Thank you for publicizing this terrible news 😨😢

This is such terrible news!! 😨

🚂 Suggested reading selections are the Introduction, Ch.2 "Technological Enterprise," and Ch.4 "Imperial Extraction." 🚂

⚡️Hope to see many scholars and practitioners from #AcademicSky, #STS, #history, and #anthropology next Friday the 5th for the Energy and Social Science Reading Group! ⚡️(6/6)

This reading group is open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the latest publications focused on political ecology, political economy, and energy transitions. ✍️🏼📃

We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)

As we know, societies are struggling with the material and imaginative legacies of fossil-fuel-based 'development.'

Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)

This multiply-awarded historical book addresses a coal mine and mining town in Northeastern China. Coal extraction was the focus of technological innovation and labor control.

Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)

🗓 Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
🕰 Time: 1400h - 1530h CET (or 1300h - 1430h GMT, 8:00-9:30 AM EST)
▶️ Discussant: Mallory James
▶️ Moderator: Nikita Taniparti
🖥 Location: Online (2/6)

I found exactly the same thing recently! On one of our browsers, it won't even guess the language accurately or let us easily select it.

The decision to pause the programs might also have been affected by the fact that the grad students unionized -> grad teaching opportunities were reimagined as postdoc Lecturerships -> less grad student labor was necessary.

It's terribly sad that if I had been born later, I would not have had the chance to learn #Anthropology (because the combined MA-PhD, allowing #FirstGen and low-income students access to PhDs, seems increasingly rare); and if I had been born a few decades earlier, ♀️couldn't have studied anyways.

Will it work? Does disciplinary anthropology still engage directly with engineering studies research, or are these two communities largely running separately these days? #AcademicSky

Only time will tell.

But I should write a follow-up to help some of these ideas move.

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