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Please share/retweet! I am recruiting a PhD student! Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Disaster Anthropology and Climate Ethnography at the University of Kentucky Deadline: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 for Fall 2024 Admissions #disasters #climatechange Details: bit.ly/3RqFUPU

if you grad student send an email to someone you hardly know to ask for a favor, you better have that person's name right, not just spelling, but getting the whole damn name right! also, its time to learn how to write emails professionally. #gradschool #AcademicTwitter

Our 17 yo washing machine is dying, so we had to go buy a new one but man I don’t think ive cussed this much in a while coz of so many *extra* pieces we were forced to pay for, including an electrical cord to actually run the damn machine. Like WTAF

On this day in 1917, white mobs in East St. Louis, IL, attacked Black residents and destroyed their homes. Up to 200 Black men, women, and children were shot, beaten to death, or burned alive. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Racism Kills. This JAMA study in Black women shows an association between racism and connectivity in brain pathways 🧠involved with rumination leading to increased vulnerability in developing stress-related disorders & neurodegenerative diseases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

On this day in 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in St. Paul, Minnesota. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Very much love this! The WNBA doubled revenue from 2019 to 2023 (from $100 million to $200 million). This was before Clark and Reese arrived. Yes, those players have helped. But they did not create the league. And the league was growing before they arrived.

He too real for this

those obnoxious usa usa chants are one of the reasons folks outside the us make fun of americans but yea

Gunn's performance was a modern-day minstrel show, where cultural appropriation masqueraded as athleticism, and the world was invited to laugh at the crude distortion of a cultural expression once demonized because it originated with Black urban youth. newsone.com/5474349/olympi…

Kentucky, we are aware of a shooting on I-75 in Laurel County. Law enforcement has shut the interstate down in both directions at exit 49. Please avoid the area. We will provide more details once they are available.

Just fyi: when there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking.

Got this survey email from American Anthro Association with questions about anthropology journals. But hey am I crazy that I can’t find ABA’ journal, Transforming Anthropology, anywhere in the survey??? Am I missing something? What’s going on? #anthrotwitter

DEI only existed because white people were racist. They had the opportunity to hire based on merit, and they hired their unqualified white friends every time. DEI isn’t racism. It’s a solution to historical racism.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

The hypocrisy of so many academic organizations and universities that have remained silent when academic freedom and the right to assemble was violently repressed in the past two years yet they’re suddenly concerned about academic freedom because Trump is taking away funding.

Really important, highly timely piece from Gregg Gonsalves “My message to everyone who thinks they can just hide away right now is simple: People are going to die. Imminently. We don’t have time to waste playing games.”