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That’s this letter in the London Review of Books in 2013. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

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My co-author Pavel Kuchar is hiring a post-doc on the public understanding of the economy. Deadline March 23. Please share widely. www.euraxess.cz/jobs/hosting...

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CSSGJ is hosting Professor Farhana Sultana on the 24th of February at 6 p.m. (UK time). Her title is Confronting Climate Coloniality. @abieler.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @oliverdodd.bsky.social Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confrontin...

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Interested in the #anthropology of #economics? Check out our latest entries on #finance #commodity and #supplychains #energy, #work/#labour #debt and #resilience. www.anthroencyclopedia.com/article-brow...

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The value of #NaturalHistoryCollections lies in the provenance data, which can reveal the hundreds of thousands of hidden hands behind the prominent few who are attributed as the 'collectors'. This paper provides data that can be applied across so many different disciplines #CollectionsMatter 🌏🧪

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We've now launched the 2025 round of funding to support the study of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social archive, library and museum collections. I'm grateful to the Friends of @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for their support, which makes this possible. Applications welcome! www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/...

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Part-time qualitative postdoctoral research fellow sought for Race & Class in UK Religious Studies & Theology Project. Grade 6 scale (£37,999–45,163) per annum pro rata negotiable; an average of 3.5 hours per week). Based at University of Aberdeen. 10 March deadline. www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/discipl...

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"... we’re all products of such housework somehow. It’s just that some choose to see that, while others feel more comfortable if it’s blurred out." @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social interviews Emily Callaci www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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please listen to the latest edition of Thinking Allowed, if you have any interest in the 🌍 contamination of democracy, as exerted and managed by the ultra wealthy. featuring Brooke Harrington. the Professor of Economic Sociology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. 📄💡 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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NEXT SSAHE WEBINAR: Migrant labour, exploitation, and the hostile environment, Mon Feb 17 5:00 PM GMT Speakers: Panos Theodoropoulos, International Workers of the World Kate Roberts, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) Hannah Lewis, Sheffield www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migrant-la...

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"... people are slowly becoming tools, machines in sync, bodies in motion, but rarely minds." @jamescuffe.bsky.social & @fionamur.bsky.social in @allegralab.bsky.social on the emergence of the 'fungible subject' under the drive for automation allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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The Anti-Politics Machine, which I read in a political anthro class as an undergraduate, blew my mind, and taught me more than any comparative politics class. RIP.

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An exciting (and timely!) job for someone - Senior Researcher in Arctic Cultures and Cultural Heritage at the National Museum of Denmark. Deadline is 17th February: www.researchgate.net/job/1018407_...

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Includes this banger

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Incisive points on UK Higher Education: "While commercial models may empower students as customers, it is far from clear that they empower them as students, scholars or scientists – or as future innovators, employees or employers. Indeed, quite the opposite seems to be the case."

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Hard-hitting and reflective piece. It would be a public service to higher education in the UK and internationally if @timeshighered.bsky.social made it free to read, even if only for 24 hours. Kudos to the authors: Anonymous, Martin Mills (Aberdeen), Nick Megoran (Newcastle) & Les Back (Glasgow).

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Hot off the press: New #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of #finance by Prof. Daromir Rudnyckyj www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/finance #anthrotwitter @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social

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Great reading list from @feministonmarx.bsky.social and @asiyaislam.bsky.social

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Would have been Jack Lemmon’s hundredth birthday today. Not just one of the great actors, but also possessor of the best gravestone in existence.

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"...and to take us up to the hour, here's Warsaw Water Quality with the title track off their new record, 'Eight Clams With Magnets'."

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Welcome to the AWR BlueSky account! This is a journal for people who love work, hate work, have a complicated relationship with work, or seek to understand work from an anthropological perspective.

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‘In the decades since his death Polanyi’s work seems to have been of greater interest to anthropologists than to historians (mainstream economists appear never to have shown much interest).’ Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Fascinating funded PhD opportunity at Aberdeen University on "radical place making", looking at histories of community activism, campaigning, and workplace organising. I'm not involved in the project at all, just sharing because it sounds amazing!

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Rest in Power Michael Burawoy you will live on in your words burawoy.berkeley.edu

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Sad news that the pioneering sociologist of work (and much more) Michael Burawoy has died. He began his career working as a researcher for Anglo American on the Zambian Copperbelt.

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Michael Burawoy, consummate sociologist, influential thinker, theorist, exemplary scholar, professor & fierce advocate of students, principled activist, former ASA president, a shockingly cruel tragedy has taken you too soon.😔 Your legacy is long and deep. May you rest in peace and power. 🙏🏾🕊️

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Yesterday was E.P. Thompson's birthday, I was lucky to have James Brow recommend his work to me when I was in graduate school.

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i wish this was a joke!!!!!

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⚠️ Alert for Lewis Grassic Gibbon fans. BBC4 is rerunning two programmes on Wednesday (5 Feb.). First, at 9 pm, The Land of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a film from 1971. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social econanthro.org/meet/

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‘The past fifteen months of war offered Silicon Valley an unparalleled opportunity to refine its products. It happened just in time for a new era of militarised AI.’ @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social on the entanglement of big tech and the IDF, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

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We have a fully funded PhD at the Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, on coastal promontory forts - creating a catalogue and archive of this important site type and assessing the past and future impact of climate change www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Our Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Spread the word! Hear about resources, research, and events towards anti-racist, decolonial approaches to work and labor, broadly. #anthrowork #aaa2024

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👀 Interesting 4-year fully funded PhD @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social: 'Radical place-making: folk counter-geographies and cultural representations of opposition to power in Aberdeen, Scotland.' www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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they might fix grave errors like these, esp those that go viral & catch google’s attention. however, because these systems are non-deterministic, meaning that they can generate different outputs from same input, errors like these are a feature & not a but, meaning llms are inherently unreliable

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Are you familiar with this classic? 'Culture and History in the Pacific' (1990), edited by Siikala, was republished in #openaccess in 2021. A new introductory essay places the book in the context of #indigenous scholarship and the current study of the #Pacific. Read the book: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...

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My recollection of Nan Shepherd is rather faint but I wrote about the quiet late life (and literary afterlife) of my mother’s friend and teacher, prompted by the new correspondence edited by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

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"According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 'traumatic injury deaths' in #Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024." edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/m...

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Quick someone tell university admins

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Call for Papers: Princeton University Anthropology will be hosting the “Instruments of Obligation” conference in April 2025! Abstract submissions due January 12, 2025. Open to all graduate students in all disciplines! For more information, please visit: obligations.anthropology.princeton.edu

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NEW: Thirteen libraries slated for closure in 2025 cost Aberdeenshire Council just £270,000 last year – or 0.03% of a £700m budget. My investigation below. www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...

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I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n

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Carrie Lane edits a lovely column on @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social called Jobs We Had on all the unexpected jobs anthropologists had before they were full time anthropologists. Here’s the latest, Sebastian Jackson on being a white water river guide: saw.americananthro.org/pub/7zrro0at...

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The climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses and damages. Help us understand how they affect contemporary societies & political economies. Join @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social & me at: - SASE Mini Conference - Paper Workshop @mpifg.bsky.social - Special issue at Socio-Economic Review

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