@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
all of this. when my uni announced our 4 pillars I just about choked: ai, careers, curriculum of the future (?!), & student success - nothing about learning, growth. Nothing about our community. Just made up words from consulting firms. We're throwing away what we could be to check off ticks...
“With her modest white hair-covering & wire-rim spectacles, Melanskia is earnest, charming and quite convincing. She is also not real.
She is one of a handful of synthetic influencers created with artificial intelligence who are promoting an untested dietary supplement” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
When you see hundreds of thousands of young people in the streets it’s not because they are young and inherently restless. It is because the dramatic increase in the cost of living over the last 7 years across the continent falls particularly hard on young people who were promised a different future
The price of oil is one of the most crucial determinants of political stability because of the secondary effect it has on the price of everything else. The number of landlocked countries in Africa means they’re importing oil from countries that are importing oil. Look at what happened during COVID.
"I think of the Mississippi Delta as a living, breathing archive, a landscape where the river’s curve mimics the spine of a people who refused to be broken. In the quiet theater of our lives, we often look for mirrors, but what we truly need are portals." @shereereneethomas.bsky.social on SINNERS
“What followed was one of the more humiliating fortnights in the history of Indian foreign policy — a masterclass in the perils of choosing sides in a neighborhood where you cannot afford enemies.”
This was the most common illegal thing tenants living in single family homes told us. Shockingly common to see this in leases despite its illegality
But really, Rybakina has so much power behind her strokes, she leans on that, sticks behind the baseline. Anyone who can defend well, move her forward, keep her in rallies, can win.
“Exhaust them“ works for elite athletics and child rearing
Sure, just stay behind the baseline slugging it out against Rybakina. Such a losing proposition
Sabalenka has to remember that Rybakina sucks at the net, isn’t that great a mover yadda yadda
“No for-profit company could possibly withstand all the false leads required by that process,” he recalled telling them, “all the weird, random science that never panned out.”
Super grateful for this piece highlighting the threats to this country’s biomedical research infrastructure
But then Kennedy posted an AI video of himself fighting with a Twinkie so SNL can't keep up.
Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
It’s a tie for me whether not knowing a Kennedy is Catholic or referring to WASP as an epithet is funnier
This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story.
They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said.
It's astonishing how fragile this university often is.
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#academicsky
he’s started the year off well and this is probably the best I’ve seen him play in a while. Consistent.
Bringing back this oldie from Chicago St Pats c 2018/9. This guy was not impressed.
I like Meddy—leans into villain status, unorthodox swings, moves well. I dislike Zverev so I was happy to see him go down today.
Watching Alcaraz just melt after some really great highlight reel-level tennis
"a CNN investigation last year found more than two-thirds of the executive orders Trump signed in his first week in office were "closely aligned" with a conservative blueprint designed to reshape the US government, dubbed Project 2025"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Turnout in Mississippi's midterm primaries for U.S. Senate:
Republicans: ~163,000
Democrats: ~157,000
www.mississippifreepress.org/democratic-t...
I was a music-obsessed teen growing up in London in the 80s, one of the Grange Hill generation
IMHO, these are the 20 best 80s pop songs (my views may change tomorrow cuz I'm fickle & contain multitudes!)
For this thread, I define "pop" as making it into the Top 20 in the official UK charts
1/21
Sinner dusted Zverev, so that’s good.
An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/
buzzfeed turning to ai is funny because when i was a kid they were known to everyone online as "the site that steals our posts" and they spent a decade fixing that image and just when they started seeming respectable they turned right back into "the site that steals all our posts"
unfortunately turds don’t have any agency. while I truly meant no insult to actual alligators, my point is that the GOP are predatory living beings in and of the ‘swamp’ ecosystem they criticize, not outside of it, but not ‘owners’ of it either. in literal terms: they‘re very human—the worst kind.
Was trying to find the best metaphor because they dwell in the swamp and feed off others, which kind of made me wonder if they’re more like catfish
I haaaaate that
At best, they’re alligators, at least, they’re catfish