Shannon Lee Dawdy
@shannondawdy.bsky.social
Author. Brewer of trouble and other fermented things. Research: archaeology of contemporary life, historical anthropology, death, disaster, temporality, piracy, existential feminism, critiques of capitalism. https://shannonleedawdy.com
Retired!!!
To mark this happy occasion, today I bottled my own Liberation Cider.
I am NOT retiring from writing, fermenting, or fomenting.
To mark this happy occasion, today I bottled my own Liberation Cider.
I am NOT retiring from writing, fermenting, or fomenting.
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Retired!!!
To mark this happy occasion, today I bottled my own Liberation Cider.
I am NOT retiring from writing, fermenting, or fomenting.
To mark this happy occasion, today I bottled my own Liberation Cider.
I am NOT retiring from writing, fermenting, or fomenting.
Look! A new book! The best labors of love are those undertaken with other people. This book has been a few (Covid) years in the making. But even more timely?
www.routledge.com/Undoing-Thin...
www.routledge.com/Undoing-Thin...
Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart
Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds.
Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality a...
www.routledge.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Look! A new book! The best labors of love are those undertaken with other people. This book has been a few (Covid) years in the making. But even more timely?
www.routledge.com/Undoing-Thin...
www.routledge.com/Undoing-Thin...
So appreciative of the university and college leaders from across the institutional spectrum who signed. So ashamed of the University of Chicago's for not. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
So appreciative of the university and college leaders from across the institutional spectrum who signed. So ashamed of the University of Chicago's for not. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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300 student visas revoked so far. Rubio suggests this is just the beginning. All because they were doing what we encourage students to do: develop an opinion and speak it freely. #academicsky
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked
Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
www.nbcnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
300 student visas revoked so far. Rubio suggests this is just the beginning. All because they were doing what we encourage students to do: develop an opinion and speak it freely. #academicsky
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Tufts pres says they "hope that Rumeysa is provided the opportunity to avail herself of her due process rights" - she was grabbed off the street by masked assailants, and he's acting like due process is still a thing in the US. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/u...
What we know about Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents | CNN
She is one of several foreign nationals affiliated with prestigious American universities to be arrested for purported activities related to terrorist organizations amid the Trump administration’s imm...
edition.cnn.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tufts pres says they "hope that Rumeysa is provided the opportunity to avail herself of her due process rights" - she was grabbed off the street by masked assailants, and he's acting like due process is still a thing in the US. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/u...
That other shared war plan, in case you missed it: in 2021 Vance gave a speech in which he declared: "we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... professors are the enemy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcE2...
#academicsky
#academicsky
J.D. Vance: "Universities and Professors Are Our Enemies"
YouTube video by The ThinkLab
www.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
That other shared war plan, in case you missed it: in 2021 Vance gave a speech in which he declared: "we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... professors are the enemy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcE2...
#academicsky
#academicsky
Authoritarian playbook: disappear the dissidents. #academicsky
Video from a home security camera appears to show fed. immigration authorities placing Somerville resident and Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk in custody on March 25. The footage, provided to @wbur.org by Michael Mathis, includes audio of a bystander calling out questions to law enforcement.
March 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Authoritarian playbook: disappear the dissidents. #academicsky
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At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
March 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
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Fellow academics -- consider signing this petition to urge college and university leaders to grow a backbone and fight back. It should not be so hard to assert our fundamental mission of free inquiry. Trumpsters don't admire cowards and I don't either. #academicsky
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
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March 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fellow academics -- consider signing this petition to urge college and university leaders to grow a backbone and fight back. It should not be so hard to assert our fundamental mission of free inquiry. Trumpsters don't admire cowards and I don't either. #academicsky
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
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I keep seeing this image; obviously the info presented is awful. But can we talk about how they use a man (in a business suit, which seems weirdly classist), despite the fact that women are signficantly *more likely* to experience poverty, both in the US and globally? www.oxfam.org/en/why-major...
March 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I keep seeing this image; obviously the info presented is awful. But can we talk about how they use a man (in a business suit, which seems weirdly classist), despite the fact that women are signficantly *more likely* to experience poverty, both in the US and globally? www.oxfam.org/en/why-major...
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked.
via @jackdolan.bsky.social
via @jackdolan.bsky.social
Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of national parks employees
Following a loud public outcry, and relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts, the Trump administration has reversed course on a plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the Nation...
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked.
via @jackdolan.bsky.social
via @jackdolan.bsky.social
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Some updates:
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
February 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Some updates:
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction.
2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.
Don't get overwhelmed by the toxic flood. Pick a cause, get involved.
now.org/disrupt-now-2/
now.org/disrupt-now-2/
February 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Don't get overwhelmed by the toxic flood. Pick a cause, get involved.
now.org/disrupt-now-2/
now.org/disrupt-now-2/
Very cool work here. Sign me up
"Alta Heritage Foundation is pioneering a humanitarian effort that uses archeology in a new way, what DeGeorgey calls 'disaster archeology.'"
“The scale of this disaster is unprecedented, and we need to build an army of archeologists to deal with this problem and do this work,” he said."
“The scale of this disaster is unprecedented, and we need to build an army of archeologists to deal with this problem and do this work,” he said."
Ashes amid the ashes: Experts find loved ones’ cherished remains in urns buried amid wildfire rubble
In the first of many excavations, archeologists search burned homes for the cremated remains of loved ones.
www.whittierdailynews.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Very cool work here. Sign me up
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Lmao the title of this episode: “Petro-masculinity versus the planet”
Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!
Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if we just...put data centers on the Moon to save energ...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Lmao the title of this episode: “Petro-masculinity versus the planet”
Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!
Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!
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A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.
James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65
James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.
stanforddaily.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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Republican proposals are underway to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke regulations currently protecting underwater archaeology. This is not good for our connections to history or our environments. #ClimateHeritage
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Congress could soon erase Biden rules on archaeology, climate, and the environment
Seldom used law could enable Republicans to repeal numerous regulations
www.science.org
February 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Republican proposals are underway to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke regulations currently protecting underwater archaeology. This is not good for our connections to history or our environments. #ClimateHeritage
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years