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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I DO lovemy writing. This snippet is from a book review (a review of @aballes2.bsky.social 's "A Future History of Water")

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#4S in Seattle is only a few weeks away and I will be joining a brilliant group of people for one of the threaded keynotes. Ours is on Political Water 💧🧊🌊🚰🐠 There will be opportunities for online conversation, hope some of you can join! @4sweb.bsky.social www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...

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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

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His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government. We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Los Angeles #NoKings

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Los Angeles 2025

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 09/06/2025

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Part, only a little part, of the history of LA.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Our main event this spring was the 2025 Ethnographic Studio Salon: Interference with Dr. Meghanne Barker, Dr. Jenny Chio, and Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas @youknowjuno.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A number of visiting humanities fellowships now available at the University of Sydney, through the quaintly named SSSHARC (which rarely bites). Come spend some time with us in Sydney!

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Opportunities

SSSHARC provides innovative platforms and fellowships to approach and solve problems, such as huddles, ultimate peer reviews, pop-up research labs and more.

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Spent a couple of wonderful and inspiring days thinking about the Anthropology of the Project Form at Uppsala University. Thx to Carl Rommel and Andy Graan for organizing. Below the opening roundtable w/ Kimberly Chong, Penny Harvey, Tania Li!

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Things are bad, so a reminder of the beautiful things to draw some energy and keep us going. The Licuados shop in my neighborhood!

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join us for this year’s salon! Registration details below:

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social

Promotional poster with a pixelated pink and purple background, a blown-up portion of the image on the cover of "In the Land of the Unreal," book by Lisa Messeri.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 27/01/2025

📌[Cluster Intro] in Tapuya Vol. 7 The Future of Facts in Latin America How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America? 🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572... #FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7 @aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/12/2024

Cluster Article “The persistence of long facts: truth and consequence in Costa Rica’s aquifers” ⛲ By Andrea Ballestero (@aballes2.bsky.social) Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2395734 #Water #science #quantification #publics #FactualRegime #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

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Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This might be the thing everybody says, but just learning the ropes here and it is really BEAUTIFUL to find so many of you and meet new people! Hello everybody! 👋👋👋

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Kregg Hetherington @krether.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.

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Publications – Future of Facts in Latin America

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Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Los hechos nunca andan solos: The future of facts in Latin America

Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Along with colleagues from Fixing Futures (Goethe University) and the Labyrinth Project (UCLA), we thought together about "transitional devices" encountered by ethnographers. Find a recap of the event here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/m... @aballes2.bsky.social

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