Matthäus Rest
@mattrest.bsky.social
peasant / anthropologist / antifascist: milk & microbes, ancient DNA & energy infrastructures, Himalayas & Alps, working at Uni Fribourg & roadsides.net
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Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Journal Article)
www.roadsides.net
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
Over the past months, I was blessed to work with Dolly Kikon on the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure. Over the next days, we'll publish all the fantastic contributions to "Foodways" - check it out on our all-new website
Collection No. 14
Roadsides' Collection No. 14
www.roadsides.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Over the past months, I was blessed to work with Dolly Kikon on the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure. Over the next days, we'll publish all the fantastic contributions to "Foodways" - check it out on our all-new website
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole. The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept #glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves. www.courthousenews.com/eu-judges-pu...
EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole
The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves.
www.courthousenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole. The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept #glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves. www.courthousenews.com/eu-judges-pu...
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It's really, really good.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It's really, really good.
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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RIP Keith Hart
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
RIP Keith Hart
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
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The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
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Tag 24 nach dem Prozess: Herr Wöginger treten Sie zurück!
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Tag 24 nach dem Prozess: Herr Wöginger treten Sie zurück!
Late to the party - but at long last this wonderful collection of papers came out in the summer. Thanks @joseacanada.bsky.social and Salla Sariola for doing this together
Out now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell
Situating Microbes Within Complex Ecologies
| Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
estsjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Late to the party - but at long last this wonderful collection of papers came out in the summer. Thanks @joseacanada.bsky.social and Salla Sariola for doing this together
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.“
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.“
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CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
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Spread the news. #Pressefreiheit #FPÖ
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Spread the news. #Pressefreiheit #FPÖ
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Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
August 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.”
Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
June 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.”
Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
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‘‘On the last day of his life, God gave him a gift, which was an attack chihuahua all the way from Washington who bowed and scraped. Vance was like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.’
Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Colm Tóibín and Thomas Jones · Old Pope, New Pope
www.lrb.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘‘On the last day of his life, God gave him a gift, which was an attack chihuahua all the way from Washington who bowed and scraped. Vance was like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.’
Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
We're hosting the next conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association in Fribourg next February. The Call for Panels is open now. Please send us your proposals!
Jahrestagung 2026 - Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft
Die Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft (SEG) fördert durch ihre wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Veranstaltungen gemeinsam mit anderen fachspezifischen Institutionen die anthropologisch-ethno...
www.sagw.ch
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We're hosting the next conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association in Fribourg next February. The Call for Panels is open now. Please send us your proposals!
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One of the most important recent texts for me - by Masha Gessen. Held in honour of Hannah Arendt. Both Jewish, both defying categorisation. Today, more than ever, read this text. I say this as an anthropologist who knows how difficult comparisons are.
#8May #May8
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#8May #May8
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May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
One of the most important recent texts for me - by Masha Gessen. Held in honour of Hannah Arendt. Both Jewish, both defying categorisation. Today, more than ever, read this text. I say this as an anthropologist who knows how difficult comparisons are.
#8May #May8
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
#8May #May8
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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