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Jessaca Leinaweaver

@jessacabeza.bsky.social
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Cultural anthropology professor at Brown - Providence, RI, USA More info: vivo.brown.edu/display/jleinawe

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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Next Friday, 9/18 at 12PM: Join the department for its fifth annual Fall Symposium! Anthropologists from across @brown.edu will share their research in a series of ten-minute presentations followed by two-minute "lightning talks" and Q&A. Learn more and view the full schedule:
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Anthropology Fall 2026 Symposium
The Symposium features anthropologists from across Brown University—graduate students, postdocs, and faculty—sharing their research. Each panel...
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
@jtkantor.bsky.social it's great to be back! Could you play Will to Power when either Wilyer or Willson is on the scene? ⚾
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I donated at a blood drive at BrownU last Weds. Just got the text it has been used. Please donate blood in RI if you can: www.ribc.org
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thank you Sen. Sheldon @whitehouse.senate.gov. "Ill-informed and unnecessary speculation” about the incident does “no good at all” to the affected families. “All the conspiracy theories, all the creepy, weird plot ideas, please, just knock it off,” he said. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Live updates: Brown names victims in mass shooting
Two students were killed and nine others were hospitalized in Saturday's mass shooting.
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Blood drives available in Providence - Mon, Tue, and Wed - please sign up to give if you are eligible
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 14/12/2025
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org
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Tiara Mack @mackdistrict6.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer. www.brown.edu
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues: www.statnews.com/american-sci...
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American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Social/behavioral science research support for PhD students from NSF - now frozen ("archived") as of Nov 2025. This is grim news for research & knowledge economy. On the heels of cuts to other important federal research funding programs (e.g. Fulbright-Hays grants canceled in May 2025). 😡
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Apt historical commentary from local vintage shop (Hope St, Providy, RI)
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Minute Cryptic - 20 August, 2025 "HARdLY ReMaRKABlE!?" (3,1,3,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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Dan DiPiero @dandipiero.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ALoRoWaHAiBA
Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Dear @jtkantor.bsky.social we would like to request Girls and Boys by Blur tonite 🙏🙏⚾⚾🎹🎹
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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social
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Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies
In May 2008, Louise Lamphere made a generous gift to Brown University to establish the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Gender Studies, a recurring two-year position for a junior…
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
If you are embracing AI in your schools, this is what you are agreeing with and contributing to.
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The growing environmental impact of AI data centers’ energy demands
The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial int...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just let us know how to turn it off, sir
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I just switched over to DuckDuckGo last week too. You can tell it to NEVER give you stupid AI summaries and then it doesn't! Reduces stupidity and also saves water (actual ducks approve) 🦆
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My colleague David Kertzer (who knows about popes) quoted in the @nytimes.com: Leo XIII (head of the church from 1878 to 1903) "'called on the church to reach out to the working class [and] to work out an amicable relationship between capital and labor'" @brownanthro.bsky.social
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🇵🇪 🌭 '“Chicago” and “Chiclayo” almost rhyme' --- Carlos Lozada in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...
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Opinion | Pope Leo, Peru and Me
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 15/04/2025
#Breaking: Canadian academics are being urged to avoid all non-essential travel to the U.S. amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on research and education along with fears of being turned away at the border.
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Canadian academics warned to halt non-essential travel to the U.S. amid Trump’s crackdown, border tensions
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has issued a travel advisory for its members amid Trump’s crackdown and border fears.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained ‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says www.theguardian.com/...
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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We're thrilled to share that our authors @ievajusionyte.bsky.social and Matthew Morrison have won 2025 PROSE awards from the Association of American Publishers! Please help us spread the news 🎉 #proseawards @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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AAP Announces 2025 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners
Ieva Jusionyte’s Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, published by University of California Press, took home the top prize at the Association of American Publishers’ 2025 P...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Heads up! Shop our Flash Sale, today and tomorrow only. Save 50% on all books (including pre-orders) and journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 & don't delay. Ends March 26 at 11:59 pm ET. buff.ly/7EcSYhw
Bright yellow graphic with red lettering that says: FLASH SALE. 50& OFF 3/25-3/26. Use Coupon Code FLASH50 to Save 50&. VALID FOR ALL BOOKS AND JOURNAL ISSUES. Duke University Press logo appears at the bottom of the graphic.
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Saturday, 4/12 - Sunday, 4/13 — “Seed Pasts/Seeding Futures: Interdisciplinary Symposium.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, @brown-ibes.bsky.social, @cogutinstitute.bsky.social, @brownarchaeology.bsky.social, CLACS, and the Haffenreffer Museum. Learn more and view the full schedule:
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Seed Pasts/Seeding Futures: Interdisciplinary Symposium
This symposium will investigate how and why people keep seeds—forms of matter that literally bring life and figuratively feed futures. In this sy...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 16/03/2025
Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order (Gift Article)
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Wonderful talk by @mdelac.bsky.social visiting CLACS at Brown to teach us about cattle, capital, and conception
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How a Tulsa archeologist uses restorative justice to save Black history — This recent @nj.com article mentions Parker VanValkenburgh's role in a project analyzing the remains of the Greenwood district, the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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How a Tulsa archeologist uses restorative justice to save Black history
Lawmakers are endangering Black history, but archeologist Dr. Alicia Odewale isn't going to let that happen.
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Isabella Schultz: Merging anthropology and public health to impact maternal outcomes — A recent feature from @brownpublichealth.bsky.social details how Schultz is one of the rare students simultaneously taking on Ph.D. and MPH training as part of Brown University's Open Graduate Education program.
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Isabella Schultz: Merging anthropology and public health to impact maternal outcomes
Balancing the rigorous demands of a doctoral program is challenging for the most motivated students, but for those keen to position themselves for profound impact, Brown’s Open Graduate Education prog...
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tuesday, 3/11 at 6PM: "Five Years: A COVID Community Commemoration," hosted by the Pandemic Journaling Project. It’s been five years since COVID-19 turned our worlds upside down. What have we learned? What have we lost? How have we changed? Register and tune in via Zoom: bit.ly/3F6nTTM
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New initiative addresses community needs through partnerships with Brown scholars, students — #NewsfromBrown reports on the partnership between North Burial Ground in Providence and bioarchaeologist Jordi Rivera Prince. Together, they are documenting and digitizing thousands of historic tombstones.
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New initiative addresses community needs through partnerships with Brown scholars, students
The Community-Engaged Data and Evaluation Collaborative connects Rhode Island organizations with Brown faculty, students and staff for mutually beneficial partnerships.
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yesterday’s ‘Back from the Field’ poster presentation event was a success! Presenters included Alyssa Bolster, Li Caraballo, Matt Ballance, Moi Herrera Parra & Gonzalo Aguirre. Each graduate student had the opportunity to share their pre-dissertation field research from Summer '24. Congratulations!
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Birds of Rhode Island" Background text from the 1stbaptistamerica (they're on insta)
Bird graffiti
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025
OpenAI right now
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I overheard someone at the blood drive here in Providence say that it was their first visit ... they had been trying to think of small things they could do to help make a difference in a small way. 💕
Blood donation
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Brown Anthropology @brownanthro.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#FlashbackFriday to when Professor and Anthropology Chair @jessacabeza.bsky.social and Brown Sociology Professor Susan Short attended the launch of a Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection at the UN in November 2024. Both contributed to the report, which was led by SOS Children's Villages.
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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Time for other universities to step up.
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Day #1 of conference "Politics of Child Adoption in the 20th Century" is a wrap -- many fascinating conversations about child welfare in England, Norway, Russia, former Czechoslovakia, & more.
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Thank you @jpfeldman.bsky.social !!! The trains no doubt helped!
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