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Cultural, environmental, and economic anthropologist. All things coastal. Photography. Some baseball too.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ok here's my second anthro roundup. It may be the only game in town that goes from Bundt cakes and Magic the Gathering all the way to aristocratic power. But I could be wrong. anthropologia.org/2025/08/24/a... #anthropology

Anthropology The Gathering #2 (Bundt cake and aristocratic power edition)

Some classic culinary material culture that I found in my garage this past month. Welcome back to my semi-regular roundup of anthropology-related happenings. Here’s what I have for you this t…

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h

Turns out running on a platform that speaks to the real fucking issues people care about, you win your fucking election

Gives me hope that ‘24 was an aberration, that maybe shit can improve

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

“Eyewitnesses told The Times they estimated there were 100 agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, along with a special tactical unit with CBP. The agents left shortly before 10 a.m.”

They were not allowed in the Dodger Stadium parking lot.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

These stunt queen ICE losers are back at Dodger Stadium just outside the parking lot trying to do god knows what. Leave LA alone your friendless freaks: www.latimes.com/california/s...

After World Series celebration, ICE and Border Patrol gather at Dodger Stadium once again

Videos shared with The Times and on TikTok, show agents in unmarked vehicles, donning green vests and equipped with white zip ties in parking lot 13, next to the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Cente...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

This Friday at 3:45 PM EST, I’m calling it. It will be The Holidays. I cannot take anymore input. It’s over. This year is over.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 7h

Yes please sign me up.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

This is the photo.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

Dodgers Fans In Echo Park Celebrate Another World Series Victory

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

There it is.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 5d

I have huge respect for folks who write about and through these times. It is such hard but important work. It is not easy to understand or make sense of what we are living through right now. Appreciate all the writers, historians, and scholars out there doing this work.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to the updated edition. What an absolutely monumental task to try to write those updates, especially in the middle of a flood of events that just keep happening.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to announce that the second edition of FAULT LINES is coming out on November 11th.

We extended the story into early 2025 and the start of the second Trump term, which now seems a century ago, so ... history! Also some new material throughout. Check it out!

Fault Lines

REVISED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND EPILOGUE Two award-winning and best-selling historians explore the origins of a divided America in a new edition of Fault Lines., Fault Li...

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 6d

Many of you, I know, receive a lot of national news, but care a lot about local. You also hate paywalls.

If that's you read this detailed story. "The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah

“We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 9d

A good note here.
In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”

Cal State’s growing industry ties offer a glimpse into an extraordinary shift in campus power dynamics unfolding across the United States. Some major universities are inviting tech companies, which typically supply campus computers and email, to take on a much bigger role as education thought partners, A.I. instructors and curriculum providers.

That means dominant tech companies are now helping to steer what an entire generation of students learn about A.I, and how they use it — with little rigorous evidence of educational benefits and mounting concerns that chatbots are spreading misinformation and eroding critical thinking.

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 9d

This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords

Martha Kenney, a professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University, described the A.I. program as a Cal State marketing vehicle helping tech companies promote unproven chatbots as legitimate educational tools.

“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 7d

Official anthropology ruling: you can use kinship terms in extended ways including for people who have no ties of marriage or ancestry. Real humans know this and do it. Some humans do it a lot more than others.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

imagine telling on yourself that you refer to adult relatives of your parents' age as something other than "aunt" or "uncle". the expression "am I your mate?" exists for a reason

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 8d

lmao

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d

"Bill Gates makes a stunning [i.e. misguided] claim about climate change" by David Goldman for @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/b...

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change | CNN Business

In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued r...

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 8d

We're all doing base running drills after this one. I don't care how tired you are.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 8d

Tapped the plate like 💥

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 8d

Really enjoyed chatting with @llassabe.bsky.social about how the manufactured college free speech crisis paved the way for the assault on universities today: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) with Mary Anne Franks - American Campus Podcast

On the rightwing origins of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.References and suggested readings:Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold ...

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 8d

Oh look Rufo wants to be first in line.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 8d

I will forever mourn the loss of what New College used to be, and forever loathe the fascist vandals who turned it into...this. New College was a rare gem in higher ed for a whole range of reasons, and these fuckers wrecked it

Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 8d

New College of Florida says it wants to be the first college in the nation to sign Trump's compact. https://chroni.cl/4oCUWAa

Compact Live Updates: New College of Florida Says It ‘Is Ready’ to Sign Trump’s Compact

The liberal-arts college’s president said the institution would like to be the first campus in the nation to endorse the controversial document.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 8d

Sad to watch considering where we are now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrq...

Neighborhood Inaugural Ball "At Last" Performance

YouTube video by Beyoncé

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10d

Reminder you can donate $25 to help feed Angelenos and be entered into a raffle for two World Series tickets to game 4 with Shohei Ohtani on the mound! Let’s raise some money for people in need while gov’t funds/SNAP are being slashed: givebutter.com/game4?gbtid=...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 9d

We serve 300 people a night and our lines are growing as govt assistance is cut. SNAP will run out Nov 1. Millions of the poorest Californians will be harmed.

We are going to raffle off everything we can think of to help fill the gap. World Series tickets first! : givebutter.com/game4?gbtid=...

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