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Cecília Olliveira @cecillia.com.br · 9d

ICE deteve a diretora brasileira durante entrevista para obtenção do green card: "Ao final do que nos disseram ter sido uma reunião bem-sucedida, o policial usou a desculpa de uma copiadora quebrada para enganá-la e fazê-la se afastar do nosso advogado. Uma vez separada de seu adv, ela foi presa."

Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 9d

Finally Barbara’s story is getting national attention. New update from her gofundme: she is now in a Louisiana ICE processing center after three days of travel in shackles. She’s sleeping on the floor and has been denied care for her medical condition.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 21d

#AcademicSky #AnthroSky 👇

I just deleted my account...

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 URGENTE

A Câmara pode votar hoje a PEC DA BLINDAGEM, uma proposta que serve pra impedir que políticos corruptos sejam presos.

👉🏽 Também chamada de PEC DA BANDIDAGEM, ela determina que deputados só poderão ser investigados pela Polícia com autorização dos PRÓPRIOS DEPUTADOS em VOTAÇÃO SECRETA. +👇🏽

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Beatriz Diniz @beatrizdiniz.bsky.social · 26d

Abertura do Jornal Nacional pra colecionar
"A história do Brasil tem a primeira condenação de um ex-presidente da república por tentativa de golpe de Estado"

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

Justice Sotomayor, once again, get to the heart of the matter here:

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job."

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society #STSsky

About the role
The postholder will be expected to develop a research programme in areas relevant to Science and Technology Studies, with a particular focus on nature- and environment-related subjects. For the purposes of this position, nature and environment may be construed liberally to include, but not be limited to, natural resources, human and more-than-human relationship, humans and other animals, the built environment, environmental history, environmental knowledge, climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, sustainability, all approached from an STS perspective. Applications from scholars with a focus on the Global South are especially welcome. This is a 100% FTE appointment starting in January 2026 until 31 July 2028.

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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The Economist @economist.com · Aug 28

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · Aug 27

So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 27

This looks great. I'll check it out. Thanks!

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 14

#STSsky

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · Aug 14

TT job in critical sociology of science at the University of San Diego: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Details - Assistant Professor, Sociology

jobs.sandiego.edu

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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · Aug 6

We had a lot of fun writing this! It’s a nice distillation of what we’ve learned over the past three years editing American Ethnologist, and how we have applied our vision for it. Link in 🧵below.
#Anthropology #AnthroSky #publishing #PeerReview #academia

American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 3

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢

American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission...

An Editorial Insight: Know your Anthro journals! Read the last few issues to get a sense of AE’s style, how theory and ethnography work together to propel the argument.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Aug 7

18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.

Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 7

Link to the article: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 7

As I start advising grad students, I’m concerned by how little funding is available for their brilliant projects.
Even if we change course (& that will take work!), the long-term effects will be devastating. WG noted this in their letter ending Sapiens to focus on research.

bsky.app/profile/wenn...

We take our responsibility in this moment seriously. The Mellon Foundation is no longer a source of funding for our applicants; neither is the Ford Foundation. The U.S. Fulbright program, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grantors are facing draconian cuts, restrictions or elimination.

Many of our grant applicants have nowhere else to turn.

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 7

I should add that this research was only possible thanks to funding from @ssrc.org's International Diss. Research Fellowship (now defunct), NSF’s Anthro Diss Research Improvement Grant (status: ???) & @wennergrenorg.bsky.social's Diss Fieldwork Grant (the last one standing).

Research needs funding!

Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟
The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations?

New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky

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Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

ABSTRACT
A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and promoting a more convivial coexistence. In releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes, project proponents presented their strategy as a solution for disease control that harnessed “nature,” instead of working against it. By juxtaposing historical accounts and ethnographic research in Rio with descriptions of biological processes, this article investigates how the microbe-mosquito dyad was turned into a biotechnology of epidemic control. Proponents of the Wolbachia project hoped that a change within multispecies relations—the novel human-bacterium-mosquito relationship—would change other multispecies relations—the historically constituted human-virus-mosquito relationships in Rio and beyond. This shift, which I term “multispecies transmutation,” highlights how relational alterations in both biologies and socialities created a new life-form (“Wolbachia mosquitoes”) and a new form of life (of multispecies coexistence). By tracing the more-than-human biopolitical arrangements put forward by the project, this article explores the recalibration of technoscientific solutions to global environmental health concerns. Multispecies transmutation offers a new framework for understanding the management of multispecies relations, showing how techniques of governance can target not individuals or populations per se, but rather interspecies connections.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · Aug 5

Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10.

Please circulate widely!

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

www.sthvschool.org

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟
The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations?

New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · Aug 4

New from @michaelfakhri.bsky.social
‘Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024.’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...