Call your reps! The administration has just released their proposed FY27 NSF budget calling for *closing* the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate and funding NSF as a whole at less than half of this year's amount ($4 billion). #WithoutScience #WithoutNSF #WithoutNSFsbe

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Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts The possibility of AI automating healthcare work has provoked intense debates, but despite the pace of innovation, here’s why it’s not there yet.

Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts
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There Is No Place for Us: A Conversation with Brian Goldstone

If you're near Winston-Salem tomorrow night, I'll be talking about There Is No Place for Us at Wake Forest at 6pm. It's the inaugural event of the Department of Anthropology's "How to Be Human" lecture series. I'd love to see you there.

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Q and A: Advancing Public Anthropology with Wenner-Gren’s Global Initiatives Grant Program Join us for a discussion of how this award will build on the legacy of the Foundation’s investments in public-facing scholarship.

If you didn't get a chance to attend WG's webinar about our Global Initiatives Grant program you can check out the video archive now! wennergren.org/workshop/q-a...

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections.

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States
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SAPIENS - Anthropology Magazine SAPIENS is an editorially independent digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists.

Hi @dannyalexander.bsky.social Yes we post them within two weeks on sapiens.org. I'll share out those links. Here's the one for Agustin: www.sapiens.org/biology/five-questions-for-agustin-fuentes/.

Important News about SAPIENS

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To all our contributors and supporters, please know how grateful I am to you for being part of this journey.

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and is seeing an unparalleled pressure for its resources for grants, fellowships, and programs. I am so proud of what SAPIENS accomplished, which has far exceeded what Leslie Aiello and I first dreamed of, when we began this endeavor in 2014.

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With a heavy heart, I write to share that SAPIENS is halting the publication of new content by the end of this year. The magazine is a program of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which recently lost its publication partner for SAPIENS, ...

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Thanks @bjking.bsky.social !! It was a great discussion w/ @chipcolwell.bsky.social and terrific questions from the audience

These are going to be absolutely amazing conversations. Hope to see you there!!

10 books by Maryland authors you will want to read this summer On the list you’ll find the newest novel by National Book Award-winner Susan Choi, an exploration of the causes of America’s social and political divide by Johns Hopkins University anth…

Exciting to see SOMETHING BETWEEN US on this list of "novels, memoirs and nonfiction titles so enticing you won’t want to move from your favorite beach towel or deck chair until fall," in the company of new books by some terrific writers here in Maryland.
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A colleague recently told me: "Weirdly, becoming a YouTuber is less precarious than being a professor right now." So, maybe you're onto something?!

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The peaks

Cronk Sumark, “Primrose Hill” in English, is a Celtic Iron Age and Medieval hillfort on the northern part of Isle of Man. This twin-peaked summit, a mere 76 metres above sea level, has archaeological evidence of houses, storage facilities, and communal spaces. #HillfortWednesday

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#museums #repatriation #history #archaeology #justice #HumanRights

Is this the future we imagined?

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Prison life carved in stone. A profoundly disturbing metaphor, and a commentary on our systems of compliance.

Why Lit Hub is no longer on Twitter “Why I’m leaving Twitter” is, at this point, an irritating genre of post. Nonetheless, it’s important to go on record in the face of Elon Musk’s vacuous amorality and its concomitant amplification …

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Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature

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