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Kymberley Chu

@dialecticprimates.bsky.social
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Anthropology PhDing @ Princeton University. I dish out hot takes on monkeys, urban development, and capitalism. Views my own. "Get in good trouble". She/her/they/them. kymberleychu.com

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
The Chronicle Against Higher Education gives the Vanderbilt report endless publicity while not running a single story on the World Humanities Report, which shows that the disciplines slandered in the Vanderbilt report are actually making vital contributions to the world. worldhumanitiesreport.org
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The World Humanities Report Demonstrating the vitality of the humanities throughout the world
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Um. The William Penn foundation offered bridge funding to keep the academy of natural sciences open for a year, and the people in charge said “no one is helping things by offering Band-Aids”. Jesus Christ. share.inquirer.com/KXxZTj
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026
"These wars were not paid for through taxes like previous wars — they were paid for by borrowing."
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4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars
As part of our weeklong coverage marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the launch of the United States’ so-called war on terror, we take a look at the human, financial and envir...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Limits on abortion care kill people.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was so much fun to do. Go @wired.com !! Trashing AI Slop about Human Evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMJm...
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Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop
YouTube video by WIRED
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy 250th birthday, America! To celebrate the occasion, we're closing your oldest natural history museum. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/a... #scicomm #Philadelphia
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to close museum on Sept. 30
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
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London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum. The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”. Continue reading...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2026
Read this piece from Irene Ngun, SUFS Assistant Director of Policy and Advocacy, on how the NSF is rolling back basic civil rights compliance requirements and the doors that closes on many Americans. www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How the National Science Foundation is Closing the Door on Opportunity in Science — Stand Up for Science Foundation
 At the National Science Foundation, the recent rescinding of Title VI disparate-impact regulations, termination of equity-focused STEM education programs and broadening-participation grants, and...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/08/2026
Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is an extremely well-written open letter from faculty at Ghent. I've heard colleagues privately express uncertainty about what the facts on the ground actually are. I urge everyone to read this letter. The people on the ground have been ringing the alarm bell, and been doing so for months
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nature has published a tribute to Dolly Parton 💔 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Another poster from our institute, this time engaging with the important legacy of eugenics. Molly Gilbert and Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social explore how eugenic ideas became institutionalised and how echoes persist in debates around reproduction, genetics and demographic anxieties.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED excerpt is out in @autonomynews.co! I'm proud of this one and so grateful to @susanrinkunas.com and @garnethenderson.com.
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In the Name of Saving the Baby
Obstetric care has dehumanized pregnant people throughout history, as biological anthropologist Kate Clancy examines in her new book.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program.  Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.
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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Cal Biruk reviews three recent books that look at “the racial colonial capitalist baggage that birding carries.” www.publicbooks.org/birds-beyond...
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Birds Beyond Birding - Public Books
“Looking at birds helps us notice connections, imagine better worlds, and build new solidarities across differences, including across species.”
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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
excited to see my article on "talking lures" in mental healthcare AI officially out in print in this issue!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Evidence from the US that nuclear families really aren't traditional. They only became the most common household type around the 1940s (larger households including either extended kin or kin and non-kin were common before) and are now on the decline
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
scbsocialscience.org/why-policing...
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princetonanthro.bsky.social @princetonanthro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🐒New op-ed from Kymberley Chu: Why Policing People for Feeding Monkeys Does Not Help. Chu argues that conservation efforts must consider the social realities shaping human-monkey interactions. Article made possible by @americananthro.bsky.social's 2026 OpEd Project Workshop. 🔗https://bit.ly/3TumJc6
Monkeys eating out of a plastic bag
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/08/2026
Vought is using the NSF to weaponize research grants in service of the President’s agenda. Register for our webinar to learn about the key NSF changes, analyze their implications and draft strong public comments: zurl.co/uZgiw Then leave your public comment: zurl.co/IutuN
The graphic contains a photo of Russell Vought, a screen shot of the NSF Proposal, and the black Stand Up for Science. The graphic reads: "Leave a Public Comment on NSF Proposal: Removes requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations; Applies international collaboration restrictions; Implements Vought's takeover of federal grants. NSF Rapid Response Workshop, Join Us! Friday, August 14th 2-3PM EST. Review the key changes in NSF's PAPPG and their connecton to the broader OMB overhaul; Analyze the implications for research institutions, early-careeer scientists, and scientific integrity; Draft and refine strong, coordinated public comments; Identify targeted messaging for Hill offices and coalition partners. LINK IN BIO."
