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Lance Gravlee

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Anthropologist and pilot. Former professor, now flying for a US-based global airline. Still have some writing to do (racism and health, research methods, aeromobilities). 📝 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yeAwZhIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Sep 12

Last month I cleaned out my office and resigned from my dream job as an anthropologist at the University of Florida. I am deeply grateful for my time there. The work that students, colleagues, and I did together felt meaningful and full of purpose. (1/8)

A view from the base of Century Tower on the University of Florida campus, with blue sky and an airplane's contrails up above

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 22

Sorry to hear that! Hope you and your bag are reunited in the right place soon.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Mar 21

A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding

Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.

www.wsj.com

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 21

A more recent analysis similarly identifies LHR as one of five World Airline Hubs (WAHs), the others being Paris-CDG, New York-JFK, Dubai-DXB, And Tokyo-NRT.

Halás, Marián, Stanislav Kraft, and Pavel Klapka. 2020. The Geographical Journal 186 (1): 2–15.

World airline hubs and interactions. Figure represents airports as colored circles, with connections between them depicted as lines. The size of each circle is proportional to the number of flights at each airport. The thickness of lines is proportional to the number of flights between airport pairs. Dark borders identify on the circles identify the five world airline hubs. Source: Halás, Marián, Stanislav Kraft, and Pavel Klapka. 2020. “Global Spatial Organisation of Air Transport: The Definition of Functional Airline Regions.” The Geographical Journal 186 (1): 2–15.

Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 21

“Not only does Heathrow dominate much of Europe, including Paris (CDG), Frankfurt (FRA), Amsterdam (AMS) and Vienna (VIE), its role as a dominant node extends to the United States (JFK), the Middle East (KWI, AUH), large portions of Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh.”

Global airline networks and nodal regions - GeoJournal

Transportation infrastructure has always played an important role in the economic fate of regions. In particular, airline networks have dramatically decreased the geographic and temporal constraints o...

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 21

Network analysis clarifies why the power outage at London Heathrow (LHR) is so disruptive to global air travel. I imagine it will take a while for everyone affected to get where they were trying to go.

Network analysis of global air travel overlaid on a world map. The figure shows lines illustrating seats per week between LHR and airports in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Source: Grubesic, Tony H., Timothy C. Matisziw, and Matthew A. Zook. 2008. “Global Airline Networks and Nodal Regions.” GeoJournal 71 (1): 53–66.

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 21

“We have concerns about the nominee’s past efforts to lower pilot training and safety standards,” said Captain Jason Ambrosi, President of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).

Trump’s FAA Pick Has History of Lowering Air Safety Standards

Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · Mar 19

qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Mar 12

Excellent! We’ll have to get you the 757 and 767 cards next. Have a great conference!

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Feb 21

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say

Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.

www.statnews.com

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Feb 19

Here we go again.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Feb 15

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Chris Muravez @chrismuravez.bsky.social · Feb 15

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

From the fednews community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · Feb 15

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all.
time.com/7216299/nih-...

Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science

The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

time.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Feb 15

I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on.

They are trying to kill people with cancer.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Feb 14

Quick story here on what I've heard about cuts at NCI and NIH, and a few other things:

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 15

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE)

If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread.

There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it

ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Feb 15

“So, how can the radical overhaul Trump and Musk are undertaking be reconciled with our constitutional order? Quite simply, it cannot be.”

Opinion | Why DOGE is unconstitutional

Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. Only Congress or the Supreme Court can stop him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · Feb 14

Of all federal spending, only 6% goes to federal employees. So we are gutting institutional knowledge and firing people who have dedicated their lives to serve their country and saving nothing.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Rebecca Stone @forestminish.tv · Feb 11

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

Screenshot of US bill introduced to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland”

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · Feb 11

Imagine a world where people fought to protect the gains won by Black and Brown people that benefit everyone. Imagine a world where people remembered that authoritarian regimes always start with the least protected and work their way up. Fascism recurs over and over because of bigotry

Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · Feb 11

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI.

I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Feb 11

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is just 🤦🏻‍♂️

Trump's FAA Puts 'Men' Back in NOTAMs

The term Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) has returned, FAA announced Monday, reversing a Biden Administration-era change at the agency.

www.flyingmag.com

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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · Feb 10

I can't get this out of my head. Every football season.

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/pla...

Plantation Logics at the NFL Combine - Anthropology News

At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Black football players’ every movement is measured, quantified, and appraised. The event’s college-aged men are at the heart of football’s billion-dollar industry.

www.anthropology-news.org

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · Feb 8

In addition to destroying science & medical research which has direct impact on people's lives, this undermines universities AND crashes the economy. The idea that this will "save" money is FALSE. "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity"

NIH direct economic impact page "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity": https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/impact-nih-research/serving-society/direct-economic-contributions

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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · Feb 8

In Tampa, a good chunk of the downtown real estate boom has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of USF’s medical school and growth of Tampa General Hospital. Certainly these cuts will reverberate to real estate market there and similarly elsewhere.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 8

is it woke to want to end cancer?

Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · Feb 8

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.

#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets

Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

www.nytimes.com

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