Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting... www.spectralremix.org

Spectral Remix show opening on November 19th. Four days only ... timed to co-incide with the meetings of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. #spectralremix, #aaa2025. www.spectralremix.org

Spectral Remix November 19-22, 2025 New Orleans Spectral Remix brings together anthropologists, artists, and multimedia creators exploring the creative and critical possibilities of remix as both an artistic and ethnographic practice. www.spectralremix.org

Seen on some social media feeds. Maybe made by students at UT? Anyway, this is all in response to the president of the University of Texas who has made a new task force for curriculum on campus.

You won’t hear about this in the. Western media - 50 boats sailing to Gaza on 31st August and 4th September globalsumudflotilla.org

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Friendly reminder that our Spectral Remix RFP closes June 1 -- if you do art/media/design and are interested in the haunted quality of remix practice (incl. AI etc) please do send a proposal our way!

Funny because it’s true

It's not clear how the news media can continue to call what Israel is doing a "war." Don't they have enough letters left to spell "genocide?"

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

You mean to tell me banning affinity group graduations, handing over school records to the DHS gestapo, cracking down on protests, and dismantling DEI didn't appease this fascist dictator?! I'm shocked I tell you. /s

We have many exciting new titles coming out this May, including "Disaster Nationalism" by Vivian Y. Choi @vivvychoi.bsky.social . #AsianStudies #Anthropology buff.ly/BWX6cDK

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk about urban atmospheres, noise pollution, folding and glitching with the wonderful @marinapeterson.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5xnsptc2 @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social

He’s so good at this.

artist/anthropologist alert!

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Here is a gift link for the WSJ article: www.wsj.com/politics/mee...

“Viewpoint diversity!” What a euphemism they’ve invented! Rest of the world calls an authoritarian government pressuring universities to staff them with its supporters with other names: Nepotism, clientelism, patronage…

"the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a technical abstraction. It is not about some theory of government functioning. It is about the president’s use of secret police to abduct a man from American soil and send him to a foreign gulag."

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper. And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that. Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

Fixed it for you, New York Times.

UT Austin is blocking www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc... Is anyone else experiencing this?

The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

At today's March on Washington for Gaza, little kids' shoes and sandals ran down Pennsylvania Ave to represent the 17,400 Palestinian children that "the US has paid for Israel to murder." 📸s from the demonstration (1)

the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....

Join the call to plan for April 5th! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Trump lies kept.

Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

The security theater was always theater…a pity so many ordinary USians thought it was documentary. Now we begin to learn about the actors compelled to play a part and tragically paying the price for thinking the USA might be a safe place to appeal for asylum. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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A photograph of a speaker from the natalism conference at UT Austin.

Seen on campus at UT Austin. Protest against the eugenics/pronatalism conference.

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

This is how Trump does terrorism

If universities can’t protect our students what is even the point? thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like. wrd.cm/420UPoq

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access transequality.org/news/freedom...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk to Jerry Zee about strange weather, wind-sand and whether ecological civilization will be the next phase of Chinese socialism. Pls listen and share: cenhs.libsyn.com/225-bad-weat...

On March 8, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident and student activist for Palestinian rights… go to bit.ly/freemahmoudnow to demand Mahmoud’s release.

Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.