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Ulises J. Espinoza

@ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social
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Anthropologist | Assistant Prof at SJSU | Interested in STS, Biocultural, Moral Economy approaches | Current book project on grief, rupture & contested ideas of progress in Achuar communities.

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Ulises J. Espinoza @ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cherry-picking throughout. Quotes from sources without engaging their arguments, contexts, or limits, then draws sweeping conclusions from just 6.3% of the AAA’s 21,344 members. Given the ahistorical framing in his 2019 paper, this isn’t surprising. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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Joseph Henrich
The Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The anthropology section of the Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship has now been published www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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Joseph Henrich
The Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse...
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Ulises J. Espinoza @ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi All, The Anthropology department I am currently in is hiring! We seek a scholar working at the intersection of anthropological archaeology (material culture), cultural anthropology, and technology or design studies, with particular interest in data science and AI applications.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"The extensive literature on ethical issues confronting individual researchers & small teams (microlevel) & on the larger societal challenges flowing from research & new technology (macrolevel) leaves a troubling gap in between, at the mesolevel of the research network involved in big team science"
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Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science
Scientific research increasingly involves large, multidisciplinary teams networked across multiple institutions to develop new technologies. Despite the rise of complex research networks and big team...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
-Water used at power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be greater than the amount of water used in the data centers themselves. -" $170 billion of AI data-center capacity has been blocked, stalled or canceled since 2024" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...
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AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.
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Ulises J. Espinoza @ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“A.I. everywhere”
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Ulises J. Espinoza @ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wrote a thing a while back, happy to see it out. americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
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Family Inheritance by Ulises J. Espinoza - American Ethnological Society
This piece is part first instalment of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
you must read this to understand the complicity of the media in the genocide in gaza
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We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media
U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
yes! @dunsworth.bsky.social "You can accept the truth of evolution on one hand and also, sanely and soundly...reject...claims that what people say and do today is evidence for what their ancestors did and for how that imaginary behavior shaped our biology." ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/05/ideo...
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"Ideological Nonsense" Is What "Darwinists" Call Critical Thinking & Critical Thinkers Call the "Darwinian" Version of Evolutionary History "Ideological" Right Back
Maybe this is the image in your head when you read the title of this post? In college in the late nineties, I devoured a fantastic new book ...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My latest and last essay for @science.org expert voices: “This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion” a short 🧵 (link at end)
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#SexInSports isn’t as simple as you’ve been told. @americananthro.bsky.social In this topical essay, anthropologist Agustín Fuentes breaks down the myths behind biological “rules” in sports, revealing how politics, not science, are driving current debates. Read more l8r.it/06kf
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Sex, Biology, and Sports: Data and Context Matter by Agustín Fuentes - The American Anthropological Association
By Agustín Fuentes Despite what Trump’s Executive Orders imply, and what many in the public are being led to believe, there are no easy or universal biological “rules” about sex […]
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