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
https://www.colgate.edu/about/directory/eshever
My student's undergraduate thesis research made the (local) news! So proud of Dana! thecolgatemaroonnews.com/61612/bakers...
Defending Blind Bay: How Dana Witte’s Thesis Bridges Science and Community Advocacy
For Colgate University senior Dana Witte, an experience at a summer internship with a nonprofit called Save the River sparked a research project idea that would ultimately become her senior thesis. As...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My student's undergraduate thesis research made the (local) news! So proud of Dana! thecolgatemaroonnews.com/61612/bakers...
We are ready for tomorrow!
April 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We are ready for tomorrow!
"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
"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
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
* 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
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
* Full-time at $19.00 to $21.00 per hour
* Excellent benefits
* Great environment
careers.colgate.edu/postings/6274
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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
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
🚨 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
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
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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
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
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...
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...
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March 5, 2025 at 5:40 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...
You can get a sneak peak here: www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/34-m...
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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.
under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism
Published in Engineering Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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February 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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.
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More‐than‐human charisma, iconic fossils, and palaeontologists in the United States
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February 19, 2025 at 3:37 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...
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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
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.
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
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?
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
—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...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Still trying to find an energy source to claim as not political.
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
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.
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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
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...