Will Meyer
@willmeyeranthro.bsky.social
Generalist anthropologist at Mercyhurst University, interested in more-than-human ecologies, landscapes, cultural memory and forgetting, sex, gender, and sexuality, among other things.
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#OTD 75 years ago, NYC Ballet prima ballerina Maria Tallchief demonstrated that Indigenous artists could not only excel in Western art forms but also redefine their standards during her iconic performance in Firebird:
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#nativeamerican #ballet @univofdayton
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#nativeamerican #ballet @univofdayton
75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina
Despite assumptions to the contrary, Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes a scholar of Indigenous cultures.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM
#OTD 75 years ago, NYC Ballet prima ballerina Maria Tallchief demonstrated that Indigenous artists could not only excel in Western art forms but also redefine their standards during her iconic performance in Firebird:
https://buff.ly/40VJBCI
#nativeamerican #ballet @univofdayton
https://buff.ly/40VJBCI
#nativeamerican #ballet @univofdayton
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Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC.
📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC.
📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg
🏺 #archaeology
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13. Full citation for the paper: Poulton Kamakura, Renata, Jin Bai, Vallari Sheel, and Madhusudan Katti. 2024. “ Biodiversity is Not a Luxury: Unpacking Wealth and Power to Accommodate the Complexity of Urban Biodiversity.” Ecosphere 15(11): e70049. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Biodiversity is not a luxury: Unpacking wealth and power to accommodate the complexity of urban biodiversity
A positive correlation between wealth and biodiversity within cities is a commonly documented phenomenon in urban ecology that has come to be labeled as the “luxury effect.” We contend that both this...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
13. Full citation for the paper: Poulton Kamakura, Renata, Jin Bai, Vallari Sheel, and Madhusudan Katti. 2024. “ Biodiversity is Not a Luxury: Unpacking Wealth and Power to Accommodate the Complexity of Urban Biodiversity.” Ecosphere 15(11): e70049. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
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"you so readily confuse advocacy of unorthodox forms of thought with the promotion of violence, for it lays bare the totalitarian impulse at the core of your enterprise” Orisanmi Burton pens an open letter to prisons that have banned his book, Tip of the Spear
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A Letter to Prisons on the Censorship of “Tip of the Spear”
Your censorship of my book must be understood within a broader context.
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November 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
"you so readily confuse advocacy of unorthodox forms of thought with the promotion of violence, for it lays bare the totalitarian impulse at the core of your enterprise” Orisanmi Burton pens an open letter to prisons that have banned his book, Tip of the Spear
www.publicbooks.org/an-open-lett...
www.publicbooks.org/an-open-lett...
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As word comes from the Edinburgh Zoo that a red panda baby named Roxie has died from stress after city fireworks, I'm sharing here a piece I wrote earlier this year for Anthropology News called Ten Things About Human Silence Around Animals. 🧪🌿 #anthropology #animals #naturewriting
Ten Things about Human Silence around Animals - Anthropology News
1. Our day-to-day lives are profoundly entangled with those of other-than-human animals (hereafter, “animals”). Indigenous peoples the world over have
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November 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
As word comes from the Edinburgh Zoo that a red panda baby named Roxie has died from stress after city fireworks, I'm sharing here a piece I wrote earlier this year for Anthropology News called Ten Things About Human Silence Around Animals. 🧪🌿 #anthropology #animals #naturewriting
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In 2021, Penn Museum promised they had returned all of Delisha's remains. This month, more have been found in the museum. www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
Penn Museum finds more human remains from MOVE bombing
The bones match records for 12-year-old Delisha Africa, who was among 11 people who died when police dropped explosives on a West Philly rowhome in 1985.
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November 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
In 2021, Penn Museum promised they had returned all of Delisha's remains. This month, more have been found in the museum. www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
Mercyhurst University Honors First Gen College Students - www.youtube.com/embed/n4QLyV... #firstgen #Mercyhurst
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November 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Mercyhurst University Honors First Gen College Students - www.youtube.com/embed/n4QLyV... #firstgen #Mercyhurst
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I'm so excited to see this Accessing Archaeology panel!
This 90-minute panel discussion will highlight the work of, and challenges faced by, LGBT2SQIA+ archaeologists.
Register for this FREE event using the link below. 🧪🏺
This 90-minute panel discussion will highlight the work of, and challenges faced by, LGBT2SQIA+ archaeologists.
Register for this FREE event using the link below. 🧪🏺
Accessing Archaeology: Empowering Queer Voices in the Discipline [Career Pathways]
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June 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I'm so excited to see this Accessing Archaeology panel!
This 90-minute panel discussion will highlight the work of, and challenges faced by, LGBT2SQIA+ archaeologists.
Register for this FREE event using the link below. 🧪🏺
This 90-minute panel discussion will highlight the work of, and challenges faced by, LGBT2SQIA+ archaeologists.
Register for this FREE event using the link below. 🧪🏺
This represents 50 minutes of hard work from three teams of debutant weavers (with a professor who has only slightly more experience). They're off to a good start and no one rage quit, so I will consider it a win. #anthropology #ecology #plantsandpeople
April 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
This represents 50 minutes of hard work from three teams of debutant weavers (with a professor who has only slightly more experience). They're off to a good start and no one rage quit, so I will consider it a win. #anthropology #ecology #plantsandpeople
I ran out of time to post the livestream link, but I did a thing today. If you're interested to hear my public talk "Indigenous Science, Ancient Astronomers, & Eclipse Prediction in the Distant Past", you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98p...
April 9, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I ran out of time to post the livestream link, but I did a thing today. If you're interested to hear my public talk "Indigenous Science, Ancient Astronomers, & Eclipse Prediction in the Distant Past", you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98p...
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📢Michael Ripmeester and Matthew Rofe an exciting call for papers for special issue of Landscape Research Journal entitled, "A Possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change".
Details on the theme & submission 👇
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Details on the theme & submission 👇
landscaperesearch.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Landscape Research Journal - Landscape Research Group
1 February 2024 by Emily Shakespeare Special Issue Title – A possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change Landscape Research, the internationally...
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February 1, 2024 at 2:36 PM
📢Michael Ripmeester and Matthew Rofe an exciting call for papers for special issue of Landscape Research Journal entitled, "A Possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change".
Details on the theme & submission 👇
landscaperesearch.org/call-for-pap...
Details on the theme & submission 👇
landscaperesearch.org/call-for-pap...
Gender Studies activity: We are launching a new media network - SGS: The Sex, Gender, & Sexuality Channel. Things move fast in this industry. You and the members of your team need to come up with a quick show idea and pitch it to the class. Go!! #FeministSky #EduSky #QueerInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
December 8, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Gender Studies activity: We are launching a new media network - SGS: The Sex, Gender, & Sexuality Channel. Things move fast in this industry. You and the members of your team need to come up with a quick show idea and pitch it to the class. Go!! #FeministSky #EduSky #QueerInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
@news-feed.bsky.social @CNN: Biden announces support for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy competing under their own flag in 2028 Olympics www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...
December 6, 2023 at 11:07 PM
@news-feed.bsky.social @CNN: Biden announces support for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy competing under their own flag in 2028 Olympics www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...
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"Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects." feralatlas.org
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human
infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, ...
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November 8, 2023 at 12:50 PM
"Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects." feralatlas.org
Check out my contribution to this month's SAA Archaeological Record! #QueerInSTEM
November 7, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Check out my contribution to this month's SAA Archaeological Record! #QueerInSTEM
Yes! So excited to watch this!
'Aikane' Short Animation by Dan Sousa, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson: Queer Indigenous Feeling
A new queer animation film from the Hawaiian creators of 'Kapaemahu' is now Oscar-qualified. Learn more about 'Aikane'.
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October 24, 2023 at 1:29 AM
Yes! So excited to watch this!
More than a little hard to believe the House will be able to handle the new Israeli-Palestinian crisis with any degree of competence when, two weeks ago, 191 of them voted in favor of an amendment to a bill that would reduce the salary of the Chief of the US Office of Palestinian Affairs to $1. 1/2
October 11, 2023 at 6:15 PM
More than a little hard to believe the House will be able to handle the new Israeli-Palestinian crisis with any degree of competence when, two weeks ago, 191 of them voted in favor of an amendment to a bill that would reduce the salary of the Chief of the US Office of Palestinian Affairs to $1. 1/2
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New research article!
'Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials' by Dylan Bugden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
'Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials' by Dylan Bugden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 10, 2023 at 6:58 AM
New research article!
'Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials' by Dylan Bugden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
'Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials' by Dylan Bugden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Exciting confirmation of the antiquity of the White Sands footprints out today! I spoke with Scientific American about the study. In sum of some more extensive comments, I buy it now. Go science!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
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Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago
A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago
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October 5, 2023 at 10:53 PM
Exciting confirmation of the antiquity of the White Sands footprints out today! I spoke with Scientific American about the study. In sum of some more extensive comments, I buy it now. Go science!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
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One thing not making the write ups of anthropology panel rejected for transphobia by officials for a major conference are that the presenter being quoted everywhere is a troll who just left her position for a culture war grifting nonprofit after posting pictures with human remains. And there's more:
Anthropology Rejects Attempt to Inject Culture Warring into Major Conference — Assigned
Conservatives are outraged that a transparent attempt to troll a major
anthropological conference was rejected, and the mainstream media is
helping to cover up the details of what was planned.
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October 2, 2023 at 7:24 PM
One thing not making the write ups of anthropology panel rejected for transphobia by officials for a major conference are that the presenter being quoted everywhere is a troll who just left her position for a culture war grifting nonprofit after posting pictures with human remains. And there's more:
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Since today is Avery Brooks' 75th birthday, I'm going to resurface this story of mine on how Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and his work as Capt. Sisko is gaining fresh appreciation and paved the way for modern Trek shows like Picard. loom.ly/SSqpcYU
‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Paved the Way for ‘Picard,’ and Shaped Our Era of Serialized St...
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" led to "Picard" and changed TV in the process, helping usher in our era of serialized storytelling.
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October 2, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Since today is Avery Brooks' 75th birthday, I'm going to resurface this story of mine on how Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and his work as Capt. Sisko is gaining fresh appreciation and paved the way for modern Trek shows like Picard. loom.ly/SSqpcYU