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anthroeric.bsky.social
Environmental Anthropologist at UMass, Amherst. I focus on rural development and coastal industries, especially fishing and aquaculture.
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#boston #handsoff #nokings

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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

And now they have come for #umass (it was only a matter of time). #academia #fascism

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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

The great reach of higher education is also a huge vulnerability. Both as an experience and an institution it’s encountered most intimately by lots of people when young adults and again as parents. And rarely in either case can they appreciate it as an industry that requires expertise to operate.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

As an academic I’ve gotta say I’m done with Columbia since they’re capitulating to fascism and selling the rest of us out. Not assigning any books from their press, not inviting any scholars from there to visit, not contributing to their publications for the indefinite future, etc.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Seven of my colleagues and friends at Columbia Law have written a compelling (and, in my view unanswerable) response to the unprecedented Title VI demand letter that the Trump administration recently sent to Columbia University: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

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academeblog.org/2025/03/08/a... “The temptation to yield a little in order to preserve a great deal is strong… yet to yield a little is, in such matters, to run the risk of sacrificing all.” - AAUP report on McCarthyism from 1956 #aaup #columbia #resist

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Like the spoiled children of the rich who squander their unappreciated legacies, a vast swath of Americans are taking for granted the hard-earned freedoms and rule of law that made us a rich and powerful nation. If we are not careful we will lose our inheritance forever.

submitted 27 days ago • 66 comments

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

#standupforscience at #UMass

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

submitted 44 days ago • 13 comments

One thought on the #Trump admin’s efforts to devastate higher ed by slashing #NIH (and #NSF) overhead: major public R1s that depend on this funding and will face massive budget shortfalls without it should simply suspend their athletics programs because they can no longer afford them…1/

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Thread!!

submitted 57 days ago • 9 comments

Rising seas are submerging tribal land along the Gulf Coast. One tribe is building protective reefs out of bags of recycled oyster shells.

submitted 67 days ago • 57 comments

Venas cerradas de América Latina. #economiapolitica

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Compared to 2017, it feels like most of the institutions we count on to protect democracy are weaker now. The courts. The media. The Democratic Party. One institution, however, is *without doubt* in a stronger position to fight fascism now than in 2017: the American labor movement. Consider...

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

Pleased to announce that my book manuscript is officially under contract with University of Texas Press. There’s still a lot of writing and revising to do but this feels like a major milestone! #anthropology #development #patagonia #aquaculture #fishingcommunities

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it.

submitted 79 days ago • 87 comments

www.nenc.news/nenc/2025-01... My students often ask what kinds of aquaculture are most environmentally sustainable. It’s complicated but a good rule is the lower the species is on the “food chain” the better it is to farm (so kelp and oysters > shrimp and salmon). #aquaculture #sustainability

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The folks at @cornellupress.bsky.social shared the cover art for my book and made my week. "Welcome to Soylandia" is coming soon. Check it out! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty exciting to be cited (and summarized!) in the Annual Review of Anthropology. And in such good company too! #anthropology #fishing #Chile #oceangovernance doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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