iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Assigning Persepolis to my incoming high school student this week and am super stoked to hear about their thoughts 💭

🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Submitted my first food writing piece in a while for a local magazine here in Portland! It’s actually the longest piece I’ve ever written and contains a lot of my own food photography so I’m very excited.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My heart is so full! Ocean Vuong’s riveting reflections were AMAZING tonight. Can’t wait to read The Emperor of Gladness 🫶🏽

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

👋🏽 Hi everyone, I’m still alive! My days are mostly spent at my current alt-ac job, where I’m working in communications and handling partnerships and community engagement. I think I’ll return to posting on here because I miss the digital town hall of the golden era of Twitter ❤️‍🔥

A selfie of Thao, with long dark curly hair, round glasses, and a big smile. They are sitting on their couch in their living room, arm extended so they are looking up at you.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I love treating my life like a canvas. I just keep adding colourful bits and trying out styles and approaches I probably wouldn’t have tried unless I was pushed.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I recently learned my dear friend and colleague Dr. Dauro Mattia Zocchi passed yesterday. No words can truly encapsulate how I’m feeling right now. Our PhD cohort was small and experimental, yet mighty. I took this of him our first week…mi manchi tanto ❤️‍🩹 🔗 www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

✍️ 📖 After three years of dreaming and writing, I’m happy to present our book “ #Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media” as part of the #Routledge series on #gastronomy, #food, and #drink. 🔗 Pre-orders start March 31st, but set a reminder now! ⏰ www.routledge.com/Mukbang-Food...

A colourful book cover with abstract art shapes reads “Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Stanley Ulijaszek”. The book is part of the Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food, and Drink.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I got a rejection for an academic role I wanted, and I did the human thing and cried about it at my desk!

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

What good is 100 citations when most of them lead back to your toxic supervisor? 👁️👄👁️

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In unexpected news, I started playing jazz flute at a local jam session meetup. Pedro (in the yellow beanie) oscillates between drums, bass, and keys, but I’m just trying to revive my 12 year old jazz band self.

5 people stand on a stage for a jam session at the “barrel room”; a piano player, guitarist, flautist, bass player, and drummer. Thao stands in the center right to the side playing the flute, while Thao’s partner Pedro stands behind them focusing on the bass guitar.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

To think, that bits and bobs from our fieldwork research in Cambodia will be in the National Geographic Society’s Explorer Base Camp exhibition in Washington DC! 🥹

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

good god, please do not do this Do not trust this company with ANYTHING sensitive or personal. Or any of them.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It’s 2025, almost 2026, and people still think I’m “unprofessional” because I have a facial piercing and colourful hair 😵‍💫

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Just thinking about how I'll finally wrap-up my LAST academic article this year in a few days and I cannot wait to be free. 2025 was my first full year away from a FT academic role, but somehow we cranked out 5 papers and the book. Wow.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Nobody is really talking about #Cambodia and I’m not surprised, just saddened.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The book proofs are here and I’m getting shaky and achey…almost there 😭🫥

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our #copywriter is so kind about the #book. They're enjoying it loads, have kept the unique tone of our writing voices, and apparently have gone as far into doing extra research on our topic because of curiosity spurred by reading on it. I love it! I'm happy it resonates! I'm happy we're breezing!

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Could this be the year I break 100 leisure #reading #books? I'm at 89 now, about to finish 2 more today. Aside from hitting a personal record, I think I've read such a wide variety of genres this year and I'm so proud!

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Former student and co-author sent me this during our meeting dedicated to dealing with Reviewers 1 & 2's laundry list of minor revisions 😵‍💫

A screenshot of Reviewer 3's comments: The revised version addresses all the comments from the reviewers. The manuscript can be accepted in its current form.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The manuscript is being handed off towards the production team! 🥹😭

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This has been a year of figuring myself out and frankly, as much as it has sucked, it's been very beneficial. I still love research. I still love writing. I still love teaching. But I needed time to feed other interests/desires.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our manuscript has been accepted to a Q1 #PublicHealth journal and I am so emotional. I am so proud of my small, yet mighty cohort of #globalhealth graduate students who dedicated their studies and time to advancing #menstrualhealth #education in Cambodia 🥺— will share more as it progresses!

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My partner Pedro is off the bean-juice and my attempts to support him through #gastro-solidarity have been a nightmare. I only drink MAX 2 little coffees a day. I need to stop. Italy changed me...maybe for the worse.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🗣️ Upcoming talk: Digital #Gastro-solidarity and #Mukbang — come hear Stanley and I discuss all things #food, #digitalmedia, and #digitalfoodactivism! ℹ️ More info 🔗 : www.oxfordobesity.org/seminars-and...

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Manuscript submitted! 😭 Can’t wait to share more about our upcoming #academic #book #publication with #Routledge! 📖 🥹

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I was thinking about getting into writing-for-me-writing again. I feel like Twitter used to be that space for me. A space of overflowing thoughts and sprawling takes. I would write them up and share them. Now the sky is blue, and I am here, so I'll start doing that again!

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Received a major revisions response for an article I'm co-writing and my immediate thought was "Oh yay, not a rejection!" Besides, everything in life is basically "major revisions" :')

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I've been having a hard time on the #job search at the moment with everything going on in the U.S. I'd appreciate any leads on #copyediting either in #food #health or #tech as I've spent 5+ years doing that. I'm nearing the end of the #book writing sabbatical so please send me luck + leads, thanks.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Went to my first book talk event at Portland’s legendary Powell’s Book Store. Got to meet @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social and have him sign some books 📚✨

Thao and author Viet Thanh Nguyen stand side by side holding Nguyen’s two books “The Sympathizer” and “To Save and To Destroy”

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Spilled iced coffee all over my laptop because a bird nearly flew into the window my desk looks out onto. First time I’ve ever done this so fingers crossed it boots up tomorrow 🤞🏽 What a chaotic way to end day 🥲

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🏔️ 🌊 I am so in love with #nature and it actually makes me sad that some people can’t enjoy this the way I do 🩵💚 #PNW #hiking

Several trees in a forest overlook the Pacific Ocean, which peaks through the trees. In the distance is a rocky cliff

A picture of Thao’s hiking boots overhanging a grassy cliff, above the Pacific Ocean. On the left there’s a mountain.

Several towering forest trees on a muddy path are light by the sun in their canopies.

A wild elk eats grass in a plain. In the distance is the Pacific Ocean, some trees, and rocky cliff.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I am so behind and so “out of the loop” because I’ve been writing and doom-working(?!) but I wanted to say that I had a phenomenal time at #sfaa and it was so fun + inspirational for me to meet my #anthro pals from the old Twitter times in-person 💖— best (and first) anthro conference ever 🥹

A pamphlet for the society for applied anthropology conference in Portland rests next to a planner with a bunny on it. A name tag reading “Thao Dam” is placed on top.

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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

all scrolling is doomscrolling under fascism

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It’s been a rough few months preparing for this international move. It’s been just over a week of me living in Portland and I’m feeling lots of feelings. On the brightside, we are 20k words away from finishing the book. ✍️

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Anthropogenic Global Warming: Fossil Fuel Pollution, Severe Weather, CO2, Plants, Food, Nutrients, Food Chains, & Supply Chains 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/corr...

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Correction: Plants Will Not Flourish as the World Warms

A new study contradicts the notion that higher temperatures will enhance plant growth

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Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

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UZH: PhD position in evolutionary anthropology and medicine

The Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, led by Prof. Adrian Jaeggi, is inviting applications from prospe...

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today on #Platypus, Global Health researchers Isabell Hedke and Aikaterini Mitselou discuss ongoing intersectoral efforts toward achieving menstrual health and hygiene through creative and collaborative educational initiatives in Cambodia. Read it here: blog.castac.org/2024/11/gree...

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Green Lady Cambodia: A Small Initiative for A Big Change on Menstrual Health and Hygiene Education | Platypus

Achieving menstrual health is crucial for attaining good health and well-being, ensuring quality education and promoting gender equality.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

⭐️ @maythehan.bsky.social and I wrote about the ways that #digital #food #media creators are pushing #interspecies relationalities by dining with their #dogs. #scicomm #STS #anthro ✍️ 🖼️ Dog portrait by Maythe Han 🐶 Read/ Listen to it here 🔗: blog.castac.org/2024/11/dini...

A tan-coloured cocker spaniel sits at a fine dining table with three plates, one with three oysters, one with a whole lobster, and one with a fish, strawberry, and raw egg. Two hands serve the dog, one with a plate of prawns, mussels, and scallops, and the other, water. There is also a tea light and a delft pottery vase with peonies on the table for decorative purposes.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Anyone ever used #datacamp to learn new skills? Also, if you got a certification did it help you transition or move up to different roles? #Hiring managers, I also want to hear from you! 🤓 #datascience #R #python

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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈 @sabiagini.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just how sorry are they after rejecting your paper? Like, on a scale from 'I lose sleep over it every night' to 'I can't handle this, I’m quitting my job,' where do they land? Asking for a friend. 🙃

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

👋🏽 Hello, my name is Thao and I’m a medical #anthropologist, #ethnobotanist, and #food writer. I’m a #Firstgen #Khmer and #Vietnamese American scholar relocating to Portland, Oregon after 8 years of living abroad in the U.K., Italy, and Netherlands. I study (digital) food, health, and plants. 🌱 🍲

Thao smiles and holds up a peace sign. They are wearing a patterned collared shirt and baseball cap.

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🍉Thảo Dam, Ph.D.| ដាមបុប្ផាទេវី @thaoeatworld.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

We sent off 2 more chapters of the book on Friday! Going to try to keep this awesome momentum and inspiration that is beginning to flourish within this time. Slowly, but surely.

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