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Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles.

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Same guy gets a jumpscare thinking that George W Bush did those weird paintings of Hell in the 1500s.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

a school.

I just don’t want to live in a place where what I love and who I am is undervalued and mocked.

Highest paid college staff? Football coaches.
Fancy degree? “Elitist”
Scientist? “Just give it to me straight”
Use fancy vocab? “You think you’re so smart huh?”
Complicated issue? “I don’t need to understand, just know who’s right.”

I’ve lived most of my professional life outside of the US. It’s complicated. No place is perfect, and the US will always be a home to me. But what makes the US so frustrating for me is how Americans often take ignorance as a virtue.

This person appears to be a basic AI opportunist. The current project is making a bot that replicates ChatGPT 4o for all those people who fell in love with New Clippy.

Farewell to Vicente Rafael We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Vicente Rafael on February 21, 2026, at the age of 70. Vince was the author of five books with Duke University Press, a contributor to several edited…

A fitting tribute to a wonderful person and great scholar - Vince Rafael - from @dukepress.bsky.social
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We are so sorry to hear this news—sending condolences to Professor Rafael's colleagues and family. RIP to a great scholar.

Skynet AI doomerism? Overhyped. This shit is the real doom - people who don't care about learning willingly turn their brains off. We don't need terminators when we have self-termination.

Speculating on the Futures of Here “I don’t exist in an after climate crisis—we know now that there is no after, only varying degrees of loss, varying degrees of change. My mother was a climate writer who found that her words …

Last winter and spring, I took a journey deep into an imagined future with artist @auntiemojo.bsky.social and an amazing group of students at Johns Hopkins University. Here's a glimpse of the future river culture we conjured together at the Peale Museum in Baltimore.

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This is a long thread involving the sentencing of Korea’s former President for invoking martial law to suppress democracy. Americans can learn from this.

Does it have a name?

What?

So grateful to Don Kulick for this lovely, generous review of Beautiful Mystery -- ahead of print in Language in Society.

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Post a banger that’s not in English

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Fully-funded PhD position at Lund University in East and Southeast Asian Studies. This is a good position in what is the best area studies program in the region!

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
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Shot a man on the beach in Algiers. In the trial, it came out that it wasn’t about my mother, and I just did it to watch him die.

@catacalypto.bsky.social let me put this in the game

I guess the larger thing I want to convey is this. The US is not exceptional. It was not the sole bastion of freedom, nor was it the sole perpetrator of evil. And now, the authoritarian swing is something that many places have been through. Americans can learn from Indonesians, Hungarians, etc...

Can we add ORCid to the list of "technologies named for bad things in Tolkien?"

A New Criminal Type in Jakarta: Counter-Revolution Today Book

Thinking a lot of this book when looking at the USA now - the dissemination of fear to justify the adoption of the very methods imaginary enemies use. The way that authoritarian systems lure us in. @dukepress.bsky.social

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PhD student in Social Anthropology The Department of Social Anthropology is Sweden’s largest in the field. It has a dynamic and internationally renowned faculty and offers programs on the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels.  Mor

My department is advertising two positions in Social Anthropology. Open subject, open area.

Sweden is a nice place to work. While you’d study with a particular faculty member, the entire department admits students, so apply here!

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Can you be his Enkidude?

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Could also have been Bruce Campbell and I would have been there for it!