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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Truly grateful and honored to have given a keynote lecture last week at such a genuinely wonderful conference, @energy-ethics.bsky.social's Energy Ethics 2026 at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Many thanks to @mettehigh.bsky.social & @thatminesgirl.bsky.social for the invitation & for organizing!

Portrait of the OP, smiling and standing in a university quad at the University of St Andrews. Photo credit: Dr. Anna Seeger

Photo of crest and name of the University of St Andrews on a concrete building wall.

A screenshot of the video recording of OP's keynote: man on a stage at a wooden podium.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 16/07/2026

If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/03/2026

"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

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Headline:
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee

Photo from Adobe

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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Prompt: How do I start my story of my expeditions?

Screenshot of the first few lines of Claude Lévi-Strauss' "Triste tropiques"

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Some PhDoh's are still doing research like the original affluent society. Other PhA+'s have PERFECTED research with AI. Try out these *insane* Claude (Levi-Strauss) prompts and shortcut your way to a billion—yes, with a B!—dollars of research funding!!! (save this)

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Patrick Bonin @patbonin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Encore plus de pétrole alors que la crise climatique s’aggrave. 1 million de barils/jour de plus = 27,7 Mt de CO₂/an. Miser sur le captage du carbone pour justifier cette expansion est un mirage. Le gouvernement défait d’une main ce qu’il prétend faire de l’autre. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 26/02/2026

So despite the ICE abduction this morning, Columbia didn’t take any steps to cancel classes or move them remote. No idea how noncitizen community members are supposed to feel safe showing up to study or work today.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

When ICE agents began to terrorize Minnesota, climate groups helped lead the resistance. Check out our latest episode with @aru-shiney-ajay.bsky.social @benpasser.bsky.social + @emorwee.bsky.social. We explore why preserving democracy is central to climate progress. bit.ly/AMOD-Melting...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The long 2010s are finally over

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 26/02/2026

What has hurt men so badly? FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/J_3sLLv1v0g

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 26/02/2026

NEW: Men are not trash. Every time we say that, it helps the rich vampire perverts in the Epstein Files because it makes it seem like it's just inherent to men's nature to be predators. It's not!

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Men are not trash.

YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I've been saddened today to learn that the University of Alberta is going down MAGA road and wants to abolish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. So I've written to University President Bill Flanagan, warning him of the legal risks. Because the University may need suing.

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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Excited to share my latest peer-reviewed article published in BMC Primary Care ( @springernature.com) with Ruth Lavergne & Myles Leslie from my time at the @ucalgary.bsky.social School of Public Policy leading #research for a CIHR-funded project on Virtual Primary Care #AcademicSky rdcu.be/e26xa

Screenshot of the title of the article PDF with the title: "Virtual care as deployed to improve access to primary health care in three Canadian provinces: a policy focused qualitative study"

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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Wait did i successfully sign up for the AAA job board yet??

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 31/01/2026

"We will never be after Gaza, for Gaza encompasses us," @sarahaziza.bsky.social writes in The Weekend Read. "She represents the dark underside of our choices, the extreme cost of our passivity." thenation.com/article/world/there-is-no-after-gaza/

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There Is No “After Gaza”

Whether intentionally or with callous word choice, too many have begun relegating Palestine to the past tense.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

How did the Covid-19 pandemic lay bare and exacerbate changes in work and labor? Our latest Hot Spots series is a global look at how labor has changed as a social form and object of study.

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
by Jelena Tošić and Agnieszka Pasieka

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

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National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social)

The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You will be delighted to know that there is an annual crossword puzzle awards event, happening this year on 2/23. Details are below (I'll be a presenter!), along with info about how to receive the nominated puzzles in advance - namely, by donating to the Trevor Project, which we should all do anyway

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Scott Ross, animate candy corn @skort.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with the statewide shutdown in Minnesota protesting ICE/CBP, I'm sharing some of the most insightful reads about the powerful, beautiful community response there - these pieces should inspire similar collective action everywhere. please link to others.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Taught Hamlet this last semester and Cladius's (and, to some extent, Polonius's) bloviating and contradictory speech resonated quite viscerally with students.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female.
We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/01/2026

“It's disappointing to see universities fold under pressure to terminate faculty for expressing themselves online, as if the First Amendment is an expediency to be discarded at a whim.”

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Professors fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk are returning to work

After Charlie Kirk's death, a wave of universities fired or censured staffers for criticizing him. Months later, some professors are returning.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/01/2026

In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology." “The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.” — @drleonardbright.bsky.social

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‘Censored’: Texas A&M cancels course under new ‘race and gender ideology’ policy

Texas A&M’s government and public service department alleges a professor refused to submit information about his class for review.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just want to note: Part of what we're missing is *exactly* what we're all doing in this thread folks! Just sayin. #anthrosky

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/01/2026

AAUP Portland State University secured a crucial win: Admin will reinstate laid-off faculty & comply with an arbitration decision after violating @psuaaup.bsky.social's contract. This win proves that higher ed unions are key to protecting faculty livelihood at our universities. Read more here👇

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Portland State agrees to reinstate laid off faculty

Portland State University is reversing course and fully complying with an arbitration decision ordering the university to reinstate some faculty laid off in last year’s budget cuts.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The military & migrants are central to Maine’s economy & the effects of that dependence take on a brutal reality in the fight over the location of a small ICE facility in a rural community. Catherine Besteman in our 2021 series on immigration & Trump

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ICE in Maine

An announcement in 2019 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to open its first holding and transfer facility in Maine prom...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In 2018, we published the Hot Spots series "Im/migration in the Trump Era." The series sought to generate discussion between scholars & activists working in the US about the potentials & challenges of practicing engaged anthropology with (im)migrants.

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Im/migration in the Trump Era

One year into the Trump presidency, when our core values of multiculturalism, cross-cultural understanding, international diversity, and racial i...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hoping to join anthropology & activism in protest of the U.S. illegalization system, I decided to break the law. On Dec. 10, 2013, 7 activists & I rose early. We chained ourselves together & laid down in the snow outside the Elizabeth Detention Center, a 300-bed facility operated on behalf of ICE.

Photo from the post of protestors chained together, all wearing white t-shirts, lying down in the road on top of a light snow, with other protestors with signs in the background and a police car and half a dozen police in the street in front of them. 12/10/2013 is stamped in the corner.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A text that was influential to me as precocious final-year undergrad, writing a short senior thesis and trying to decide if it was morally correct for me to pursue further studies in anthropology. RIP.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.

The cover of Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object (1983), only teal and black, with mostly horizontal stripes

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

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