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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · Sep 10

A Georgia judge said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.” apnews.com/article/atla...

Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Sep 5

A remarkable ethnography examining toxic exposure caused by engineered wood used in FEMA trailers, accompanied by a pedagogical toolkit designed to support student learning.

Carceral Ecologies @carceralecologies.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nick’s book “Homesick” comes out in a month! The book asks the question of how shelter became exposure in the US and what we can do about it. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick (discount code: E25SHPRO)

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Carceral Ecologies @carceralecologies.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nikhit Agrawal and Nick made a discussion and activity guide if you’re interested in teaching it: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

~Homesick~ discussion guide

Some ideas for teaching: Homesick In Homesick Shapiro examines the aftermath of FEMA’s provision of formaldehyde- laden trailers to disaster survivors, focusing on the embodied experiences, epist...

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Carceral Ecologies @carceralecologies.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nick’s book “Homesick” comes out in a month! The book asks the question of how shelter became exposure in the US and what we can do about it. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick (discount code: E25SHPRO)

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VY Choi @vivvychoi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hey! It’s me & my new book at the @4sweb.bsky.social conference in Seattle! Visit the @dukepress.bsky.social table to see it in all its beautiful colors. Then come to the Pine Box tonight for a joint celebration with @carceralecologies.bsky.social @eyatesd.bsky.social & the More Worlds Collective!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're enjoying selling books and meeting authors at #4S2025. Here's @vivvychoi.bsky.social with her new book "Disaster Nationalism." Come by and see us!

A woman with shoulder length dark hair and glasses, wearing a white shirt and black pants, holds up a brown book. She is standing in front of a table covered with books featuring a sign that says "Duke University Press."

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · Aug 29

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave).

Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM.

Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰

#4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

Handmade flier with pink, yellow, green and yellow-green figures (all with clearly non-AI fingers) reading the book covers (but the figures are also drawn as if their bodies are the book covers) of the 4 books featured at the party. The flier includes the text that is repeated in the post.

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Alexandrea J. Ravenelle @ajravenelle.bsky.social · May 30

I’m one of 20 assistant professors in A&S at UNC who has had their tenure decision deferred.

I was planning to spend my summer editing my third book. Now? 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.wral.com/video/unc-fa...

UNC faculty concerned over lack of tenure for professors

WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

www.wral.com

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · May 16

The State of Maryland just released the results of a 4-year independent audit of 1300 death in custody cases investigated by the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from 2003-2019, when it was run by Dr. David Fowler.
🧵 w/ findings to follow.
www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/Reports/0515...

Cover of "An Independent Audit of Restraint-Related Death Investigations At Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) from 2003-2019." It contains the title, authors, a circle with the Maryland state flag, and a circle with an autopsy table in a laboratory setting.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · Apr 3

"Extreme social deprivation [in animal research] is considered inhumane and is heavily restricted. Yet, for prisons in America, distress is by design ... Individuals increasingly find themselves in cages unfit for lab mice and subjected to conditions with less scrutiny than that of invertebrate[s]."

The Appeal @theappeal.org · Apr 2

Micaela Romero, whose partner is incarcerated, uses bumblebees to study how solitary confinement and prolonged isolation cause neurological damage. theappeal.org/researcher-s...

This Researcher Studies How Solitary Confinement Harms the Brain

Micaela Romero studies the neuroscience of solitary confinement and isolation at the University of Washington.

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Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social · Apr 8

📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S.

All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!

worthrises.org/theprisonind...

Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits

worthrises.org

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · Mar 30

In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there

At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this
www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. can't get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice

Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...

www.latimes.com

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Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social · Mar 19

The first peer-reviewed article coming out of the @uclaheatlab.bsky.social, co-authored with four of the students in my lab. Incarcerated folks are at the frontline of climate change. Incarceration makes people more likely to experience heat-related illness and death (1/5)

Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States

In an era of climate change-driven weather events, extreme heat has become the most lethal form of “natural disaster” in the United States. However, i…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thread/Breaking : New documents obtained by the ACLU reveal that ICE is actively considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in at least 6 states , including in California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Lawsuit shows private detention companies offered beds to ICE this year

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering proposals for expansion of immigration detention nationwide, including in sanctuary states such as California.

www.washingtonpost.com

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