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André S. Bailão
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Postdoc in history of science at Fiocruz, Brazil researching the history of climate science of Amazonia #history #anthropology #envhist #envhum #sts #anthropocene #climate

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André S. Bailão @bailao.bsky.social · Nov 29
We have launched the English version of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil.
We have translated 15 entries covering Brazilian topics, such as Amerindian perspectivism, Afro-Brazilian feminists and Indigenous authors. Please share it!

ea.fflch.usp.br/en
Front page of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil. The texts says: The intention from the outset was for this encyclopaedia of anthropology to be used as a work tool. Initially resulting from a partnership between students and professors of the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, it was born in the classroom, fed by the exchanges and debates that took place on the regular graduate courses. The project expanded, overflowing its original spaces, although remaining faithful to the spirit that first guided it – a spirit marked by experimentation and mutual learning, which, day by day, defined the profile and content of the work. Reflecting the way it has grown and evolved, the name attributed to the project (‘Encyclopaedia’) should not give the illusion of totality or completeness. On the contrary, it is a work in continual formation whose developments and additions will be defined by the research and the combined reflections of staff and students. While it diverges from the idea of a totality that usually informs the encyclopaedic project, it retains the dimension of a collective collaboration, hence the decision to maintain the name. Front page of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil. The text says: The Enciclopédia de Antropologia contains individually authored and alphabetically organized entries covering biographies of authors and activists, publications (books, essays, edited volumes), concepts and debates, intellectual currents, subfields, and institutions. Deliberately synthetic and presented in an accessible language, the entries are designed to guide those interested in learning more about concepts, works, and authors central to anthropological reflection. A work and training tool for those who produced the texts, the EA is also intended as a research and learning tool for the reader, who, in addition to being able to browse through the published texts, will also have access to a bibliography, allowing them to explore new paths if they so wish. Of our more than 100 entries in Portuguese, those specifically related to Brazil, such as Brazilian authors, institutions, and issues were translated into English. They are accompanied by editor's notes containing additional explanations and contextual information, written for our international readers. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge produced in academia. Readers are therefore more than welcome to circulate the published texts as long as they are fully cited with the title of the entry, the name of the author(s), the website address, and the date when the entry was consulted. We offer examples of how to cite each entry at the end of them. Alphabetical index of the encyclopedia, with two entries: Amerindian perspectivism, Sandra Benites
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A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.
Brazil's Supreme Court forms a majority to convict ex-President Bolsonaro of a coup
A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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great day!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Call for Papers – Special Issue “Climate Crises and Social Consequences: Theory, History, Historiography” in the Brazilian open-access journal Tempo e Argumento. Articles in Port, English or Spanish in the field of History of the Present

Dec. 15 2025 #envhist

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Original call in Portuguese: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/dossie2026-1 [English] Call for Papers – Special Issue “Climate Crises and Social Consequences: Theory, History, Historiography” We invite submissions for the special issue “Climate Crises and Social Consequences: Theory, History, Historiography” in the Brazilian journal Tempo e Argumento, until December 15, 2025. Tempo e Argumento publishes articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. It is devoted to the field of History of the Present. Submission guidelines in English (click on the flag on the sidebar to change the language): https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/about/submissions Organizers: Claiton Marcio da Silva (UFFS) claiton@uffs.edu.br William San Martín (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) wsanmartin@wpi.edu André Secchieri Bailão (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz) asbailao@gmail.com Controversies over responsibility for, and the consequences of, climate change have placed climate at the center of public debate, stimulating studies on characterization, impacts, adaptation, and mitigation. In the face of planetary transformations, scholars in the humanities have increasingly sought to bring atmospheric phenomena from the margins to the center of their analyses, aiming to understand the complex interdependencies between planet, life, and climate across multiple scales. Climate and its changes are experienced, lived, and conceptualized in diverse ways across different times and places—calling for context-specific historical analysis and research. This special issue seeks contributions that explore the intersections between climate crises and their social consequences asking what potential lies in discussions shaped by different fields of history and the humanities. We welcome articles that address historical changes in perceptions—scientific, philosophical, humanistic, cultural, and media-related—about climate, its variability, and transformations, in both the past and present. These include contested sets of narratives and experiences that have underpinned explanations about the world, nonhuman beings and phenomena, peoples, and history across different groups, informing colonial, national, and international policies as well as the formation of research networks. We also welcome articles that investigate how climatic events relate to social change, political and economic structures, vulnerabilities and resilience; how such events produce and impact conflicts, epidemics, and other crises; how different groups construct narratives and memories of these events and engage in the public sphere; and the conflicts between different ways of knowing and living—including non-Western ones—in relation to climate change. If you have any questions regarding the submission process or related to the scope of the special issue, please contact us.
August 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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a sidewalk crack opened up by this tree and colonized by emilias (Emilia sp.) #urbannature
a pavement crack at Paulista avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, opened up by a tree root, with tiny flowers growing beneath the raised sidewalk slab.
August 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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yesterday at the 'history and the crossroads of the climate crisis' roundtable at #solcha2025 the society for latin-american and caribbean environmental history conference

Adriana Sandoval Moreno, from Mexico, Juan Facundo Rojas, from Argentina, Katherinne Mora Pacheco, from Colombia, and me!
July 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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[Portuguese only]

Publicamos o dossiê temático de história das ciências "A Amazônia e o Antropoceno" no Boletim CTS em Foco, publicação da ESOCITE. Com 8 artigos de pesquisadores da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz.

