Krista M. Harper
@kristamharper.bsky.social
Professor of anthropology and public policy, interested in #energysky, #climatesky , #academicsky and #Urbanism+. Writes about #participatory and #qualitative research methods. I love #crochet and hate #cancer
https://blogs.umass.edu/harper/
https://blogs.umass.edu/harper/
Pinned
A disaster not just for the US, but for cancer survivors everywhere. According to a Lancet study, cancer research expenditures, 2016-2020–Table 1 shows that NIH was source for 45% of cancer research $ globally: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Global funding for cancer research between 2016 and 2020: a content analysis of public and philanthropic investments
Cancer research funding must be aligned with the global burden of cancer with more
equitable funding for cancer research in low-income and middle-income countries (which
account for 80% of cancer burd...
www.thelancet.com
Reupping this Lancet study of cancer research funding which shows how important NIH is not just for US patients but the entire world #NIHSavesLives #FuckCancer
Learning that it’s ok to just fail and start over is such a game changer
Same here! It's always funny to have folks around me being upset when I frog some knitting. Undoing what I've done doesn't bother me anymore. And that lesson has extended into my workday.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Learning that it’s ok to just fail and start over is such a game changer
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This is so true. So much of the joy of making art is in the process, and in that experience the maker/artist gains wisdom.
Whatever age you are, making art is transformative. I’ve always doodled, but in the past couple of years I have dived into fiber arts and printmaking. Now making is part of my daily routine, like exercise. 1/4
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is so true. So much of the joy of making art is in the process, and in that experience the maker/artist gains wisdom.
Whatever age you are, making art is transformative. I’ve always doodled, but in the past couple of years I have dived into fiber arts and printmaking. Now making is part of my daily routine, like exercise. 1/4
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Whatever age you are, making art is transformative. I’ve always doodled, but in the past couple of years I have dived into fiber arts and printmaking. Now making is part of my daily routine, like exercise. 1/4
What a disaster! No NSF dissertation grants for anthropologists this year?
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What a disaster! No NSF dissertation grants for anthropologists this year?
118, according to Scientific American (of the 380+ clinical trials cancelled due to Trump cuts to NIH)
We killed how many cancer research trials to pay for this?
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
118, according to Scientific American (of the 380+ clinical trials cancelled due to Trump cuts to NIH)
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
We killed how many cancer research trials to pay for this?
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We killed how many cancer research trials to pay for this?
No one’s ignoring policy.
We still say “Strike when the iron’s hot,” even though blacksmithing became a niche hobby 100 years ago.
I’m not policing other people’s language, but why should I reinforce the bad common sense of fossil fuels when I’m speaking/writing about clean energy?
We still say “Strike when the iron’s hot,” even though blacksmithing became a niche hobby 100 years ago.
I’m not policing other people’s language, but why should I reinforce the bad common sense of fossil fuels when I’m speaking/writing about clean energy?
Phrases die off naturally when they don’t apply.
This seems performative with no reduction in carbon and just a novel way to virtue signal.
We should actively seek top down solutions (I.e. government) that can force change, not police how people talk
This seems performative with no reduction in carbon and just a novel way to virtue signal.
We should actively seek top down solutions (I.e. government) that can force change, not police how people talk
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
No one’s ignoring policy.
We still say “Strike when the iron’s hot,” even though blacksmithing became a niche hobby 100 years ago.
I’m not policing other people’s language, but why should I reinforce the bad common sense of fossil fuels when I’m speaking/writing about clean energy?
We still say “Strike when the iron’s hot,” even though blacksmithing became a niche hobby 100 years ago.
I’m not policing other people’s language, but why should I reinforce the bad common sense of fossil fuels when I’m speaking/writing about clean energy?
Also need an alternative to “in the pipeline” because why associate innovation with fossil fuels that are killing us and the planet?
Cooking with gas.
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Watch your f-ing language
Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Also need an alternative to “in the pipeline” because why associate innovation with fossil fuels that are killing us and the planet?
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We won’t topple fossil fuels with a few language tweaks. But maybe we can needle ourselves into being a little more intentional. Language reflects our aspirations, our desires, our standards. Let’s try to keep it clean.
