How do #rituals change when we can no longer gather and express ourselves? Join a George Washington University study if you are 18+ and interested in participating. #SocialDistancing #funerals ritualsinthemaking.com

1/ Hi. I’m a cultural anthropologist. Can we talk about the “culture” part of #CancelCulture?

It's remarkable how much Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets right here that is not reflected in *most* news literacy initiatives. 1) Thinking about bias only in partisan terms is simplistic at best, misleading and counterproductive at worst.

Attended the National COVID-19 Rememberance Event. This was an incredibly powerful and thoughtful event that honored frontline and essential workers as well as the 200,000 that have died during the pandemic. #WeRemember #RitualsInTheMaking ⁦GW University⁩

I'll be doing a roundtable Nov. 11th at 6:15p ET on Anthropological Approaches to #FakeNews. Other on the panel include: Tamaar Shirinian, @adamwhodges Dr. Jan van de Beek Soumitra Thorat Susannah Crockford and James Slotta.

Happy Foucault Day! Especially to the one person who introduced me to him Jonah S. Rubin (@jsrubin.bsky.social)

"New Mourning: How #COVID19 Is Altering the Way We Grieve" GW on transformed end-of-life rituals, grief, and the Rituals in the Making project Roy Grinker sewagner Tariq Adely | طارق عديلي gwtoday.gwu.edu/new-mourning-h…

The Bridges of Könisberg problem is recognized as the origin of graph theory. Euler questioned if it was possible to cross each of 7 bridges in Könisberg exactly once. Our students were intrigued by a similar question related to a campus landmark Ohio State , the Oval.

The lack of collective mourning during the pandemic will continue to be a public health crisis even after the pandemic is "over"

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at just be. to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

Correlation is *not* causation

1/998001 has all 3-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order, except for 998

The embedded nature of influencer marketing lowers children’s ability to recognize it as ‘advertising.’ Influencers’ sponsored posts and videos appear between non-sponsored content, exposing children simultaneously to editorial and commercial messages. blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2022/…

Every qualitative researcher looking through transcripts: Damn, I should have asked a followup question.

Why is this not trending? Climate scientists are calling these sort of temperatures at both poles unthinkable and yet here we are washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0…

These land surface temperatures are terrifying

There are certain verbs in English which are intransitive except for when the object is derived from the verb itself ("cognate objects") For example, "sleep" 🙂 I slept the sleep of the just 🤯 I slept a nap