In this podcast, Eben Kirksey, author of ‘The Mutant Project’ discusses the work of Jiankui He, who created the first genetically modified babies. #Ethics

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🧬Get 50% off the paperback with code MUT50 until Sunday: ow.ly/7yWy50R9mQA

For UK readers: 50% off my last book, which offers a window into the Chinese laboratory where unborn children were used to test CRISPR gene editing techniques.

Reposting this Oxford Medical Anthropology professorship because there are still a couple of weeks to apply. Happy to answer any questions about the position or the department. Deadline: 26 April 2024, 12 noon (UK time)

📢 Job alert!
The University of Lausanne (Université de Lausanne) are recruiting a Ph.D. student in cultural & social anthropology with interests in env. anthro, anthro of energy, climate justice, and extractives.
5 year position, excellent resources.
More info ⤵️
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We helped launch Haunting Biology by Emma Kowal today in Oxford. The book engages with imporant questions like: What are the anti-racist possibilities of Indigenous biology?

A cool multispecies CFP from Ludwig Weh, a scholar I just met in Berlin, plus a broader editorial collective. They have a fun writing workshop planned for later this year. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/26…

We are hiring! Who wants to join the Medical Anthropology team at Oxford Anthropology?

Full details on-line
anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/associ…

Hey Berlin, ready or not, here I come! On Fridày at 2:30pm I'll be speaking about Decentered Multispecies Design, at a more than human happening near you. more-than-human.eu/en/

We are printing 30,000 copies of Kafka's Metamorphosis and distributing them for free to Oxford students, staff, and the public. Come to events featuring leading disabled thinkers, gene editors, and more-than-human thinkers. Save the date: 3 June. #oxfordkafka24 #oxfordreadskafka

We are printing 30,000 copies of Kafka's Metamorphosis and distributing them for free to Oxford students, staff, and the public. Come to events featuring leading disabled thinkers, gene editors, and more-than-human thinkers. Save the date: 3rd June. #kafka24 #oxfordreadskafka

FULL-TIME PHD FUNDING: applications on #Anthropocene thought and practice, #posthumanism , #hope , #BigData , race and political ontology welcomed - fee waiver and an annual stipend of £20,622 for three years. Deadline: 8 March 2024 westminster.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Nice to be speaking about hope alongside David Chandler this weekend in Oxford.

Ball pythons are named for their fear response--they curl up in a ball when people, or other threats, are around. Read my thoughts on pythons as pets in the latest edition of The New Yorker. The New Yorker

Excited to release a new season of the Oxford Anthropology Podcast. I've been working with an amazing team of students and staff to broadcast our weekly department seminars. Thanks especially to the amazing Sebastian Antoine Salay for sound design and Stanley Ulijaszek for mentorship.

Enjoying a talk by Steve Hinchliffe with lots of engagement with other animal and viral ethnographers whose work I love. Big shout out to Alex Blanchette and Lyle Fearnley

Anyone out there want a two year postdoc fellowship that could be hosted here at Oxford?

Love these images from the multispecies field school in #Thailand with Prof Eben Kirksey
The group are training in multispecies ethnography & #ecology , focusing on cave #ecosystems near Thai Buddhist temples.
We're dreaming of this weather in Oxford!🥶

A flock of birds? A swarm of insects?
Not quite - this is a huge colony of bats! 🦇😲
This amazing video was recorded as part of the multispecies field school currently taking place in Thailand, run by Prof Eben Kirksey Eben Kirksey & Prof Alice Hughes The University of Hong Kong ⬇️

I learned a ton from Jason Shepherd and colleagues in Utah this week. Fun to learn all about viral elements in our neurons!

Had the privilege to revisit and re-encounter former fieldwork earlier this year ~ examining the sonic traces of gentrification and militarisation in Azerbaijan. Thank you Eben Kirksey and Oxford Anthropology for hosting me!