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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My JRAI paper (with Paolo Heywood) On the Problem of Continuity is out online first -- an attempt to theorise culture beyond the logic of invention: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Marking work post-AI feels like a very different thing

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At my current rate of reading, would conservatively estimate the stack of books beside my bed will take about 10 years to clear.

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Neal Hockley @nealhockley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Enjoyed this lovely piece, even more so when I found it was based on my old friend @tomyarrow.bsky.social's anthropological potterings (Tom & I once spent 2 days running across Eryri's mountains and our silences were prob more than long enough to make @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social deeply uncomfortable).

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Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

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Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Working in a Winter Wonderland! #EarlyBronzeAge #FlagFenBasin #Fenland (not Finland)

Snow covered archaeological excavation - pits, baulks and wooden pegs

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Very weird and troubling to see my ethnographic research on male intimacy morph into right wing click bait.

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Very unexpectedly, my forthcoming @amanthro.bsky.social paper on male friendship and emotional reticence was featured in the Sunday Times yesterday:

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Great to be on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning, talking about my forthcoming @amanthro.bsky.social paper on male friendship and intimacy.

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My @uk.theconversation.com piece on male friendship and intimacy beyond words is out today:

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Really pleased my paper (with Paolo Heywood) 'On the problem of continuity' just got accepted by JRAI. It proposes a theory of culture beyond the inventive assumptions that often dominate analyses and over-determine ethnography. DM or email if you're interested to see the accepted draft.

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I seem to buy books in inverse proportion to my time for reading

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Absolutely loved archaeologist Rose Ferraby's R3 programme Earthworks -- a lovely, lyrical exploration of materials with thoughtful reflections on time, craft and the traces people leave, and told with so much humanity.

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Adam Reed's new book just arrived and looks terrific -- an ethnography of animal protection, which opens out new ways of thinking about human-animal relations, activism, expert knowledge and imperatives of moral action.

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Admittedly hot take but IMO Sycamore Gap is a more interesting place without the sycamore. And the social significance of its absence seems on balance to be greater than the presence of the tree itself (not that I condone those who cut it down and with all sympathies to those who grieve its loss!)

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James Staples @jamesstaples.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Our final editorial for #MedicalAnthropology - reflecting on the state of the sub discipline - is now out, with free imprints for the first 50 takers: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8KVSQ... #anthropology

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Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art

Published in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

proofs! 💥🔥

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Durham Anthropology would like to invite you to this years Layton Dialogue! This year’s theme is ‘Multispecies ethnography as a forum for dialogue in anthropology’ and will feature Prof Marianne Lien and Dr Kerry Dore with Dr Simona Capisani as discussant! 📚🎓

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Tom Yarrow @tomyarrow.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Lunch and a walk along the Tyne with @chikaw.bsky.social , Hannah Knox and Adam Reed a lovely way to mark the end of our JRAI editorship. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed and helped to make it all happen!

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Once more with feeling!....House Beautiful 1999 starring @beccyscottuk.bsky.social & Dave Hall

Excavated footprint of an Early Iron Age roundhouse with modern 'couple' parodying domestic roles (past & present)

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just out! Why are anthropologists interested in microbes? Are we witnessing a turn to a new object of study for #anthropology? Find out what I think in this long review of three recent books on the topic in the JRAI rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Microbial turns

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Colin Renfrew passing on is a major moment in archaeology; time to revisit his contributions. www.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

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Professor Lord Colin Renfrew – 1937-2024 | University of Cambridge

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Seems like a fitting title for our times… I’ve got a chapter in here on death anxiety and fossil fuels

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Out today, and open access, 'The melody that's sweetly played in tune', my photo essay with @alexanderboyd.bsky.social in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social journal! Ardeer, and an archaeology of photography, they're important!! doi.org/10.1080/0142...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Putting this out there again with some more detail: this is really an article about the futility of trying to construct total archives and histories, and the question of what a useful analytical frame for the history of fields like Egyptology and archaeology might be.

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Holding something you’ve lived with and worked toward for 14 years is a surreal experience. Grateful to the folks at UChicago Press, to friends and mentors who helped shape me, and to dear ones in Baltimore who taught me everything. Happy 📚🎉 day everyone!

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