Felix Stein
@felixundstein.bsky.social
Anthropologist of economic life and global health @UvA_AISSR; I post about #reparations and #globalhealthfinancing. PI www.reparationsresearch.eu; wrote "Work, Sleep, Repeat" https://shorturl.at/DRcQ3; founded www.anthroencyclopedia.com
Pinned
Blended Finance Won’t Save Global Health – Renewed Public Sector Commitment Might [Guest Essay]
Newsletter Edition #280 [The Files In-Depth]
genevahealthfiles.substack.com
Now available #openaccess: Prof. Desmond McNeill's and my contribution to #blendedfinance discussions at #FfD4, via Priti Patnaik genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/blended-fi...
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"#Stablecoins remind us that the singleness of money is never guaranteed by technology or market processes alone. It is manufactured – by law, by policy, by the institutional credibility of the state."
Biagio Bossone on the double standards of money for @lsebr.bsky.social
Biagio Bossone on the double standards of money for @lsebr.bsky.social
Stablecoins and the double standard of money - LSE Business Review
Stablecoins demonstrate that the singleness of money is not a naturally occurring equilibrium but a constructed one.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"#Stablecoins remind us that the singleness of money is never guaranteed by technology or market processes alone. It is manufactured – by law, by policy, by the institutional credibility of the state."
Biagio Bossone on the double standards of money for @lsebr.bsky.social
Biagio Bossone on the double standards of money for @lsebr.bsky.social
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The EU banned toxic lead chromate pigments in 2019. But loopholes allow continued exports, putting children worldwide at risk.
@rorytodd98.bsky.social & @leecrawfurd.bsky.social argue for a full export ban—a meaningful global health win at little cost to the EU:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oTRelV
@rorytodd98.bsky.social & @leecrawfurd.bsky.social argue for a full export ban—a meaningful global health win at little cost to the EU:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oTRelV
The EU Should Ban Exports of Lead Chromate
A staggering one in three children worldwide suffer from lead poisoning, causing lifelong damage to their health and brain development. It’s these harms that led the EU to ban toxic lead chromate pigm...
go.cgdev.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The EU banned toxic lead chromate pigments in 2019. But loopholes allow continued exports, putting children worldwide at risk.
@rorytodd98.bsky.social & @leecrawfurd.bsky.social argue for a full export ban—a meaningful global health win at little cost to the EU:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oTRelV
@rorytodd98.bsky.social & @leecrawfurd.bsky.social argue for a full export ban—a meaningful global health win at little cost to the EU:
https://go.cgdev.org/4oTRelV
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💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore?
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
✍️Adam Arian
#AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods
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👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇
Distributed Peer Review – How the wisdom of the crowd can allocate grant funding - Impact of Social Sciences
New research shows engaging the applicants in funding review processes can resolve and reframe many issues facing peer review.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
👀Interesting to see the budget earlier this week confirming funding for @ukri.org trial of #DistributedPeerReview, we featured a post from @rorinstitute.bsky.social discussing their recent work on the subject back in September 👇
Very cool to see that the @ripejournal.bsky.social has a best reviewer award - #anthropology journals might get inspired to do the same :) @histanthro.org @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @amethno.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Very cool to see that the @ripejournal.bsky.social has a best reviewer award - #anthropology journals might get inspired to do the same :) @histanthro.org @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @amethno.bsky.social
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What's the lesson from the anthropology of outer space?
Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽
Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽
Outer space
People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What's the lesson from the anthropology of outer space?
Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽
Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽
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Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...
Atmospheres
Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...
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From Indigenous knowledge systems treating the sky as kin, to scientists translating gravitational waves into audible 'chirps'—our stories are written in the stars. 2/3 🔽
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
From Indigenous knowledge systems treating the sky as kin, to scientists translating gravitational waves into audible 'chirps'—our stories are written in the stars. 2/3 🔽
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Outer Space is not "outer"; it is an inextricable extension of human life.
Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3
Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3
Outer space
People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Outer Space is not "outer"; it is an inextricable extension of human life.
Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3
Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3
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"How do people interact with outer space? How does outer space impact human lives? How does outer space influence our understanding of social reality?" Anna Szolucha delves into these questions and more in our latest entry on anthropology & outer space! 🌌 🛰️ www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-...
Outer space
People’s daily lives have always relied heavily on their link with outer space. From using the constellations for navigation millennia ago to connecting with thousands of satellites that provide geopo...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"How do people interact with outer space? How does outer space impact human lives? How does outer space influence our understanding of social reality?" Anna Szolucha delves into these questions and more in our latest entry on anthropology & outer space! 🌌 🛰️ www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-...
Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...
Atmospheres
Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...
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Health negligence case triggers public discussions on health crisis in West Papua: Papuan pregnant woman dies in Jayapura after being rejected by four hospitals humanrightsmonitor.org/case/health-...
Health negligence case triggers public discussions on health crisis in West Papua: Papuan pregnant woman dies in Jayapura after being rejected by four hospitals -
On 16 and 17 November 2025, Mrs Irene Sokoy, a pregnant indigenous Papuan woman living on one of the small islands in Lake Sentani, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, died together […]
humanrightsmonitor.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Health negligence case triggers public discussions on health crisis in West Papua: Papuan pregnant woman dies in Jayapura after being rejected by four hospitals humanrightsmonitor.org/case/health-...
