Kymberley Chu

For those attending the 2025 American Anthropological Association (AAAs) conference, please consider coming out to our roundtable!

I'm honored to be organizing and presenting at our roundtable entitled "Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as
Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.

Sounds a lot like what @katmabu.bsky.social is doing, making mutual aid a key component of her campaign www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/kat...

The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read

[Penn Anthro Colloquium] Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender Monday, October 13, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Join us: Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Dialectics meets the enactive approach!

Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind

📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23

dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...

Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi Remains of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi were interred by members of their own species, the first time that burial has been documented in populations other than modern humans and Neanderthal...

Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi.

"the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study."

Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106

For the first time, I'm teaching an introductory workshop on ethnography for scientists. Anthropologists and STS scholars, what short readings and group activities do you recommend? Thank you for your ideas! #Anthropology #STS #ethnography

Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism 1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes 2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes 3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences 4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula 5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Read the piece and then go below to keep up with efforts to defend People’s Park: linktr.ee/Peoplespark

In Memory of Rosebud, Defender of People's Park On the 30th anniversary of her death at the hands of police, a poster in memory of anarchist and People’s Park defender Rosebud Abigail Denovo.

Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists.

We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:

crimethinc.com/Rosebud

Five travel awards for scholars from low & middle income countries are available for this years ASAA/NZ #anthropology Conference in Whāingaroa, Raglan! www.asaanz.org/conference Priority will be given to applicants from #Oceania and #SoutheastAsia

Hi Bronwyn, thank you for the kind words!!

A screenshot of a scholarship acceptance letter.

A book entitled "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You". Inside, there is a signature and words of support by the author.

Four people stand in the auditorium's background.

I'm honored to announce my ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia will be funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute's Emslie Horniman Scholarship. Thank you @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and my dissertation committee for their kindness and intellectually generous support!

'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women's role in Viking society New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means.

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One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. Speak up and push back. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unfortunately, this is an unpaid opportunity! Apologies for the delayed reply.

If any of this resonates with you, please send me a pitch at kym@princeton.edu or DM me on Bluesky!

Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care - Anthropology News Pseudonyms have been issued for ethnographic interlocutors, monkeys, and locations.  In Polyphony, an urban neighborhood in Penang, Malaysia, a woman

4/4: Most recently, for Anthropology News, reflecting on preliminary fieldwork, I wrote on how free-ranging monkeys unsettle dominant framings of human-animal interfaces as contentious. I would love to edit musings/snippets like these! www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...

Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds | Platypus A More-than-Human One Health approach encourages cooperation among humans and nonhumans in facilitating interspecies solidarity. Perhaps, we can start by imagining post-extractivist imaginaries beyond...

3/4: Blogs are usually around 1200-1800 words. In the past, I've written on my pre-PhD and journalistic fieldwork during Asian Swine Fever: blog.castac.org/2022/05/vira.... Contributors, academic and practitioner, from any and all disciplines are welcome!

2/4, more on Decolonial STS: How do the tools of STS and ethnography highlight asymmetrical power dynamics between scholars and citational politics in Euro-American academic spaces? What of kin-making relations and community maintenance in academia?

1/4: Decolonial STS 🌏 - Grappling with Sylvia Wynter's political distinction between man and Human, how do we unsettle the topologies of STS knowledge production?

Call for Pitches: As a contributing editor for @castac.bsky.social, I'm interested in
Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment?
Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?

Happy New Year from Platypus!

Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog.

All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...

Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

It's me, a person who does scientific research on and with humans - federally funded research no less! - telling you that if you define sex as about gamete size or chromosomes but collect data on it using baby genitals (aka assigned sex) as your measured variable, definition /= measurement.

Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care - Anthropology News Pseudonyms have been issued for ethnographic interlocutors, monkeys, and locations.  In Polyphony, an urban neighborhood in Penang, Malaysia, a woman

Great essay "Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care" by @dialecticprimates.bsky.social www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...

#Multispecies #Anthropology #Conservation #Primatology