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@tyanna.bsky.social
linguistic anthropologist, postdoc in the forest 🌲, she/her
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I just became shocked upon realizing that the youth are barely even sampling The Hush Sound in their TikToks
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sunrise and slides on the way to New Orleans for AAA!
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.

The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.

“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”

current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
they’re calling it the Big Beautiful Bill in the TikTok comments 💀
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
There’s a lot of vibe degradation too (duh). Position your attention wisely.

On that note, I do not believe that most ADHD-centric mood board vibe accounts are doing good work. I think they’re working against us.

Throwing this out there because I would like the masses to have the frameworks.
Niche “I have a PhD in this” comment:

Very good things are happening on Instagram. Bad things too, I’m sure. Other places too, I’m sure.

But they’re seizing the means on Zuck’s own algos.

The youths are doing populism in ways you probably don’t even know about yet and you’re gonna know.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Niche “I have a PhD in this” comment:

Very good things are happening on Instagram. Bad things too, I’m sure. Other places too, I’m sure.

But they’re seizing the means on Zuck’s own algos.

The youths are doing populism in ways you probably don’t even know about yet and you’re gonna know.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"

apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
apnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Together, we’re critical to the comprehension and production of meaning! 🧠 @markthornton.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.
My wife is Chilean and there are lots of parallels to the referendum on Pinochet where he was defeated. The pro-Pinochet ads were doom and gloom. The anti were upbeat and sunny. There was a movie about it: youtu.be/lt8VayTqQhQ?...
NO | Official Trailer HD (2013)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
I think about this a lot.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Don't forget @tyanna.bsky.social's linguistic anthropology starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...
October 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Gentrification font in the middle of the forest. Relentless!
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
E-bike autumn
September 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now!
Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃
September 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM