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Linguistic and environmental anthropologist | Rainforest Radio uapress.arizona.edu/book/rainforest…

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Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Linguistics Professor Walt Wolfram Retires After 34 Years of Elevating North Carolina Voices chass.ncsu.edu/news/2026/05...
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Linguistics Professor Walt Wolfram Retires After 34 Years of Elevating North Carolina Voices
Walt Wolfram, a renowned linguistics professor at NC State, is retiring after 34 years in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, leaving a legacy of community-centered research that has reshap...
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I had a delightful time being in conversation with Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book Rainforest Radio! newbooksnetwork.com/rainforest-r...
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I recently discussed the fieldwork behind my book for Field Notes with the University of Arizona Press uapress.arizona.edu/2025/05/fiel...
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Field Notes: Rainforest Radio | UAPress
Rainforest Radio follows Amazonian Kichwa media through production, reception, and circulation to understand the role of media in language reclamation.
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It was an honor to be in conversation with Bernard Perley about my new book, Rainforest Radio for the CaMP Anthropology blog
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Georgia Ennis on her book, Rainforest Radio
Bernard Perley: You mention how radio as a medium introduced new domains for language use, but also as an affirmation of traditional forms of language use.  The value of radio is in its abilit…
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Wrote a historical piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.
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Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
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AICRJournal @aicrjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“These well intentioned revitalization strategies have contradictorily imposed some of the same oppressive hierarchies between written and spoken languages that activists sought to overcome." 48:1 pg 116 @georgiaennis.bsky.social
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Rainforest Radio officially drops April 22 but @heatherfro.bsky.social saw it irl first. Can’t wait to hold it in my own hands soon
A hand holds the book Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon in front of a book shelf. The book cover features a photo of a handmade drum hanging from a bamboo wall, surrounded by baskets, plants, and wooden benches
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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited for the special issue of @aicrjournal.bsky.social edited by Erin Debenport and @georgiaennis.bsky.social: Language Lives in Unexpected Places A great set of articles and a poem by Jenny Davis and commentary by Leighton Peterson and myself escholarship.org/uc/aicrj/48/1
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Our special issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal “Language Lives in Unexpected Places,” co-edited with Erin Debenport, is a reminder of the progress made and how far we have to go in the pursuit of language rights and justice escholarship.org/uc/aicrj/48/1
The front cover of American Indian Culture and Research Journal, volume 48, number 1, 2025. The cover is black with a three panel black and white cartoon by Bernard Perley. Back cover of American Indian Culture and Research journal with table of contents
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Official” language policies are always statements about so much more than language
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Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Back to reading Black Reconstruction. But two things: 1.) Today is W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday! and 2.) Everyone should check out Zinn Education Project's valuable report about how the state fails to teach complex histories of Reconstruction: www.teachreconstructionreport.org
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Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My book is coming out in April! You can pre-order Rainforest Radio and get 30% off with the code AZFLR uapress.arizona.edu/book/rainfor...
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The stakes of teaching about race and gender from an anthropological perspective have never felt higher. After our recent classes, some of my students thanked me for talking about redlining (something few had heard of before) and the widespread existence of non-binary gender roles around the world
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Has anyone used #MaxQDA to research Instagram and other multimodal platforms? Suggestions on other tools to use for qualitative social media research? I’m starting some new work on Amazonian social media activism and I’m looking for strategies to catalog and code images, videos, and text
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Good news: Carl Andre died! Celebrate by sharing the important, beautiful work of Ana Mendieta, the woman he murdered. She is best known for her earth/body works, in which she used her body, and later the absence of the body, within landscapes.
A nude figure lies against a rocky and mossy hillside, supine on a patch of dirt between boulders. The figure is obscured by white wildflowers that appear to grow densely all around the figure, springing up between the legs, between the arms and torso, etc.The earth of a shoreline is hollowed out in the  abstract-but-recognizable shape of a human figure, with arms raised alongside the figure’s head. The lower half of the figure is covered with vivid red powdered pigment. The rest of the scene is gray, white, green, and desolate.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/01/2025
One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard (@drrobertbullard.bsky.social)
Scholar, author of 18 books, co-chair of @NBEJN1, @EJHBCU Climate Change Consortium, Director of @BullardCenter and father of environmental justice. #HBCU
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In the days after Helene, Asheville was continually described as a place that showed the illusions of ‘climate havens.’ But thinking of WNC as a climate haven required the same kind forgetting (of the 1916 flood, of flooding in 2004, and 2021) that is driving exposure to the fires in LA.
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Struggling to get your students to read? Try “roulette” style discussion leadership or presentations. I introduced short group presentations into my Intro to Cultural Anthro class last semester. Groups had 20 minutes to prepare and were randomly selected to present. The results were amazing.
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just want to shout out the Demystifying Language Project. I’m working on my syllabus for Intro to Ling Anth and @kirbyconrod.bsky.social's article is the perfect complement to our discussion of grammar and syntax, connecting the structure of language to ongoing social change
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Is Singular They Old or New? – Demystifying Language Project
Why are they/them pronouns easier for some people to use? The answer can tell us a lot about the English language, and how it is changing.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs... To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, [Ithaka is] launching a tracker of these licensing deals."
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Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs
ITHAKA has developed a tool that tracks publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs
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Jorge Téllez @jorgetellez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Archidona, Ecuador is a majority Indigenous town in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Residents have been protesting for the last two weeks after the government announced plans to build a mega-prison there, continuing a long history of environmental sacrifice in the region
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Jacqueline Messing @jacqmessing.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We're excited about this new edition of Jane H. Hill's Everyday Language of White Racism. Collaborating on this book update with Barb Meek and Christina Leza has been wonderful. www.wiley.com/en-in/The+Ev...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/12/2024
New to me: Niiwin, a web platform "Rooted in Indigenous Data & Digital Sovereignty Principles, Designed to Align With an Indigenous Worldview." Intrigued by "the Digital Witness Blanket, managing complex data relationships between thousands of artifacts and their stories." animikii.com
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For our final lecture in Introduction to Anthropology, we talked about climate change and sustainability. This year was different than others, because of the impacts of #HurricaneHelene on #WNC, where many families are still sleeping in tents and campers as the temperatures drop 1/
A Coleman camper trailer and a beige tent are placed on a snowy hillside next to a road.
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The news cycle has moved on, but more than two months after Hurricane Helene, communities across Western North Carolina are still struggling to meet basic needs and rebuild homes, businesses, and infrastructure. For #GivingTuesday consider supporting WNC community organizations
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It is common to draw attention to language & species endangerment Is there a connection? “Yes” as both derive from capitalism Capitalism extracts cheap labor, food, energy & raw materials It decimated Indigenous peoples, destroyed the natural environment & led to the current climate breakdown
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Georgia Ennis @georgiaennis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On the way to #AAA2024! Join us for our panel, “Engaging the Praxis of Language Reclamation,” Friday, Nov. 23 at 2:30, with talks by @ethnopoetics.bsky.social, Barbra Meek, Joseph Marks, and me, with comments by Jocelyn Ahlers
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