Adia Benton
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
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In my own research area, you can't overstate the impact of Wiseman's Primate (1974). Everyone in any way related to animal research was discussing it. The Animal Welfare Institute was citing it before congress. The Yerkes laboratories are *still* scared of outsiders because of it. The list goes on.
February 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
In my own research area, you can't overstate the impact of Wiseman's Primate (1974). Everyone in any way related to animal research was discussing it. The Animal Welfare Institute was citing it before congress. The Yerkes laboratories are *still* scared of outsiders because of it. The list goes on.
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I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
February 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
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🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
UT Regents To Vote on Sweeping Course Restrictions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
aaup-texas.org
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM
🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
reminds me of the time I found our main floor powder room completely overrun with toilet paper, toilet full of toilet paper, a broken TP dispenser, and a naked toddler.
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
reminds me of the time I found our main floor powder room completely overrun with toilet paper, toilet full of toilet paper, a broken TP dispenser, and a naked toddler.
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Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it.
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
Frederick Wiseman: TITICUT FOLLIES
YouTube video by Austin Film Society
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it.
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
so is this on Kellen Browning or his editor
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
so is this on Kellen Browning or his editor
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wow
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
wow
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A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
intrigued by chatter about the US hockey teams, I read some stuff in the athletic. about the player development person for the US women's team--who happens to be the mother of 3 NHL players + was herself an Olympian and three-sport athlete in college. weirdly written: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...
She raised 3 NHL stars. Now Ellen Hughes hopes to help the U.S. women’s hockey team win gold
Hughes, mother to Quinn, Jack and Luke, is a player development consultant working with the U.S. women's team vying for gold in Milan.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
intrigued by chatter about the US hockey teams, I read some stuff in the athletic. about the player development person for the US women's team--who happens to be the mother of 3 NHL players + was herself an Olympian and three-sport athlete in college. weirdly written: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...
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Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.
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Throughout 2026, @timep.bsky.social will be programming around the 15 year anniversary of the Arab Uprisings.
Our kick-off event on February 23 features an incredible line-up: Lina Attalah, Hamid Khalafallah, Razan Rashidi, and Samia Errazzouki, moderated by @michatobia.bsky.social.
Our kick-off event on February 23 features an incredible line-up: Lina Attalah, Hamid Khalafallah, Razan Rashidi, and Samia Errazzouki, moderated by @michatobia.bsky.social.
🔔 Join us on Feb 23 for an online event 15 years since the Arab Uprisings. Together, Lina Attalah, @hamidmkk.bsky.social, Samia Errazzouki, and Razan Rashidi, moderated by Micha Tobia, will revisit these movements, reflect on their legacies, and imagine what's next: timep.org/2026/02/16/t...
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Throughout 2026, @timep.bsky.social will be programming around the 15 year anniversary of the Arab Uprisings.
Our kick-off event on February 23 features an incredible line-up: Lina Attalah, Hamid Khalafallah, Razan Rashidi, and Samia Errazzouki, moderated by @michatobia.bsky.social.
Our kick-off event on February 23 features an incredible line-up: Lina Attalah, Hamid Khalafallah, Razan Rashidi, and Samia Errazzouki, moderated by @michatobia.bsky.social.
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The Tkacucks bringing the vibes down where ever they go
Now over the course of US women’s hockey games, we’ve been subjected to JD Vance & Marco Rubio at a game with the transphobic Lamoureux twins & now the Tkachuk brothers. I addressed the brothers in today’s queer Olympic news roundup. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/more-gay-n...
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The Tkacucks bringing the vibes down where ever they go
Saw this movie on the plane and it annoyed me and made me dislike a hitherto likeable kumail nanjiani
And welcome to Historians at the Movies! Tonight we are live posting THE BIG SICK available on Prime. It’s all about finding love, connection, & yes comedy when cultures collide. (& we promise no death bed or cancer scenes)
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This Sunday Historians At The Movies talks about modern day romance—with a little medical history thrown in. Join us on Prime Video Feb 15 at 8pm eastern for THE BIG SICK with guest host @phdrachel.bsky.social
If you love what we’re building with #HATM, share it!
youtu.be/PJmpSMRQhhs?...
