Jessica Madison Pískatá
@lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College|she/they
Rocks, poetry, the uncanny, reality TV, ghosts.
Rocks, poetry, the uncanny, reality TV, ghosts.
There is no Hell strong enough to hold Yeobie down.
June 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There is no Hell strong enough to hold Yeobie down.
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“No social order is inevitable. No structure of power or inequality is fixed. Adaptability has defined our species since its origins.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
June 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“No social order is inevitable. No structure of power or inequality is fixed. Adaptability has defined our species since its origins.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
Menswear influencers telling people to only buy European cashmere
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Menswear influencers telling people to only buy European cashmere
Big things going down on Threads.
May 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Big things going down on Threads.
Hey Anthros! Looking for a panel at #AAA2025Nola? Interested in spectral ecologies beyond the metaphorical? Submit your abstracts to jmadison@oberlin.edu and zsuhaimi@ucsc.edu. Discussant Deirdre de la Cruz.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hey Anthros! Looking for a panel at #AAA2025Nola? Interested in spectral ecologies beyond the metaphorical? Submit your abstracts to jmadison@oberlin.edu and zsuhaimi@ucsc.edu. Discussant Deirdre de la Cruz.
Panel abstract in replies:
Panel abstract in replies:
Academics be normal about people having or not having kids challenge
April 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Academics be normal about people having or not having kids challenge
Hi Boston-area friends! I’ll be at MIT anthro on 4/22 talking about Mongolian eco-horror for their Living Climate Futures lab. Come on down, I’d love to see you there.
April 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hi Boston-area friends! I’ll be at MIT anthro on 4/22 talking about Mongolian eco-horror for their Living Climate Futures lab. Come on down, I’d love to see you there.
“I sit despairing.
You sit despairing.
When we are sad together
Night falls.”
You sit despairing.
When we are sad together
Night falls.”
April 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“I sit despairing.
You sit despairing.
When we are sad together
Night falls.”
You sit despairing.
When we are sad together
Night falls.”
Reposted by Jessica Madison Pískatá
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
March 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
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Getting ready for the new season of Vanderpump
March 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Getting ready for the new season of Vanderpump
While I don’t like being called “y’all” by the New York Times I AM loving this fish mug
March 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
While I don’t like being called “y’all” by the New York Times I AM loving this fish mug
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It is eerie to be preparing for print the memoir and poems of Vernon Duke—who, like so many artistic émigrés in the mid-20th century, found peace in the Palisades—as his beloved neighborhood is wiped away.
January 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It is eerie to be preparing for print the memoir and poems of Vernon Duke—who, like so many artistic émigrés in the mid-20th century, found peace in the Palisades—as his beloved neighborhood is wiped away.
Reposted by Jessica Madison Pískatá
Today, the Parliament of Mongolia - Ikh Khural, approved the draft Investment Agreement with the French nuclear giant Orano to develop a $1.65 bln Zuuvch Ovoo mine. Soon the IA will be signed.
My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance.
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...
My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance.
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...
A nuclear deal to tip the scale?
With the Franco-Mongolian uranium deal due to be decided, there is a growing unease over the elephant in the room – Russia
www.ips-journal.eu
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Today, the Parliament of Mongolia - Ikh Khural, approved the draft Investment Agreement with the French nuclear giant Orano to develop a $1.65 bln Zuuvch Ovoo mine. Soon the IA will be signed.
My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance.
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...
My piece from 15 months ago, explaining its importance.
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...
Good idea/bad idea? Watching “Nightbitch” while 3 weeks post-partum.
January 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Good idea/bad idea? Watching “Nightbitch” while 3 weeks post-partum.
The Altai band - Jingle Bells (mongolian version)
YouTube video by musicagencymn
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December 24, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Wrote a short piece on the Shambala Energy Center in the Mongolian Gobi for @religionssrc.bsky.social
Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️
Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️
I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social.
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
Climate Futures
This topic focuses on two key questions: what is the relationship between religion and climate change? And what kinds of alternative climate futures can we imagine through the lens of religion?
intersections.ssrc.org
December 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Wrote a short piece on the Shambala Energy Center in the Mongolian Gobi for @religionssrc.bsky.social
Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️
Provincialize Energy Now! 🪨⚡️
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Current contributors include Evan Berry, Terra Rowe, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social, Mario Orospe, and @dominicboyer.bsky.social. Our final essay by Judith Brunton, will be published soon.
December 19, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Current contributors include Evan Berry, Terra Rowe, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social, Mario Orospe, and @dominicboyer.bsky.social. Our final essay by Judith Brunton, will be published soon.
Reposted by Jessica Madison Pískatá
I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social.
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
Climate Futures
This topic focuses on two key questions: what is the relationship between religion and climate change? And what kinds of alternative climate futures can we imagine through the lens of religion?
intersections.ssrc.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
I'm proud of this collection of online essays on "religion and energy" published by @religionssrc.bsky.social.
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
In addition to the introductory essay, there are pieces on healing energies in rural Mongolia, lithium mining in Bolivia, and electrical salvation.
intersections.ssrc.org/research-top...
Excuse me???? Pirate?? Somebody come shoot this new Spotify robot.
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Excuse me???? Pirate?? Somebody come shoot this new Spotify robot.
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we're all post-soviet now
www.ft.com/content/b713...
www.ft.com/content/b713...
November 23, 2024 at 11:57 PM
we're all post-soviet now
www.ft.com/content/b713...
www.ft.com/content/b713...
And don’t even START trying to water this down: hauntings ❌ specters ❌ traces ❌ apparitions ❌
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA
November 23, 2024 at 9:40 PM
And don’t even START trying to water this down: hauntings ❌ specters ❌ traces ❌ apparitions ❌
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA
wraiths 👍 poltergeists 👍 haints 👍 revenants 👍
Please save your questions for the end of the panel. #aaa2024tampa #aaa2025NOLA
Reposted by Jessica Madison Pískatá
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Bio Anthro: Are we measuring linearly or volumetrically (or at a molecular level)
Archaeologist: Was the cup meant to be half full?
Ling Anth: Is it a kuhp or a ☕?
Cultural Anth: How empty are we in the view of the cup?
#AAA2024Tampa
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Bio Anthro: Are we measuring linearly or volumetrically (or at a molecular level)
Archaeologist: Was the cup meant to be half full?
Ling Anth: Is it a kuhp or a ☕?
Cultural Anth: How empty are we in the view of the cup?
#AAA2024Tampa
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
November 23, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Bio Anthro: Are we measuring linearly or volumetrically (or at a molecular level)
Archaeologist: Was the cup meant to be half full?
Ling Anth: Is it a kuhp or a ☕?
Cultural Anth: How empty are we in the view of the cup?
#AAA2024Tampa
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Bio Anthro: Are we measuring linearly or volumetrically (or at a molecular level)
Archaeologist: Was the cup meant to be half full?
Ling Anth: Is it a kuhp or a ☕?
Cultural Anth: How empty are we in the view of the cup?
#AAA2024Tampa