Damien Droney
@ddroney.bsky.social
Cultural & medical anthropologist working in postcolonial science studies.
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Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
If you find yourself needing a little pick-me-up this week, you should know that there's a Devo documentary on Netflix.
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
If you find yourself needing a little pick-me-up this week, you should know that there's a Devo documentary on Netflix.
This is a Neil Young stan account. New song, Big Crime, is timely.
Neil Young Archives
NYA contains the complete archives of Neil Young. The site is designed for a chronological exploration of artist output including music, books, films, & videos. Music is streamed in high-res with Xstr...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is a Neil Young stan account. New song, Big Crime, is timely.
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In light of the NEH grants announced today (focusing heavily on Greeks/Romans, Shakespeare, and papers of politically powerful white men from the 19th century), a counterpoint: Kwame Anthony Appiah 'There is No Such Thing as Western Civilization'
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...
There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Long Read: The values of liberty, tolerance and rational inquiry are not the birthright of a single culture. In fact, the very notion of something called ‘western culture’ is a modern invention
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August 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In light of the NEH grants announced today (focusing heavily on Greeks/Romans, Shakespeare, and papers of politically powerful white men from the 19th century), a counterpoint: Kwame Anthony Appiah 'There is No Such Thing as Western Civilization'
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...
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A new Annual Review of Anthropology piece on the "Anthropology of Science" (by Langlitz and Dan-Cohen) raises a question I have long wondered about - why is there no dedicated journal for this domain of inquiry? Should there be? What could it look like? Why would it matter?
What Ever Happened to the Anthropology of Science? From the Science Wars to the Post-Truth Era | Annual Reviews
The anthropology of science emerged in the 1980s as a critique of science and technocracy, exposing the social construction of scientific facts and their role in reinforcing ideologies such as capital...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A new Annual Review of Anthropology piece on the "Anthropology of Science" (by Langlitz and Dan-Cohen) raises a question I have long wondered about - why is there no dedicated journal for this domain of inquiry? Should there be? What could it look like? Why would it matter?
Princeton is hiring a lecturer in environmental anthropology and STS. The contract is for one year. Lots of opportunities to advise student research.
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/690701/l...
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Lecturer | Princeton Department of Anthropology - Princeton University, Princeton job with Department of Anthropology, Princeton University | 690701
Anthropology lecturer position in environmental anthropology and/or the social studies of science and technology for the 2025-2026 academic year
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July 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Princeton is hiring a lecturer in environmental anthropology and STS. The contract is for one year. Lots of opportunities to advise student research.
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/690701/l...
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/690701/l...
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Anthropologists (and others! 🙏): If SAPIENS Magazine has mattered to you—as a reader, writer, teacher, or student—now is the time to speak up. Write to Wenner-Gren today. Tell them why public anthropology matters. #SaveSAPIENS #AnthroSky
Link to petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Link to petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
June 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Anthropologists (and others! 🙏): If SAPIENS Magazine has mattered to you—as a reader, writer, teacher, or student—now is the time to speak up. Write to Wenner-Gren today. Tell them why public anthropology matters. #SaveSAPIENS #AnthroSky
Link to petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Link to petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
I'm not teaching my biopolitics class anymore, but I'm making a mental note for the week on surplus population.
She did it! She did the Scrooge line!
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm not teaching my biopolitics class anymore, but I'm making a mental note for the week on surplus population.
I understand the default attitude of being annoyed at graduation ceremonies, but attending a commencement for incarcerated students put this in perspective for me. Never take it for granted.
May 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I understand the default attitude of being annoyed at graduation ceremonies, but attending a commencement for incarcerated students put this in perspective for me. Never take it for granted.
Celebrating Canadian sovereignty by listening to Neil Young.
May 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Celebrating Canadian sovereignty by listening to Neil Young.
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The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
“I remember Jim as a beacon of many things,” Kohrman said. “Most importantly, of kindness, creativity, scholarly community and intellectual rigor, as well as an unwavering commitment to building a more just world, in and outside the academy.”
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James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65
James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“I remember Jim as a beacon of many things,” Kohrman said. “Most importantly, of kindness, creativity, scholarly community and intellectual rigor, as well as an unwavering commitment to building a more just world, in and outside the academy.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
Impossible to answer because on the one hand you have Neil Young's 1970s solo work, but then you can't really compare that to the raw energy of Neil Young with Crazy Horse. Then of course you have various projects to which Neil Young was a relatively smaller but crucial contributor like Buffalo Spri
as a musician i gotta know: what's the best music
January 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Impossible to answer because on the one hand you have Neil Young's 1970s solo work, but then you can't really compare that to the raw energy of Neil Young with Crazy Horse. Then of course you have various projects to which Neil Young was a relatively smaller but crucial contributor like Buffalo Spri
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Biology is far more interesting than simple categories and being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary” @princetonupress.bsky.social publishing May 6th!
Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1
Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1
January 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Biology is far more interesting than simple categories and being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary” @princetonupress.bsky.social publishing May 6th!
Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1
Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1
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Out soon: Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives, featuring my chapter "Anthropologists in outer space: Science fiction, infrastructure, comparison." A huge thanks to the editors for making this happen!
January 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Out soon: Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives, featuring my chapter "Anthropologists in outer space: Science fiction, infrastructure, comparison." A huge thanks to the editors for making this happen!
My favorite new-to-me older music discovery of 2024 was Neil Young's synth-heavy 80s albums Trans and Landing on Water. I won't say that the people who warned me off of them were totally wrong, but I'm so glad I gave the albums a chance.
January 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My favorite new-to-me older music discovery of 2024 was Neil Young's synth-heavy 80s albums Trans and Landing on Water. I won't say that the people who warned me off of them were totally wrong, but I'm so glad I gave the albums a chance.
My favorite album of 2024 was probably Love Changes Everything by Dirty Three.
I liked this review on Pitchfork. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
I liked this review on Pitchfork. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything
Read Grayson Haver Currin’s review of the album.
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January 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My favorite album of 2024 was probably Love Changes Everything by Dirty Three.
I liked this review on Pitchfork. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
I liked this review on Pitchfork. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
January 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
I'm already reading a novel not in the fantasy genre, so I feel like I don't need to adopt any resolutions for the new year. I'm fine the way I am, thank you very much.
January 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm already reading a novel not in the fantasy genre, so I feel like I don't need to adopt any resolutions for the new year. I'm fine the way I am, thank you very much.
Do I tell the students I've had a sleeping cat on my lap during all these Zoom meetings?
December 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Do I tell the students I've had a sleeping cat on my lap during all these Zoom meetings?
I'm very proud of this article, which was published in early view today. It should be of interest to those working in African / postcolonial science studies.
African Studies Keyword: Science | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core
African Studies Keyword: Science
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November 26, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I'm very proud of this article, which was published in early view today. It should be of interest to those working in African / postcolonial science studies.
The latest issue of African Studies Review has a whole series of remembrances of Paulin Hountondji.
Latest issue | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core
African Studies Review
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October 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The latest issue of African Studies Review has a whole series of remembrances of Paulin Hountondji.