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Eric Thomas

@anthroeric.bsky.social
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Environmental Anthropologist at UMass, Amherst. I focus on rural development and coastal industries, especially fishing and aquaculture.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#goals #academia
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026
#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...
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Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just back from an incredible conference imaging Just Ocean and Coastal Futures with a fabulous group of (mostly) new colleagues from around the world. So inspiring to be in the company of such amazing people! Thanks to Dr. Amelia Moore and #cornell for hosting us! #oceans #anthropology #environment
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/08/2026
What I’m trying to say is there are a lot of problems with academia, none of which are the thing these dickheads are complaining about, and the framing “academia is broken” is a strategy the dickheads use to stir up anti-intellectualism and undermine legitimate useful scholarship.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Actual leftists tend to have a zero-tolerance policy for nazis and a zero-tolerance policy for nazis means you're not on twitter.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).
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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Steve Kerr spot on as usual
I’d vote for him
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/04/2026
they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now
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Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is the way. #taxtherich
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Space stuff is cool. We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff. Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran. What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Blue sky’s reaction to the end of the game suggests that this NYT article is as off base as most of their stuff on politics have been recently.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The difference between these two is racism
Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters.

Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
insidehighered.com
Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
my job as an academic isn't to predict the future, but "this will be even worse than you think it will be" has yet to serve me wrong as a guide to any given government choice during the Trump years
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Surely OUR center for stuff a 13 year old can do on a phone will be different from all those other centers for stuff a child can do with a phone! Math is canceled!
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Donald Trump keeps doing things that help Vladimir Putin. benrhodes1.substack.com/p/how-putin-...
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How Putin Wins the War in Iran
Russia could be a beneficiary of Trump's war on Iran.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Academics who risk everything by speaking out against the Regime, under the very real threat of being defunded or fired for speaking out against them, are way more patriotic than these corrupt authoritarians who wrap themselves in the flag while robbing our freedom and future.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Philosophy #FAQ 
Ontology: what the fuck?
Causality: why the fuck?
Epistemology: how the why the fuck?
Phenomenology: the fuck.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/02/2026
U2 just released a EP of songs about Ukraine, Iran, Gaza and Minneapolis and they sound more engaged than they have in years: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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U2 - Days Of Ash EP - YouTube
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.
wired.com
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
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Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Five classes I took in college: Introduction to Existentialism France in 1968 Politics of contemporary Africa Buddhism in America Christ in the Gospels Hard to believe I was almost a religious studies major… 😆
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Contrast this with like the Mar a Lago Gatsby party or whatever, absolute ghouls trying to stave off death and damnation vs sheer collective joy and solidarity
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Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Over 600 people came out despite the 8 degree weather in Amherst today to show solidarity with #Minnesota and demand we #AbolishICE. Huge shoutout to the students from #ARPS— especially the middle and high schools— who showed up and showed out. #thekidsarealright #solidarity #democracy
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
well well well
fortune.com
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We love to see universities caving to right wing hysteria both literally and figuratively paying the price for it
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
it simply cannot go on like this. and it cannot be the case that going on like this is a regular feature of electoral cycles either. something has to be done about the violent white nationalist movement.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice
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