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Lance Gravlee

@lancegravlee.bsky.social
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Anthropologist and pilot. Former professor, now flying for a US-based global airline. Still have some writing to do (racism and health, research methods, aeromobilities). 📝 scholar.google.com/citations?user=y…

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/04/2026
we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Even worse as of February 2026. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
latitudemedia.com
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...
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Why It's So Hard To Turn The Lights Back On In Puerto Rico
Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, almost 80 percent of the territory is still without power. While nobody expected a quick…
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/01/2026
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Other, more humane worlds are possible.
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As Western powers crack down on migrants, Spain embraces 500,000
Madrid points to 'positive impact' of migration as it moves to grant 500,000 undocumented people legal status.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities A biological marker bolsters the “weathering hypothesis” that links systemic racism to health disparities. wapo.st/3NNQ2Dp
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New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities
Researchers linked higher inflammation levels to decades of stress, including discrimination and economic hardship.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
just amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting incredible that some continue to rationalize this www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One of the best and most important @jamellebouie.net takes yet. Watch to the end. I find his moral clarity and knowledge of history immensely helpful in moments like this.
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ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols. It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them). They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Screenshot of an excerpt from the linked article: “The anarchy that is emerging under Trump, in other words, is more chaotic. It is closer to the more primitive anarchy of the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes—a world of “all against all,” where sovereign power cannot be challenged domestically or internationally. In this Hobbesian order, driven by a leader who rejects any constraints on his ability to act and who is emboldened by technology to move at a whirlwind pace, anything goes. Order may well eventually emerge from this anarchy, but that order is unlikely to be led by—or to benefit—the United States.”
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Network analysis clarifies why the power outage at London Heathrow (LHR) is so disruptive to global air travel. I imagine it will take a while for everyone affected to get where they were trying to go.
Network analysis of global air travel overlaid on a world map. The figure shows lines illustrating seats per week between LHR and airports in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. 

Source: Grubesic, Tony H., Timothy C. Matisziw, and Matthew A. Zook. 2008. “Global Airline Networks and Nodal Regions.” GeoJournal 71 (1): 53–66.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“We have concerns about the nominee’s past efforts to lower pilot training and safety standards,” said Captain Jason Ambrosi, President of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).
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Trump’s FAA Pick Has History of Lowering Air Safety Standards
Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
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National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say
Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here we go again.
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MAGA Influencers Try To Blame DEI for Dramatic Toronto Crash
They just assumed the pilot in the crash-landing was a woman, even though most pilots of deadly crashes are men.
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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...
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Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science
The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on. They are trying to kill people with cancer.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“So, how can the radical overhaul Trump and Musk are undertaking be reconciled with our constitutional order? Quite simply, it cannot be.”
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Opinion | Why DOGE is unconstitutional
Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. Only Congress or the Supreme Court can stop him.
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Of all federal spending, only 6% goes to federal employees. So we are gutting institutional knowledge and firing people who have dedicated their lives to serve their country and saving nothing.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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rebecca stone @forestminish.tv · 11/02/2025
Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”
Screenshot of US bill introduced to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland”
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 11/02/2025
Imagine a world where people fought to protect the gains won by Black and Brown people that benefit everyone. Imagine a world where people remembered that authoritarian regimes always start with the least protected and work their way up. Fascism recurs over and over because of bigotry
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is just 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Trump's FAA Puts 'Men' Back in NOTAMs
The term Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) has returned, FAA announced Monday, reversing a Biden Administration-era change at the agency.
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I can't get this out of my head. Every football season. www.anthropology-news.org/articles/pla...
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Plantation Logics at the NFL Combine - Anthropology News
At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Black football players’ every movement is measured, quantified, and appraised. The event’s college-aged men are at the heart of football’s billion-dollar industry.
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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In addition to destroying science & medical research which has direct impact on people's lives, this undermines universities AND crashes the economy. The idea that this will "save" money is FALSE. "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity"
NIH direct economic impact page "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity": https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/impact-nih-research/serving-society/direct-economic-contributions
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Evan Bennett @epbhistorian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In Tampa, a good chunk of the downtown real estate boom has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of USF’s medical school and growth of Tampa General Hospital. Certainly these cuts will reverberate to real estate market there and similarly elsewhere.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It looks like the massive indirect rate cut from NIH is not legal--and will face judicial challenges. But for scale, look at your state, and knock off about 25% to see the damage.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow). In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵 www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs of Federally Sponsored University Research | Association of American Universities (AAU)
Responses to common questions about F&A costs of research
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.
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Alex Hinton @alexhinton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
*New pub* **Why Does #Trump Want to Abolish the #DeptofEducation? – And Can He?** My public-facing @us.theconversation.com explainer discusses 4 reasons 1/3 theconversation.com/why-does-tru...
theconversation.com
Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons
A desire to fight wokeness and reduce government spending are among the reasons that Trump supporters back his plans to close the Education Department.
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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We’re here because liberals did not fight for Affirmative Action and allowed it to be diluted to “DEI” — a term abstracted from the materialist understanding racial redress and justice. So now it’s just “DEI” without any historical context, without acknowledging the generations of racial terror.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In an actually meritocratic system, diversity is a natural outcome. Homogeneity requires enforcement.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.
arstechnica.com
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
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Jon Ostrower @jonostrower.com · 05/02/2025
Move fast and break things is not the motto you want to adopt at a regulatory system that, as challenged as it may seem at times, is extremely functional.
Sean Duffy Tweet: “Big News - Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wish everyone in the U.S. would read this essay by @jamellebouie.net.
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“Whatever comes next, should the country weather this attempted hijacking, will need to be a fundamental rethinking of what this system is and what we want out of it.”
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 05/02/2025
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS: they are using #DEI the way #Nazis used ‘un-German.’ When the right says DEI what they mean is ‘the other’ and that’s how they target immigrants, women, people of color, Jews, #LGBTQ, ♿️, and anyone who supports or protects the vulnerable and marginalized. WE ARE AT WAR already
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We Are At War
And legacy media asks you not to pay attention
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