If you love what we’re building with #HATM, share it!
youtu.be/PJmpSMRQhhs?...
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Saw this movie on the plane and it annoyed me and made me dislike a hitherto likeable kumail nanjiani
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One week from today! VOD will be available after.
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
One week from today! VOD will be available after.
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DHS just hired a 21-year-old whose biggest résumé highlight is flooding government social media with white-nationalist slop. This is what federal “communications” looks like now.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Meet the baby-faced bigot behind Homeland Security's icky social media
It’s been impossible to ignore the Nazification of official government social media accounts run by the Trump administration. It’s a sea of AI slop openly promoting white nationalism and anti-...
www.dailykos.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
DHS just hired a 21-year-old whose biggest résumé highlight is flooding government social media with white-nationalist slop. This is what federal “communications” looks like now.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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“Companies operating food delivery robots will not be allowed to expand across parts of Wicker Park and Logan Square following overwhelmingly negative feedback from neighbors, the local alderman said Monday.”
Logan Square, Wicker Park Neighbors Say No To More Delivery Robots
Ald. Daniel La Spata said Coco and Serve Robotics won't expand service in the 1st ward after more than 80 percent of residents who responded to a survey said they didn't want them.
blockclubchicago.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
“Companies operating food delivery robots will not be allowed to expand across parts of Wicker Park and Logan Square following overwhelmingly negative feedback from neighbors, the local alderman said Monday.”
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Bullshit.
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Bullshit.
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The IOC is the worst. @darcyjamesargue.com
IOC under fire for selling replica 1936 Olympics t-shirt used to promote Nazi Germany
IOC under fire for selling replica 1936 Olympics t-shirt used to promote Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games to push propaganda for his racist and antisemitic ideology
trib.al
February 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The IOC is the worst. @darcyjamesargue.com
I’m so skeptical of the atlantic (and bruenig) that if I had read it, I probably would’ve been seeking details—a disclaimer, a note, something—but this seems like a big problem for them
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
www.niemanlab.org
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I’m so skeptical of the atlantic (and bruenig) that if I had read it, I probably would’ve been seeking details—a disclaimer, a note, something—but this seems like a big problem for them
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well that's unethical. Wtaf.
I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly.
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay
"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."
www.niemanlab.org
February 14, 2026 at 8:49 PM
well that's unethical. Wtaf.
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I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
“The convergence of influencer culture and venture capital is part of a broader shift reshaping America’s institutions.”
Jake Paul may have gotten his jaw broken on Netflix, but he and his $65 million fortune are laughing their way into Silicon Valley boardrooms | Fortune
“We’re going to do amazing things in 2026,” said Steve Han, a partner at Paul's Anti Fund, told Fortune. “And then hopefully we'll show it over YouTube.”
fortune.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
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The film looks interesting too!
“A Woman's Work” directed by A.R. Ephraim
As location scouts described it in 2024:
“'A Woman’s Work' is a drama about a young woman in rural Kentucky who works as a coal miner to provide for her two younger sisters after losing her parents to the opioid epidemic."
“A Woman's Work” directed by A.R. Ephraim
As location scouts described it in 2024:
“'A Woman’s Work' is a drama about a young woman in rural Kentucky who works as a coal miner to provide for her two younger sisters after losing her parents to the opioid epidemic."
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The film looks interesting too!
“A Woman's Work” directed by A.R. Ephraim
As location scouts described it in 2024:
“'A Woman’s Work' is a drama about a young woman in rural Kentucky who works as a coal miner to provide for her two younger sisters after losing her parents to the opioid epidemic."
“A Woman's Work” directed by A.R. Ephraim
As location scouts described it in 2024:
“'A Woman’s Work' is a drama about a young woman in rural Kentucky who works as a coal miner to provide for her two younger sisters after losing her parents to the opioid epidemic."
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Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival