Kriti Kapila
@kritikapila.bsky.social
Anthropologist. London mostly.
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
The older I get the more I value conscientiousness over raw intelligence or anything like that — when someone has completed college that’s a stronger signal of being able to handle tasks in an independent environment on a consistent basis: www.wsj.com/business/pal...
Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.
Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization
www.wsj.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college
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The secret life of university data?
In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Together, universities can take back control of their data
A single university can do little to demand accountability from rankings companies, but together institutions can demand reciprocal transparency, nego...
www.universityworldnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The secret life of university data?
In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
This is a very excellent read - how the accelerated adoption by universities is once again a case of public funds subsidising private industry and assisting the further vocationalising of higher ed.
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is a very excellent read - how the accelerated adoption by universities is once again a case of public funds subsidising private industry and assisting the further vocationalising of higher ed.
Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here:
thewire.in/politics/twi...
thewire.in/politics/twi...
Twilight of the Patriarchs: How Old Men Wage Wars on Futures That Are Not Theirs to Live
At the helm of nation-states sit men on the brink of their biological expiry, curled around launch codes and bunker-buster fantasies. It is not the young who want the world to end – it is the dying, d...
thewire.in
June 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here:
thewire.in/politics/twi...
thewire.in/politics/twi...
There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into @sturdyalex.bsky.social's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable @alexpodyssey.bsky.social #Podyssey. And that's just the music! Pure gold. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Alex Andreou's Podyssey
Arts Podcast · Updated weekly · Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia
podcasts.apple.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into @sturdyalex.bsky.social's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable @alexpodyssey.bsky.social #Podyssey. And that's just the music! Pure gold. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
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We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
March 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
Sobering.
Important piece
I’m quoted in this excellent, sobering essay by @meghanor.bsky.social on the American right’s attack on universities www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
March 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sobering.
You could not make this up... neither the use of the tech, nor the use of the law..
absolutely no shade on @stokel.bsky.social for an incredible scoop but the fact that this is FOIable is an absolute disaster www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
www.newscientist.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
You could not make this up... neither the use of the tech, nor the use of the law..
A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.
"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Trump’s Big Gamble on the Future of AI Development
The new administration rethinks public funding for research, leaving it to private companies to chart the path ahead.
www.bloomberg.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.
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Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with
@kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
@kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
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March 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with
@kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
@kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Join us on March 5 for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group.
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group.
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference
Dr Kriti Kapila will deliver a talk on the discovery of the rare blood group.
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join us on March 5 for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference'
Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group.
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group.
Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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🚨 JOBS KLAXON
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:
Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.
Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.
Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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February 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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Always worth listening to Professor Wendy Brown. This, especially today, is salutary.
🎧 NEW PODCAST: The first episode of our podcast, In Solidarity, is out now.
In light of Trump's inauguration, our Editor-in-Chief spoke with Professor Wendy Brown about the new blueprint for authoritarian leaders ⤵️
Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2T5vrJm...?
In light of Trump's inauguration, our Editor-in-Chief spoke with Professor Wendy Brown about the new blueprint for authoritarian leaders ⤵️
Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2T5vrJm...?
January 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Always worth listening to Professor Wendy Brown. This, especially today, is salutary.
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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Caltech UC Riverside study finds that tech companies report ai carbon consumption but diesel and other particulates data centers generate go unreported. Public health costs from cancers, asthma, other diseases, and missed work and school days approach ~$20 bil a year.
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
AI’s deadly air pollution toll
Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electrici...
news.ucr.edu
December 31, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Caltech UC Riverside study finds that tech companies report ai carbon consumption but diesel and other particulates data centers generate go unreported. Public health costs from cancers, asthma, other diseases, and missed work and school days approach ~$20 bil a year.
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
An incredibly literal exchange of food for thought.. How American university libraries came to have rich South Asia collections..
Why scholars who come to Madison, WI for the Annual Conference on South Asia in October sometimes stay longer to use the UW Libraries (great to see my colleague Todd Michelson-Ambelang interviewed here): www.bbc.com/news/article... #SouthAsianStudies
How a food crisis in India fed America's library collections
A books-for-grain deal allowed India to get crucial food aid while US libraries built up a treasure trove of literature.
www.bbc.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
An incredibly literal exchange of food for thought.. How American university libraries came to have rich South Asia collections..
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Ok, now that I'm rested it's time to talk about AI, writing & the Black Radical tradition!
I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.
I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.
I just discovered something INCREDIBLE (derogatory) about AI tools in the humanities. I can't wait to share but it will have to be tomorrow because these grades are due by 10pm.
December 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Ok, now that I'm rested it's time to talk about AI, writing & the Black Radical tradition!
I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.
I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.
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Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...
November 23, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...
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Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
November 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.