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Matthew Archer
@matthewarcher.bsky.social
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anthropologist in maastricht interested in intersections of tech and sustainability in food and mineral supply chains

book! https://nyupress.org/9781479822027/unsustainable/
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somebody in tupelo has a good sense of humour
klein and thompsons book “abundance” in the fiction section
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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new orleans 🎺 🦞
a large white church with three black steeples in a park fried dough covered with powdered sugar and a cup of milky coffee
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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and a gløgg with æbleskiver
a man holding a dog sitting at a table on a cafe terrace. he is stirring a glass mug of mulled wine next to some dough balls with jam and powdered sugar.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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i spent less time in copenhagen than i spent on the train from maastricht, but i did have time for a hotdog.
a hotdog with remoulade, red onions, pickles, and fried onions
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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2013 was apparently a very productive year for kirsten hastrup
a photo of book chapter zoomed in on an in text citation for Hastrup 2013f
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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york minster is massive of course. i forget the exact figure, but the amount of space needed to install enough heat pumps to warm the church was ca half a football pitch. at the time they were spending a million pounds a year (!!) on heating.
a photo of a large cathedral set in the middle of an old city center, with a green park on one side.
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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pooped after the celebrations
a small black dog lying on his back with his tan paws up a small black dog snoozing on a green couch
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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luigi’s first birthday 🎂
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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field-work
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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boo-igi’s first halloween 🎃 💀
a man holding a small black dog. they are wearing matching skeleton costumes.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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autumn along the dijle (still disconcertingly green for late october, but we have to take what we get)
a river running through a green field with trees in one side and a cloudy sky above
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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me, nodding vigorously, knowing my own writing is extremely imprecise and largely vibes based
Words matter—especially in a paper of extraordinary influence such as EIS (2014). Scholars have a duty to write with precision, to say what they mean, and to correct the record when their published descriptions mislead. EIS have already issued a corrigendum acknowledging that a typographical error led them to misreport a central result: a key estimate described as “statistically significant” was actually “NOT statistically significant” (EIS, 2025). They have now clarified that their main analysis relied on firm pairs of uncertain similarity. The first correction undermines the evidence in EIS (2014) for a link between sustainability and financial performance. The second restricts interpretation of any of their reported estimates and blocks all causal inference.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Their comment focuses on my critique of their analytical method—a procedure that when properly implemented requires pairing firms closely enough that they differ materially only in the number of sustainability policies adopted. In King (2025), I questioned their use of this method by demonstrating that finding a sufficient number of precise matches in their sample is nearly impossible; two people have a better chance of randomly selecting the same star in the universe.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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“more than human food geographies” but it’s just luigi dragging me halfway across the city to the park where i had to pry a pigeon foot out of his mouth two days earlier
a small black dog walking in a dark park on a leash
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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luigi is enjoying das passagen-werk
a small black dog with tan paws sitting on a colorful geometric rug looking at a large book
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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play date with brother
two small black and tan dogs in a park
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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fall fell in maastricht
a small black dog standing in a tree lined street with lots of yellow leaves
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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spooky season
a small black dog with tan paws wearing a black cape lined with red satin. the collar of the cape is standing up dramatically
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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luigi did “very well” at the maastricht dog show yesterday.
two white men holding a small black dog on a table in a large convention center
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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the most delicious white pu’er from yunnan

tea from: www.hermitagetea.org/product-page...

and the exquisite little teapot is from: @inclay.bsky.social
a still life of a gong fu tea break. there is a lovely little black teapot, a small delicate earthy teacup, a rustic orange bowl, and an angular glass gong dao bei which is filled with a light yellow tea. it’s sitting on a green placemat on a white table
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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a white house with a street lamp in front of it just after dusk a painting of a white house with a street lamp in front of it at dusk. the painting is from the empire of light by magritte
September 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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play date with brother
two small black dogs with tan feet standing in a field. one has prominent tan eyebrows and a tan chest. the other is mostly black and is sticking his tongue out.
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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these people really need an autumn holiday because it is TOO EARLY for christmas decor
christmas trees and other decor being set up in a department store
September 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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i finally switched my default search engine from google to duckduckgo when i searched “hind rajab” and the first result was a sponsored link to an isr**li government website libelling the hind rajab foundation.
a screenshot of google search results for hind rajab where the first result is a sponsored link to an IL website titled “Don't be fooled by HRF's mask - HRF's disturbing reality”
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM