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Sameena Mulla

@ratnagiri77.bsky.social
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Anthropologist writes/teaches/dreams/eats. Emory WGSS. Posts my own. Fieldwork in B'more + MKE. Weary, wary, ever hopeful. My books: tinyurl.com/yf5erks6 My series: tinyurl.com/4dpbjvpx My website: www.sameenamulla.com

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 12/06/2026
Some STS colleagues and I have put together a list of talking points to help folks submit public comments on the proposed OMB rule jeopardizing federal research grant funding. (We also explain why submitting the comments are so important.) Please circulate widely and submit comments *by July 13*!
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Support for providing public comment to proposed OMB rule on federal grants
Hi all, The TL/DR A new proposed rule would dramatically empower political appointees to control who receives federal grants in the United States and what can be done with them. We provide some basi...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 02/06/2026
A jail feasibility study asked two questions: Do we need a new jail? How big should it be? @octoberk.bsky.social, @priscillagrim.bsky.social, and @micahh.bsky.social report that the possibility of Georgia's Fulton County not needing more beds barely entered the planning for a mega-jail.
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No New Beds
How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia.
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Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New chapter on sleep defences in sexual offence cases and burden of proof. Part of a fantastic new collection edited by @drrhianelinor.bsky.social, @adelinemou.bsky.social, and @emmajyapp.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors @jazzmoose.bsky.social and Natalie Wortley. Link share.google/401OhyNGMQeS...
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Sleep Medicine Expertise and Sexual Offences: An Unsettled and Unsettling Alliance
The decision not to prosecute the individual alleged to have raped Jade McCrossen-Nethercott in London, 2017, is the result of the uncertainties that surround the sleep condition, sexsomnia (a parasomnia in which a person engages in sexual activity, either solo or...
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thinking about submitting to the BSHS Singer Prize? The prize recognises an outstanding essay based on original research in the history of science, technology, or medicine. Open to postgraduate researchers and recent PhDs (within 5 years). Learn more:
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/


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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Only have about a week left to comment on this--DoE trying to remove many areas from being classified as a "professional" degree, including nursing and public health. This will limit access to student loans and ultimately drive students from the fields.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Things I taught today: The Jetsons, Levittown suburbs, Cold War politics, and Rosey the Robot as a Mammy archetype. And Anne Fausto-Sterling’s “The Five Sexes,” and “Five Sexes Revisited.”
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dána-Ain Davis and I taking on AA beginning in 2027. americananthro.org/news/dana-ai...
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Dána-Ain Davis and Sameena Mulla Appointed Editors-in-Chief of American Anthropologist - American Anthropological Association
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Dána-Ain Davis and Dr. Sameena Mulla have been selected to serve as Editors-in-Chief of the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) flagship journal, American ...
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
To be chosen by a cat feels magical. Qyrah joined us in October 2024 and has been a sassy bundle of tooth and claw. But this past week she began climbing into our laps, making biscuits, and settling in. 😭♥️🐈‍⬛
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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 11/12/2025
Share this with a colleague. This org does grants for academic moms to help with things like childcare at a conference, covering unpaid days off with a sick kiddo, or just getting through a rough patch. We need more stuff like this. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #BlueSci #SciMom iamas.com/academic-mam...
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Academic Mamas Foundation
Join us at Academic Mamas, empowering mothers in academia worldwide. Access innovative programs and resources to thrive in an inclusive community. Celebrate the unique challenges and triumphs of…
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today my cat jumped on my keyboard and marked one of my colleague’s emails as junk mail.
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a cat is looking at a laptop computer screen with a lot of text on it .
Alt: a cat is leaning on a keyboard typing a million “As” which fill up the screen.
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM
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Lamine’s Left Foot @hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
And read foundational pieces from 1993-2022 here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhu...
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Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence
Explore the article collection: Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence. Published in Human Organization.
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Lamine’s Left Foot @hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I learned a lot from this. Well done, Dr. Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention
The organization of gender-based violence by the urgent need for intervention results in an emphasis on binaries, namely a distinction between domestic violence and sexual assault. It also produces an...
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies 

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.  

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A poster announcing this year’s Graduate Student Conference in Literature, Media and Culture at Florida State University, where I will give the keynote tomorrow. The poster has a QR code to access the schedule and Zoom links.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
So many signs of the worst of eras and I then I saw a reel of someone’s gender reveal party with a live ultrasound projected on a movie screen. Not sure why people want to show their fetus’s genitals off to a crowd. 😳
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
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Proposals for a Caring Economy
Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...
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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Lesley McMillan’s article with Rose Corrigan, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Gethin Rees and Deborah White critically explores the use of sexual assault forensic medical examination as a means to assess complainant’s credibility. Access it first here buff.ly/AZAgcWd @emorywgss.bsky.social
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Compliance and credibility: a critique of the sexual assault forensic examination from international perspectives
The forensic medical examination is often lauded as an effective intervention to reduce case attrition by providing evidence that supports a rape or sexual assault complaint. We show that, despite…
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This would be funny if it wasn’t also true. I wonder what would happen if I circulated on the all faculty list…..
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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Several U.S. military branches are pausing training related to the prevention of sexual assault in order to comply with one of President Trump’s executive orders related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives." www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order on DEI
Marine Corps has paused all sexual assault prevention training to comply with Trump's executive order. The Navy confirmed it would also cease such training.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.
The bigger picture: A new era of on-campus immigration enforcement is no longer an abstraction. But with about 400,000 undocumented students enrolled in U.S. colleges, much remains unclear. A single arrest reported in a parking lot is not the same thing as frequent sweeps through the quad, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
May your soup jumou be spicy and flavorful and taste like FREEDOM!
A pale orange pumpkin with light green streaks on a blue sofa.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Yesterday, this contortionist figured out how to pick at her surgical sutures. We put her in a surgical suit which she mysteriously shed overnight, so this morning it’s a double cone, which seems to be running enough interference to keep her from picking at her scars.
Grey cat with closed eyes who is pleased with with herself. She wears two surgical collars (one plastic and clear and one pink fabric). She is reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message, and holiday greeting cards.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The most important thjng I did today was hang out with this cutie who has had a good week at home and is healing well and on her way from feral to cuddle gal.
A grey cat sits in a blue sofa with an e-collar. Her eyes are closed and she almost appears to be smiling.
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Carter's Dad @johnmckendry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Important thread. Long read about how Elsevier, which publishes a large number of important scientific journals, has driven the entire editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution to resign in protest/disgust. Prioritizing profits. Elsevier doesn't understand the value of its own products.
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Kevin Karpiak @kevinkarpiak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out this open access (for now) article from @ratnagiri77.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Evaluating care: Anti‐Blackness and sexual assault sentencing in Milwaukee, WI
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m headed to Tampa to be there for/with colleagues who are doing community work in imperfect communities. I hope associations can rethink big conferences. I want to see my people and some anthropologists are definitely my people, but we can be with each other in different ways.
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Lamine’s Left Foot @hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’d love to put together an Anthro of GBV starter pack but I’m not sure who is all on here. @karinf.bsky.social @mgabrielatorres.bsky.social @ratnagiri77.bsky.social @emmalouisebacke.bsky.social are key people to start, and I’ll keep looking for others. #AnthroGBVSky
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thank you NWSA and James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation, Emory students and colleagues, my collaborators Ramona, Katie and Kevin, and new friends and old who made my time in Detroit lovely. Homeward with my heart full.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It would really be great if @bsky.app could make it so that the ALT txt is automatic, with in app images, at least.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
In the next few days, there will just be more cat/kitten content on this account. (See cuddle puddle below).
A gray mamma cat sleeps in a red chair under her two fuzzy kittens (one black and white cow cat and one tuxedo).
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Jessaca Leinaweaver @jessacabeza.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Anthro PhDs - please check out our new job at Brown Anthro! We are looking for a junior colleague working on 'population issues' - eg med anth, repro anth, migration, environment ... jobs.chronicle.com/job/37685388... Due Oct 15
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Assistant Professor in Anthropology - Providence, Rhode Island
Brown University’s Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position in socio-cultural anthropology at the rank of assist...
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Yellow and black sign with white letters has a heading that reads “hands off our students!” Then it says,”A faculty and staff walkout and speak-out. Join us to speak out against the police brutality targeting our students and affirmative action their demands for divestment from Israel and Cop City. April 29, 12 pm, Asbury Circle. Sponsored by Emory Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine.”
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 25/04/2024
Letter from Jewish faculty [at Columbia] on academic freedom, attacks on the University, and the weaponization of antisemitism
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Letter from Jewish faculty on academic freedom, attacks on the University, and the weaponization of antisemitism.docx
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Remember why students are protesting
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Lawnfare? This won’t stop protesters calling out for justice in Palestine.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
A panoramic photo of State Farm Arena 22 minutes before the Hawks v Bucks tipoff.
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
The Politics of Social Reproduction tomorrow: www.brandeis.edu/womens-gende...
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Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Had an unexpected funnymoment with three of my colleagues on a panel today. It was decided that we were the Golden Girls. We commenced working out who was who. We all wanted to be Dorothy, but I was told I was Blanche.
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