Elana Shever
eshever.bsky.social
Elana Shever
@eshever.bsky.social
Anthropologist, STS scholar, New Yorker, reader, writer, traveler. Author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina, and coming soon...Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States
https://www.colgate.edu/about/directory/eshever
We are ready for tomorrow!
April 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Academic freedom is not a special perk—it is...needed to teach honest history, to uphold established scientific truths, and to fight the exclusion of and discrimination against marginalized communities." --Randi Weingarten
March 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Know someone looking for an entry-level job in the Central New York area? My department is hiring a coordinator!

* Full-time at $19.00 to $21.00 per hour
* Excellent benefits
* Great environment

careers.colgate.edu/postings/6274
Academic Department Coordinator
careers.colgate.edu
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.

We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The US university sector is wealthy, powerful and rooted in every state. If administrations decide to act collectively, there’s a chance. If, instead, they opt to target their students in the hope of escaping punishment, they will destroy the whole enterprise
March 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I am THRILLED that the artist Mark Dion has agree to let me use a photo of one of his sculptures on the cover of my upcoming book.

You can get a sneak peak here: www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/34-m...
Mark Dion
Mark Dion Exhibitions: The sky we stand on, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, November 23, 2024 - February 8, 2025; Mark Dion: Excavations, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, September 15, 202...
www.tanyabonakdargallery.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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More bold than my usual brand, but absolutely necessary for what we are living. Thank you @ccmmody.bsky.social, @engrstudies.bsky.social, @dmriley.bsky.social, @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social.
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My newest article from my study of paleontology-in-action is out! Quite the moment to be thinking about violent white masculinity in the US.

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MQAQU7...
More‐than‐human charisma, iconic fossils, and palaeontologists in the United States
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rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Of course it was a “planned exhibit,” probably years in the making. The fires in CA were not an accident of nature, but the result of zoning and other policies, or lack of them.
Wild poppies, the first blooms after wildfires, inspired Leah Mata Fragua's installation for Fire Kinship - a planned exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. Using natural dyes and soundscapes, it reflects fire's cycles and ties to Indigenous knowledge. Read more: sarweb.org/blog-wild-po...
January 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Today’s NYTimes Kids Section (print only) is “Dinos Rule!” The centerpiece is “How Dinosaurs Took Over the World.” Why do they repeat the same old trope about dominance, not recognizing that those at the ecological apex are precariously positioned, depending on all those below (better, around) them?
January 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Still trying to find an energy source to claim as not political.
“In an age when energy policy is so often hostage to fierce partisanship, there is hope that geothermal can be politically agnostic — the one clean energy solution that could satisfy climate change campaigners & the ‘drill baby drill’ lobby alike.”

—Henry Wismayer
Searching For Climate Salvation In Deep Hellfire | NOEMA
Geothermal energy has become the renewable that got left behind as solar and wind accelerate. Why then do its most determined advocates still insist it could be the key to the renewable energy transit...
www.noemamag.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I just received my copy of "Kernels of Resistance." Looking forward to @lizagrandia.bsky.social's passionate account of resistance to corporate privatization during these dark times.
January 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Just out - an excellent and important article by Craig Howe and Lukas Rieppel on fossils taken from Lakotan lands in the late 19th century, and the responsibilities of museums holding this material: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why museums should repatriate fossils
The legacy of a palaeontology expedition into Native American lands 150 years ago should prompt a rethink of where and how fossil collections are curated. The legacy of a palaeontology expedition into...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM