In March I did this 🧵on what anthropology offers; now I am being made redundant by Goldsmiths I just want to put it out again. I am an anthropologist & do feel I can offer a lot for climate, environment & other work beyond academia - if you see anything, let me know 🙏
Here's a new Briefing about implications of our new major mask review for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Winter is on the way, respiratory infection rates are up, & there's a potential new pandemic on the horizon.
Mask work & New Zealanders are missing out.
https://t.co/kAdejjb2nz
📣📣Looking for #research participants!📣📣 Are you a USA-based adult who postponed or is/was unable to get #healthcare you wanted or needed for non-#COVID health concerns during the #pandemic? Researchers at @SetonHall University want to hear more about your experiences! (1/2)
Interested in doing a PhD in disability history? We're advertising a fully funded AHRC CDP PhD Scholarship: Arts, Activisdm, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980-Present https://t.co/F9XFsueogd based @SwanseaHistory and @NLWales. #dishist
Today, a group of international experts led by Prof Lidia Morawska FAA (@QUT) has presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in @ScienceMagazine. How can indoor air quality standards be monitored and enforced? Read: https://t.co/NWOs2YMMPJ
“It’s critical that any review of higher education must feature staff and student voices at its heart – there is no science sector or tertiary education system without us.” - @GreyNZ https://t.co/0YR8BfX3Lx
Wonderful to catch up with old friends and colleagues in LA at #PPA2024 and #AABA2024.
Now to entice folks to Auckland for #ASHB2025...! @AusHumanBiology
Anthropology is closing at Kent. We were unsuccessful in persuading management to retain this diverse and dynamic subject area. This spells the end for Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Ethnobotany. Done.
https://t.co/aEDG00OI4y
I can't even speak at the moment. Frans de Waal's death is a profound loss in the world of animal-behavior science. My sincere condolences to his family and closest friends. https://t.co/nhWD3Amc5v #primates#anthropology#ethology#animalbehavior#chimpanzees
So sad to hear that Paul Alexander passed yesterday at age 78 from Covid-19. Paul contracted polio in 1952, when he was just six years old. He ended up in an iron lung and while he could live outside it for extended periods of time he never really left it.
Paul Alexander died yesterday of #COVID19, at age 78. He contracted #polio in 1952, at age 6, and was paralyzed from the neck down. Paul lived the next 72 years in an iron lung.
https://t.co/l1B4uDOws3
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https://t.co/z502pAhpEn via @MarchofDimes@kakape
There have been 8 cases of #measles reported in Canada in the past week, almost as many of all of 2024. Worse yet, some cases appear to be domestic spread -- and March break travel is coming, by @carlyweeks
https://t.co/qQwxy12wFa via @globeandmail
#Measles spreading in Ontario, Quebec with cases of unknown origin. If community transmission is occurring, that would have significant public-health ramifications, by @carlyweeks https://t.co/qQwxy12wFa via @globeandmail#vaccination