Hans Steinmüller

looks very interesting, but the links to parts 2 and 3 of the review are broken

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

how is it possible that everyone is just looking on while the Israeli government engineers a mass starvation in Gaza? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

RIP Mike Rowlands. 🙏A tribute by Francis Nyamnjoh panafricanvisions.com/2025/07/a-tr...

Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement, 21 July 2025 The UK and 25 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Der deutsche Außenminister hat nicht unterzeichnet. Ich verstehe nicht warum. Der Text ist sehr zurückhaltend und vorsichtig formuliert. Noch nicht einmal zu diesem Minimalkonsens ist die Regierung bereit? Ich verstehe es nicht und es macht mich traurig.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Cool paper with an great title.

Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.

People from high SES backgrounds do the same

www.iza.org/publications...

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys UK Lawyers for Israel

A brief clip about UK Lawyers for Israel, and how the organisation opposes fundraising for Gaza and silences support for Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui70...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Listing below 5 good reasons to read my new #anthropology article "People Capture" via @berghahnbooks.bsky.social journal @socialanalysis.bsky.social as ch.4 of issue 68(4) regarding "Anthropologies of Capture":

#STS #AcademicSky #Anthropology #NonFiction #Sustainability #Climate

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

A powerful essay by @omerbartov.bsky.social that concludes, with care and precision, that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Others have reached this conclusion too. Bartov's piece explores some deep and important questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

New Special Issue: Anthropologies of Capture. Guest edited by Ana Chiritoiu and @chakadojani.bsky.social, with contributions by Judith Scheele, Sinan Jappan, Qing Shen, Sam Rumé, and @acorsin.bsky.social out with @socialanalysis.bsky.social www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

"‘One Step Ahead’: Tales of Treasure Traps, Limitation, and Possibility in Northwestern Turkey" by Sinan Jabban

"People Capture: Knowledge Workers and Complicity in Australian Carbon Capture and Storage" by @secondordersocialresearch.com

"A Captivating Place: Trapping People, Value, and Meaning in a Heritage City" by Sam Rumé

"Just for Fun: Playfulness as Self-Entrapment among Elderly Working-Class Queer Men in Shanghai" by Qing Shen

"To Capture a Bride, or: Mauss in the Sahara" by Judith Scheele

"Afterword: Capture and the Axial Technologies of Anthropology" by @acorsin.bsky.social

@socialanalysis.bsky.social

New special issue with social analysis, on capture

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

The Dalai Lama’s Succession How might the battle over succession play out over the coming months? If the Dalai Lama announces a successor, how will Beijing respond? How robust is the institutional framework for maintaining legit...

On July 2, the Dalai Lama released a statement about the process of selecting his successor, which was received with immediate high dudgeon by the Chinese Communist Party. The coming conflict over the next Dalai Lama will bring Tibet back into the news. This is what happened and what's coming next:

Who Gets to Study Whom? As anthropology endeavors to shed the baggage of its past, its leaders could inadvertently put constraints on people of color.

From the archive. As the field of anthropology struggles to shed its colonial past, the discipline has inadvertently put constraints on anthropologists of color who already face racism, bias, and discrimination. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/anth...

Focaal 102 is here! 🎉

See the TOC for the latest Open Access issue, "Situating global warfare in historical conjuncture," here: bit.ly/4nKdL5d

Guest editors: Ayse Seda Yuksel and Ayse Caglar

Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherd... Ethnographic accounts of Melanesian exchange systems, such as the Kula and Hiri, have significantly influenced the development of anthropology. These accounts primarily focus on male agency framed by ...

Orig. study:

R. Skelly et al., Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship & Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 calBP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherds, Arch. Method & Theory 32, 2025. 🔓

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archeological study tells us about PNG sea trade Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.

Delighted to share our #archaeology 🏺 research in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social

Men traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archeological study tells us about PNG sea trade

theconversation.com/men-traded-w...

Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:

Very strange, @princetonupress.bsky.social president Christie Henry in propaganda video

NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee.

Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.

Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.

dedication page of Neither Settler nor Native: For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being. —Lu Hsun, “Hometown"

其实地上本没有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。

Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award! The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted:…

🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”

Congratulations! 👏

👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...