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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Google maps has bought into the "Lake America" nonsense. Time to switch map software...

Screenshot from Google maps showing Lake Ontario mislabeled as "Lake America."

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hmm. How is the competition growing its bananas, I wonder? Wrong answers only.

Bananas with a Chiquita sticker reading "grows on plants." Not fake, I promise.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The kid's Bento experiments continue! Yum!

Rice with a face, egg/maize/mayo salad, veggie roll with bacon.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#NoKings in Lewisburg, PA drew 800+ people for a joyous protest event!

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

More amazing creations from my Anthropology of Food students! Here, beef fried rice from a student becoming a rice expert!

Tupperware with beef fried rice, made by a student for an Anthropology of Food course.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One of my favorite parts of teaching Anthropology of Food is what students bring in to highlight the food they are studying. This is a spicy African tomato stew and a tomato salad -- both so delicious!

A table with several tupperwares: tomato salad, rice, fried plantains, and a spicy African tomato stew. Yum!

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

At the #LewisburgPA Peace Vigil this morning, we stood for peace for people and planet -- including all those in Venezuela.

Woman holding sign reading "U.S. out of Venezuela".

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Getting ready for the #LewisburgPA Peace Vigil this morning.

Working on a protest sign that reads "U.S. out of Venezuela"

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My (U.S.) teen is trying a hand at cooking Japanese food -- yum! (No haters please -- she's never been to Japan but hopes to go!)

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

And, while I'm complaining about store-these-days, check out this Maybelline-Sour Patches kids crossover makeup.

Store display for Maybelline-Sour Patch kids lip gloss.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My local CVS already has merchandise out for Valentine's Day... on December 18.

Store shelves with heart-shaped candy boxes.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Go on, guess what the anthropologist of food is eating! #AAA2025

A woman in a crowded restaurant smiling at the camera, holding up a fork with food on it.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Nothing like seeing this to make me feel welcome in New Orleans! Keep on singing! #HarmonyInc #AAA2025

Street sign reading "Barber Shop customer parking only." New Orleans, Nov 2025

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

And you can see we are a real rally because there were at least six inflatable costumes attending!

Person in an inflatable dinosaur costume with a sign reading "Don't Let Democracy Go Extinct." No Kings Rally in Lewisburg, PA, Oct 18, 2025

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today we finished our postgraduate seminar on "Academic CVs in English" at UNTDF in #Ushuaia. What a joy to work with these amazing scholars!

Clare Sammells, Ethel Revello and their students at UNTDF

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Today in #Ushuaia: disability and nuerodivergent access in supermarkets. This is a photo from La Anonima, a major supermarket chain here in Ushuaia.

Supermarket sign announcing "Silent Hours" for austic shoppers and their families. La Anonima, Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Getting ready to hear Tato Romano sing at the Club Latino! #Ushuaia

Tato Romano, Argentinian singer, with guitar in pink lights on a stage.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The #EdgarAllenPoe humor edition continues! It is delightful to watch a young person become obsessed with something.

"Now, my dear friend-- now, for your sins, you are to suffer the infliction of a long gossiping letter. I will tell you distinctly that I am going to punish you for all your impertinences by being as tedious, as discursive, as incoherent and as unsarisfactory as possible."

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

At Noche de Antocha at Cerro Castor -- a celebration of Argentina's Dia de Independencia and the beginning of ski season! #Ushuaia

People film and photo skiiers coming down a ski slope with LED torches

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The good thing about the sun not coming up until 9:30am is you don't miss the sunrise! #Ushuaia

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

On my way for some noctural skiing! Here's our car ride snack -- alfajores with the coolest penguins! "Zarpado" means "spectacular," but "zarpar" means something like "to cross a line."

Package of alfajor with a penguin in a pink hoodie wearing sunglasses

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Visiting friends in the shadow of Mt. Olivia! #Ushuaia

A photo of Mt Olivia through a window in Ushuaia, Argentina

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

While here in #Ushuaia, I'll be giving a seminar on how to prepare a CV and other materials for grant applications and the like. If you are in Ush, consider joining us!

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thus concludes our "bus tour" of BA. (Hopper bus between airports)

Obelisco of Buenos Aires from inside a van.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today at the Lewisburg Peace Vigil: 17 of us stood for peace, democracy and justice!

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Sometimes there is a cultural innovation that even the most insightful anthropologist of food cannot explain it.

"Three types of acai bowls will be available at the Bavarian Nut Shack at Knoebels Amusement Park"

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Fantastic presentation and Q&A by Atilio Martinez about the Revolucion Dule (Cuna uprising) of 1925. #SLACA2025

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

SLACA presidents in the most instagramable restaurant in the Casco Viejo. Who knew we were so cool? #SLACA2025

SLACA prezes in a room with jellyfish projections

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Taking a little down time to visit Panama's own Panama Canal with a fellow member of SLACA! The conference starts tomorrow! #SLACA2025

Two members of SLACA at the Miraflores lock of the Panama Canal, outside Panama City.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Here's the headlines in our red central PA region...

"Prison employees asked to justify jobs," Daily Item (Sunbury PA), March 4, 2025

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today in my "Transforming Food" class -- making "chuno," Andean-style freeze-dried potatoes.

The bare feet of 9 people stepping on potatoes on a blue tarp.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

And now, for a proud mama moment, younger child continues with her bento box making obsession... lucky me! Arigato!

Teen's hands making rice balls, with two completed in a bento box.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

New Year schnitzel fest! A family tradition.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This lovely has been our tree topper since graduate school. Their our yearly reminder that not all angels are beautiful blonde women who follow the rules. #MerryChristmas

A troll doll with crazy hot pink hair, in a shirt that reads "Angel."

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm at Church Lady cookie levels, people.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So grateful to our Center for Social Science Research center for their writers' retreat today! And for our cafeteria's Maple-Bacon donuts, which were surprisingly good! #Bucknell #writing

Coffee travel mug with AAUP Bucknell sticker, and a maple-bacon donut.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The things we do to show our kids the ORIGINAL Star Wars, episode 3.

Blue screen showing VCR language controls in a font that evokes the 1980s.

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's an anthropologist of food's favorite time of the year -- feasting time! Happy Thanksgiving. Here's the turkey I helped eat (and claim no credit for):

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Last breakfast at #AAA2024Tampa with one of my favorite anthropologists, @profesoraluchadora.bsky.social !

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Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We're not in central PA anymore, Toto. #AAA2024Tampa

View of Tampa's Kennedy Blvd bridge over the Hillsborough River

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