Keri Culver
@kericulver.bsky.social
Writer, evaluator, sociologist, feminist and inveterate word nerd. Working to uplift good folk and also to write a better description.
www.kericulver.com
www.kericulver.com
Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.
What a woman
Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.
kericulver.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.
A summer sojourn to the Spanish Pyrenees to see ski towns, eat tapas, bike, hike, and dance. Worth another visit and soon...
The prettiest place you’ve never heard of
A late summer respite in the Spanish Pyrenees, with biking and bagpipes. It was great to get to someplace cooler and more remote and then to feel like... home?
kericulver.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A summer sojourn to the Spanish Pyrenees to see ski towns, eat tapas, bike, hike, and dance. Worth another visit and soon...
Evaluator effects
Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.
Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.
Evaluator effects
Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.
kericulver.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Evaluator effects
Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.
Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.
I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.
So familiar, but entirely new
I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.
kericulver.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.
Wide open Skye
It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!
It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!
Wide open Skye
It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!
kericulver.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wide open Skye
It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!
It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!
Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.
Obliterating Objectivity
Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.
kericulver.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.
Without good language and translation, there is no field work. There is only colonialist claptrap serving researchers' needs and wasting respondents' time. Don't do that!
Language first
Without good language skills field work is just colonialist claptrap that serves researchers' needs but wastes respondents' time.
kericulver.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Without good language and translation, there is no field work. There is only colonialist claptrap serving researchers' needs and wasting respondents' time. Don't do that!
I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.
Is it time to rethink foreign aid?
I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.
kericulver.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.
Reliving my beloved career, pondering identity, and figuring out what's next after the gutting of USAID.
What’s your name?
Inside my fevered mind, thinking about my career and my identity, while I figure out what's next after the gutting of USAID.
kericulver.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reliving my beloved career, pondering identity, and figuring out what's next after the gutting of USAID.
Ffs.
April 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Ffs.
What a scumbag. Wow, Indiana, great choice of Senator - can he punch a baby, too?
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
What a scumbag. Wow, Indiana, great choice of Senator - can he punch a baby, too?
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YIKES! 👀 A terrifying account of what ketamine did to this former addict’s brain:
Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥
tinyurl.com/ketamusk
Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥
tinyurl.com/ketamusk
April 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
YIKES! 👀 A terrifying account of what ketamine did to this former addict’s brain:
Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥
tinyurl.com/ketamusk
Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥
tinyurl.com/ketamusk
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Pleased to relay that @propublica.org now offers SecureDrop— in addition to our Signal tip line and postal mail—as a way to reach our reporters with information: www.propublica.org/tips/
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Pleased to relay that @propublica.org now offers SecureDrop— in addition to our Signal tip line and postal mail—as a way to reach our reporters with information: www.propublica.org/tips/
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Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵
It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.
👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼
It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.
👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼
March 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵
It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.
👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼
It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.
👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼
Reposted by Keri Culver
This must go VIRAL!
Start now!!!
Start now!!!
Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
March 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This must go VIRAL!
Start now!!!
Start now!!!
Reposted by Keri Culver
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.
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Focusing on Rigor in International Development Evaluation - Keri Culver
This article delves into why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.
kericulver.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.
kericulver.com/2025/03/20/f...
kericulver.com/2025/03/20/f...
This from a man who wielded a chainsaw and laughed about feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Poor baby.
March 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This from a man who wielded a chainsaw and laughed about feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Poor baby.
Are those little sweaters standard issue for Finnish chickens?? Adorbs.
🐔 #Finland refuses to sell its eggs to #Americans
😎😏
The Finnish authorities, whom the #US approached for help, declined the export due to bureaucracy. NEXTA
😎😏
The Finnish authorities, whom the #US approached for help, declined the export due to bureaucracy. NEXTA
March 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Are those little sweaters standard issue for Finnish chickens?? Adorbs.
If he doesn’t understand why the hate and “violence” against him, he is more sociopathic than I gave him credit for. Vile, monstrous, hideous scumbag.
Also, DOGE's existential cuts to USAID will end lives not just now, but rippling out across generations.
Counterpoints:
- Tesla has the highest fatality crash rates of any car
- Tesla busts unions
- He pushes for dangerous safety deregulations that’ll result in people being killed
- His DOGE is taking away the healthcare of millions and fired over 250k people over the last 56 days.
- Tesla has the highest fatality crash rates of any car
- Tesla busts unions
- He pushes for dangerous safety deregulations that’ll result in people being killed
- His DOGE is taking away the healthcare of millions and fired over 250k people over the last 56 days.
March 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If he doesn’t understand why the hate and “violence” against him, he is more sociopathic than I gave him credit for. Vile, monstrous, hideous scumbag.
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This is the biggest scam in American history, Trump and Elon should be in prison.
March 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the biggest scam in American history, Trump and Elon should be in prison.
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Reposted by Keri Culver
So close... and yet...
Vance Blasted After Latest Attack On 'Insane' Democrats Is A Spectacular Self-Own
You're so close, JD. So close.
www.comicsands.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So close... and yet...
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The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop
Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱
Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱
March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop
Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱
Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱
What Democracy Brings
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open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
What Democracy Brings
And What the Cuts to the National Endowment for Democracy Take Away
open.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What Democracy Brings
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