Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch. www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

Coming soon! I'll be talking about a book project on Lassa fever that is close to completion, written with Annie Wilkinson and Alumdena Mari Saez. Under contract with Cornell UP www.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/archives/inf...

FINALLY!! Keep the pressure on. How long must this continue? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social stand tall and stand up to this unforgivable violence Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood | Gaza | The Guardian share.google/FsKgECzDBSuW...

"And we're going to stand up for Haiti because you taught the world about freedom and its time we return the favor"

We're showcasing some of our @erc.europa.eu projects, including work by Professor Hannah Brown & her team to deepen understanding of human-animal relations in evolving economic conditions. Read more: bit.ly/4dMQQkU @britishacademy.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @mamatommy.bsky.social

Well look what just came up on my Google alert... www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Human-animal studies online course fall 2025. Free to PhD students. Guest lecturers: Krithika Srinivasan and Kuai Shen. More info: www.facebook.com/animalsinsoc... Sign up now, limited group size!

BBC News - Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starving, multiply displaced people in tents are being bombed, 50 UK families own as much as half the population, and you have almost no chance of saving to buy a house (unless you inherit money, forget it). And somehow (a) this happened and (b) it's news... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Miserable

Hey you. Malignant narcissist. Name rhymes with Bump. See our @independentsage.bsky.social report on Diversity in Science. Evidence is all in there, should you wish to look. You’re welcome. independentsage.org/report/how-d...

Weekend reading material just arrived! I hope it's going to be an interesting combo... Ordered second hand and from the wonderful bookshop.org who make a donation to my favourite local bookshop of course 😊

Now sending money to a friend in a Kenya so that she can access HIV care and medication. It's like going back to the 2000s. The new reality of global public #unhealth

A very perilous development in the H5N1 flu panzootic has just been observed: "Bird flu confirmed in rats for first time" www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

You can read the piece here: limn.press/article/the-...

We have a job opening @durhamanthropology.bsky.social for an Anthropologist of data who can lead a large module on critical studies of data. Lovely department in a small but beautiful city in North East England. Please share widely. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I've learnt that using AI is better by Haiku. Here's today's artful contribution.

Any academic marking student essays could have predicted this! Hard to prove though 😜

We have great programmes in Medical Anthropology and Global and Planetary Health.... Come to our online open days to find out more!

Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field? The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Amy Cox Hall reviews //Eating Besides Ourselves: Thresholds of foods & bodies// by @Heather Paxson & Marianne Elisabeth Lien, eds @DukePress 2023 #AnthroSky Find it here on Early View: ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Comforting news story: Leeds teenager creates Venus de Milo sculpture out of snow www.bbc.com/news/article...

Biology is far more interesting than simple categories and being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary” @princetonupress.bsky.social publishing May 6th! Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1

As of today, my new book is available in the open access Luminos series of @ucpress.bsky.social. (This means you & your students can download it for free). Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm. 🌱🌽 www.ucpress.edu/books/mal-nu...

Hace unos días supimos que esto se viene por fin en 2025 de la mano de Editorial CSIC. Ilusión y agradecimientos infinitos. (La portada es una maqueta provisional.)

The Polyphony (coming to Bluesky in 2025 ☺️) is one of the world's leading medical humanities platforms. We are recruiting 2 new part-time editors to join our dynamic ECR-led team, working closely with Editor-in-Chief @evasurawy.bsky.social Apply by Jan 20! thepolyphony.org/2024/12/17/w...

‘Hello Bluesky,’ says @dubdobdee.bsky.social: ‘This renewed glimpse of an earlier internet utopia has its heartening side: a panoply of shy and varied Miyazaki-style mini-kingdoms prioritising respite, weird self-care, stubborn freedoms of association.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...

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

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh

Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.

Durham Anthropology would like to invite you to this years Layton Dialogue! This year’s theme is ‘Multispecies ethnography as a forum for dialogue in anthropology’ and will feature Prof Marianne Lien and Dr Kerry Dore with Dr Simona Capisani as discussant! 📚🎓

Can't wait to read this special issue in the journal Africa with contributions from two of my fantastic colleagues at Durham working on the anthropology of sport www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just out! Why are anthropologists interested in microbes? Are we witnessing a turn to a new object of study for #anthropology? Find out what I think in this long review of three recent books on the topic in the JRAI rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

New podcast interview up about my research: first book, military and public health, the possibility of ‘decolonizing’ global health, etc: globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2364394/epis...

Anthropologists! 📝✨ The Highlights section of the American Anthropologist is open for pitches—especially from early-career scholars. Got a fresh take? Share your ideas with us! www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social

We made a first starter pack of #anthropology publications and departments. Happy to expand :) go.bsky.app/VsgAVnZ

New interdisciplinary paper with Margarita Staykova just out in ST&HV: Co-developing Materials in the Metamorphic Zone: Extending Bacteriocentricity doi.org/10.1177/0162...

Hi all! Are you thinking of coming to the Health Environment and Anthropology (HEAT) conference at Durham in April? I'm co organising a panel "Livelihoods under pressure: Vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience in developmental contexts". Propose a paper here: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

Congratulations to Professor Elisabeth Kirtsoglou on a fantastic inaugural lecture @Durham Anthropology

Collegiality cake for tomorrow's dept coffee morning makes a good way to start posting on here (Cranks Devon apple cake btw).