I miss my digital community, so I suppose I’ll try to cultivate it again through documenting 🥺💘
🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី
@thaoeatworld.bsky.social
🇰🇭 🇻🇳 🏳️🌈 🌱🍲🧶🛼✨ 👩🏻🔬transdisciplinary researcher 📚 writer, poet, zinester 🎙️occasional podcaster + videographer 🗺️perpetual explorer 🖋️ https://thaoeatworld.com/ ✨💖 #globalhealth #medanthro #food #ethnobotany #STS #rollerskating
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
gadgetreview.com
Recently read an “interesting” anthro article which reeked of orientalism and fetishisation under the guise of feminist praxis and frankly, I am EMBARRASSED and ENRAGED?
Assigning Persepolis to my incoming high school student this week and am super stoked to hear about their thoughts 💭
Submitted my first food writing piece in a while for a local magazine here in Portland! It’s actually the longest piece I’ve ever written and contains a lot of my own food photography so I’m very excited.
My heart is so full! Ocean Vuong’s riveting reflections were AMAZING tonight. Can’t wait to read The Emperor of Gladness 🫶🏽
👋🏽 Hi everyone, I’m still alive! My days are mostly spent at my current alt-ac job, where I’m working in communications and handling partnerships and community engagement. I think I’ll return to posting on here because I miss the digital town hall of the golden era of Twitter ❤️🔥
I love treating my life like a canvas. I just keep adding colourful bits and trying out styles and approaches I probably wouldn’t have tried unless I was pushed.
I recently learned my dear friend and colleague Dr. Dauro Mattia Zocchi passed yesterday. No words can truly encapsulate how I’m feeling right now. Our PhD cohort was small and experimental, yet mighty. I took this of him our first week…mi manchi tanto ❤️🩹 🔗 www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...
✍️ 📖 After three years of dreaming and writing, I’m happy to present our book “ #Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media” as part of the #Routledge series on #gastronomy, #food, and #drink. 🔗 Pre-orders start March 31st, but set a reminder now! ⏰ www.routledge.com/Mukbang-Food...
✍️ 📖 After three years of dreaming and writing, I’m happy to present our book “ #Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media” as part of the #Routledge series on #gastronomy, #food, and #drink. 🔗 Pre-orders start March 31st, but set a reminder now! ⏰ www.routledge.com/Mukbang-Food...
Hey #food people, any #opencalls for #pitches floating around? I’m feeling like #foodwriting again! #writing #journalism
I got a rejection for an academic role I wanted, and I did the human thing and cried about it at my desk!
What good is 100 citations when most of them lead back to your toxic supervisor? 👁️👄👁️
In unexpected news, I started playing jazz flute at a local jam session meetup. Pedro (in the yellow beanie) oscillates between drums, bass, and keys, but I’m just trying to revive my 12 year old jazz band self.
To think, that bits and bobs from our fieldwork research in Cambodia will be in the National Geographic Society’s Explorer Base Camp exhibition in Washington DC! 🥹
good god, please do not do this Do not trust this company with ANYTHING sensitive or personal. Or any of them.
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 10mo agoI cannot stress enough that you should not do this.
It’s 2025, almost 2026, and people still think I’m “unprofessional” because I have a facial piercing and colourful hair 😵💫
Just thinking about how I'll finally wrap-up my LAST academic article this year in a few days and I cannot wait to be free. 2025 was my first full year away from a FT academic role, but somehow we cranked out 5 papers and the book. Wow.
Nobody is really talking about #Cambodia and I’m not surprised, just saddened.
The book proofs are here and I’m getting shaky and achey…almost there 😭🫥
Our #copywriter is so kind about the #book. They're enjoying it loads, have kept the unique tone of our writing voices, and apparently have gone as far into doing extra research on our topic because of curiosity spurred by reading on it. I love it! I'm happy it resonates! I'm happy we're breezing!
Former student and co-author sent me this during our meeting dedicated to dealing with Reviewers 1 & 2's laundry list of minor revisions 😵💫
This has been a year of figuring myself out and frankly, as much as it has sucked, it's been very beneficial. I still love research. I still love writing. I still love teaching. But I needed time to feed other interests/desires.
Our manuscript has been accepted to a Q1 #PublicHealth journal and I am so emotional. I am so proud of my small, yet mighty cohort of #globalhealth graduate students who dedicated their studies and time to advancing #menstrualhealth #education in Cambodia 🥺— will share more as it progresses!
My partner Pedro is off the bean-juice and my attempts to support him through #gastro-solidarity have been a nightmare. I only drink MAX 2 little coffees a day. I need to stop. Italy changed me...maybe for the worse.
🗣️ Upcoming talk: Digital #Gastro-solidarity and #Mukbang — come hear Stanley and I discuss all things #food, #digitalmedia, and #digitalfoodactivism! ℹ️ More info 🔗 : www.oxfordobesity.org/seminars-and...
Manuscript submitted! 😭 Can’t wait to share more about our upcoming #academic #book #publication with #Routledge! 📖 🥹
🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី@thaoeatworld.bsky.social · last yr.Writing up acknowledgements!