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Bruno Seraphin

@brunomarzipan.bsky.social
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Asst prof, anthro and NAIS, UConn. Climate justice. Indigenous sovereignty. Fire. Film. Settler. Hot take not-haver.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 07/06/2026
Bay Area-based artist Saif Azzuz isn't slowing down. The sculptor and painter has been exhibiting in galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture across the world, connecting Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.
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The Sun Is Shining on Saif Azzuz
Across galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture, he connects Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“Students…are caught in the middle as everyone struggles to figure out what becoming “the first A.I.-powered university” actually means. “Faculty are feeling anxious… Students don’t know how to behave. What are we doing here?”” Insanity. A case study of what absolutely not to do. Gift article
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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Aaron Hunter @aaronhunter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you’ve been seeing all the ‘Marcia Lucas saved Star Wars’ posts and wondering … what? I highly recommend Karen Pearlman’s chapter on women editors of the 70s (including Lucas). Not only great on these editors, but one of the best scholarly discussions of how editing works you’re likely to read!
Title page of Karen Pearlman’s Women Editors in New Hollywood: Cutting Down on the Raging Bullshit. Published in Women and New Hollywood (Rutgers), eds Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer.
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 06/05/2026
Oh the entirely expected irony of exploiting indigenous people for a film ostensibly about the exploitation of indigenous people
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm happy to announce the publication of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (2nd ed), in which I co-wrote a chapter with Karuk ceremonial leader Leaf Hillman. (My photo is also featured on the cover of the book!) You can read our chapter here: www.academia.edu/165463210/De...
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Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation
This chapter examines historical and contemporary wildland fire suppression in Karuk aboriginal territory, in what is currently called northwestern California. The chapter analyzes the role of militar...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/02/2026
Tonight's beautiful murder of thousands of crows. ❤️
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis Via @insidetrackuk.bsky.social Story by @tjjordan.bsky.social @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/26/w...
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Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis
Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/01/2026
‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop
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‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop
Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Job Announcement: cescholar.org/job-announce...
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Announcement of Position | Scholarship Matters - Center for Engaged Scholarship - CES
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons): 1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For 17 years, the US intel community has kept classified an assessment on the security implications of climate change. Why has the IC kept it a secret? My latest on why the @nsarchive.bsky.social is calling on the ODNI to prioritize the report's declassification: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/11/2025
Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28
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Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28
Josh Appignanesi’s documentary follows the film-maker to the Kubrickian city built on oil money as it hosts the 2023 climate change summit
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NPR @npr.org · 04/08/2025
Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. By @rhersher.bsky.social
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need. Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/06/2025
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.
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Yurok Tribe Celebrates the Largest Landback Deal in California’s History
The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The ‘spiral of silence’ blocking climate action and how to end it - Globally, people are hugely supportive of climate action but wrongly believe their fellow citizens are not - revealing the truth could spark a social tipping point #The89Percent Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025
Ryan Coogler is what happens when someone steeped in LA Rebellion film aesthetics is given access to all of resources of the Hollywood blockbuster machine. Sinners crystallized this for me. filmlifestyle.com/what-is-la-r...
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What Is LA Rebellion Film Movement? The Essential Guide
LA Rebellion was a movement of young filmmakers and artists who created new and innovative work that defied Hollywood conventions.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Unthinkable just 10 years ago: Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear. Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Wow, these four simple climate solutions also have tremendous benefits to biodiversity and human well-being. drawdown.org/insights/fou...
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Four climate solutions with surprising benefits for biodiversity and human well-being
There are a few things that are non-negotiable for all life on Earth, among them, water, food, and shelter. Unfortunately, human activities are driving widespread habitat loss and degradation, destroy...
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A useful tool is back: Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it #extremweather #droughts #floods #hurricanes #FEMA #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/03/2025
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
(this looks like a cool job) Wildfire Studies - Assistant or Associate Professor: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Search Jobs - University Affairs
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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
👀 Applications open for a graduate student summer workshop, June 9-15, on videographic criticism at Notre Dame University! Organized by @arielavissar.bsky.social, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, Matthew Payne, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social . Deadline Mar 28 Please share! sites.google.com/view/reframi...
