Annika Teppo

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Great piece.

Hei kaikki ihmisoikeuksien ystävät! 👋 Siirryimme tänne X:stä. Viestimme täällä ihmisoikeuskysymyksistä ja ihmisoikeustyöstämme. Ota meidät seurantaan ja jaa tämä viesti, niin muutkin löytävät meidät!

#ihmisoikeudet #ihmisoikeusliitto

Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology (273606) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology (273606), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

3 year postdoc @dept of Social Anthropology UniOslo Norway to do ethnographic fieldwork in rural Europe. German language required. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles for managing and sharing #researchdata were introduced almost a decade ago. Are they still up to date? Read what Gordon Blair has to say on the topic on the LSE Impact Blog.

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social #openscience

Mood

I frequently take quick notes in my little journal. The challenge is understanding my own handwriting.

Are you a morning person? You may be a Neanderthal descendant. Some humans could have obtained gene variants that could influence the circadian clock from Neanderthals, a study found

A study published this week in Genome Biology and Evolution has found that Neanderthal DNA remains in some present-day humans and may determine whether someone is naturally an early riser.

Afrikaners and the Boundaries of Faith in Post-Apartheid South Africa This book examines the shifting moral and spiritual lives of white Afrikaners in South Africa after apartheid. The end of South Africa’s apartheid system of racial and spatial segregation sparked wi...

My 2022 monograph, open access.

Note lantern, post box, stairs, and a bowl of porridge for tiny visitors.

This is what we call a #tonttuovi - a Nordic fad of putting a tiny door for Xmas elves to use.

On the screen now: “Leave the world behind”. Good old Julia Roberts.

Watching all the disaster movies I can find in streaming services. They make such a pleasant break from the present-day realities. Hot chocolate for the soul.