pasts/Seeding Futures: Interdisciplinary Symposium.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, @brown-ibes.bsky.social, @cogutinstitute.bsky.social, @brownarchaeology.bsky.social, CLACS, and the Haffenreffer Museum. Learn more and view the full schedule:

In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!

Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Wonderful talk by @mdelac.bsky.social visiting CLACS at Brown to teach us about cattle, capital, and conception

How a Tulsa archeologist uses restorative justice to save Black history — This recent @nj.com article mentions Parker VanValkenburgh's role in a project analyzing the remains of the Greenwood district, the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Isabella Schultz: Merging anthropology and public health to impact maternal outcomes — A recent feature from @brownpublichealth.bsky.social details how Schultz is one of the rare students simultaneously taking on Ph.D. and MPH training as part of Brown University's Open Graduate Education program.

Tuesday, 3/11 at 6PM: "Five Years: A COVID Community Commemoration," hosted by the Pandemic Journaling Project. It’s been five years since COVID-19 turned our worlds upside down. What have we learned? What have we lost? How have we changed? Register and tune in via Zoom: bit.ly/3F6nTTM

New initiative addresses community needs through partnerships with Brown scholars, students — #NewsfromBrown reports on the partnership between North Burial Ground in Providence and bioarchaeologist Jordi Rivera Prince. Together, they are documenting and digitizing thousands of historic tombstones.

Yesterday’s ‘Back from the Field’ poster presentation event was a success! Presenters included Alyssa Bolster, Li Caraballo, Matt Ballance, Moi Herrera Parra & Gonzalo Aguirre. Each graduate student had the opportunity to share their pre-dissertation field research from Summer '24. Congratulations!

"Birds of Rhode Island" Background text from the 1stbaptistamerica (they're on insta)

OpenAI right now

I overheard someone at the blood drive here in Providence say that it was their first visit ... they had been trying to think of small things they could do to help make a difference in a small way. 💕

#FlashbackFriday to when Professor and Anthropology Chair @jessacabeza.bsky.social and Brown Sociology Professor Susan Short attended the launch of a Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection at the UN in November 2024. Both contributed to the report, which was led by SOS Children's Villages.

Time for other universities to step up.

Day #1 of conference "Politics of Child Adoption in the 20th Century" is a wrap -- many fascinating conversations about child welfare in England, Norway, Russia, former Czechoslovakia, & more.

Thank you @jpfeldman.bsky.social !!! The trains no doubt helped!

Read the entire article here on how AI is exacerbating existing issues re access to electricity in Arizona. This is only going to get worse, unless we stop pretending that AI has no downsides and also MUST be incorporated into every aspect of our lives. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

Our Provost too: "to avoid potential travel disruptions, members of the international community may wish to return to Providence before Monday, January 20, 2025." today.brown.edu/announcement...

Please apply and share! Brown Anthro @brownanthro.bsky.social and Cogut Institute @cogutinstitute.bsky.social invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology of Environment and Health. Due 3/1/25 apply.interfolio.com/159067

Hey anthropologists of Latin America -- come to the SLACA conference in Panama City this March! It's always a great group of scholars! slaca.americananthro.org/events/cfp-2...

"When Spain's Culture Minister, Ernest Urtasun, announced his intention to overhaul...museum collections earlier this year, his plan...sparked heated debates about national identity and historical representation." New article by Jeannette Plummer Sires in #SAPIENS www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

At 9:04 a.m. AST, I'll be pausing to remember the approximately 2,000 lives lost in the Halifax Explosion on Dec. 6, 1917, when a munitions ship collided with another vessel in the harbour. A significant proportion of fatalities were children. We Will Remember Them All. 📸 CP.

Postdoc alert-- in the Anthropology of Environment and Health! It's a 2 yr position in Brown's Anthro Department & Cogut Institute for the Humanities. We only ask for cover letter, CV, and names of 3 referees (referees are not contacted until long-list stage). apply.interfolio.com/159067. Due 3/1

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Up next #AAA2024 panel on the risks of kinship!

Terrific essay by Rachel Nolan reviewing Exit Wounds @ucpress.bsky.social and Soldiers & Kings for @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...