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Through OPHI, @ox.ac.uk has been selected to represent academic institutions in the Global Alliance Against Hunger & Poverty, coordinating a network which gathers scientific research to support public policies tackling hunger & poverty.
More: ophi.org.uk/news/oxford-...
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More: ophi.org.uk/news/oxford-...
📷 ©OUImages/Whitaker Studio
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Through OPHI, @ox.ac.uk has been selected to represent academic institutions in the Global Alliance Against Hunger & Poverty, coordinating a network which gathers scientific research to support public policies tackling hunger & poverty.
More: ophi.org.uk/news/oxford-...
📷 ©OUImages/Whitaker Studio
More: ophi.org.uk/news/oxford-...
📷 ©OUImages/Whitaker Studio
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"Here at the doorstep of our Constitutional home, justice seems far to reach us" - It has been two years since dozens of elderly South Africans started camping outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding #reparations for suffering under apartheid.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Two-year S.African sit-in for reparations says still ignored
Dozens of elderly people who have camped outside South Africa's Constitutional Court for two years to demand reparations for their suffering under apartheid had hoped the just-ended G20 summit would…
www.france24.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"Here at the doorstep of our Constitutional home, justice seems far to reach us" - It has been two years since dozens of elderly South Africans started camping outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding #reparations for suffering under apartheid.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Interested in #reparations & #activism? Watch our latest lecture recording in which grassroots activist Tina Cordova shares her experience fighting for #justice in New Mexico.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interested in #reparations & #activism? Watch our latest lecture recording in which grassroots activist Tina Cordova shares her experience fighting for #justice in New Mexico.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otim...
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"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology
Atmospheres
Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...
www.anthroencyclopedia.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:
Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures
Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)
📍 @iobua.bsky.social
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures
Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)
📍 @iobua.bsky.social
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:
Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures
Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)
📍 @iobua.bsky.social
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures
Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)
📍 @iobua.bsky.social
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
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COP 30 started this Monday - See a great summary of what to look out for concerning #climate #reparations & #LossAndDamage by @lossanddamage.bsky.social here:
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/co...
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/co...
COP 30 STARTS TOMORROW WHAT IS AT STAKE UNDER THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT SHAPE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO LOSS AND DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE CLIMATE CRISIS?
By the Loss and Damage Collaboration
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
COP 30 started this Monday - See a great summary of what to look out for concerning #climate #reparations & #LossAndDamage by @lossanddamage.bsky.social here:
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/co...
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/co...
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Join us in one hour for a talk with Tina Cordova on #reparations for #nuclearharm
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Join us in one hour for a talk with Tina Cordova on #reparations for #nuclearharm
Job for all you UK #Reparations researchers out there: jrct.org.uk/job-vacancies
Vacancy: Head of reparations
Job vacancies
jrct.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Job for all you UK #Reparations researchers out there: jrct.org.uk/job-vacancies
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☢️ There are still a couple of days left to register for our next online lecture:
Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.
Read more ⬇️
Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.
Read more ⬇️
Join us next Tuesday for an online lecture on 'Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation' by Downwinder & grassroots activist Tina Cordova.
📅 11 November, 5pm CET
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
📅 11 November, 5pm CET
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/dow...
Nuclear reparations 80 years later: The Trinity Downwinders receive modest compensation — REPAIR
www.reparationsresearch.eu
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
☢️ There are still a couple of days left to register for our next online lecture:
Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.
Read more ⬇️
Coming Tuesday at 5pm CET Tina Cordova will reflect on her experience fighting for her community which has suffered serious and multi-generational consequences of nuclear harm.
Read more ⬇️
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Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
www.prio.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Join us for an online lecture next Tuesday at 5pm on #reparations for #nuclearharm in New Mexico. We will hear from grassroots activist Tina Cordova
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Join us for an online lecture next Tuesday at 5pm on #reparations for #nuclearharm in New Mexico. We will hear from grassroots activist Tina Cordova
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These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Death
The variety of ways in which death has been handled in human societies has been a source of much scholarly fascination. In this brief overview, anthropological approaches to the study of death are ide...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
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Brand new blog from our PhD, Tabitha Hrynick: "From the Screen to the Heart: Art, Storytelling, and the Demand for Nuclear Justice" ☢️
Live now, read it here:
www.reparationsresearch.eu/blog/screent...
#Reparations #EnvironmentalJustice #Trinity #DownWinders #Mining #NewMexico
Live now, read it here:
www.reparationsresearch.eu/blog/screent...
#Reparations #EnvironmentalJustice #Trinity #DownWinders #Mining #NewMexico
From the Screen to the Heart: Art, Storytelling, and the Demand for Nuclear Justice — REPAIR
Tabitha Hrynick reflects on reparations for nuclear harm in New Mexico.
www.reparationsresearch.eu
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Brand new blog from our PhD, Tabitha Hrynick: "From the Screen to the Heart: Art, Storytelling, and the Demand for Nuclear Justice" ☢️
Live now, read it here:
www.reparationsresearch.eu/blog/screent...
#Reparations #EnvironmentalJustice #Trinity #DownWinders #Mining #NewMexico
Live now, read it here:
www.reparationsresearch.eu/blog/screent...
#Reparations #EnvironmentalJustice #Trinity #DownWinders #Mining #NewMexico