A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Great listening to @zalifung.bsky.social speaking about her work on the Salween river basin at the @infranortherc.bsky.social conference in Vienna!

Recently joined the Anthropology on Air podcast at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, to talk about some of my work with amber and in the Alps: open.spotify.com/episode/1fHb...

An incredibly generous audience and a wonderful project — what a pleasure to speak about some of my work here in Vienna, and looking forward to the next two days of conference!

🙌 Excited to kick off the #BeyondInfrastructure #conference today with a keynote lecture by Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo)!

🏗️ Scholars from diverse fields will engage in interdisciplinary discussions on #infrastructure and beyond.

@alessandrorippa.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #InfraNorth

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."

The Tromsø hype is real — fantastic group of anthropologists up here and look at this..

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

#academia

Thread: My 2nd article supported by the @pulitzercenter.org Rainforest Investigations Network is out!

With Jauman Naw, I investigated the local business networks tied to rare earth mining in the Pangwa area of Kachin state, Myanmar for @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social
pulitzercenter.org/stories/back...

One like, one #anthropology opinion.

1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.

We've got a call for papers out for a special issue on Aeromobilities in Tourism Geographies! Abstract deadline 1 Sept. www.tgjournal.com/aeromobiliti...

Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Tenure-track job in Chinese society in Oslo - can absolutely recommend department and city. Some restrictions apply: less than 5 years from PhD; max 1 year postdoc experience. Check it out: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Research fellow job as Sussex, part of a project I'm also involved with on environmental and social change in rural Europe. It's a fantastic group of people to work with, consider joining us! :)

jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/ae276684...

Congrats Jess and Casey — wonderful to see this out 😊

Roadsides 013: Toxic Infrastructures is done! Congratulations to all contributors and guest editors Janine Hauer and Nikolaos Olma. We will publish all articles over the next few days: roadsides.net/collection-n...

This looks like an amazing opportunity to work in a great research environment with some truly wonderful people!

I'll be giving a talk in Leiden on April 25 on my new AMBER project, as part of which I'll present a draft chapter of the book I'm trying to write on global amber circulations -- in case someone's around: www.portcityfutures.nl/agenda/2025-...

New articles in Social Analysis: Otto on the attention economy in Denmark, Larsson on leading by obeying in Chiapas, Jiang on Chinese cosmopolitans in London, an essay on Modal Anthropology by Degani, and Knauft on the experiential turn in Anthropology www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Consider sending in a paper for this conference in beautiful Vienna 👇👇

Food and infrastructure -- a hugely important topic, for a journal open to all kinds of creative interventions, and edited by two amazing scholars. Share widely, and send us something 🙂

If you're interested in human-animal relations in Europe this is very good episode of the Conservation & Science Podcast with Thorsten Gieser on his book “Living with Wolves: Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-Wolf Coexistence”: tommysoutdoors.com/2025/03/25/1...

Great to see Kathryn Yusoff's new book getting the attention it deserves (the good faith, engaged kind of attention, that is): www.theguardian.com/science/2025...