I'm absolutely stunned to hear of Raúl Pacheco-Vega's passing 💔He was a very generous and open scholar. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him well and all of us who learned with and from him.

harmodio@harmodio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

Big ups also to "the Marthas" - @heavyredaction.bsky.social, Martha Kenney - and all the honorary Marthas who've been standing up to to the system. #JeSuisMartha @carmendarlene.bsky.social #NousSommesTousMarthas

We have another great essay by anthropologist @eyatesd.bsky.social in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social!! She describes how healthy food programs often focus on changing individual habits. But eating is a social activity, connecting people and nourishing communities. sciencepolitics.org/2026/05/12/r...

Recipes for Change - Science Politics

Healthy food programs often focus on changing individual habits. But eating is a social activity, connecting people and nourishing communities.

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Lecturer (Health Track), Anthropology

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites: The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports. An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…

"Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm" by @eyatesd.bsky.social is #Free2DownloadAndRead published by @ucpress.bsky.social www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1... Very excited to read this book, since I love Emily's work!

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.

amichai.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

The Place of Sugar in Modern History

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Every time this experiment is conducted anywhere in the world it has a similar outcome. Can we move this beyond the trial phase now?

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection! #phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

Last summer, just before he died, Dan Hirsch spoke at the NRC meeting on EO 14300. You can find that @ 46:00- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNiq... Later published: thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres... “There is no threshold below which there is no measurable harm. Standards already weak.”

NRC Public Meeting on EO 14300 Section 5b Regarding NRC's Radiation Protection Framework- 07162025

YouTube video by NRCgov

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Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

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Me, waking up in -8 degree weather: what fresh horrors does today hold? @npr.org:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the day in 1945 when the Red Army reached Auschwitz in occupied Poland. Naturally, the Trump administration decided to commemorate the day by doing Holocaust historical revisionism, pretending Anne Frank's family had "legal" status.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

Aaron Stewart-Ahn@badideas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT

The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I keep thinking of how “the present” in archaeology is dated from when carbon dating stopped working well because of pollution from atmospheric nuclear tests. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Prof Architecture at Federal U. of Bahia V. Mitch McEwen, Atelier Office; Princeton School of Architecture Laleh Khalili, Prof of Gulf Studies, U. of Exeter Nov 18 @dukepress.bsky.social

The City of Our Dreaming: The Alchemy Lecture

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña@laprofelgp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Keep imagining better worlds. Otro mundo es posible. #resist

Stumbled upon this essay on “The War on Weeds” by Laura Martin today and just wow- every single line is so good. www.noemamag.com/the-war-on-w...

The War On Weeds | NOEMA

Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around.

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If you’re in a constant state of “Bari Weiss, CBS, Joe Rogan, WTF??” We’ve got you! @maggiemertens.bsky.social and Sarah Stuteville discuss building a sane news diet (follow people, not brands), supporting community-rooted media, and turning doom into doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Ep 20: Democracy Dies in Clickbait with Maggie Mertens & Sarah Stuteville

Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 10/10/2025 · 1h

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 10mo ago

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...