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anthropologist. renewable substitution, green capitalism, sugarcane, biotech, STS, Brazil. harvard academy postdoc. https://kathleenulrich.com

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 15

My article “The Substitute and the Excuse” is out in Cultural Anthropology! I analyze the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, biofuels industry growth, and economic growth amid the crop’s history of colonial expansion and environmental destruction. #sts

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The Substitute and the Excuse | Cultural Anthropology

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · Aug 28

What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today's post is about sharing ethnographic data in forms other than articles or books: an open online repository called the Sugar Library shares artefacts from @katieulrich.bsky.social's fieldwork on sugarcane-based bioproducts in Brazil.

Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...

The Sugar Library | Platypus

The making of the online sugar library has unfolded amid growing discussions around Open Science, increasing concerns about AI training on stolen materials accessed online, and in the context of anthr...

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories.
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille

CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations to all the authors of "Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair," published yesterday, open access!
Our chapter is a choose-your-own-adventure through lab training at CLEAR.
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Contamination Chores

CC BY-NC-NDThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and support from MIT Press Direct to Open

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Apr 11

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Apr 2

just gonna keep posting this cuz it's ROLLING STONE covering our new song y'all come on!

Evan Greer, Ryan Cassata Urge World to 'Protect Trans Kids' on Trans Visibility Day

Evan Greer and Ryan Cassata linked up to release 'Protect Trans Kids' on Monday to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility.

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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Apr 2

The latest round of PUP’s Book Proposal Grant applications are open until April 6, 2025. During this time, we invite applications from scholars across the #Humanities and #SocialSciences, from underrepresented communities, institutions, and regions of the world.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · Mar 31

Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨 Attention grad students!

The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.

Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...

#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife

David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · Jan 17

Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out!

Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Jan 20

How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?

This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.

🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Jan 13

Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

4S 2025 Retooling CFP (public)

4S 2025 Open Panel CFP Retooling: Change and Continuity in Turbulent Worlds Katie Ulrich, Harvard University Christy Spackman, Arizona State University Andrea Ballestero, University of Southern Cali...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · Dec 16

📌New Thematic Cluster just out!

"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺

👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · Dec 16

Cluster Book Review “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise”🧫🔍

By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)

Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · Dec 10

Two year humanities postdoc at Tufts on “University Ecologies”: apply.interfolio.com/160426?fbcli...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Dec 4

Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Nov 9

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology

It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.

[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Nov 29

Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies #EnvHum

Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese

More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...

Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies
Jens Andermann , Victoria Saramago , Gabriel Giorgi | 26.09.2024

We are looking for book proposals in English, Spanish and Portuguese for an exciting new series on environmental humanities in the Iberian South Atlantic. We welcome submissions spanning the field in its geographical and historical breadth, from the pre-Columbian and colonial period to the present, including approaches from Amerindian and Afrodescendent perspectives.

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Nov 21

LIMN issue on obsolescence just dropped:

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 22

Check out her awesome music too

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 20

Today!

Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!

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Hannah Quinn, PhD @hanelizqui.bsky.social · Nov 19

Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join the SCA team for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ our friends at Visual Anth, APLA, and American Ethnologist,
The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.

Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join us for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ @culanth, @SocietyVisAnth, @PoliticalLegal, & @AmEthno!
The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

My own piece looks at sugarcane-based #bioplastic and how it replicates petro-systems more than interrupts them. Também disponível em português! culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I’m (Not) Green

(Com tradução para o português) When I go to the grocery store in São Paulo and check out, I can pay a few cents extra to get a plastic bag. I’ve...

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Substitution

Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...

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