Professor of Anthropology @Princeton, Author of #TheCreativeSpark, #WhyWeBelieveEvolutionandtheHumanWayofBeing, and #RaceMonogamyandOtherLiesTheyToldyou
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Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary”
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publishing May 6th! Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1
ALT image of cover of book, plus words: why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male
A life long Trek fan from the original shaping my childhood through TNG, VOY, DS9, DIS and SNW. TNG stood out as a catalyst, due to both my age at the time and the world in which it aired...and Patrick Stewart was at the heart of it. Rest in Power, and thank you. He made it so.
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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
"Today, people use science not only to define their environment but also to define themselves. That is why ecologists must choose their words carefully and interpret their findings with caution." theconversation.com/how-evol…
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La antropología a lo largo de su historia ha tenido que defender la diversidad de sus teorías y metodologías. Siempre ha vivido enfrentando asechos y limitaciones. Desede que se le criticó como brazo del colonialismo y la opresión hasta el activismo y la lucha por la emancipación
Here is my latest for @chronicle inspired by the Vanderbilt Report’s sub-report on Anthropology, authored by @JoHenrich
chronicle.com/article/how-no…
Here is my latest for @chronicle inspired by the Vanderbilt Report’s sub-report on Anthropology, authored by @JoHenrich
chronicle.com/article/how-no…
"These findings highlight the large-scale psychological consequences of the 2023 Gazan genocide and underscore the urgent need for emergency mental health interventions in Palestine." sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"Like a zombie corpse, this pseudoscientific thesis—labelled “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth” (Montagu 1950)—lurches eerily across academic and political settings, leaving discord in its wake"
The “zombie science” of biological race realism
academic.oup.com/bioscience/…
Had an amazing time @ucl.ac.uk ...great conversations, excellent colleagues and terrific students.
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Described as a "postmortem" of the food justice movement, Hanna Garth's Food Justice Undone sparked a lively discussion with Deborah A. Thomas and Maggie Dickinson as part of our New Books in Anthropology series. 📗 @PrincetonHum
Read more: bit.ly/4yVpeE2
ALT Hanna Garth standing at a lectern
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For women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blow. Thousands shared their stories for a new study of faculty attrition science.org/content/article/…
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As an Editor, in past ~6mo, we are receiving an avalanche of unsolicited review articles (“scoping” “systematic”, narrative, NOS) on topics and ?s NO ONE EVER has asked and clearly with heavy AI lift. Even the cover letters all read the same…alarming and sad. #publishing
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"The odd thing, however, about almost all of the discourses about the loneliness pandemic and the impact of the Internet on young men, including “The Grift Economy,” is that they prudishly leave out one of its most harmful offerings: online porn. Porn has become de facto sex education for the young, and a lot of it, to put it mildly, does not encourage healthy habits." thenation.com/article/societ…
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We have a new article out on careers in #Anthropology! Check out "Customer Support Analysts, UX Researchers, and Directors of Storytelling: A Systematic Analysis of Job Advertisements for Anthropologists" by Lauren Hayes and Tyler Bowers.
doi.org/10.1111/aman.70122
Join us!!! anthropology.princeton.edu/e…
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Shouldn't "the question" be how we can defend #HigherEd and #Democracy? Complicity with lawless attacks may be convenient, even profitable for individual schools & publications, but it is ruinous for the sector and the country. @aacu @aaup @TheFIREorg @ACEducation @wesleyan_u
At a time when many college presidents avoid public fights, Wesleyan’s Michael Roth is taking the opposite approach — calling out the Trump administration and peers he sees as too quiet.
The question is whether he’s building a defense of higher ed or standing mostly alone. chroni.cl/4yIr776
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“A feature of fascism is the transformation of politics into spectacle. Fascism wants to reduce active citizens into voyeurs—especially voyeurs of cruelty and death. Such degradation of a democratic public is key to fascism’s project and to its success.”
thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wan…
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You keep thinking we've hit rock bottom. And then...
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…
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everything that Anne Carson has written is risky & original in some (unpredictable) way. truly an unclassifiable imagination-- poet, translator, essayist, philosopher, observer of the vicissitudes of life; we'd met just once decades ago at Princeton where Anne Carson was an instructor in the Classics Dept. & I was--hypothetically--just a "visitor" for one year in Creative Writing.
not predictable that Anne would move on, & on, & on to numerous universities & I would remain at Princeton; now hoping that she is in Canada & not caught up in toxic US politics so antithetical to the humanism & freedom of the imagination required for the soul to breathe.
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
apnews.com/article/nobel-pri…
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So, umm, for all of you arguing that progressive leftists are ruining the social sciences (Vandy report and its sub-reports), what's your take on this? science.org/content/article/…
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Nature is far more diverse than many of us realize. Join @nathanlents, @experrinment ,Alexandra E. Kralick, and @Anthrofuentes for a discussion that explores the richness of sex across species and how we share that knowledge with the world.
bit.ly/4j7YfAa
ALT Nature is far more diverse than many of us realize. Join @nathanlents.bsky.social , @experrinment.bsky.social , Alexandra E. Kralick, and @anthrofuentes.bsky.social for a discussion that explores the richness of sex across species and how we share that knowledge with the world. https://bit.ly/4j7YfAa