Jessaca Leinaweaver
@jessacabeza.bsky.social
Cultural anthropology professor at Brown - Providence, RI, USA
More info: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jleinawe
More info: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jleinawe
I donated at a blood drive at BrownU last Weds. Just got the text it has been used. Please donate blood in RI if you can: www.ribc.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I donated at a blood drive at BrownU last Weds. Just got the text it has been used. Please donate blood in RI if you can: www.ribc.org
Thank you Sen. Sheldon @whitehouse.senate.gov. "Ill-informed and unnecessary speculation” about the incident does “no good at all” to the affected families. “All the conspiracy theories, all the creepy, weird plot ideas, please, just knock it off,” he said. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Brown names victims in mass shooting
Two students were killed and nine others were hospitalized in Saturday's mass shooting.
www.browndailyherald.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Thank you Sen. Sheldon @whitehouse.senate.gov. "Ill-informed and unnecessary speculation” about the incident does “no good at all” to the affected families. “All the conspiracy theories, all the creepy, weird plot ideas, please, just knock it off,” he said. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Blood drives available in Providence - Mon, Tue, and Wed - please sign up to give if you are eligible
@ribloodcenter.bsky.social: Our hearts are with Providence today. 💔 We have been asked to supply additional blood units to hospitals in the area & donors are urgently needed. Hospitals rely on a ready supply during emergencies. If you are eligible, please make an appointment: ribc.org/donate-blood/
December 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Blood drives available in Providence - Mon, Tue, and Wed - please sign up to give if you are eligible
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
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@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
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Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer.
www.brown.edu
www.brown.edu
Brown University
www.brown.edu
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer.
www.brown.edu
www.brown.edu
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I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues:
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues:
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
Social/behavioral science research support for PhD students from NSF - now frozen ("archived") as of Nov 2025. This is grim news for research & knowledge economy. On the heels of cuts to other important federal research funding programs (e.g. Fulbright-Hays grants canceled in May 2025). 😡
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Social/behavioral science research support for PhD students from NSF - now frozen ("archived") as of Nov 2025. This is grim news for research & knowledge economy. On the heels of cuts to other important federal research funding programs (e.g. Fulbright-Hays grants canceled in May 2025). 😡
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All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!
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Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
October 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
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The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
Apt historical commentary from local vintage shop (Hope St, Providy, RI)
August 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Apt historical commentary from local vintage shop (Hope St, Providy, RI)
Minute Cryptic - 20 August, 2025
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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August 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Minute Cryptic - 20 August, 2025
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"HARdLY ReMaRKABlE!?" (3,1,3,4)
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I scored: 3 under par
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Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ALoRoWaHAiBA
Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...
docs.google.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Dear @jtkantor.bsky.social we would like to request Girls and Boys by Blur tonite 🙏🙏⚾⚾🎹🎹
August 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dear @jtkantor.bsky.social we would like to request Girls and Boys by Blur tonite 🙏🙏⚾⚾🎹🎹
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2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social
Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies
In May 2008, Louise Lamphere made a generous gift to Brown University to establish the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Gender Studies, a recurring two-year position for a junior…
anthropology.brown.edu
July 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social
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Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.
The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.
June 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.
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If you are embracing AI in your schools, this is what you are agreeing with and contributing to.
The growing environmental impact of AI data centers’ energy demands
The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial int...
www.pbs.org
May 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If you are embracing AI in your schools, this is what you are agreeing with and contributing to.
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Just let us know how to turn it off, sir
All US users will be able to activate 'AI mode' in Google search and Chrome browser that will provide a conversational, question and answer experience akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. www.ft.com/content/b9d1...
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just let us know how to turn it off, sir
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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
I just switched over to DuckDuckGo last week too. You can tell it to NEVER give you stupid AI summaries and then it doesn't! Reduces stupidity and also saves water (actual ducks approve) 🦆
May 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I just switched over to DuckDuckGo last week too. You can tell it to NEVER give you stupid AI summaries and then it doesn't! Reduces stupidity and also saves water (actual ducks approve) 🦆
My colleague David Kertzer (who knows about popes) quoted in the @nytimes.com: Leo XIII (head of the church from 1878 to 1903) "'called on the church to reach out to the working class [and] to work out an amicable relationship between capital and labor'" @brownanthro.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My colleague David Kertzer (who knows about popes) quoted in the @nytimes.com: Leo XIII (head of the church from 1878 to 1903) "'called on the church to reach out to the working class [and] to work out an amicable relationship between capital and labor'" @brownanthro.bsky.social
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...