Adam Fleischmann

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Introduction: Another Season of War in South Lebanon Looking back, it feels like the war that slammed into Lebanon approached in slow motion. For almost a year for sure, since the beginning of the w...

From a previous season of war in south Lebanon: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Questions for the Jedi Vice-Chair of Graduate Studies Do I absolutely have to construct my own lightsaber to graduate? Will you accept 30 hours of transfer credit from the Dark Side? How will being at ...

"Why so biased? Where are the pro-Imperial voices on the faculty?" @mcsweeneys.net

So despite the ICE abduction this morning, Columbia didn’t take any steps to cancel classes or move them remote. No idea how noncitizen community members are supposed to feel safe showing up to study or work today.

When ICE agents began to terrorize Minnesota, climate groups helped lead the resistance.

Check out our latest episode with @aru-shiney-ajay.bsky.social @benpasser.bsky.social + @emorwee.bsky.social. We explore why preserving democracy is central to climate progress.
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It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

The long 2010s are finally over

What has hurt men so badly?

FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/J_3sLLv1v0g

Men are not trash. YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

NEW: Men are not trash.

Every time we say that, it helps the rich vampire perverts in the Epstein Files because it makes it seem like it's just inherent to men's nature to be predators. It's not!

I've been saddened today to learn that the University of Alberta is going down MAGA road and wants to abolish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

So I've written to University President Bill Flanagan, warning him of the legal risks. Because the University may need suing.

Screenshot of the title of the article PDF with the title: "Virtual care as deployed to improve access to primary health care in three Canadian provinces: a policy focused qualitative study"

Excited to share my latest peer-reviewed article published in BMC Primary Care ( @springernature.com) with Ruth Lavergne & Myles Leslie from my time at the @ucalgary.bsky.social School of Public Policy leading #research for a CIHR-funded project on Virtual Primary Care #AcademicSky

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Wait did i successfully sign up for the AAA job board yet??

There Is No “After Gaza” Whether intentionally or with callous word choice, too many have begun relegating Palestine to the past tense.

"We will never be after Gaza, for Gaza encompasses us," @sarahaziza.bsky.social writes in The Weekend Read. "She represents the dark underside of our choices, the extreme cost of our passivity." thenation.com/article/world/there-is-no-after-gaza/

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World by Jelena Tošić and Agnieszka Pasieka

How did the Covid-19 pandemic lay bare and exacerbate changes in work and labor? Our latest Hot Spots series is a global look at how labor has changed as a social form and object of study.

National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social) The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

You will be delighted to know that there is an annual crossword puzzle awards event, happening this year on 2/23. Details are below (I'll be a presenter!), along with info about how to receive the nominated puzzles in advance - namely, by donating to the Trevor Project, which we should all do anyway

In solidarity with the statewide shutdown in Minnesota protesting ICE/CBP, I'm sharing some of the most insightful reads about the powerful, beautiful community response there - these pieces should inspire similar collective action everywhere. please link to others.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Refusing to participate in the electronicification of your entire life stays winning

Taught Hamlet this last semester and Cladius's (and, to some extent, Polonius's) bloviating and contradictory speech resonated quite viscerally with students.

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female. We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.

theconversation.com/theres-an-in...

“It's disappointing to see universities fold under pressure to terminate faculty for expressing themselves online, as if the First Amendment is an expediency to be discarded at a whim.”

‘Censored’: Texas A&M cancels course under new ‘race and gender ideology’ policy Texas A&M’s government and public service department alleges a professor refused to submit information about his class for review.

In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology."

“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”

— @drleonardbright.bsky.social

Just want to note: Part of what we're missing is *exactly* what we're all doing in this thread folks! Just sayin. #anthrosky

Portland State agrees to reinstate laid off faculty Portland State University is reversing course and fully complying with an arbitration decision ordering the university to reinstate some faculty laid off in last year’s budget cuts.

AAUP Portland State University secured a crucial win:

Admin will reinstate laid-off faculty & comply with an arbitration decision after violating @psuaaup.bsky.social's contract.

This win proves that higher ed unions are key to protecting faculty livelihood at our universities.

Read more here👇

ICE in Maine An announcement in 2019 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to open its first holding and transfer facility in Maine prom...

The military & migrants are central to Maine’s economy & the effects of that dependence take on a brutal reality in the fight over the location of a small ICE facility in a rural community.
Catherine Besteman in our 2021 series on immigration & Trump

Im/migration in the Trump Era One year into the Trump presidency, when our core values of multiculturalism, cross-cultural understanding, international diversity, and racial i...

In 2018, we published the Hot Spots series "Im/migration in the Trump Era."
The series sought to generate discussion between scholars & activists working in the US about the potentials & challenges of practicing engaged anthropology with (im)migrants.