Robin G Nelson

I'd been trying to read Agustin Fuentes' response to Heinrich's critique of Anthropology for about 2 days - I finally open it & my daughter decides it's time to chat. I read on & see Fuentes linked to my work 😭 I got to show my daughter 🥹 www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

I love spending 1 hr+ uploading receipts to an expense report said every scientist everywhere.

Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

It's soon going to become very clear who is relying on this too much (or at all) - In the words of Nancy Reagan "Just say no" 🫠

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

Just learned we got research funding 😮‍💨🥳

With collaborators & this is the sound of happy scientists - a very low-key "awesome." "robust findings" "exciting"

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

I'm tired. Life tired, normal tired, but then super extra tired b/c - looks around and waves hands frantically - I'm sure we could all use good news, positivity, a little less existential dread

Conservatives have a major political interest in rejecting Lindsay Clancy’s legal defense. If they concede postpartum psychosis is real, they’ll also have to admit that pregnancy and childbirth are dangerous for women’s mental health. And that could take down their abortion politics entirely

AZ has so trained me to be a crack of dawn early morning runner that I am sitting here at a loss b/c there's thunder & lightening and I can't run until...9:30 am. that's practically noon.

I miss NSF SBE. I miss science funding in the US. I miss literacy. I miss intellectualism. I miss when people cared about others' well-being. I miss funding for scientific discovery. I miss dreaming about the future.

The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.

Also as far as science goes - this is a repeatedly asked and answered question (no for the trolls) and yet somehow it remains a talking point for the "intellectually curious" crowd. Go test the validity of gravity - it's just as stupid a question.

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A government actively (and not just passively) against science and scientists is producing predictable results in the US. jobs.physicstoday.org/article/phys...

Really can't take when the study acronym isn't coming together 😤

Saw an amazing grant that fits one of my projects - started reading the fine print. *must be <10 years out from receiving one's doctorate* le sigh. someone is going to thrive with that $$

Things I never thought I'd say but now I live in AZ: I'm about to buy a countertop ice maker - the freezer aint enough

I have to allow myself to sit with the fact that the administration's destruction of scientific research in the US is absolutely devastating. I am actively grieving all that we're losing ~

I just want to show you my new office fridge. Isn't she pretty? it's the small things #academia

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

I'm deep in my Radiohead bag right now - and I'm worried about what that says about the state of the world (and relatedly - my mental health). Last time I remember this happening - I was analyzing data and writing my dissertation in grad school 😳 iykyk

Not going to lie - definitely depressing to hear my husband explaining grad admissions in Tr*mp's America to a very talented international prospective student. It's grim.

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

Sometimes I'm just working away and then I remember that they're making (made?) a film about my dad's life. Completely unreal - like a real film w/ famous actors and a famous director. What is life??

Saw a coyote on my run today - first sighting in a long time.

Had to walk across campus picking things up and dropping things off today and baaaayyyybeeee #asu

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yesterday, my teen son told me that he hasn't heard me be excited about my work in forever - he said all I do is worry and vent about it now. And that friends is the reality of being an anthropologist during this administration

I love a fast Interlibrary loan and ASU's ILL is just 🤌🏾💋

I'm absolutely stunned to hear of Raúl Pacheco-Vega's passing 💔He was a very generous and open scholar. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him well and all of us who learned with and from him.

Happened to everyone on my dad's side (including me) - sad state of affairs over here. Now I know I can have exactly 6 deliciously plump shrimp before I get itchy

went to my college reunion - had a ball and realized that I am completely unprepared for New England weather now. Rain? 55 degrees? in May?

I'm still pulling spines out of my hairline. It's been days 😩

Climate change compounding with Philly problems (old buildings, under-resourced city…ugh).

Called myself doing a little "home improvement" this weekend and bought some cacti for around our pool. I was attacked by a chenille prickly pear y'all - I've been pulling out small spines for 24 hours. I even got them stuck in my hairline. *mistakes were made*

I wonder why journalists insist on using 'remote' to describe places (in Africa) when they're writing about outbreaks of disease. Remoteness is relative, yes, but also: as a descriptor, it implies something about the place w/o actually telling you anything useful re: its residents, harms, risks, etc

I just need one morning without this fascistic bullshit apnews.com/article/redi...

One of my former students - who graduated a decade ago - just had her first baby and sent pics on the group chat. And friends - I am over here crying like a baby. Bearing witness to people's lives is such a gift -

Re: Hantavirus - Surely at this moment we realize why it was terrible idea for the US to withdraw from the WHO? right? smh.

Sometimes you have to go back to your old tried and true productivity methods - pomodoro, it is 😩