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
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Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a terrific blog essay...read it!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New paper out in our special collection on scientific racism: "Using the REED (Racial & Ethnic Equality & Diversity) Ecological Network as a case study, this paper examines how grassroots initiatives can advance racial and ethnic inclusion in academic and professional institutions"
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A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences
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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For @scbsswg.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on why policing strategies such as cost-driven language and punitive measures don't work in human-primate conflict and other conservation projects. Read here: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #conservation #politicalecology #humanprimateconflict
Using digiscoping, the blog author captures a photo of two long-tailed macaques eating food scraps on the floor.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It is hard enough to be an international student in the US right now, but the administration is determined to make it even more difficult: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?
"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thoughtful piece: “as a field, we seem to have given up on our representation issue. We know about it, we say we care about it, but the decisions we make (from what demographic data to collect to what papers to publish) suggests to me that we've become apathetic about it all”
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“It’s just frustrating,” Dr. Blumstein said, noting that he should be dedicating time to writing papers or working with students. “But we’re doing this,” he said, “which is kind of silly in the long run.”
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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This review essay was quite fun to write! It's based on a course I have been teaching @usc.edu for the past few years. My main argument is that examining the relationship between humans & nonhumans/animals offers a productive way to investigate power structures. OA here: doi.org/10.1111/aman...
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more-than-human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, a...
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SCB Social Science Working Group (SSWG) @scbsswg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢New #blog alert! Our latest post on 'The Social' by Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social explores why policing people who feed #monkeys may not help-and why #ethnographic, collaborative approaches matter: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #ConSocSci #conservation #humandimensions
Using digiscoping, the blog author captures a photo of two long-tailed macaques eating food scraps on the floor.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“this epistemic exclusion (in)visibly shapes the academic community, determining whose voices are heard and what kind of knowledge is shared and taken seriously” academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
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Forum: The Passports They Carry: Global South Scholars and the Global Academic Mobility Divide
Abstract. Passport inequality is more than a simple logistical inconvenience; it is a fundamental injustice that undermines the ideals of fairness and equa
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/07/2026
He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before he was shot and killed by ICE after an attempted traffic stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before ICE killed him
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was remembered as a devoted family man “with many dreams to fulfill.”
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Battle of Algiers at 60 conference in Cambridge. CFP deadline 4 August 2026. This will be a great conference on an important anticolonial film. Gutted that France missed this train too. Why can’t French academia celebrate/remember their history?! Sigh! www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/51930/
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The Battle of Algiers at 60 - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Call for Papers: the Routledge Companion to Octavia E. Butler call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026
Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
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Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say
Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Excellent post explaining why it’s not possible to breed criminality out of human populations, a claim beloved of eugenicists. Did not realise the source of this particular claim 👇 was a paper published in Evolutionary Psychology
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princetonanthro.bsky.social @princetonanthro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Kymberley Chu, fifth year PhD Candidate, presented her research on urban infrastructure and "green connectivity" in Kuala Lumpur at the 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies held by ARI, National University of Singapore. 🔗 bit.ly/4pdHvZn
Kymberley Chu standing at a lectern with a presentation that says Lights Above, Lights Below: Envisioning Vertical Urbanisms and Green Connectivity in the Postcolonial Metropolis.
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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I presented my dissertation chapter on Malaysia's competing visions of green connectivity and infrastructural forms as state developmentalism ambitions at the 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies. Thank you panelists for a generative conversation! #urbanisms #ecology #NUS
A person stands in front of a presentation slide and a classroom. Five people stand in front of a banner. They hold certificates and pose for a ceremonial photo.
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Last few days left to submit your idea for a Workshop for our 2028 programme. Send us your proposal by 29 May 2026 at www.biologists.com/workshops/pr... #BiologistsWorkshops
Graphic showing people attending Workshops with headline 'Want to organise one of our Workshops? You focus on the science, we focus on the logistics'
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/05/2026
Grants managers at two of the U.S. government’s largest funders of scientific research have recently placed unprecedented limitations on the ability of U.S. scientists to publish with co-authors from other countries, researchers say. scim.ag/3Pvyv4i
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Writing for the STS India Network, I reflect on the structural barriers, power dynamics, and collaboration opportunities that Global South-based scientists encounter in ecology. The uneven, circulatory flows of capital and labor are never abstract. stsin.org/redefining-i.... #ecology #GlobalSouth
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Redefining Integrative Ecology in the Global South: From Disciplinary Silo to Landscape
Kymberley Chu Image Description and Credits: A photo of a rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park. Pexels, shot by Ravi Mittal On the winding roads through mountainous terrain on the way to Kazir…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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