Mallory James

Our latest editorial outlining our AI policy is now out. TL;DR: "Using AI necessitates plagiarism, exploitative labor, environmental harm, and results in definitionally derivative writing."

It is 'bandcamp Friday' on a specific music platform that on certain Fridays, passes all their revenue to the musicians themselves. I recommend this band! countingcardsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/jormun...

Okay kicking my own shins that I didn't check this out earlier!!! This is awesome! It reminds me of the SoCal skatepunk I grew up on. Melodic and a pechant for harmonic choruses but add a smidge of filth to it and a bit of a Metal feel and aesthetic...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

the disparity poem/collage: february 9th, 2026 © #Poetry #ŞehîdNamirin #JinJiyanAzadi

Bridgebuilders and Historians Turned Metal Into Myth thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/bridgebuilde... #Bridges #Engineering #Evolution #Metal via @mitpress.bsky.social

Interesting combined material and conceptual history here: Bridgebuilders and Historians Turned Metal Into Myth thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/bridgebuilde... #Bridges #Engineering #Evolution #Metal via @mitpress.bsky.social #Anthropology #STS

Day 207: No funding this year? What a gift—extra time to reflect, build character, perfect the syllabus, and cultivate resilience. Cheerful perseverance will fund itself! ⏳ #AcademicChatter

Writing my journal article: Dealing with just one subsection at a time 👣 Laying all my sources out, at hand! 🗞🛠 #academicsky #academicchatter #anthropology #sts

It's bandcamp Friday and you can help support my music. Below is the @etherdiver.bsky.social review of my debut album. countingcardsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/jormun...

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #WomensArt

There's an image, now, to illustrate the book destruction we wrote about: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... 😢

Looking forward to energy #anthropology panel proposals for #EASA 2026! 🔌🔦 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Looking forward to energy #anthropology panel proposals for #EASA 2026! 🔌🔦 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Interesting resource for enabling the more deliberate use of language in our professional #writing! #AcademicSky #STS #anthropology www.selfdefined.app

Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

"An interdisciplinary team is not a group of people trained in 'interdisciplinarity'. It’s a group of people who have deep knowledge and sound judgment in their disciplines." Interesting point I just stumbled across here: theconversation.com/why-the-inte... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

I haven't lived in DC for quite a while, but somehow I still was invited to this #Anthropology event, which I am appreciatively watching a recording of now: youtube.com/watch?v=6_1Q...

"Thinking of AI technologies by means of the relationship between mining (as a practice) and energy (as a concept) reminds us of how regrettable environmental legacies can hide behind a clean and innocent-sounding key term set forth as a social good." #AI #STS ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

"How can it be possible to predict a package’s arrival down to the hour, yet know almost nothing about the conditions of its manufacture?" Indeed. logicmag.io/scale/see-no...

Our #energy #anthropology network panel for #EASA Poland 2026! . . . 👁️Thematizing visibility, mediation, and justice🔌🤨 Please send abstracts by 26 Jan. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

I have words, and I am going to use them. I have a voice, and I am going to use it. #AmWriting People in my birth country are trying to curtail the existence of the form of expertise my colleagues and I represent, #Anthropology. But we won't be erased. We will persist! Go #SocialScience go! ❤️‍🔥💪🏼❤️‍🔥

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

"...this infuses responsible professionalism with class-specific loyalties that could more readily serve to dampen, rather than amplify, critiques of engineering’s wider harms." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Universities provide the fundamental infrastructure for decision-making in industry and government. And they provide the tools for bolstering democracy - indeed, this was what the systems we have inherited from the post-war moment were largely for." open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo... #AcademicSky

LMU posted my publications onto the Department's page!! 🥰 www.en.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/publications...

So interesting

Just read this interesting piece from 2018 defining the "analog slot" for social studies of technology, and I think this concept should remain part of the conversation for #sts and #anthropology as we increase our attention to the social studies of #AI. doi.org/10.14506/ca3...

"But what if we do not have common problems, but bitter conflicts over the very definition of our problems, in a context of ever greater polarisation?" #AcademicSky #research #science Horizon Europe’s collaborative projects ask for the impossible www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hori...