I am super happy to see this multimodal article published! It is part of research in @visionproject.bsky.social on #transborder work between #Poland & #Brandenburg #Germany, based at @dezim-institut.de, @unisalzburg.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam, funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de.

This has been a concerning trend for a while. #profjohnfriedman #criticalthinking #curriculum

Deleted mine, should have done it sooner

"Academia.edu has created a robot replica of you based on your published papers. Expect a knock at your door. Expect a new you."

New AWR article!

In 'Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy' Johanna Mugler argues anthropological studies of work and education in de-industrial settings should examine the social critique of industrial work in concert with its aesthetic critique.

Great thread (and speculative editorial in @lmt-journal.bsky.social) about the past present, and possible future of academic publishing. A future with new publishing practices that respect the labour of authors, reviewers, and editors is one we are actively working towards.

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

Excited to discover that all the higher ed consultancies and think tanks seem to be discussing the future of higher ed without actually talking to any staff

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

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In this new AWR article, Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey examine how India's digital self-help gurus help cultivate entrepreneurial citizenship through the 'work of mourning', and the 'work of dreaming'... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Long read: Many fear algorithms will displace academics but artificial intelligence is already eating itself and its long-term business model remains unclear, says Martin A. Mills. He explains why we must resist bots’ damaging features for the good of students, society and AI itself
#academicsky #AI

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"even as a wide range of essential American institutions—universities like UChicago, but also hospitals and health insurers—increasingly sacrifice their duties to society on the altar of asset accumulation, they fail at accumulating assets." stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

This is great! The Chew Inclusive Terminology Glossary wiki was created by @natlibscot.bsky.social - perhaps they can suggest who we should contact about it?

As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through quieter, bureaucratic means to displace and dispossess Palestinians living in East Jerusalem.
www.sapiens.org/culture/isra...

‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

Calling all graduate students who do research on the topic of the anthropology of work (broadly defined)! You have 2 weeks to apply for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf prize. Details in the link below:

Are you an anthropologist interested in extractivism at the margins? Vast concentration of wealth enabled by novel monopolistic and interventionist economies? See the CFP for "New Fascist Economies" panel at the Anthropology Conference in Aotearoa @carlyschuster.bsky.social www.asaanz.org/conference

🚨 Call for Applications: Economic Anthropology is seeking 2–3 new editorial board members.
⏰ Deadline: 29 Aug 2025
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Teaching Fellow, Anthropology
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