In case you missed it!
What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.
Today's post is about sharing ethnographic data in forms other than articles or books: an open online repository called the Sugar Library shares artefacts from @katieulrich.bsky.social's fieldwork on sugarcane-based bioproducts in Brazil.
Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...
This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories.
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
just gonna keep posting this cuz it's ROLLING STONE covering our new song y'all come on!
This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!
Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
🚨 Attention grad students!
The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.
Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...
#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife
Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out!
Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
📌New Thematic Cluster just out!
"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺
👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
Cluster Book Review “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise”🧫🔍
By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)
Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
Two year humanities postdoc at Tufts on “University Ecologies”: apply.interfolio.com/160426?fbcli...
Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies #EnvHum
Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
@culanth.bsky.social
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Today!
Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join the SCA team for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ our friends at Visual Anth, APLA, and American Ethnologist,
The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.
My own piece looks at sugarcane-based #bioplastic and how it replicates petro-systems more than interrupts them. Também disponível em português! culanth.org/fieldsights/...
The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!
Luckily it’s a pleasant 25-min walk so it’s a great alternative. But I feel for folks who are further away and can’t just walk!
Hope you’re okay and heal quickly! I moved to Cambridge/Somerville in July after having lived in Houston and SF, where I biked all the time. I’ve recently stopped doing my 10-min bike ride to the office here because every time I have a close call. It’s the scariest place I’ve ever biked. :/
Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
