Hoping the new 🇳🇵government can work toward cleaner air

1) Medical Anthropology 2) Demographic Anthropology 3) Anthropology of S Asia and Nepal I'm old enough that I had to search actual journals in the Rock and photocopy the articles. And I turned one of my comps into a publication, so there's that.

🚨Calling all anthropologists who love sport, study sport, play sport, and/or write about sport. It’s time for a topical interest group focused on sport to bring us together in conversation and collaboration. If you’re interested in forming a TIG, please let me know. It only takes 10 of us to start.🚨

I've been questioning my plans to travel to Nepal. If I can deal with pain and back spasms everyday in the US, I can also deal with it in Nepal. जाऔं !

The survey being distributed via email by USF researchers for R1 faculty on AI use is good – I would encourage you to participate (unlike the internal university survey on AI I recently received that had me yelling at the questions)

In “Toxic Synergy” #MedAnthroHI doctoral candidate Erin McConkey "introduces the notion of the precarious grasp to describe the unstable entanglements between humans and venomous snakes at a Thai antivenom facility, where survival depends on mutual exposure to harm."

Reading a 2025 peer-reviewed article on access to emergency obstetric care in LMICs and the author cites articles in the lit review for subjects that ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN THE CITED ARTICLES. LLM lit review or?

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Korean Air ✈️ must've made changes to their frequent flyer program – it is impossible for an American to use miles these days. Bye, Korean Air. This relationship isn't worth it anymore.

Things like childcare and paid leave would be great. And we should support them EVEN IF THEY DON'T RAISE BIRTH RATES because there is a robust body of evidence demonstrating they improve the health and well-being of children, parents, and families. (They're even good for employers!) 4/6

That's not to say that there are no economic or societal implications for low birth rates or that there's nothing we can or should do. But what we should be asking are two questions. First, we should ask "how can we make parenthood easier for parents and would-be parents?" 3/6

New article by #MedAnthroHI MA & med student Katriel Wong on Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawai‘i. We advocate for bwebwenato / talk story / talanoa as collaborative methodology. #Hawaii #ReproJustice #ReproSky #PublicHealth #Anthropology

my stylist gave me curtain bangs and I am trying to adjust but I'm not certain my face warrants window dressings

Meanwhile, this prof, deeply committed to transferring critical thinking skills to the next generation, has returned to printing texts for students & having them underline & write in the margins of those "long PDFs" AND create a handwritten reading notes journal.

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

Wearing running shoes every day gets old. Esp in hot weather. Just discovered OOFOS sandals, and trying to decide if they are ugly af or so ugly that they're cute. #48yoInTheBodyOfAn80yo #disability

New from Laura Burke: Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor-Leste doi.org/10.1111/maq.... #MedicalAnthropology #FeministDemography

"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)

Dr. Kim TallBear at University of Hawai‘i on Thursday #Indigenous #Anthropology

Oiselle's CEO just made a spirited statement on the state of things in MN. Also providing cold weather gear to mutual aid orgs. Go show them some love if you need new running gear

Jana Fortier reviews the book, Kathmandu: A reader, edited by Benjamin Linder, in American Ethnologist. #anthropology

graffiti observed on today's commute, aka resistance Hawai‘i style: Be Nice Eat Rice F Ice

First week report of using printed course texts: Had the deeply satisfying experience of knowing students were leafing through the pages of their assigned text during seminar instead of looking at *literally anything* on their screens.

In the waiting room at the dentist, I knocked a magazine off the table. I couldn't pick it up. A lovely white-haired woman, in her 70s, offered to pick it up for me. I'm 48 and strong. I do RDLs as PT. Disability is confusing and humbling.

Calvin Goldscheider 28 May 1941 - 13 January 2026 Brilliant scholar Extraordinary mentor Devoted husband My stepfather

Thinking of Prof. Calvin Goldscheider today & the bright light he was for graduate students at Brown. He adopted my cohort of unconventional "demographers," aka cultural anthropologists, & challenged us to be better thinkers & people. His larger-than-life smile & intellect will always stay with me.

Nice job, Okonkwo!

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

If your book or one you admire belongs on this list, please let me know! Happy New Year #GlobalHealth #Anthropology #CriticalGlobalHealth (BTW, Brown Saviors isn't on the list because it's a required text for the course)

New Year’s reading. Posted with a full embrace of the irony of posting the book on social media.

Considering going radically old school for my writing seminar on reproduction next semester. Print out the texts for them, maybe even use journals for hand-written reading notes? #anthropology #academicsky

"When parents realize what a saboteur A.I. is for learning, they’re more likely to back an ambitious overhaul."

This was a question on the final exam I gave yesterday 😊 Happy End of Semester to all who celebrate!

My physical therapist made me chuckle today. I told him I had been recently diagnosed with degenerative disc disease. His response? “Everyone has degenerative disc disease.” He’s not wrong.

Pele took out a webcam 🌋

Been struggling with our 6th grader’s school-issued Chromebook, and sounds like his friends are struggling even more. Why is 6th grade education entirely mediated by screens? We’re discovering it’s almost impossible to opt out.

New in @culanth.bsky.social by Ina Zharkevich: Debt & the American Dream: The Specter of Debt & Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and coming to terms with the fact that I have to toss out half of my shoes. Cute shoes, mind you.

Unboxing my first ever anatomical model. I feel like I have finally unlocked peak Professor status.

All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!

Don’t love starting off AAAs with a red eye from Hawai`i and 36 hours of no sleep 🙃

Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!

I’ve reread this paper 100s of times, and only today did I see the annoying error in the abstract 😒

CFP 2026 Center for South Asian Studies @uhcsas.bsky.social Spring Symposium Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi

Trying to describe a comprehensive exam bib to a doctoral student as a Greatest Hits album is dating me, isn't it #AcademicSky

500 feet high. Hoping my volcanologist will perhaps take a few steps back and give Pele her space.

The fountain just got so large they had to zoom out

enjoying watching Camera 1 this morning as the surface patches of lava start to cool and then meet resistance and fold as the hotter lava underneath continues to move – you can watch it make those characteristic patterns that are so common on the Big Island #Kilauea 🌋 #Pele