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Matthew Archer
@matthewarcher.bsky.social
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anthropologist interested in intersections of tech and sustainability in food and mineral supply chains

book! https://nyupress.org/9781479822027/unsustainable/
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pooped after the celebrations
a small black dog lying on his back with his tan paws up a small black dog snoozing on a green couch
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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luigi’s first birthday 🎂
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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field-work
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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boo-igi’s first halloween 🎃 💀
a man holding a small black dog. they are wearing matching skeleton costumes.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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autumn along the dijle (still disconcertingly green for late october, but we have to take what we get)
a river running through a green field with trees in one side and a cloudy sky above
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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me, nodding vigorously, knowing my own writing is extremely imprecise and largely vibes based
Words matter—especially in a paper of extraordinary influence such as EIS (2014). Scholars have a duty to write with precision, to say what they mean, and to correct the record when their published descriptions mislead. EIS have already issued a corrigendum acknowledging that a typographical error led them to misreport a central result: a key estimate described as “statistically significant” was actually “NOT statistically significant” (EIS, 2025). They have now clarified that their main analysis relied on firm pairs of uncertain similarity. The first correction undermines the evidence in EIS (2014) for a link between sustainability and financial performance. The second restricts interpretation of any of their reported estimates and blocks all causal inference.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Their comment focuses on my critique of their analytical method—a procedure that when properly implemented requires pairing firms closely enough that they differ materially only in the number of sustainability policies adopted. In King (2025), I questioned their use of this method by demonstrating that finding a sufficient number of precise matches in their sample is nearly impossible; two people have a better chance of randomly selecting the same star in the universe.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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“more than human food geographies” but it’s just luigi dragging me halfway across the city to the park where i had to pry a pigeon foot out of his mouth two days earlier
a small black dog walking in a dark park on a leash
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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luigi is enjoying das passagen-werk
a small black dog with tan paws sitting on a colorful geometric rug looking at a large book
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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play date with brother
two small black and tan dogs in a park
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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fall fell in maastricht
a small black dog standing in a tree lined street with lots of yellow leaves
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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spooky season
a small black dog with tan paws wearing a black cape lined with red satin. the collar of the cape is standing up dramatically
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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luigi did “very well” at the maastricht dog show yesterday.
two white men holding a small black dog on a table in a large convention center
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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the most delicious white pu’er from yunnan

tea from: www.hermitagetea.org/product-page...

and the exquisite little teapot is from: @inclay.bsky.social
a still life of a gong fu tea break. there is a lovely little black teapot, a small delicate earthy teacup, a rustic orange bowl, and an angular glass gong dao bei which is filled with a light yellow tea. it’s sitting on a green placemat on a white table
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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a white house with a street lamp in front of it just after dusk a painting of a white house with a street lamp in front of it at dusk. the painting is from the empire of light by magritte
September 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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play date with brother
two small black dogs with tan feet standing in a field. one has prominent tan eyebrows and a tan chest. the other is mostly black and is sticking his tongue out.
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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these people really need an autumn holiday because it is TOO EARLY for christmas decor
christmas trees and other decor being set up in a department store
September 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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i finally switched my default search engine from google to duckduckgo when i searched “hind rajab” and the first result was a sponsored link to an isr**li government website libelling the hind rajab foundation.
a screenshot of google search results for hind rajab where the first result is a sponsored link to an IL website titled “Don't be fooled by HRF's mask - HRF's disturbing reality”
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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when people tell you the courts will fix it
FT Weekend Trump tariffs Trump's tariffs ruled illegal by US appeals court but stay in place Judges uphold ruling that the president exceeded his authority
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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i thought this had to be a joke and it absolutely is not
screenshot confirming that jake sullivan is the kissinger professor of statecraft at harvard
August 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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refreshing read by @martinsandbu.ft.com calling out EU leaders in their bullshit

on.ft.com/4fS6IDC
As Trump understands so well, talk is not in fact cheap. Political talk sets expectations and shapes power. Mark Rutte’s and Ursula von der Leyen’s ingratiation with Trump matters, because it means foreign leaders now freely grant him what he has already imposed at home: the acceptance that achieving anything requires not speaking the truth. European leaders have also endorsed Trump’s conception of politics as TV performance. As a result, his tantrums, bullying and craving for ritual subjugation are being normalised on the international stage.
August 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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while we’re sharing
ChatGPT, etc. Please don't use ChatGPT or other forms of "generative AI" in this course. ChatGPT makes things superficially easier, but in doing so, it prevents you from learning and retaining things. On top of that, even short periods of regular ChatGPT use are rotting your brains, and the rapid spread of these AI assistants is killing the planet (see module 2 and inter alia), which is facing enough problems already. Presumably, you have signed up for this class because you are interested in learning about certain topics. The best way to do that is by struggling with the texts yourself, engaging with your teacher and your peers to understand the different concepts and arguments, and using your own brain to come up with an original take on the topics we will discuss.
August 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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breakfast in the galeries royales
a small black dog in an ornate, covered street with lots of shops and cafes on either side (a gallery or shopping arcade)
August 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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i've been doing research on coverage of pfas pollution for the past few months. coincidence, i hope?
a screenshot of linkedin showing the top companies my searchers work at, and it's DuPont and Dow
August 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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start up idea: give me three billion dollars. unicorn status guaranteed. any VCs interested? no returns for you unfortunately but that’s #entrepreneurship baby!
Gustav Magnar Witzøe, whose father made him the main shareholder of the fishing company SalMar at the age of 18, topped the list with a fortune of NKr30bn ($3bn) and paid NKr330mn in wealth tax in 2023. But he has no declared income. In 2021, he said the wealth tax forced entrepreneurs to pay themselves dividends from their companies to pay the levy.
August 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM