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Chip Colwell

@chipcolwell.bsky.social
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Anthropologist of everything human.

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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oppose The Permitting Reform Bill www.congressweb.com/SFAA/61?fram...
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Oppose The Permitting Reform Bill
Click here to urge your senators and representative to oppose the permitting reform bill.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Webinar - On Oct 14, 2026 join the Wenner-Gren Foundation staff for an introduction to the Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences. wennergren.org/workshop/pro...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
wennergren.org/article/impo...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Meet Wenner-Gren fellowship recipient Morenike Samuel! wennergren.org/fellowship/m...
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🎉 Congrats to Sarah Herr on being elected Treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology! As a former editor of AAP, Dr. Herr has made lasting contributions to the journal and the archaeological community. Read her article 'An Intersectional Approach to #Equity, Inequity, and #Archaeology'. 🌍🤝
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An Intersectional Approach to Equity, Inequity, and Archaeology | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
An Intersectional Approach to Equity, Inequity, and Archaeology - Volume 10 Issue 4
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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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One Broomfield Indivisible @obi80020.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.julie4.us/broomfield-c... @senadorajulie.bsky.social Canvass for Julie in Broomfield! Saturday, May 23rd from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Broomfield Library #JulieForColorado
Julie Gonzales for US Senate
Canvass with Julie for Colorado
Broomfield Library
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Centennial State Prosperity @censtprosperity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Thank you, Senator @senadorajulie.bsky.social, for voting no on Senate Bill 140 and protecting the critical work Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board is doing to lower the cost of prescription medications for hardworking Coloradans.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congrats to Brian Goldstone for winning the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction! www.pulitzer.org/winners/bria... Listen to WG’s own Chip Colwell interview Brian Goldstone from 2025: www.sapiens.org/culture/five...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
From the www.SAPIENS.org archive. An anthropologist who is also a singer-songwriter explores how Southwestern Native bands shake up the notion of “cowboys and Indians.” www.sapiens.org/culture/nava...
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Why Navajos Love Their Country Music
An anthropologist explores how Navajo music and Southwestern Native bands shake up the notion of “cowboys and Indians.”
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Sandi Ault @sandiault.substack.com · 30/04/2026
@senadorajulie.bsky.social will be in Lone Tree on Monday evening 5/4/2026! Here's the link to RSVP: secure.actblue.com/donate/jgmay4
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We are thrilled to share the news that Petra M. Creamer has been awarded a Gene S. Stuart Award from the Society for American Archaeology for her SAPIENS article, “When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus.” wennergren.org/article/petr...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
From the SAPIANS.org archive. A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission—and what might be lost if the Trump administration’s cuts to federal funding and staffing continue. www.sapiens.org/culture/nati...
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The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National Parks
A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The best defense for anthropology by @thurka149.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com I've ever read. Anthropology helps you see the world in ways needed more now than ever. Read and share widely. #AnthropologySky www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | This degree changed my life. And it’s essential to a changing America.
Anthropology taught me how to translate human experience into knowledge institutions can act on.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Call your reps! The administration has just released their proposed FY27 NSF budget calling for *closing* the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate and funding NSF as a whole at less than half of this year's amount ($4 billion). #WithoutScience #WithoutNSF #WithoutNSFsbe
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Funding Curves: Grantmaking over Time by Agency – Grant Witness
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Need to learn more about the publishing landscape? Join this webinar next week!
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts theconversation.com/is-ai-replac...
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Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts
The possibility of AI automating healthcare work has provoked intense debates, but despite the pace of innovation, here’s why it’s not there yet.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If you're near Winston-Salem tomorrow night, I'll be talking about There Is No Place for Us at Wake Forest at 6pm. It's the inaugural event of the Department of Anthropology's "How to Be Human" lecture series. I'd love to see you there.
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There Is No Place for Us: A Conversation with Brian Goldstone
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Fantastic new Substack! Check it out.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If you didn't get a chance to attend WG's webinar about our Global Initiatives Grant program you can check out the video archive now! wennergren.org/workshop/q-a...
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Q and A: Advancing Public Anthropology with Wenner-Gren’s Global Initiatives Grant Program
Join us for a discussion of how this award will build on the legacy of the Foundation’s investments in public-facing scholarship.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States theconversation.com/the-disgrace...
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The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States
From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Hi @dannyalexander.bsky.social Yes we post them within two weeks on sapiens.org. I'll share out those links. Here's the one for Agustin: www.sapiens.org/biology/five-questions-for-agustin-fuentes/.
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SAPIENS - Anthropology Magazine
SAPIENS is an editorially independent digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
3/ To all our contributors and supporters, please know how grateful I am to you for being part of this journey. Read President Danilyn Rutherford’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...
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Important News about SAPIENS
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
2/ and is seeing an unparalleled pressure for its resources for grants, fellowships, and programs. I am so proud of what SAPIENS accomplished, which has far exceeded what Leslie Aiello and I first dreamed of, when we began this endeavor in 2014.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
1/ With a heavy heart, I write to share that SAPIENS is halting the publication of new content by the end of this year. The magazine is a program of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which recently lost its publication partner for SAPIENS, ...
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thanks for attending!
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thanks @bjking.bsky.social !! It was a great discussion w/ @chipcolwell.bsky.social and terrific questions from the audience
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
These are going to be absolutely amazing conversations. Hope to see you there!!
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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Exciting to see SOMETHING BETWEEN US on this list of "novels, memoirs and nonfiction titles so enticing you won’t want to move from your favorite beach towel or deck chair until fall," in the company of new books by some terrific writers here in Maryland. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/14/1...
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10 books by Maryland authors you will want to read this summer
On the list you’ll find the newest novel by National Book Award-winner Susan Choi, an exploration of the causes of America’s social and political divide by Johns Hopkins University anth…
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A colleague recently told me: "Weirdly, becoming a YouTuber is less precarious than being a professor right now." So, maybe you're onto something?!
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
AMAZING!!! CONGRATS!!!
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Cronk Sumark, “Primrose Hill” in English, is a Celtic Iron Age and Medieval hillfort on the northern part of Isle of Man. This twin-peaked summit, a mere 76 metres above sea level, has archaeological evidence of houses, storage facilities, and communal spaces. #HillfortWednesday
The peaks
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Another fantastic episode!
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Want to listen to my book at half off?! 50% OFF Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... #museums #repatriation #history #archaeology #justice #HumanRights
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50% OFF Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, h...
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Is this the future we imagined?
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
😡
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Prison life carved in stone. A profoundly disturbing metaphor, and a commentary on our systems of compliance.
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social lithub.com/why-lit-hub-...
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Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter
“Why I’m leaving Twitter” is, at this point, an irritating genre of post. Nonetheless, it’s important to go on record in the face of Elon Musk’s vacuous amorality and its concomitant amplification …
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social electricliterature.com/why-electric...
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Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature
X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
👇🥳
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just a brilliant episode!
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accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Chip Colwell (American anthropologist, author, and editor-in-chief of Sapiens Magazine) leaves X (1.935 followers). BlueSky: @chipcolwell.bsky.social #BlueSkyWins
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Very happy to be here!!
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Chip Colwell @chipcolwell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Heehee
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