As it turns out, I was decidedly wrong about the topography of the Upside Down
01.01.2026 02:00
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As it turns out, I was decidedly wrong about the topography of the Upside Down
“The Upside Down” presupposes a flat earth. Stranger Things should have called it The Inside Out. In this essay…
Book cover for Emily Yates-Doerr’s book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.’
Huge congrats to @eyatesd.bsky.social for winning the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for her book ‘Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm!’ #anthropology #MedicalAnthropology #AAA25
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Thanks to Nathan Fielder, I now hum Evanescence whenever I see two pilots walking together
We're all just dogs wearing shock collars in the background of God's Twitch stream.
Yesterday, my cat kicked a turd out of the litterbox and the robovac came and ate it up, so I'm kinda not worried about Skynet just yet
Anyway, I just had the silly thought that I was too "old" for a laptop, which is of course ridiculous. I just don't see the need for one anymore, and I find that sort of interesting--like, why?
This relatively recent distinction between home and work (or hobby and rest) is a deliberate resistance against the status quo of my PhD life, COVID lockdown, and my 30s--all of which blended everything together, and my work *was* my identity. I had fun, but god, that life was so toxic.
I switched from a desktop computer to a laptop in 2003 and earlier this year I've made the switch back to a desktop. It's been very freeing, but I'm not sure why. Maybe because I want work to stay at work, and studio to stay in studio, but even this is fairly new in my life (since 2021).
(and quite a few more that I assumed were on Bluesky but aren’t?)
Always a joy to see my Women’s Health students do class presentations on books by my colleagues like @kateclancy.bsky.social and @ratnagiri77.bsky.social
#AbolishBorders
Did people say "ess and tee ess?"
An excerpt of text from Jasanoff's "States of Knowledge" in which she refers to "the emerging field of science and technology studies (S&TS)..."
Well, this was jarring to read
Trump’s stupid hand covered in bad makeup, floating in a black void
This would go hard as an album cover
Wow I’ve always wondered what the early days of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would look like if we had social media and AI and it is worse than I imagined
Good news! The intro article for our special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is now Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The full special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is out now in #MedicalAnthropology! Both the introduction and my article are OA, but don't hesitate to reach out (email or DM) if you need access to the other articles.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...
She applyin’ on my anthropology until I conference #sfaa2025
Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
Loool same!
In 👏 this 👏 house 👏 we 👏 stan 👏 @jamieloftus.bsky.social
Definitely seems like something I would do :/
An event in my Outlook calendar that simply says “Something with someone but I can’t remember” and I don’t even remember putting it in my calendar!
Wtf, I don’t even remember putting this in my calendar. Was this you? Do we have a meeting???
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An iOS notification reading “buttman9000 liked your review of Mickey 17”
My Letterboxd reviews are finally getting the recognition they deserve
A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me.
My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here:
americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
