This is an absolutely incredible interview with a food scientist about 900,000 liters of smelly, rotting fish sauce that made me laugh several times.
Delightful interview from @girinathan.bsky.social [🎁] defector.com/abandoned-fi...
Andreas Streinzer
@kompostmoderne.bsky.social
econanth and queer social reproduction theories, tenure track prof for economic anthropology at the University of Vienna. he/they. Loves scholarship hates the colonial matrix of power. Oolong? Yes, please.
This is an absolutely incredible interview with a food scientist about 900,000 liters of smelly, rotting fish sauce that made me laugh several times.
Delightful interview from @girinathan.bsky.social [🎁] defector.com/abandoned-fi...
I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
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A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.
Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
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Ich möchte kurz auf etwas Wichtiges hinweisen: Die steirische Antidiskriminierungsstelle steht vor dem Aus - aufgrund der Kürzungen der FPÖ-geführten Landesregierung Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle hat sich bisher übrigens auch gegen Hass im Netz eingesetzt, man konnte ihnen Hasskommentare melden
Antidiskriminierungsstelle droht das Aus
Aufgrund der Förderkürzungen der steirischen Landesregierung bei vielen Sozialeinrichtungen droht der Antidiskriminierungsstelle die Schließung. Alle Mitarbeiter sind derzeit nur noch für 20 Stunden b...
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Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’ gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
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the fantastic Federica Gregoratto will give a keynote at the Vienna Humanities Festival!!! 25.9.! www.humanitiesfestival.at/federica-gre...
FEDERICA GREGORATTO | VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
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Applications welcome for the Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences - Deadline 15.9., open to academics of all ranks, starting dates October 2026 or March 2027! Let me know if you are interested www.fulbright.at/programs/in-...
Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences
Generously funded by the University of Vienna
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(observing the smoldering ruins of civilization) see what happens when you misdefine “value”
wow this article made it through SCIENTIFIC REVIEW 😆 already the beginning is only a strawmen argument, I have to show this to my students rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Against interpretive exclusivism*
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for exa...
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WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back 🔥🔥🔥 KUNST, DEMOKRATIE, LESUNG, PERFORMANCE KEX—KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE UND HINT WIEN www.wuk.at/programm/wor...
WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back
Bei WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back erwartet euch ein Abend voller Poesie, lebhafter Gespräche, Gesang und gemeinsamer Reflexion. Vor dem Hintergrund politischer Spannungen, in denen Unbehagen, ...
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"To brave shifting conditions, we will have to strive to create communities “in which everyone’s basic needs are met,” because “leaving people out eventually costs everybody.” Interdependence & the social skills that facilitate that connectedness or cooperation are at the heart of...survival." 🫂🫂🫂
I started reading this earlier at the doctor's office, but then got home, & other priorities took precedence. Given how demoralized I feel, I am returning to it and hoping that posting quotes that resonate as I go may help me with finishing it. Channeling my past self, who read 450+ books in 2017! 🥹
Berghahn is running a summer sale of all pb and e-book titles with 50% off, which means you can get a e-copy of this lovely anthology for only 14 GBP until the end of this week!
This beautiful book is now out with the #EASA series, #Berghahn. I am so happy + humbled to be included with new work: "Look to Norway? Queer(y)ing the Potential for Coalitional Solidarity in Building #Climate-Just Futures". The Introduction is open access: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Posocc...
Important roundtable on academic freedom at #ecprgc25. Insightful (but grim) presentation by @isaliba.bsky.social on attacks on academic freedom globally and also in Europe.
Kolleg*innen aus Forensik, Sozialwissenschaft und Rechtswissenschaft haben, in Anlehnung an die Arbeit der Kommission zu Oury Jalloh, einen umfassenden Bericht zur Tötung von Nzoy vorgelegt. So sieht Aufklärung aus, von "unten" und selbstorganisiert: www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...
The Death of Roger Nzoy Wilhelm – Border Forensics
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Die FPÖ ist scheinbar erfolgreich mit dem von Trump abgeschauten Playbook. "Die NGOs" sind verdächtig und die Regierung will nun "Strenge" walten lassen. Schlimm! www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Regierung will nach FPÖ-Kampagne Strenge gegenüber NGOs zeigen
Nach der blauen Anfragenlawine zur Finanzierung von Nichtregierungsorganisationen soll laut Koalition eine Taskforce Förderungen "durchforsten" – das sorgt im NGO-Umfeld für Kritik
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Not a mistake. Not a “tragic mishap.” This is a policy of destruction and annihilation of Palestinian life across the Gaza Strip that’s been happening for almost two years now. END THE HORRORS NOW.
BREAKING: The Israeli military says its strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was aimed at what it believed was a Hamas camera.
Devastating photos by journalists Mariam Dagga and Hussam Al-Masri of the suffering and destruction in Gaza, shortly before Israeli forces killed them too
Warum die Uno in Gaza-Stadt nun offiziell von einer Hungersnot spricht - Video - derStandard.at › Video
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Hoff das funktioniert hier so mit dem Link, ich feier das dermaßen: "Barbara Blaha zerlegt Investment Punk" 🔥 @barbarablaha.bsky.social @moment.at www.instagram.com/reel/CyQngCb...
Seit 2020 der Beschluss zur Umbenennung der Straße getroffen wurde, feiern wir das “Amo-Fest”. Juristische Entscheidungen, die die Umbenennung verzögern, ändern nichts an dem Erfolg: Berlin bekommt eine Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße.
Not coincidentally, the Panthers were also one of the few major left organizations in the homophobia-laden '60s/'70s to openly support the Stonewall riots and the ensuing queer liberation movements.
In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.
There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam
There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam
Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs
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Now in Tel Aviv! We’re disturbing routine everywhere today because there is nothing normal about our government starving children, bombing civilians, and letting the hostages be killed. We refuse to let them steal our future on this land. We have to end these horrors NOW.
📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Ethnographies of Deservingness by Jelena Tošić & @kompostmoderne.bsky.social "..a major contribution to social scientific understandings of inequality through its focus on categorisations of ‘deservingness" www.berghahnbooks.com/title/TosicE...
Now online: 'A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Transmisogyny and the Far-Right Critique of Global Capitalism' by Felix del Campo.
A Spectre is Haunting Europe. Transmisogyny and the Far-Right Critique of Global Capitalism - Historical Materialism
If the contemporary European far right were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they would likely begin their account of contemporary “globalist” ills with that very statement. For the far right, tran...
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German newspaper picking editorial topics, summer 2025 edition