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Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠 Assistant Prof at the University of Southern California; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG In a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles – ela/she
Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10.
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🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟
The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro
How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations?
New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky
Out now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell
05.08.2025 09:17 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1New from @michaelfakhri.bsky.social
‘Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024.’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Lorena grandona!
Brasillll!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 #CopaAmerica
It should have been a red, I think...
02.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gooool!
02.08.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period …
Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”
Infelizmente, muitas revistas (acadêmicas) brasileiras não tem mais chamada para tradução. Não sei se te ajuda, mas descobri que, quando é parte de um dossiê, às vezes fica mais fácil, pois as editoras do dossiê conseguem negociar com a revista.
Ando tentando esse caminho para publicar traduções...
People keep saying foundations are going to pick up the funding slack, but even Wenner Gren notes that they are seeing a massive uptick in applications as other foundations (not just federal funding agencies!) are themselves not funding basic science as much as they used to.
24.07.2025 19:51 — 👍 50 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 0
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
17.07.2025 21:42 — 👍 4062 🔁 2042 💬 107 📌 216Just finished up this dystopian tv interview regarding disappearances in LA/SoCal/beyond, & here are things YOU can do to help take care of the people in your life that are at high risk as ICE raids continue:
08.07.2025 18:52 — 👍 292 🔁 122 💬 9 📌 9
”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health.
”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”
Brazilian Table Tenis player was denied entrance in USA for competing in Las Vegas Grand Smash, the reason:
He went to Cuba in 2023 for a panamerican tournament competition that was qualifying to 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hugo is ranked the 3rd best in the world.
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-
Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
27.06.2025 20:59 — 👍 10380 🔁 1913 💬 166 📌 70I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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13.06.2025 03:57 — 👍 1442 🔁 1075 💬 14 📌 25I’m not sure how to express how intensely personal these raids feel as an Angeleno. Whatever stereotypes you have in your head about La-La-Land, immigrants are the lifeblood of this city. It’s an assault on what we love about this place.
08.06.2025 02:18 — 👍 1882 🔁 379 💬 28 📌 16🚨 URGENTE! Mesmo com a forte mobilização contrária, o Senado aprova o #PLdaDevastação, que implode o licenciamento ambiental do país.
MAS A PRESSÃO CONTINUA! Agora, o texto volta para a Câmara.
A pressão continua para que os deputados rejeitem a proposta e o presidente Lula a vete!
@tddsmaia.bsky.social @ulibeisel.bsky.social
23.05.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
23.05.2025 03:10 — 👍 7750 🔁 2849 💬 166 📌 76
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
19.05.2025 22:22 — 👍 15092 🔁 8942 💬 459 📌 703Hey #anthropology students, consider applying to this opportunity sponsored by @napa-anthro.bsky.social. NAPA is presenting two annual Student Achievement Awards that recognize undergrad & graduate contributions in practicing and applied anthro.
Due: 5/23 tinyurl.com/277zfd5b
#anthrosky #highered
