#Anthropologists

HBES

HumBehEvoSoc

We're LIVE! Come join or follow our live tweet thread here! Today we're talking about #BeyondWEIRD and increasing diversity in cross-cultural research. First topic of discussion: The WEIRDest People

Leah Eff

9BillionTigers

The word "fetish" is very misused but I still don't quite agree with this! Here's a thread about the genealogy of sexual fetishism.https://twitter.com/daemonumx/status/1253733805334188032 1. General fetishism:To fetishize a thing is

Omri Grinberg

OmriAnthro

1/15 NEW(ish) articles+special issue: @liana_chua and I co-edited WITNESSING: TRUTHS, TECHNOLOGIES, TRANSFORMATIONS now out and #openaccess on The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (props to @BerghahnAnthro ) See here:https://www.berghahnjo

Rachael Twumasi-Corson

RaeCorson

Been asked to do a haircare SCAMS thread on behalf of @Afrocenchix as inspired by this great one on skincare.Let’s go. https://twitter.com/angelamavalla/status/1365273876096311298 First off, porosity. Hair is not porous. It

Rain Mason, PhD, BLM, ACAB 🦊

500livesasafox

How academic psychology tries (and fails) to dunk on astrology, a thread. 1/https://twitter.com/500livesasafox/status/1259255911102722049 The root of the problem is a construct called “magical thinking” that developmental psychologists like Piaget us

Uriah

crimkadid

Going to come out of eight years of Twitter lurking to try and answer some basic problems of human variation, first one being: "why are Polynesians so big and strong?",

Hannah Erroneous

TheMonaOgg

Neurodivergent folks who want to learn more about hidden meanings - tumblr is not a terribly reliable source, but you know what IS useful? Books by linguists! Linguists are often

Ahmed

Egyptian_900

A thread about the DNA (as well as cranial and dental) evidence that shows that Egyptians are overwhelmingly indigenous. 1) this one is the easiestNational Geographic Genographic project that concludes

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

Yes, that must be it. Thanks for playing.https://twitter.com/littmath/status/1279700988660768768 One thing that is totally bewildering right now is the number of people who accept these two premises:1) Social justice is very

IndSciComm

IndSciComm

A couple of hours ago, @LizNeeley and @edyong209 hosted a fascinating discussion on 'How To Talk About Coronavirus - Science Communication and Sense Making for Scientists and Healthcare professionals'. Here

Build Soil: cultivar castaños comestibles.

BuildSoil

I mostly talk about soil but that’s because it’s a measure &leverage point for fixing the entire system. I have many other interests which yes often trace back to soil.

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

Utterly irresponsibleAn *anthropologist* spreading vaccine hysteria (hate the word but she’s using the uterus to spread vaccine fear) NOT AT ALL controlling forprior COVIDb4 vaccinePerimenopausal included?!?This is why you need

Simon Wardley ❤️🇺🇦

swardley

X : Thoughts on digital transformation?Me : Oranges?X : Sorry, what?Me : My thoughts exactly. What do you mean by digital transformation?X : Being more digital.Me : Heaven help us

Chris Kavanagh

C_Kavanagh

So kicking off the chapter by chapter #CynicalTheories review/reaction-a-thon with a look at the Introduction. There’s quite a lot of ground covered over 9 pages so strap in. The introduction

April M. Beisaw

AprilMBeisaw

There is an archaeology of racism that needs to get into our syllabi. Identity and violent death: Contextualizing lethal gun violence within the African American community of Dallas, TX (1900—1907)

Gabriella “Biella” Coleman

BiellaColeman

A couple of ironic bits about the Harper's letter: 1. they are condemning ... the very thing they are supporting .... speech. They want controlled speech without consequence. That's just