Katie Ulrich
@katieulrich.bsky.social
anthropologist. renewable substitution, green capitalism, sugarcane, biotech, STS, Brazil. harvard academy postdoc.
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Katie Ulrich
@katieulrich.bsky.social
· Nov 15
The Substitute and the Excuse
| Cultural Anthropology
journal.culanth.org
My article “The Substitute and the Excuse” is out in Cultural Anthropology! I analyze the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, biofuels industry growth, and economic growth amid the crop’s history of colonial expansion and environmental destruction. #sts
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journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.
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Today's post is about sharing ethnographic data in forms other than articles or books: an open online repository called the Sugar Library shares artefacts from @katieulrich.bsky.social's fieldwork on sugarcane-based bioproducts in Brazil.
Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...
Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...
The Sugar Library | Platypus
The making of the online sugar library has unfolded amid growing discussions around Open Science, increasing concerns about AI training on stolen materials accessed online, and in the context of anthr...
blog.castac.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Today's post is about sharing ethnographic data in forms other than articles or books: an open online repository called the Sugar Library shares artefacts from @katieulrich.bsky.social's fieldwork on sugarcane-based bioproducts in Brazil.
Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...
Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...
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This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories.
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
Congratulations to all the authors of "Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair," published yesterday, open access!
Our chapter is a choose-your-own-adventure through lab training at CLEAR.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Our chapter is a choose-your-own-adventure through lab training at CLEAR.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Contamination Chores
CC BY-NC-NDThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and support from MIT Press Direct to Open
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April 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories.
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;)
Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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just gonna keep posting this cuz it's ROLLING STONE covering our new song y'all come on!
Evan Greer, Ryan Cassata Urge World to 'Protect Trans Kids' on Trans Visibility Day
Evan Greer and Ryan Cassata linked up to release 'Protect Trans Kids' on Monday to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
just gonna keep posting this cuz it's ROLLING STONE covering our new song y'all come on!
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This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!
The latest round of PUP’s Book Proposal Grant applications are open until April 6, 2025. During this time, we invite applications from scholars across the #Humanities and #SocialSciences, from underrepresented communities, institutions, and regions of the world.
April 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!
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Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
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🚨 Attention grad students!
The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.
Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...
#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife
The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.
Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...
#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife
David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC
castac.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨 Attention grad students!
The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.
Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...
#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife
The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025.
Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award...
#Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife
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Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out!
Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!
Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!
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Alt: a gif of a white and orangey-brown cat is sitting on top of a teeny tiny laptop keyboard
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January 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out!
Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!
Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!
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How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
January 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
4S 2025 Retooling CFP (public)
4S 2025 Open Panel CFP Retooling: Change and Continuity in Turbulent Worlds Katie Ulrich, Harvard University Christy Spackman, Arizona State University Andrea Ballestero, University of Southern Cali...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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📌New Thematic Cluster just out!
"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺
👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺
👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
December 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
📌New Thematic Cluster just out!
"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺
👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
"The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺
👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
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Cluster Book Review “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise”🧫🔍
By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)
Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)
Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
December 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Cluster Book Review “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise”🧫🔍
By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)
Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social)
Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391
#BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
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Two year humanities postdoc at Tufts on “University Ecologies”: apply.interfolio.com/160426?fbcli...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Two year humanities postdoc at Tufts on “University Ecologies”: apply.interfolio.com/160426?fbcli...
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Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
December 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
November 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
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Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies #EnvHum
Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
November 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies #EnvHum
Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese
More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Check out her awesome music too
Today!
Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!
November 20, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Today!
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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.
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.
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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.
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.
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
culanth.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!
November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!
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Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Decarbonation as Substitution?
(Avec traduction française)
COP28, which closed on December 13, 2023, was presented as signaling “‘the beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel e...
culanth.org
November 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
November 9, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46