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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Special Issues at the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, deadline is 24th November 2025 www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/Ca...

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 10d

Vacancy: Faculty position in Anthropology (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) at HKUST apply.interfolio.com/174839

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Kris Smith @kris-smith.bsky.social · 13d

We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Assistant Professor

Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: November 2, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY - A...

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 13d

with contributions by Philippe Erikson, Jonathan Alderman, Feliciano Patty, Valentina Vapgnarsky, Hilario Chi Chanul, Catherine Alès, Olivia Casagrande, and Claudio Alvarado Lincopi, in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology slaca.americananthro.org

SLACA – The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 13d

Check out this special issue on indigenous writing in Latin America, on how Wayana, Quechua, Aymara, Yanomami, Mapuche and Maya intellectuals write, edit, print, and publish: Autonomy and Collaboration, edited by Patrick O'Hare and Natalia Buitron anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19354940...

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 16d

Man kann sich das alles nicht ausdenken. Hannah Arendt hätte sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen gewehrt, in diesen "Ruhmestempel" der "großen Deutschen", der einzig der nationalen Selbstvergewisserung und Überhöhung dient, aufgenommen zu werden. Kleines Zitat von ihr: "Der Souveränitätsbegriff 1/

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Social Analysis @socialanalysis.bsky.social · 17d

We are happy to share with you the latest issue of Social Analysis, featuring Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbek on the Danish Welfare Police, Viveiros de Castro on Levi-Strauss, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values.

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 18d

New Issue of Social Analysis online and in print: Rollason on Black Boxes, Elbenk on the Danish Welfare Police, Candea on Form, Lockwood and Robbins on African Values www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @socialanalysis.bsky.social

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 21d

don't look away www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo

Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians enterin...

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 22d

Trump Not Welcome March, today in central London stoptrump.org.uk/protest/

Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025

Stop Trump Coalition

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 27d

How did radio and the circulation of news transform modern China? In his new book 'Seeking News, Making China', John Alekna traces how emerging technologies reshaped politics, community, and state–society relations in the twentieth century. Read the conversation with Laura De Giorgi.

Seeking News, Making China: A Conversation with John Alekna

In Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society (Stanford University Press, 2024), John Alekna explores how the rise of radio and the circulation of news tran...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28d

In light of Peter Mandelson being dropped as Ambassador due to close ties to Epstein

When will Peter Mandelson be removed from the House of Lords?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · Sep 5

AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Sep 5

"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · Sep 4

And some people say peer review should be abolished altogether, e.g. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...

Is Peer Review a Good Idea? | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 72, No 3

Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed incentive structure ...

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · Aug 22

Consider also, for a moment, that one of these propositions is pushed as a rock hard political consensus, widely believed common sense and the other derided everywhere as naive idealism or envy/class hatred.

And *still* the latter is a more common belief.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’d suggest that people who answer this question “migrants” have made a very specific choice, and are unlikely to be amenable to appeals to reason

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Aug 14

‘The former diplomat [Craig Murray] said that the report, prepared to set out the UK Government’s case for the ban, showed that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “had consistently lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription”.’

Leaked document leaves Government's Palestine Action case in tatters, says campaigner

A LEAKED document has left the UK Government’s case for banning Palestine Action under terror laws in tatters, it has been claimed.

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · Aug 13

very important to keep this in mind: google scholar might be gone soon! That's a problem, given how central google and google scholar have become to research and teaching

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · Aug 11

Well well well... look who is asking new #anthropology grads to sell their souls so #AI #ML can replace the profession...

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Aug 8

📖 ‘The Piñones are Waiting for You’
Socialisation and Seasonal Migration among the Pehuenche
⌲ By Gabriela Piña Ahumada
#OpenAccess article in Volume 33: Issue 1 of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social · Aug 10

SCMP: #China aired a documentary last week showing how the Qing dynasty took back #Xinjiang from foreign forces in the late 19th century – Beijing’s latest effort to counter Western narratives and strengthen Chinese national identity in ethnic minority border areas.
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China airs Xinjiang history documentary to counter Western narratives

It tells the story of Qing dynasty general Zuo Zongtang, who led army to recover the western region from foreign forces in the 19th century.

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Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Aug 8

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!

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Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...

In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Aug 5

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT!

White supremacy = this.
Genocide = this.
NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

Tagungsprogramm, Mittwoch, 03. September 2025 - Zentrum für technologiegestützte Bildung (ZtB)

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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · Aug 5

looks very interesting, but the links to parts 2 and 3 of the review are broken

Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · Jul 31

how is it possible that everyone is just looking on while the Israeli government engineers a mass starvation in Gaza? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

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