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Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students.
They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.
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Take control of AI at your uni! @aaup.org now compiles guidance and tools for artificial intelligence, including working group reports, bargaining and union resources, auditing and public records request tools, and sample syllabus language. Please share widely: www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂
The AFA is thrilled to announce that we are soliciting nominations for the following awards. afa.americananthro.org/grants-and-p...
- AFA Senior Book Prize (May 4)
- Dissertation Write-Up Grant (June 1)
- Sylvia Forman Prize for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers (June 1)
#AFA #femanth
Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂
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“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”
Toni Morrison:
So you don’t know anything at all about the type of preparation (mental, logistical) that it takes in order to actually pull off long term action, do you? Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma didn’t just happen out of the blue. Getting people to the point of sustained collective action takes practice.
True values come out in times of crisis. Some organizations are leaning in, others are leaning out.
A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations succeeded in temporarily preventing federal immigration agents from operating around their places of worship across the U.S.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions. We’d love to receive your proposal! #anthrosky
Recent events have reminded me once again how ridiculous it sounds when I hear folks complaining that “Defund the police” is not a viable or realistic political message.
Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/tra...
"In California, “all” still means all. While the Trump Education Department announced that they will no longer protect all students from discrimination, California law is unaffected by recent changes to federal policy and continues to provide safeguards against discrimination and harassment based on gender, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. While federal guidance devolves, our commitment to safeguarding the rights of all students persists. To any students, families, and educators who may be fearful today: in California, schools are still a safe place to learn and play.” -State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
More of this please: CA State Superintendent saying, “Not today, Satan.”
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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There was a mailman they busted in Jersey a couple years ago. Slinging on the job 😭
I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about reports that AI tools are being used with federal data noting that this is occurring without transparency, consent, or attention to privacy and security concerns, and heightening the American public's mistrust of AI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Palestinians have a right to their land, a right to return, a right to self-determination, and a right to liberation.
Somebody had to say it. This is at the heart of why it’s so difficult for so many people to get enthusiastic about supporting the Democratic Party. They simply don’t do enough when push comes to shove to distinguish themselves from the folks they (rightly) demonize.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before she was known as an author, Toni Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers.
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When it comes to these executive orders, I need more states with Democratic governors and majorities saying, simply, “That shit is illegal. We ain’t doing that. Sue us,” and go on with business as usual.
