Todd G. Pierce, Ph.D.

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

"I think the exact language is that it is 'not scientifically accurate' to say that vaccines do not cause autism. It’s a very strange formulation. That is like saying, 'I have no evidence that umbrellas do not cause kittens.'" lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Remembering Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Honoring Her Service A soldier lost in Washington, and what her death means for those who served beside her.

"For most, this tragedy will be a headline that soon fades. But for those in her unit, it will divide their service, and likely their lives, into 'before' and 'after.' Soldiers know that feeling. I certainly do."

@markhertling.bsky.social on Spc. Sarah Beckstrom: lnk.thebulwark.com/3M8Bb5O

Graphic for World AIDS Day 2025 showing a Black woman standing on a higher red ledge reaching down to pull up a Black man on a lower red ledge, with the words ‘World AIDS Day | 2025’ on the bottom.

Today is World AIDS Day.

“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.

#WAD2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I'll be presenting next week at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in New Orleans! Say hi if you see me!
#americananthropolocalassociatio #anthropology
#SFAA #AAA

I'll be presenting next week at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in New Orleans! Say hi if you see me!

One of my students from The Isla Mujeres Ethnographic Field School (I.F.S. anthrofieldschool.com) won an award for her Poster session for The Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, March 2025, Portland, OR anthrofieldschool.com #Anthropology #SFAA #AppliedAnthropology

The roundtable presentation I participated in, discussing AI in education and beyond, for The Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, March 2025, Portland, OR anthrofieldschool.com #Anthropology #SFAA #AppliedAnthropology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI anthrofieldschool dotcom

My paper presentation about AI, from a Postmodernist critique, for The Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, March 2025, Portland, OR anthrofieldschool.com #Anthropology #SFAA #AppliedAnthropology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

My panel on AI for The Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, March 2025, Portland, OR #Anthropology #SFAA #AppliedAnthropology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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Global Ethnography Program

anthrofieldschool.com

The program is remote in instruction but flexible in application: you may conduct research locally, in the field, or entirely online using remote ethnographic techniques, or a mix of both.

Because science doesn't mean anything in this idiocracy.

Is it also possible that there was a lot less reporting because of the handcuffs placed on the CDC and many other orgs that report to them?

Deaths peaked at 2,584 in last winter's COVID wave

Deaths peaked at 1,030 in this winter's COVID wave

Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

Is it also possible that there was a lot less reporting because of the handcuffs placed on the CDC and many other orgs that report to them?

To put it in clearer terms…

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

YouTube video by Shoshanah Jacobs Community engaged research and teaching

Community-engaged research is about telling stories that matter 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJw...

With @drdanielgillis.bsky.social in Iqaluktuuttiaq

We’ve known for 30 years that this is a waste of money that prevents Americans from being safe

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank.

I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history.

Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

The students of The Isla Mujeres Ethnographic Field School (IFS) bring professional results to the discipline! I took 2nd author with one of my students, Brandon Fischer, as 1st for a chapter in a collected volume! Learn more about IFS publications here: www.anthrofieldschool.com/publishedpap...

Video I shot while visiting. Really cool place!

Ketchikan, AK Totem Heritage Center en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_H... Photo by Todd Pierce

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

Just as bird flu is taking off.

Scientists can tell how ancient human populations evovled by analysing their DNA. Credit: SPL

"Perhaps getting Neanderthal DNA was part of the success because it gave us better adaptive capabilities outside of Africa," Dr Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social

Humans may not have survived (in Europe) without Neanderthals 🏺🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...