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Luísa Reis Castro

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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

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I'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...

13.01.2026 22:31 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

29.01.2026 15:29 — 👍 5668    🔁 1990    💬 153    📌 200

Could you also add me please? Thank you!

23.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

21.01.2026 00:06 — 👍 242    🔁 126    💬 7    📌 6

Salut! The link doesn't seem to be working.

I get a "Page not found" message.

Merci.

12.01.2026 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📢 Appel à candidatures – Chaire Amérique Latine (ChAL)
La ChAL accueille des enseignants-chercheurs de toute nationalité, spécialistes de l’étude des sociétés latino-américaines.
📄 Le dossier de candidature est à télécharger ici : ipeat.univ-tlse2.fr/.../chaire.....
#Chaire #Amérique #Latine

12.01.2026 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology

My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

06.01.2026 06:25 — 👍 43    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 1
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Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them?

TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.

03.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 896    🔁 392    💬 198    📌 175

Not something a govt that truly cares about climate change would do...

21.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Government sabotages COP30 and licenses oil in Amazon waters; NGOs go to Court - Observatório do Clima Environmental agency greenlights the drilling of Block 59 just over two weeks before the start of the climate conference, undermining Lula's leadership and exposing the COP presidency

It's also not just about deforestation.

Lula's govt just authorized an oil drilling license in the Amazon!!! That was just a few days ago...

www.oc.eco.br/en/governmen...

21.11.2025 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

12.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 25633    🔁 6854    💬 450    📌 241
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

05.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 19832    🔁 5871    💬 262    📌 745
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Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed

“It’s so sad to see what’s happening in our communities. It’s terrible what the people who live there are going through … Those who live in war zones will understand this pain, this despair and this revolt.”

01.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 86    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 1

ICE deteve a diretora brasileira durante entrevista para obtenção do green card: "Ao final do que nos disseram ter sido uma reunião bem-sucedida, o policial usou a desculpa de uma copiadora quebrada para enganá-la e fazê-la se afastar do nosso advogado. Uma vez separada de seu adv, ela foi presa."

29.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 845    🔁 331    💬 15    📌 20
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Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

17.09.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

#AcademicSky #AnthroSky 👇

I just deleted my account...

17.09.2025 21:21 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 URGENTE

A Câmara pode votar hoje a PEC DA BLINDAGEM, uma proposta que serve pra impedir que políticos corruptos sejam presos.

👉🏽 Também chamada de PEC DA BANDIDAGEM, ela determina que deputados só poderão ser investigados pela Polícia com autorização dos PRÓPRIOS DEPUTADOS em VOTAÇÃO SECRETA. +👇🏽

16.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 1853    🔁 655    💬 70    📌 101
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Abertura do Jornal Nacional pra colecionar
"A história do Brasil tem a primeira condenação de um ex-presidente da república por tentativa de golpe de Estado"

11.09.2025 22:55 — 👍 2800    🔁 753    💬 38    📌 126

Justice Sotomayor, once again, get to the heart of the matter here:

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job."

08.09.2025 16:09 — 👍 192    🔁 67    💬 5    📌 0

Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society #STSsky

04.09.2025 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

28.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 379    🔁 249    💬 7    📌 10
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Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

28.08.2025 11:47 — 👍 1608    🔁 518    💬 80    📌 268

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

27.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 11571    🔁 2426    💬 270    📌 95

This looks great. I'll check it out. Thanks!

27.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#STSsky

14.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We had a lot of fun writing this! It’s a nice distillation of what we’ve learned over the past three years editing American Ethnologist, and how we have applied our vision for it. Link in 🧵below.
#Anthropology #AnthroSky #publishing #PeerReview #academia

06.08.2025 23:25 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.

Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.

07.08.2025 17:59 — 👍 2557    🔁 825    💬 136    📌 64
Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Link to the article: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

07.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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