The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

"It is time to speak up — clearly, structurally and unapologetically. Time to build sideways, not upwards. Time to lift others without replicating the same extractive ladder."

Great new graphics/slides from The New Yorker on Instagram on the guide to courage that @juliaangwin.com and I wrote after speaking to foreign dissidents and movement leaders. Super helpful way of breaking out advice down to brass tacks.

www.instagram.com/p/DJIZLPGxzU...

ACLU affiliates brought over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration's unlawful termination of student visas across the country — and now the administration seems to be reversing course.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

"Many American scientific institutions are engaged in anticipatory obedience of the Trump administration’s demands that diversity and anti-discrimination programs be abolished, or climate change stop being mentioned. Many even go beyond what is explicitly sought."
theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

DEI initiatives are still legal.

Universities need to stand their ground.

A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

#citationgratitudes for #primatology #primateconservation Investigates non-participation! Asks WHY ppl choose to not participate. Lack of time, transparency, trust, authority/ownership... "Understanding non-participation in local governance institutions in Indonesia" 2024

This would also be a REALLY good moment for folks to get a lil’ refresher on the Citizens United decision of 2010, which has had the entirely predictable imPACt of making this a country now run by people that billionaires have purchased to do their bidding.

1/ got lots of ?s abt my data & argument on why locally hired, esp Indigenous or ILPC field staff may 'reject' promotions into management roles in research/conservation. I recommend this article for critical insight in what it means to survive, then be asked to participate, in these infrastructures

Trying again! #citationgratitudes for #primatology ! Big thanks to @bidisha02.bsky.social to sharing "Is human–rhesus macaque (M...m...) conflict in India a case of human–human conflict?" 2020 by S. Anand, S. Radhakrishna. Excited for more human dimensions research for the human-primate interface!

1/ Day 2 #citationgratitudes #EthnographyInPrimatology! Seemingly deceptive title & intro subject: hunting & taxidermy! But wonderful analysis on the role of masculine, white heroism in primatological story-telling. Ch.3 “Teddy Bear Patriarchy” in Donna Haraway’s, Primate Visions (transfer from Twt)

1/ 1st for my #citationgratitudes for #EthnographyInPrimatology (transporting from T to bsky) is the paper that reinforced my commitment to mixing in ethnography as a primate physiology student: “Toward an anthropology of immunology: The body as nation state” by Emily Martin (1990)

🧵1/ Finishing my PhD as I work FT outside of school is challenging! So I want to highlight a citation daily(ish?) that Im grateful for to remain engaged & hoping others in #primatology intrsted in social theory, conservation, will find these interesting too! #citationgratitudes

Hi! Im Alysse, PhD Cand. in Anthropology at Rutgers. Live in Davis, CA. Trained in primate physiology, after QEs, switched to ethnography. I study primatology / fieldwork as labor to improve our understanding of how science interacts w society, & how science can be a safer & more inclusive space