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Dorothy Hodgson
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Retired dean, anthropology professor and author. Avid birder, photographer, reader, traveler, and citizen of the world.

Environmental science 32%
Political science 28%

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“My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze…
A Soldier's Letter from the Portland War Front
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Congratulations!

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There are gatherings all over the country on May 1 to say no to billionaires who are killing jobs and ignoring our constitution. Even as a School Board member, I swore to uphold the U. S. Constitution. US Senator Thom Tillis did too. Why isn’t he standing up for his oath?
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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The National Humanities Alliance is preparing a lawsuit. Please report your grant details here:

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Notify NHA about grant terminations!
We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...
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I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star.

Putin’s Poodle
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com

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You’d think that the agency’s name—“National Nuclear Security Administration”—might have led someone to at least ask, “Hey, what do these guys do?”
“Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” 🫣 www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

Oh no! I had the pleasure of taking a class with him at U Mich (even though he was only slightly older than me)… such a brilliant scholar and humble man. Do you have more details?

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This Wednesday….12 noon
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.

Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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PSA: you do not have to watch the news tomorrow. You do not have to keep track of everything day 1. This is a marathon not a sprint. Take care of yourself and spend time with friends and family. I'll be out on the slopes wfh my partner enjoying nature. They can't take our joy, I won't let them.

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We made a list and we hope you check it twice - and make sure to send it to everyone you know in NC thegriffinlist.com
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...
thegriffinlist.com

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New NEH/AHRC partnership "to encourage more international collaboration in humanities research between US and UK scholars focused on examining the societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and ensuring such technologies are deployed and used safely and responsibly" bit.ly/3Wilwmw
Partnership Opportunity Notification
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The hearing on UNC's plan to burn paper & plastic pellets at the power plant has been moved to Chapel Hill Town Hall.
Thanks to all the petition-signers, organizers & electeds who advocated for the move. Special tip of the hat to Sen. Meyer.
LFG!
triangleblogblog.com/2024/12/17/g...
Great news! The hearing on UNC request to burn PFAS-filled pellets on campus will now be in Chapel Hill.
Great news — the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ) has moved the upcoming public hearing for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) to...
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👇CFP for the SCA Biennial UNconference, Restorative Relations

Here’s the starting point: does the thought of attending another academic conference elicit fatigue and burnout instead of excitement and possibility? Can it be different?

This is gonna be GOOD!

@culanth.bsky.social #anthrosky
Call for Contributions: Restorative Relations, the 2025 SCA Biennial
Restorative Relations: An Unconference The 2025 SCA Biennial May 8-11, 2025 Stony Point Center; Stony Point, New York Submissions due by Friday, ...
culanth.org

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Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Whatever I am: Whose cup is this? Is this mine, or should I wash it? How long has it been here? I'm going to take a nap, maybe I'll wake up to an answer
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Librarian: The cup here to provide emotional support. We have all the resources and programs that you need to get started.
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Writer: …did I have a plan for this cup? Was it supposed to link to some other part of the plot? Crap. I really don’t want to go through and take every mention of the cup out. Maybe I can kill someone with it.

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Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join the SCA team for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ our friends at Visual Anth, APLA, and American Ethnologist,
The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.

My lovely home town!
Carrboro, North Carolina
Population: 21,190
Photos from Google Places API
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrboro,_North_Carolina

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If I can add, FIRE's pressure campaign to get universities to adopt "institutional neutrality" is actually a violation of the very principles of institutional neutrality they claim to promote. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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Please let us know of good candidates, and feel free to ask me any questions you might have!
Open call for new editorial leadership of Cultural Anthropology
We invite applications for the next editor or editors of Cultural Anthropology, the peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of the Society for...
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The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.

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Who made this? Ahahaha

Happy Friday!