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February 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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ea-antropo.bsky.social
We are an online encyclopedia of Anthropology, at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. We have over 100 entries in Portuguese on authors, publications, concepts, institutions, anthropological fields and currents. The English version was launched in 2024 with 15 entries: ea.fflch.usp.br/en #anthrosky
| Enciclopédia de Antropologia
ea.fflch.usp.br
January 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Enciclopédia de Antropologia (EA), the online encyclopedia of Anthropology from Brazil, is now on bluesky:

@ea-antropo

#anthrosky #anthropology #antropologia

bsky.app/profile/ea-a...
bsky.app
January 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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“If one function of climate science is to address a global climate crisis, then the form of researching and making climate archives—how, where, and with whom—must also change”

A 🔥 collaborative #envhist essay by @roguechieftan.bsky.social & Lina Pérez-Angelis

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 8, 2024 at 6:51 PM
bailao.bsky.social
We have launched the English version of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil.
We have translated 15 entries covering Brazilian topics, such as Amerindian perspectivism, Afro-Brazilian feminists and Indigenous authors. Please share it!

ea.fflch.usp.br/en
Front page of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil. The texts says: The intention from the outset was for this encyclopaedia of anthropology to be used as a work tool. Initially resulting from a partnership between students and professors of the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, it was born in the classroom, fed by the exchanges and debates that took place on the regular graduate courses. The project expanded, overflowing its original spaces, although remaining faithful to the spirit that first guided it – a spirit marked by experimentation and mutual learning, which, day by day, defined the profile and content of the work. Reflecting the way it has grown and evolved, the name attributed to the project (‘Encyclopaedia’) should not give the illusion of totality or completeness. On the contrary, it is a work in continual formation whose developments and additions will be defined by the research and the combined reflections of staff and students. While it diverges from the idea of a totality that usually informs the encyclopaedic project, it retains the dimension of a collective collaboration, hence the decision to maintain the name. Front page of Enciclopédia de Antropologia, an online encyclopedia of anthropology from Brazil. The text says: The Enciclopédia de Antropologia contains individually authored and alphabetically organized entries covering biographies of authors and activists, publications (books, essays, edited volumes), concepts and debates, intellectual currents, subfields, and institutions. Deliberately synthetic and presented in an accessible language, the entries are designed to guide those interested in learning more about concepts, works, and authors central to anthropological reflection. A work and training tool for those who produced the texts, the EA is also intended as a research and learning tool for the reader, who, in addition to being able to browse through the published texts, will also have access to a bibliography, allowing them to explore new paths if they so wish. Of our more than 100 entries in Portuguese, those specifically related to Brazil, such as Brazilian authors, institutions, and issues were translated into English. They are accompanied by editor's notes containing additional explanations and contextual information, written for our international readers. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge produced in academia. Readers are therefore more than welcome to circulate the published texts as long as they are fully cited with the title of the entry, the name of the author(s), the website address, and the date when the entry was consulted. We offer examples of how to cite each entry at the end of them. Alphabetical index of the encyclopedia, with two entries: Amerindian perspectivism, Sandra Benites
November 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Biden praticou “greenwashing” na Amazônia. Deixou para vir ao Brasil depois de uma derrota eleitoral acachapante, em final de mandato, enfraquecido politicamente, p/anunciar uma doação ridícula pro Fundo Amazônia (que ainda dependerá do sinal verde do Congresso americano). Good retirement, pal!
November 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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all the fruit flies in my kitchen are gone thanks to this queen
a tiny jumping spider, black with white stripes, just chilling beneath my kitchen window
November 10, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
history is so back
Financial Times tweets: "The Re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama (author of "The End of History and the Last Man")"
November 9, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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jetjocko.bsky.social
“Doomscrolling” is so limited. Today I have also doomedited, doomresearched my next story, and I’m about to doomeat a frozen doomburrito. You gotta be open to new doomexperiences.
November 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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a flamboyant (Delonix regia) in full bloom in Brazil ♡
November 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.

But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
October 26, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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indicar o alexandre de moraes ao nobel da paz por ter livrado a gente do vício no twitter
October 23, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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sadderlizards.bsky.social
sorry it took me so long to reply to you, i evaporated and had to get through the entire water cycle again
October 22, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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I think the global south needs to send election observers and peacekeepers to the US.
October 20, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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revendo Gladiador depois de 20 anos
October 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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tdbem.bsky.social
simplesmente não dá pra sanção a esse tipo de crime ser apenas multa - e multa baixa, 5 mil reais por hectare destruído é pouco, os prejuízos são muito maiores do que isso.
alguém furta comida no mercado, fica preso até o stf soltar - quando solta.
October 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM
bailao.bsky.social
sonhei que eu tava num evento acadêmico fazendo uma apresentação super séria sobre a sailor moon
October 18, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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We’ve just published ‘Plant Perspectives’ 1.2, being a special issue on ‘Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature’ guest-edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lu: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plants #envhum @plantpjournal #openaccess
October 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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courtneymilan.com
One of the things that fucks me up about the whole “parental rights” discussion when talking about LGB and especially T children is that the specific parental right they want is the right to abuse their children.
October 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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to com PTSD vendo essas notícias que vai ter vendaval de novo na sexta
October 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM