Felix Stein

RIP Keith Hart

"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...

My students do indeed use this encyclopedia entry (and the recent one on atmospheres has also been helpful)

Awwwwww! Thanks for sharing Richard! Currently fundraising for another 3 years of OEA growth, so this is motivation!

There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting - Impact of Social Sciences Do journals that still use formatting as a screening tool put up a barrier to wider participation in academic publishing?

💥New: There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting

✍️Disha

#AcWri #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

The UK Must Avoid Deadly Cuts to Health Aid in Sierra Leone The UK Government’s February announcement that aid will fall to 0.3 percent of gross national income by 2027 has led to a wave of concern as to which programs will be cut. The outlook is especially bl...

The UK’s plan to cut aid to 0.3% of GNI threatens Sierra Leone—including a £35m health program set to fall below £1m.

CGD experts argue Sierra Leone should stay a priority: needs are severe, alternatives scarce, & interventions cost-effective:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oKJJ0s

Affect Affect refers to sensations and physiological shifts in intensity that may or may not formalise into conceptually distinct and collectively recognized feelings. Compared to emotions, which anthropolog...

What’s that vague sensation I cannot quite name but that still governs much of what we do? www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/affect

Can we measure trust in scientific publications? - Impact of Social Sciences Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research

🗃️"Academic publishing is no longer and can no longer be seen as a medium for communicating findings solely to other researchers."

@jacoates.bsky.social #Trust #SciComm

Over 300,000 marched in the Black Women's March in Brasília for reparations and an end to racism : Peoples Dispatch Over 300,000 women marched in Brasília on November 25 and launched a manifesto denouncing colonialism and demanding reparatory policies

Last week in Brazil over 300k women marched for #reparations & 'good living' - a Latin American/Afro-diasporic concept promoting communitarian society which prioritizes care, dignity, respect, sovereignty, and collective policies which guarantee basic rights.

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/27/o...

Stablecoins and the double standard of money - LSE Business Review Stablecoins demonstrate that the singleness of money is not a naturally occurring equilibrium but a constructed one.

"#Stablecoins remind us that the singleness of money is never guaranteed by technology or market processes alone. It is manufactured – by law, by policy, by the institutional credibility of the state."

Biagio Bossone on the double standards of money for @lsebr.bsky.social

The EU Should Ban Exports of Lead Chromate A staggering one in three children worldwide suffer from lead poisoning, causing lifelong damage to their health and brain development. It’s these harms that led the EU to ban toxic lead chromate pigm...

The EU banned toxic lead chromate pigments in 2019. But loopholes allow continued exports, putting children worldwide at risk.

@rorytodd98.bsky.social & @leecrawfurd.bsky.social argue for a full export ban—a meaningful global health win at little cost to the EU:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oTRelV

Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...

💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?

✍️Adam Arian

#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods

Distributed Peer Review – How the wisdom of the crowd can allocate grant funding - Impact of Social Sciences New research shows engaging the applicants in funding review processes can resolve and reframe many issues facing peer review.

👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇

Very cool to see that the @ripejournal.bsky.social has a best reviewer award - #anthropology journals might get inspired to do the same :) @histanthro.org @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @amethno.bsky.social

Outer space People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...

What's the lesson from the anthropology of outer space?

Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽

Atmospheres Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...

Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...

From Indigenous knowledge systems treating the sky as kin, to scientists translating gravitational waves into audible 'chirps'—our stories are written in the stars. 2/3 🔽

Outer space People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...

Outer Space is not "outer"; it is an inextricable extension of human life.
Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3

Outer space People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...

"How do people interact with outer space? How does outer space impact human lives? How does outer space influence our understanding of social reality?" Anna Szolucha delves into these questions and more in our latest entry on anthropology & outer space! 🌌 🛰️ www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-...

Atmospheres Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...

Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...

Health negligence case triggers public discussions on health crisis in West Papua: Papuan pregnant woman dies in Jayapura after being rejected by four hospitals - On 16 and 17 November 2025, Mrs Irene Sokoy, a pregnant indigenous Papuan woman living on one of the small islands in Lake Sentani, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, died together […]

Health negligence case triggers public discussions on health crisis in West Papua: Papuan pregnant woman dies in Jayapura after being rejected by four hospitals humanrightsmonitor.org/case/health-...

Through OPHI, @ox.ac.uk has been selected to represent academic institutions in the Global Alliance Against Hunger & Poverty, coordinating a network which gathers scientific research to support public policies tackling hunger & poverty.

More: ophi.org.uk/news/oxford-...

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Two-year S.African sit-in for reparations says still ignored Dozens of elderly people who have camped outside South Africa's Constitutional Court for two years to demand reparations for their suffering under apartheid had hoped the just-ended G20 summit would…

"Here at the doorstep of our Constitutional home, justice seems far to reach us" - It has been two years since dozens of elderly South Africans started camping outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding #reparations for suffering under apartheid.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Interested in #reparations & #activism? Watch our latest lecture recording in which grassroots activist Tina Cordova shares her experience fighting for #justice in New Mexico.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...

Atmospheres Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...

"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology

EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures

Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

COP 30 STARTS TOMORROW WHAT IS AT STAKE UNDER THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT SHAPE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO LOSS AND DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE CLIMATE CRISIS? By the Loss and Damage Collaboration

COP 30 started this Monday - See a great summary of what to look out for concerning #climate #reparations & #LossAndDamage by @lossanddamage.bsky.social here:

www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/co...

Join us in one hour for a talk with Tina Cordova on #reparations for #nuclearharm

Job for all you UK #Reparations researchers out there: jrct.org.uk/job-vacancies

☢️ There are still a couple of days left to register for our next online lecture:

Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.

Read more ⬇️

Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...

#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES