Jesse Hession Grayman
@kopyor.bsky.social
Social/medical anthropologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau - U of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from Schenectady NY, USA. Research in Indonesia. Gardener. Home fermentation. Music nerd. Genre fiction. #AbolishICE
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Jesse Hession Grayman
@kopyor.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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The half time show showed the importance of walkable mixed use neighbourhoods. House, bodega, nail salon, Ricky Martin… all in walkable distance.
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The half time show showed the importance of walkable mixed use neighbourhoods. House, bodega, nail salon, Ricky Martin… all in walkable distance.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.
n.pr
February 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢
Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Access here:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Access here:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢
Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Access here:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Access here:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Precisely why I canceled my subscription.
Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it | Margaret Sullivan
Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it | Margaret Sullivan
He has the chance to be the steward of a national treasure, but he’s blowing it
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Precisely why I canceled my subscription.
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As we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
As we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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10/10 ICE protest sign
January 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
10/10 ICE protest sign
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Ros Sereysothea - If You Wish To Love Me [Cambodia,Psychedelic Rock] (1960s-70s)
https://redd.it/d7miwi
https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk
https://redd.it/d7miwi
https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk
Ros Sereysothea - If You Wish To Love Me [Cambodia,Psychedelic Rock] (1960s-70s)
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Ros Sereysothea - If You Wish To Love Me [Cambodia,Psychedelic Rock] (1960s-70s)
https://redd.it/d7miwi
https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk
https://redd.it/d7miwi
https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk
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My colleagues at University of South Pacific (Fiji), National University of Samoa, Griffith University (Australia), University of Auckland, and I wrote this short reflection on the use of #VisualMethods for understanding #ClimateMobility in the #Pacific.
#APN
www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...
#APN
www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...
Embedding visual methods in climate mobility research in the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research project, “Moving to Remain in Place: Micro-mobilities and circular migration as adaptive strategies to gendered climate risks in Fiji and...
www.apn-gcr.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 AM
My colleagues at University of South Pacific (Fiji), National University of Samoa, Griffith University (Australia), University of Auckland, and I wrote this short reflection on the use of #VisualMethods for understanding #ClimateMobility in the #Pacific.
#APN
www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...
#APN
www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...
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like human terrain systems
Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 27, 2026 at 8:54 PM
like human terrain systems
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yeah at this point i'm pretty convinced the new york times is a recipe and puzzle company that also launders fascism
January 26, 2026 at 11:42 PM
yeah at this point i'm pretty convinced the new york times is a recipe and puzzle company that also launders fascism
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The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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The depth of his hate for disabled people is and always has been breathtaking. It’s born of an arrogance I’ve rarely seen-he believes that he is some kind of ubermensch, and the only way he could ever become disabled is if some insidious conspiracy did it to him.
Evil, evil man.
Evil, evil man.
He just makes inane things up on the spot and children have to die and be disabled for his lies. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
RFK Jr. Links His Vocal Issues to Flu Shots
Kennedy says he 'can't rule out' flu jabs as culprit in his spasmodic dysphonia
www.medpagetoday.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The depth of his hate for disabled people is and always has been breathtaking. It’s born of an arrogance I’ve rarely seen-he believes that he is some kind of ubermensch, and the only way he could ever become disabled is if some insidious conspiracy did it to him.
Evil, evil man.
Evil, evil man.
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it’s so wild when you read Black theorists all throughout the 1900s literally predicting all of this… you cannot maintain a white supremacist, patriarchal state without those same genocidal logics being visited on its own people… it’s only a matter of time.
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
it’s so wild when you read Black theorists all throughout the 1900s literally predicting all of this… you cannot maintain a white supremacist, patriarchal state without those same genocidal logics being visited on its own people… it’s only a matter of time.
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minneapolis is doing community care & mutual aid while exercising constitutionally protected legal activities
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM
minneapolis is doing community care & mutual aid while exercising constitutionally protected legal activities
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Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.
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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢
Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 AM
📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢
Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
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Honestly, I think the first thing Democrats should do is remind Americans that DHS and ICE didn't even exist until 2003. It's not like it's a long standing institution that must be preserved. It was created in the wake of 9/11 to combat terrorism and it's exceeded its mandate. We don't need it.
January 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Honestly, I think the first thing Democrats should do is remind Americans that DHS and ICE didn't even exist until 2003. It's not like it's a long standing institution that must be preserved. It was created in the wake of 9/11 to combat terrorism and it's exceeded its mandate. We don't need it.
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OMG! I just got internal bleeding from pretending to be hit by a car.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
OMG! I just got internal bleeding from pretending to be hit by a car.