@janbrunson.bsky.social
Medical Anthropologist | Fulbright Scholar in Nepal | Editing @ SS&M | Studying discourses on maternal health & population in global souths | Nepal | views do not represent employer janbrunsonphd.com
I still use the Malkki and Passaro chapters in my grad seminar on methodology (by choice, not laziness)
1) Medical Anthropology
2) Demographic Anthropology
3) Anthropology of S Asia and Nepal
I'm old enough that I had to search actual journals in the Rock and photocopy the articles.
And I turned one of my comps into a publication, so there's that.
my new favorite insult
🚨Calling all anthropologists who love sport, study sport, play sport, and/or write about sport. It’s time for a topical interest group focused on sport to bring us together in conversation and collaboration. If you’re interested in forming a TIG, please let me know. It only takes 10 of us to start.🚨
I've been questioning my plans to travel to Nepal. If I can deal with pain and back spasms everyday in the US, I can also deal with it in Nepal. जाऔं !
The survey being distributed via email by USF researchers for R1 faculty on AI use is good – I would encourage you to participate
(unlike the internal university survey on AI I recently received that had me yelling at the questions)
"Snakes and handlers are bound together through forms of care that extend life while sustaining vulnerability, as human labor, snake biology, and biomedical demands are forcibly synchronized."
In “Toxic Synergy” #MedAnthroHI doctoral candidate Erin McConkey "introduces the notion of the precarious grasp to describe the unstable entanglements between humans and venomous snakes at a Thai antivenom facility, where survival depends on mutual exposure to harm."
Reading a 2025 peer-reviewed article on access to emergency obstetric care in LMICs and the author cites articles in the lit review for subjects that ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN THE CITED ARTICLES. LLM lit review or?
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
Korean Air ✈️ must've made changes to their frequent flyer program – it is impossible for an American to use miles these days. Bye, Korean Air. This relationship isn't worth it anymore.
Things like childcare and paid leave would be great. And we should support them EVEN IF THEY DON'T RAISE BIRTH RATES because there is a robust body of evidence demonstrating they improve the health and well-being of children, parents, and families. (They're even good for employers!) 4/6
That's not to say that there are no economic or societal implications for low birth rates or that there's nothing we can or should do. But what we should be asking are two questions. First, we should ask "how can we make parenthood easier for parents and would-be parents?" 3/6
wishing you strength!
New article by #MedAnthroHI MA & med student Katriel Wong on Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawai‘i. We advocate for bwebwenato / talk story / talanoa as collaborative methodology.
#Hawaii #ReproJustice #ReproSky #PublicHealth #Anthropology
my stylist gave me curtain bangs and I am trying to adjust but I'm not certain my face warrants window dressings
Meanwhile, this prof, deeply committed to transferring critical thinking skills to the next generation, has returned to printing texts for students & having them underline & write in the margins of those "long PDFs" AND create a handwritten reading notes journal.
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
I wish her all the best!
Wearing running shoes every day gets old. Esp in hot weather. Just discovered OOFOS sandals, and trying to decide if they are ugly af or so ugly that they're cute.
#48yoInTheBodyOfAn80yo
#disability
New from Laura Burke:
Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor-Leste doi.org/10.1111/maq....
#MedicalAnthropology #FeministDemography
"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)
Dr. Kim TallBear at University of Hawai‘i on Thursday
#Indigenous #Anthropology
Oiselle's CEO just made a spirited statement on the state of things in MN. Also providing cold weather gear to mutual aid orgs. Go show them some love if you need new running gear
Jana Fortier reviews the book, Kathmandu: A reader, edited by Benjamin Linder, in American Ethnologist.
#anthropology
graffiti observed on today's commute, aka resistance Hawai‘i style:
Be Nice
Eat Rice
F Ice
First week report of using printed course texts: Had the deeply satisfying experience of knowing students were leafing through the pages of their assigned text during seminar instead of looking at *literally anything* on their screens.
