That email was about 584 words and "sorry" wasn't one of them.

Do we need another form of capital? Probably not. Am I pushing one anyway? Yes, absolutely.

I had to do so much chanting for this… so please read the first article to come out of my ethnography on American shamans (those who appropriate Indigenous healing).

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Pursuing medical intervention to feel comfortable in your body is apparently fine if it's about being Skinny And Mean but not if it's cause your dysphoric and suicidal 🤷‍♀️

"Dodgy fixers make money coaching people to exploit broken systems" really isn't the amazing 'gotcha' moment that the BBC thinks it is. The same phenomenon exists in various areas of law, bureaucracy, and finance.

Of all these topics they choose to focus on asylum? Xenophobic trash.

Image shows four small plastic boxes of fresh morel mushrooms for sale in a market. The morel mushrooms are brown with a web-like texture. They are priced at €10/box. The boxes of mushrooms are on a red tablecloth.

Got a conditional acceptance on the second paper from my dissertation. It's about US citizens experiencing public healthcare abroad & elite migration. Looking forward to sharing when it's out. Celebrating with some morels from the market.

Good luck!!

photo of Valais Blacknose lambs in a grassy field.

Just sent out my first post-phd job application. Went down to see & feed the beautiful lambs.

I *wish* US sociologists would clarify in their papers that they are talking about the USA, and what that means as a limitation.

For all the endless discussion of "generalisability", I wish we'd talk about whether it's appropriate to generalise so broadly about social life from the American case.

Barncat enjoying spring in the garden.

I think you're missing the point. Senior academics routinely steal ideas and work from junior colleagues and advisees. This theft undermines the advancement of junior scholars and gives already-established academics a career boost. I've experienced this, as have many of my friends. It's rife.

I avoid citing Hochschild because she lifted work from her then-graduate student Rhacel Parreñas when she wrote about "care chains". Classic academia that someone making "one of the most important" contributions to updating Marx still partakes in the exploitation that runs deep in our discipline.

Mary Romero, President of the ASA for its 110th session in 2019, when her theme was “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World” has announced she is boycotting this year's meeting in reaction to ASA leadership's decision.

With her permission we share the full text of her letter here.

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Why contribute our time, energy, and $$$ to an organisation that shows us contempt and disregard? I have no idea what "mission" ASA could have that might supercede listening to its members' (democratically voiced) concern for opposing genocide. Cancelling my membership, as are several of my friends.

This topic sounds *incredible*, I have never been more invested in the outcome of someone else's grant - good luck!

Hannah Spencer: "Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together. [...] We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all."

We love to see a progressive working class Mancunian woman absolutely thrash a hate-mongering grifter. Solidarity forever.

Framing increased rates of autism as a risk in the context of environmental hazards is wildly offensive. This article is a strong example of why reporting on the social/health consequences of climate change needs to be sensitive, reflexive, and informed rather than sensationalist/reactionary bs.

re: Bad Bunny Grammy win. I had "LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAiI" and "Una Velita" on the syllabus for the course I taught last summer. Perfect songs for talking about how interconnected ecology, social life, and health are - and how they're all affected by coloniality (in PR & Hawai'i).

This looks fantastic, looking forward to reading it!

It's been a long time coming. After several years of revisions, my book Emotional Filipinos is coming out on April 15th. Please share and retweet! It would really mean a lot to me. Preorder sales available here: ugapress.org/978082037545...

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Depending on how the post-PhD job hunt goes, I might well see if we can convert the barn into a live music bar - we've got a real shortage of venues in rural Wales. I'll invite the black metal band 'Agriculture' to play the opening night!

(corrigendum - the kitten lives in a /barn/ not a bar.)

Photograph of a black kitten on a white blanket under the red light of a heat lamp.

If you've written a book proposal for an academic press in #sociology or #anthropology, I'd really appreciate reading it. I'm (tentatively) thinking of projects and how to phrase them. Thank you!

(to grab your attention as you scroll, here's a pic of the feral kitten that lives in my parents' bar)

Submitted my dissertation to the university repository as 210 x 297mm (A4) page size rather than the specified 215.9 x 279.4mm (Letter) as a final act of rebellion.

There's a handful of us who 'patrol' for stuff like this, occasionally there'll be an investigation into suspicious accounts or patterns of editing. Often, it's obvious because of the material injected into articles. I find 'entrepreneurs', creative artists, and academics doing it quite commonly.

Wiki is full of (vain) people who either edit articles about themselves (to add positive + remove negative material) or hire others to do it. When editors notice it, we flag articles with a conflict of interest notice, a tag for being promotional, or (with strong enough suspicion) a tag like this.

Image shows a stack of books. The books are the following list. The Arcana of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati; One-way Street by Walter Benjamin; An Anthology by Simone Weil; The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin; Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant; Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag; Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber; Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault; A Grammar of Multitudes by Paolo Virno.

Just got home to this exciting little stack of books I ordered from @argonautbooks.bsky.social (using up what was left of my research funds 😎). I haven't lived in Edinburgh for a while now, but the magic of the internet means you can still support your "local" independent stores at a distance!

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Every time I read a study and I wonder "why don't they mention the country/context of this research? So confusing!" I then realize it's because the authors are from the U.S.