Seriously, send me your ideas: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Seriously, send me your ideas: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Watch your f-ing language
Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We won’t topple fossil fuels with a few language tweaks. But maybe we can needle ourselves into being a little more intentional. Language reflects our aspirations, our desires, our standards. Let’s try to keep it clean.
Seriously, send me your ideas: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Seriously, send me your ideas: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
Cooking with gas.
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Watch your f-ing language
Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cooking with gas.
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Well-oiled machine.
Burning the midnight oil.
Step on the gas.
Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Wasn’t this a Tim Robinson sketch in “I Think You Should Leave?” “I’m gonna embarrass you, Barry… Barry palmed the dip!”
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Wasn’t this a Tim Robinson sketch in “I Think You Should Leave?” “I’m gonna embarrass you, Barry… Barry palmed the dip!”
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
Revolutionary idea for a new podcast: instead of talking with guests, I'll play popular music for a few hours each afternoon at a given time, breaking occasionally to provide traffic and weather updates.
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Revolutionary idea for a new podcast: instead of talking with guests, I'll play popular music for a few hours each afternoon at a given time, breaking occasionally to provide traffic and weather updates.
Wow, who will be the lucky grad student to work on energy transition with @gruberte.bsky.social ?!?
🚨job alert🚨
I'm looking to hire at least one PhD student for next year, looking at decarbonization-oriented technology deployment within an ethical frame of resource allocation and justice outcomes.
Full ad attached! Pref for CEEES admissions; deadline is 1 January.
I'm looking to hire at least one PhD student for next year, looking at decarbonization-oriented technology deployment within an ethical frame of resource allocation and justice outcomes.
Full ad attached! Pref for CEEES admissions; deadline is 1 January.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Wow, who will be the lucky grad student to work on energy transition with @gruberte.bsky.social ?!?
Robert Massie’s Peter the Great is completely fabulous, and Catherine the Great is also very good.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Robert Massie’s Peter the Great is completely fabulous, and Catherine the Great is also very good.
One of my books was on this list so recommend that if you have published a book, look yourself up at link below
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
One of my books was on this list so recommend that if you have published a book, look yourself up at link below
Any other places I should try when I’m at anthropology conference in NOLA this week? I’ll be downtown but can venture to Garden District, French Quarter, other nearby locations
Walking distance-ish
Breakfast majoria commerce
Lunch Cochon butcher or Delacroix
Dinner Peche, la Boca, august or lufu
Breakfast majoria commerce
Lunch Cochon butcher or Delacroix
Dinner Peche, la Boca, august or lufu
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Any other places I should try when I’m at anthropology conference in NOLA this week? I’ll be downtown but can venture to Garden District, French Quarter, other nearby locations
Going down to New Orleans in a couple of days—people, tell me where and what to eat when I’m there! I’ll be staying at the downtown conference hotels
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Going down to New Orleans in a couple of days—people, tell me where and what to eat when I’m there! I’ll be staying at the downtown conference hotels
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
Are women ruining sexism? A conversation with NYT’s Ross Douthat and guests
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are women ruining sexism? A conversation with NYT’s Ross Douthat and guests
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Fun fact of the day: the 1970 Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland started out as a workers’ protest against price hikes on food and goods right before the holidays. This strike was an early organizing experience for Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fun fact of the day: the 1970 Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland started out as a workers’ protest against price hikes on food and goods right before the holidays. This strike was an early organizing experience for Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
people in my community often say to me that they don’t have bandwidth to worry about climate
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
people in my community often say to me that they don’t have bandwidth to worry about climate
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
that’s fine by me. I am not here to argue with them. I’m not the caring police
I’m here to figure out what they’re pressed about right now, and how I can help in a future-proof decarb-friendly way
Reposted by Krista M. Harper
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
This whole painting is amazing
Matthias Grünewald, The Temptation of St Anthony (detail), c. 1515, Oil on wood (Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar)
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This whole painting is amazing
Looks like a good book and kudos to Low for responding to social media critics so gracefully! (I’ll admit I took yesterday’s bait so reminder to do better going forward)
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Looks like a good book and kudos to Low for responding to social media critics so gracefully! (I’ll admit I took yesterday’s bait so reminder to do better going forward)