NOW #JMCQBookReview. #A.J.Bauer traces how the American conservative movement cultivated and sustained its belief in a hostile press. See the review by #Brian Creech.
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NOW #JMCQBookReview. #A.J.Bauer traces how the American conservative movement cultivated and sustained its belief in a hostile press. See the review by #Brian Creech.
Prof. Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) kicks off our spring speaker series with the talk “Into the Lab: Racial World Building and its Discontents” on February 3rd. You can register to attend via zoom here: hugera.org/lecture-seri...
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
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The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.
A poster announcing the "Situating Philosophy" pre-conference panel being held at the University of the Western Cape Life Science Auditorium.
I am looking forward to being a part of this pre-conference panel.
We conclude by calling on STS scholars to reflect on their (often implicit) citational politics and to work toward decentralizing the material infrastructures of knowledge production.
We explore canonization (or canon-formation) in STS, finding enduring asymmetries rooted in both historical sedimentation and ongoing structural exclusions.
🎉New year, new pub.🎯
OPEN ACCESS "Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications"
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I was told memes are fair use
Screenshot of the ARC website hosting the podcast interview
One of the things I enjoyed this year was this interview with Rasmus Bitsch where Tessa (@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social) and I discuss the work we have been doing mapping the history of racial classification in South Africa.
You can listen to this interview here: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a...
I’m not an alum but I just donated $100 to help support African American/women journalists at the University of Alabama. They were abandoned by their school, which shamefully buckled under Trump. Together we can support young journalists to maintain a free press & keep hope alive!!
The question what excites you about microbiome research? is at the center, a whale and indigenous knowledge, three laughing faces, mushroom, snails and microbes.
We invite you to submit a proposal for our special issue "The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics and Society in Africa" to appear at the South African Journal of Science. Find the call here 👉 sajs.co.za/call-human-d... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci 🦠
📣 Our second call for abstracts for our special issue is out! 🙌
If you work on the intersection of human microbiomes, ethics and society in Africa, this call is for you! Check it out there: sajs.co.za/call-human-d...
If not, you can still spread the message widely!
#histbio #philbio🐋🌱
Well-written and deeply researched, Making the Liberal Media delivers new and significant insights into how conservative leaders employed the "liberal media" claim to build a movement that came to dominate US politics and policy formation. Bauer is an exceptional storyteller. Sid Bedingfield, author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965 With deep curiosity, creativity, and intellectual skill, A.J. Bauer has unearthed a story about the rise of the right that shifts the paradigm, by placing the habit of criticizing the media at the core of conservative identity. It is full of irony and richness, and utterly convincing. Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 Through meticulous archival research, AJ Bauer shows that “liberal media bias” is not just a slogan, but foundational to modern conservatism. From anti-communism to MAGA, newspapers to Joe Rogan, Making the Liberal Media traces the roots of right-wing media criticism and how it structured and legitimized the modern right. An essential read for understanding how conservative critiques of journalism became a political strategy, an identity marker, and a driver of media innovation. Alice E. Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Also the guy that thought it made great 'economic logic' to dump toxic waste in Africa. thesonification.org/2022/12/17/i...
Wow Phila! Congratulations 🎉
An anthropologist! My wheelhouse (another nautical idiom 😆). Check out CR Hallpike www.newenglishreview.org/articles/a-r...
"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Here I was talking about the consequences of the changes in classifications (and who was labelled as belonging in them) for conceptualising biological studies. Our discussion focused on the use of such classifications in microbiome research.
Amazing talk by @msimang.bsky.social at the "Human Diversity Dilemma" Workshop (@localmicrobes.bsky.social), Cape Town! Check out this great infographic on shifting racial classif. in South Africa 17-21C by @tessamuldvarp.bsky.social and Phila:
figshare.com/articles/fig...
#hpbio #philsky #race
Important point—in this argument (which I support), the anarchy is not apolitical, even if it's tempting to think so.
As someone who also lived there for a few years, I 100% get this feeling.
How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
If you haven't registered yet, please do so before September 22nd!
#hpbio #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱
October 1st to 3rd, 2025 – Interdisciplinary Workshop in South Africa (Cape Town) – The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
So excited to share that earlier this year I received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for a 5-year project "DDT Relations: Tracing the Chemical Alterlife of South African Malaria Control." Can't wait to get started back at UCT's Department of Anthropology!
www.news.uct.ac.za/news/researc...
Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Ugh, that's terrible.
I was so thrilled to see you in the documentary. As always, your insights were so important. And more generally, I've been very grateful for your work for a long time.
Lordy... where do I begin.
So considering the author of the op-ed was a co-author on a paper comparing pain levels by racial groups in the US, then I would venture that yes, he surely does need his humanities colleagues.
Submitted abstracts will be selected to appear in an interdisciplinary OA special issue in the South African Journal of Science! sajs.co.za 🙌 Deadline: August 18th. Early career scholars accepted can request travel support to our writeshop in Cape Town!
#hps #phibio #microbiome #philsci 🦠
