Why the Startup environment in Silicon Valley is more fruitful than in the Netherlands
by Vivienne Schröder At a pitch event I meet John “startup” Doe*. I am very biased to meet him after the pitches: That name sounds familiar. It sounds…
Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
A Twitter essay by Mary Annaïse Heglar: Sorry, Y’all, but Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
Diskussionskultur in der Wissenschaft. Ein Interview mit “Max Musterwesen”
Anonymität ist in öffentlichen Debatten umstritten. Auf der einen Seite vermutet man Tricks, Verleumdung, Unehrlichkeit, in einer freien Gesellschaft gäbe es keine Gründe für Anonymität. Durch die Ge…
Rezension zur 2. Auflage „Neuer Antisemitismus?“ herausgegeben von Christian Heilbronn, Doron Rabinovici und Natan Sznaider
Der Frage was mit einem „Neuen Antisemitismus“ gemeint ist, klären die Herausgeber einleitend und meinen, dass es sich dabei um einen Antisemitismus handelt, „der erst nach der Schoah…
How Do Leaders Impact Our Definition of Responsibility?
What happens when our sense of responsibility breaks down? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Leben nach der Heiligen Anastasia. Rechtsradikalismus in Grün
Zur Anastasia-Bewegung gab es bei REMID zuletzt 2016 einen ausführlicheren Artikel (vgl. Rechte Ideologie im esoterischen und neureligiösen Bereich). Über seine Recherchen zu der neuen religiösen Bew…
Weeds don’t exist in the wild: What can that tell us about humans?
Each so-called weed, after all, has a remarkable story to tell. Each is the product of millions of years of evolution. Each is a descendant from an ancient…
DATT/S is on Patreon!
Greetings everyone! I wanted to notify my readers & those who regularly use my content both on DATT & DATS that I will be producing content at. patreon.com/Hood_Biologist.…
An example preprint / working paper
This work is driven by the results in my previous paper on LLMs. Create your slides in Markdown – click the Slides button to check out the example.…
De institutionalisering van salafisme – antropologie en ethiek
Gastauteur: Thijl Sunier Met verbazing las ik het artikel over de perikelen rond de promotie van meneer Soroush in Tilburg en het oordeel van de externe onderzoekscommissie (NRC…
Links & Contents I Liked 319
Hi all, I had a great short trip to Moldova-hence a slightly belated link review without much of an introduction, but a nice pic of a quaint little…
Links & Contents I Liked 319
Hi all, I had a great short trip to Moldova-hence a slightly belated link review without much of an introduction, but a nice pic of a quaint little…
Sharing & Communicating User Research
This blog post is a transcript of a podcast / interview I did earlier this year with Zack Naylor, the CEO of Aurelius. Among other things, we discussed…
Food for Thought: Nourishment, Culture, Meaning
Call for papers The Food Studies Program, New York University (NYU), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe) and the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Univ…
A Head-to-Toe Tour of the Neanderthal
In 1856, a scattered collection of bones was found in the Feldhofer Cave of the Neander Valley in Germany. Scientists had never seen anything like it. The skull…
Why we must go beyond focusing on the ‘overrepresentation’ of racialized people in HIV criminalization by Eli Manning
We can trace an unbroken record of injustice back through generations, to our grandfathers and our grandmothers, our great-grandfathers and to those before them. We can trace them…
The Last Word(s)
After 11 years at the University of Toronto Press, and over 6 years curating this blog, I’m stepping down, hanging up my hat, moving on (choose what euphemism…
“Now I know how the movies are made”. Living through the horrors of war
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “When I think about the war, I imagine that it isn’t real,” Valbona tells me during one of my frequent visits to her family home. “It seems…
How the Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism
In Samoan communities, men traditionally receive a pe’a tattoo from mid-torso to knees as a marker of maturity. Sandra Mu/Getty Images In the 1800s, a chief in the…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush
Unethical social scientific research may negatively impact a society’s trust in our scholarly field. In a recent case of fraudulent research practice the discipline of anthropology, incorrectly, got…
Hacha de piedra, hacha de acero: las mujeres Yir Yoront.
“La suposición del hombre blanco de que su hacha era mucho más eficiente, que su uso le ahorraría tiempo y que, por lo tanto, representaba un “progreso” técnico…
„ETHNOLOGIE HAT MEIN VERSTÄNDNIS FÜR VERSCHIEDENHEIT UND VIELFÄLTIGKEIT GEPRÄGT“
NAME: Nele Gabriel STUDIENFÄCHER: Pädagogik und Ethnologie (Magister), Erziehungswissenschaft und Sonderpädagogik (Diplom) BERUF: Förderschullehrerin __________________________________________________…