@phelima.bsky.social
🌍 Africana Anthropologist 🏫 Assistant Professor @ University of Kentucky 🍃 Disaster Studies, Environmental Crises, & Black/Island Ecologies ✍🏾 Flooding in Haiti (book), emergency management in Puerto Rico, & climate change in KY Appalachia
Maxwell Boykoff, Brenda McNally, James Painter, marysanford.bsky.social, Emily P. Diamond, Marc Esteve-del-Valle, Loredana Loy, Kelly E. Perry, Urooj S. Raja & Robin Tschötschel all co-authored this piece.
For more information on this working group, visit their page here: https://bit.ly/43uJhfp
If you're looking for graduate opportunities related to the Pleistocene extinctions, megafaunal impacts on ecological resilience, or the timescales of ecological recovery from perturbations, I'd love to support a Simons Fellowship applicant. Please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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🔈Support needed: "An email from you urging Wenner-Gren President Danilyn Rutherford and the Board of Trustees to continue funding our magazine and its staff could help save SAPIENS. " @sapiens.org #Anthropology
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Haiti begged nearby countries for help against gangs, but the U.S. said it won’t keep paying for the fight.
#HaitiCrisis #GangViolence #USFundingCut #OAS #InternationalAid
Are you a digital humanities scholar looking to sharpen your digital project-building skills, receive funding, and create an open access project on a supported platform? Apply now!
Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST.
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Contemplative Environmentalism Workshop for EDUCATORS & ACTIVISTS
July 14-19, 2025 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico, USA
Cost: $800 (includes tuition, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses)
www.lamafoundation.org/contemplativ...
🚨The @appliedanthro.bsky.social First Book Proposal Prize in Critical Disaster Studies is open for donations! Help us support emerging scholars writing about disasters & crises.
🔗 Donate here: appliedanthro.org/donate 💸
📚 Prize Information: bit.ly/4d9msB8
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📣 The Haitian Studies Association is now accepting nominations for the 2025 HSA Book Prize! 🏆
Honoring an outstanding monograph on Haitian society, culture, or history. $1,000 award!
Details 👉 t.co/caCYymP4yc
#HaitianStudies #CallForNominations #AcademicBluesky
Tinker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies
Applications for academic year 2025-2026 are due on April 1, 2025.
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people in November.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Medicaid covers 41% of all births in the US. 61% of long-term care. 38% of health care for children. Now Republicans want to cut Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax breaks.
This graphic spoke to me, from Rep. Pressley
26.02.2025 01:54 — 👍 37 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0The White House asserted today that it would control who gets to cover the president in the White House and via the White House pool for the first time in our history - providing an authoritarian-style mechanism to shape coverage and retaliate against disfavored outlets. Right out of the textbooks.
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I just learned about the Congo Basin Science Initiative to increase research capacity in the Congo Basin. They're recruiting students from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon or Republic of the Congo for a bunch of relevant graduate studies scholarships and projects! 🧪🌍
17.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The Black Midwest Initiative (BMI) at the University of Illinois Chicago invites applications from early-career scholars, artists, and community organizers to its 2025 Summer Institute on Environmental Justice. www.theblackmidwest.com/summer-insti...
13.02.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies.
She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas.
Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia.
I can't stop thinking about her. 💔
US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Trump and Musk's (DOGE) funding cuts are crippling global efforts to combat child rape networks & human trafficking. Critical programs supported by USAID & the State Department are being shut down—leaving vulnerable children without protection from organized crime. #OpDeathEaters
12.02.2025 21:44 — 👍 1744 🔁 827 💬 89 📌 64Terrible news from one of my favorite professors at LSU: "Cultural Heritage and Traditional Knowledge of Vulnerable Coastal Communities," a 5 year, $925k study documenting people's senses of place and lived experiences with land loss along Louisiana's coast
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USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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If you're writing and need a virtual community, look into Caveday.org. It's my guaranteed "writing group" and I don't have to worry about no-shows. lol. I have the unlimited plan for students & educators. 100% recommend!
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Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
11.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 126 🔁 124 💬 18 📌 49Melbourne Uni has curated a collection of Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers & Thought & Practices from the Global South of 677 items. Two years in the making. Humbled to feature in it; can't believe my luck to share space w/ folks I hold in high esteem.
omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...
"Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, has caused the US Army Corps of Engineers to pull its participation in a day at a private school for girls in South Carolina, leading to the cancellation of the event."
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"The Board of Governors, a majority of which are appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, finalized the review in January, voting to whittle down UF’s general education offerings from more than 1,200 courses to just under 300."
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
10.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 18809 🔁 4370 💬 169 📌 257thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight
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A performer in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained by security after waving the Sudanese flag & Palestinian flag together with the words “Sudan” & “Gaza” written on them. Waiting for the so-called Free Speech mavens to flock to his defense. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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