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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave). Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM. Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰 #4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social

Handmade flier with pink, yellow, green and yellow-green figures (all with clearly non-AI fingers) reading the book covers (but the figures are also drawn as if their bodies are the book covers) of the 4 books featured at the party. The flier includes the text that is repeated in the post.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Anthros- do your future self a favor and put this book on your syllabus as soon as you can. Will fit with intro to cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, economic anthropology, ethnographic methods, care theory, kinship theory, & much more.

A photo of the book cover of Tackling The Everyday: Race and Nation in Big Time College Football by Tracie Canada.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Who will be at #SFAA2025? If you’re free on Thursday afternoon join Chelsey Carter and me at the SANA keynote dialogue on “A Dying Biomedicine” (with inspiration from Frantz Fanon).

The image shows a poster made by the Society for the anthropology of North America with academic head shots of Chelsey Carter and me under the title “A Dying Biomedicine: Vital Conversations to Transform the Anthropology of North America.”

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A page from the preface of my book detailing one effect of suddenly cutting USAID in Guatemala in 2017– not that this result is a surprise to anyone since this is part of their plan.

A page from my book with the text “when Donald Trump became president he cut the foreign budget” and then “she was now entirely dependent on her husband” highlighted.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I know we’re busy with widespread chaos but the Lova’s recent issue focused on, “Sexist Garbage,” is worth a read. So many articles that had to be published anonymously. When we build up these collapsing institutions, let’s make them so much better than they were. lovanetwork.org/journals/lov...

This is a reading titled “Diversity”, published anonymously, that can be found in the current Lova issue.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The first fire in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower occurs on Feb 1, 2025. (Just in case you needed another reason to return to the book.)

A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God’s victim, God’s plaything, God’s prey.
Earthseed: the books of the living
Saturday Feb 1, 2025
We had a fire today.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Here’s a link to a conversation about my new book with Lauren Carruth, Dana Simmons, Jessica Hardin, and Megan Carney on the Nutrire CoLab podcast. soundcloud.com/megan-carney...

Image of a screen shot from the Nutrire Podcast homepage

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Attending @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle next Sep 3-7? Working on #NuclearSTS? Consider submitting to our open panel on “Nuclear Reverberations: Storying Atomic Technologies (from Hope to Despair and Back).” Deadline for abstracts Jan 31. Submit here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... #AnthroSky

Title: Nuclear Reverberations: Storying Atomic Technologies (from Hope to Despair and Back)

Panel Abstract: This panel gathers together scholars involved in the work of tracing, listening to, and representing nuclear reverberations. We are interested in the half-life of nuclear memories and the radioactive – and social – fallout of living in a persistent state of war. In Seattle, we’ll connect over discussions of how atomic pasts linger, reverberate, and transform. At the time of writing this abstract, there is reason to be tempted to feel despair. Countries previously committed to de-escalation are now investing trillions into rebuilding their nuclear arsenals; corporations are ramping up production of nuclear plants to power rapacious AI data centers; new appetites for uranium and plutonium are scarring and spreading cancerous hazards across the earth; and we’re still talking about angry, vindictive men who possess the nuclear codes. And yet, there is hope in the power of collective action to change the course of history– another world has always been possible.

We analyze the histories and material-semiotics of nuclear reverberations to consider the forces that compel us to act or hold us back. How does nuclear energy reverberate? Does it expand and decay? Do nuclear reverberations end, and if so, what remains? How might we design our technologies in other ways? What can peace activists learn from nuclear scientists, what can scientists learn from activists, and how often are these actors one and the same? Together we ask how to “make the unseen visible” (Hamblin and Richards 2023) and the unheard audible (Cram 2023)– and how to harness new collectives to coalesce around the knowledge that results.

Note: we are open to non-traditional submissions

Emily Yates-Doerr (Anthropology, Oregon State)
Linda Richards (History, Oregon State)
Denia Djokić (Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan)

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Sharing this fundraiser, along with a link to an article of Aura Bogado’s on ICE’s use of bone scans of migrant children that I cite in my book & a screenshot of the citation. Such important work. ✊🏻 www.salon.com/2018/05/12/h...

This is a screen of 2 paragraphs of text from my book. The text can be found online by searching for “Mal-Nutrition,” and within the book searching for Aura Bogado.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sharing a clip from a small town South Dakota newspaper from Feb 10, 1955. Hoping that community hall immunization clinics - and not polio fundraisers - are part of the future of making america healthy again. 😢

Two newspaper articles are side by side in a 1955 newspaper. One announces a community immunization clinic and the other a polio benefit dance festival.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Gorgeous! Oregon turkeys say hi!

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

At least Filippo left us with a priceless drawing for this moment.

Image of Charles Darwin with a giant worm over his head. Caption says “he has lately been turning his attention to the ‘political worm.’”

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Not to belabor the point but this is a bad way to cover RFKjr + nutrition. Don’t fact check what they’re saying— look at what they’ve done. Past is prologue. (Compare with this Propublica piece on how scientists were forced to downplay chemical harm: www.propublica.org/article/epa-...)

Nytimes heading “what RFK gets right - and wrong - about nutrition” that fact checks his claims.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for your Sins (1969), is dark, hilarious, and offers perfect perspective for the moment. The title comes from a bumper sticker used to remind people that Custer was a blood sacrifice for the US government’s violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Title page of Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins.

The title page of chapter 4, called Anthropologists and Other Friends.

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Might do this wrong (first real post) but: Come join #ASFS and #AFHVS in Oregon this June to think together about ‘food cultures and social justice.’ Early bird deadline Nov 15, reg deadline Jan 15. blogs.oregonstate.edu/2025asfsafhvs/ #AnthroSky #FoodStudies

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