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Interviews, interviews, all the interviews. Two today, one on Monday, one last Saturday. They were good but man are they tiring! #anthrosky #PhDsky

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It turns out these are Kanhi-zakura, which is why they bloomed a good few weeks before the rest of the Kawazu-zakura. It's hard to keep up with all the varieties!

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The powers that be at JR East have changed all the Yamanote Line departure melodies to the same song. I'm officially declaring a week of mourning for one of the true simple joys of being a Tokyo resident :(

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Strange day today. I had to press the emergency button at a level crossing this morning (an obaasan fell out her wheelchair). Equal parts intriguing and terrifying, thankfully everyone was fine. Also Sam Fender released a new album, which gets a big thumbs up from me. TV Dinner is a great track

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This week I've been spending time out in the cold with the plum blossoms. I also scheduled in some interviews which I'm excited about!

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Kawazu-zakura yesterday 🌸 Ebara Shrine, Shinagawa

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Viscerally experienced the seasons today, with the cold blast Japan is experiencing giving my poor hands some very chapped skin 🥶 something something embodiment

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Successful day today - discovered a nice local library (and got a library card!), went climbing, and joined a photo walk to get some cool edgy photos of Shibuya at night. Time for bed!

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I can't lie I'm really disappointed and angry that Starmer is just rolling over and acquiescing to the fascists in the US. They go against everything Labour stands for and you're happy to just sit there, offering only weak words? And just nothingness towards the rise of the far right in the UK. Ugh.

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Re: this, seems it was done to make this report by Ted Cruz's office singling out 'woke' grants. Of ~32,000 grants, ~29,000 contain at least one of these words, they had to narrow it down further using some... sus methodology Chilling #AcademicSky #PhDSky www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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Time for us all to use as many of these words as possible to gum up the censorship tree Either that or by omitting these words they delete the whole of anthropology, I guess, since we can't use the word 'sociocultural' or 'multicultural' or 'cultural differences' or 'women' or, or....

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At what point do we start a BDS campaign against the US? I'm serious.

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If you aren't motivated by hope, that's fine. Other people are, though, so don't bring them down to your level. Keep your fatalistic nihilism to yourself, because we can't afford to discourage action at a time like this.

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i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of vanity fair: thread

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I really appreciate this piece, the call to action in our own ways (not just naming what's bad) and making the left a welcoming warm space are standout points for me. Also an international perspective, finally. Thanks for writing!

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I kinda wish this platform was less American-centric. I know it must be rough being in the US right now. But struggling to see how being here is useful, as someone with zero personal ties to the US, as everything I'm getting is about the current US situation + nothing else. Any tips?

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Found this today and it made me smile. The indieweb lives! www.cameronsworld.net

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First interview of the PhD is done ✅ 🎉 Many many more to go but it was good to get started! #PhDSky

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Ironic that this is behind a paywall, but good news for those of us funded by UKRI... now raise stipends for everybody!

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Today on fieldwork: the very beginnings of the plum blossoms 🌸 reserving judgement on whether they're early because only a few select varieties were in bloom and I need to look them up. Most trees were in bud! #AnthroSky #Anthropology #AcademicSky

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Karma 💥

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1/ Some thoughts on Japan's wartime personal newsletters (個人雑誌), the Substacks of their times. One of the more clever ways leftists in Japan adapted to censorship was to publish these newsletters, which were small enough in circulation to escape outright bans Consider, eg, Ubukata Toshirō's 故人今人

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Inside me there are two wolves: - the British part of me which is screaming come on girl get outside it's sunny! the sun might not be there tomorrow! make the most of it!!! - the Kanto part of me which knows it's been sunny every day for weeks now + also feels embarrassed to be outside w/a cold 😷

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I was supposed to do the first interview of my PhD project today, but I've woken up with no voice 😅 thanks body!

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If you see this quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery 🌉

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Spring?! Already?! やばっ。。。 #AnthroSky #fieldwork

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a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

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Me at the start of this week: ah it's winter, not much seasonal stuff going on, I'll do planning + admin Me today (Thursday): running around covering winter peonies, early plum blossoms and pansies as well as organising the upcoming sakura season Fieldwork, never a dull moment!

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