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Reframing the Argument
Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice June 9-15, 2005
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/03/2025
The latest episode of Writers on Film is a discussion with Marya E Gates on her book CINEMA HER WAY. It’s great. @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2d38...
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Marya E Gates talks Cinema Her Way
Writers on Film · Episode
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Our new piece in American Quarterly: "How Ecofascism Creeps" (unfortunately relevant) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... DM if you need access!
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Project MUSE - How Ecofascism Creeps
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Powerful conversation with the always-brilliant @amycardinal.bsky.social, Vikki Preston, and Monique Wynecoop; cutting through the fluff to go deep on the issues that matter in Indigenous fire management+sovereignty podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Healing Trauma Through Burning with Vikki Preston and Monique Wynecoop
Podcast Episode · Good Fire · 03/06/2025 · 1 sec
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
An estimated 3,400 U.S. Forest Service employees were fired this week. @jjreport.bsky.social reports what it means for California
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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3 #AnthroSky #Anthropology
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American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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daanis @daanis.ca · 05/02/2025
What an amazing reading list to be part of! I've read, recommended, and cited a few of these books. Will have to check out the others. lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...
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Lakota Law's 2025 Decolonized Reading List
This "Top 25 for 2025" list of nonfiction books focuses on a variety of topics, including BIPOC-centered histories of Native America, resistance movements, and the decolonizing work of reconnecting us...
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film boxd.it/DENfm
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Anthropology Through Film Spring 2025
These are the 13 films I am teaching this semester in ANTH 1001W: Anthropology Through Film (Spring 2025)
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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Since it’s becoming obvious that Trump’s mass deportation plan will wind up being an updated version of the Japanese internment of WWII, we need to be asking exactly what goals they hope to achieve with this, since that is central to the postwar understanding of the earlier episode. 3rd thread, 1/21
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/01/2025
While the right obsesses over imaginary water declarations and DEI initiatives, actual solutions get pushed aside. That’s not an accident: It’s the point.
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The Right’s Wildfire Lies Spread Faster Than the Flames
As Los Angeles burns, Trump and his allies are exploiting tragedy to push their favorite grievances about “diversity” and water management.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"With the dams now gone, the river is flushing itself clean, and for the first time in 100 years, salmon are spawning above the former dam sites. This restoration is a major step toward healing both our land and our people, and in no way impacts water supplies in the rest of California..."
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living through The sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.
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As LA burns, conspiracy peddlers lie about—and celebrate—the danger we’re living through
The sky is smoldering, alongside online misinformation and right-wing bigotry.
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Wow. This is a jaw-dropping thriller of a story: How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Catie Hausman @catiehausman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"[T]he White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of AI data centers along with power plants ... [I]t could allow the gas-burning power plants to exceed pollution limits and give data centers priority access to energy over other consumers on the electric grid."
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
What are your favorite feature-length films (preferrably docs) about climate change/climate justice? Politically astute, hopeful but not (just) techno-optimistic, bonus points if there's an engagement with racial capitalism/settler colonialism, somewhat recent?
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The AI industry’s seizure of other people’s property, declaring it to be worthless, then pricing it at a premium once “processed” through them, has a historical precedent, and it’s not a good look. Yup. It’s good old colonialism. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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If all this stuff is worthless, mind if we just take it?
How 21st Century tech is doing the old colonial grift all over again.
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
today.uconn.edu/2024/12/ucon...
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UConn, Connecticut’s 5 Recognized Tribes Launching Historic Partnership - UConn Today
The agreement is the first of its kind on the East Coast between Tribal Nations and a university
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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some of my favourite Indigenous films available on NFB are: - You Are On Indian Land (1969) - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) - Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny (2006) - Ever Deadly (2022) Share yours!
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/10/2024
👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We're so excited to have you here! We share Bluesky updates & news from this account. A quick orientation thread: 🧵✨
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Bruno Seraphin @brunomarzipan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
JOB ALERT: The Department of Social and Critical Inquiry (SCI) in the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies located at the Storrs campus. jobs.hr.uconn.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
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Associate or Full Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies
The Department of Social and Critical Inquiry (SCI) in the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor in Native American a...
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