Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

call for abstract: for those interested in the interface between social ontology & anthropology, we're hosting a workshop in Cambridge (UK). deadline Aug 21.

my paper on Cong Feng is out now (pivoting to digital)

A bit of planning ahead--for colleagues and friends who will be in London in Jan, please mark this for your diary. I will give a book talk on The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social SOAS China Institute on 26 January 2026 at 5 pm. See you!

www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

A real Mario v Wario situation this week

He’s right and he says it well, but also,

Every New York hip hop figure w the sole exception of 50 cent is so incredibly corny. Christopher walken’s frank white is also his worst role. Possibly ever. Yes, I want all the smoke.

signing off my response to reviewers anonymously "best, xx"

losing to a bunch of cuny art historians week after week is… something else

After two months of getting smoked in my fantasy league we are so back

I've tried to theorize this impulse as a "refusal of coevalness." I think anthropologists are often especially bad at dealing with this for reasons that have a lot to do with the way we justify the legitimacy of our methods. But we should take it seriously:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

What can a box of old love letters reveal about history, hope, and migration? In this essay, Suvi Rautio reflects on 1950s correspondence between her Chinese grandfather and Finnish grandmother—intimate artefacts that trace a cross-border romance and the idealism of a shared socialist future.

The idea that the bishop of Rome, the holy father, the supreme pontiff, head of the universal church, apostolic successor to St Peter, would
"fire shots" directly towards American Evangelicals in his first homily is American exceptionalism

These days you too can go viral for summarizing the Wikipedia page for “city upon a hill” in very convoluted fashion

Crazy ass antecedent in this conditional statement icl

lmao I didn't even read the thread

I'd wager one hundred doubloons this guy is an oxbridge midwit. on the contary! we cannot solve the big LLM crisis by making everyone wear a gown and locking them in a room

Can we please stop covering this anachronism of an organisation?

There is so little coverage of the domestic game

I'd much rather read about Leicestershire's start to the season than their self-serving machinations

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/...

reporting back from the crevices of Youtube:《表现主义》by 徐若涛

middlesex stream quality so good I ended up watching it at lords (frozone's lair)