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Nikhit Agrawal

@technofixcritic.bsky.social

Anthropology PhD candidate at UCLA. Climate change, tech entrepreneurship, agriculture.

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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union! We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!

actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

26.05.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Written 70k+ words of my
dissertation and now stuck on the conclusion.
Maybe I don’t know what to do with it.
Maybe I’m just not ready to let it go yet.
Maybe both.
Maybe neither.

19.05.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many folks internalize such ideas producing very real effects. You might want to checkout - I show one here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

04.05.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oral history interview with Sandra Harding Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❀️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

06.03.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 852    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 51
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Bayer warns of third straight year of falling profits amid turnaround effort Chief executive raises hope for recovery from 2026

"Bayer’s shares have declined about 80 per cent since it took over the US’s Monsanto in 2018." + over 5000 people were let go.

The curse of bigness in action. So much for the argument that corporate mergers are necessary to spur growth, create jobs, etc.

www.ft.com/content/38cd...

05.03.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could tech solutions for sustainable agriculture obscure structural violence? In-depth take on how blitzscaled climate programmes risk harm despite good intentions. #Sustainability #ClimateJustice

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

04.12.2024 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mehdi Hasan: What is Ramadan - and other questions answered A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant.

"What is Ramadan – and other questions answered: A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant."

For my non-Muslim friends, and haters!, I wrote this guide to Ramadan and fasting almost 15 years (!) ago.

01.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1437    πŸ” 247    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 10
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With the all the attacks on our community I thought I’d post this again. Might save a life.

24.02.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1937    πŸ” 1183    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 57

I just sent some $$$ to Give Directly, which is giving cash aid for essentials to low-income families displaced by the LA wildfires. Please consider sending a few dollars, every bit helps.

10.01.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

10.01.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1462    πŸ” 550    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 77

Feels like a fresh (noise proof) start! BUT this is one more social media platform – will it become just like others (and successful?)? Does anyone remember Clubhouse? Only time will tell.

04.12.2024 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A starter pack for folks in STSFAN
Give me a shout if you want to be added, or taken off

bsky.app/starter-pack...

30.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Could you please add me? Thank you!

04.12.2024 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list!
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD

03.12.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 4

Could you please add me? Thank you!

04.12.2024 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had the pleasure of having @technofixcritic.bsky.social as a guest lecturer in my #EnviroAnthro course this semester. I highly recommend that you assign this paper! I have several well-intentioned students who want to go out in the world and "solve" environmental issues, +

04.12.2024 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

That's so kind of you! Thank you so much!

04.12.2024 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for this! Pls add me too if possible.

04.12.2024 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would you add me to the list too? Thank you!

04.12.2024 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much for your kind words, LuΓ­sa! It was my pleasure to speak to your wonderful class.

04.12.2024 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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