I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have received an @ERC_Research Starting Grant with my project VetValues! Very excited to continue my research on veterinarians and livestock production and grateful for all the support I received🙏 @UvA_AISSR

So happy my article in @culanth is out! On metabolic politics as a lens for understanding contestations over the power to organize more-than-human eating and feeding relations. Featuring dieting cows, manure, vets, and nitrogen 🐄☁️🌱 #anthrotwitter

📢Come work with us! We are hiring a full professor #Anthropology of Health & Health Care @UvA_AISSR #anthrotwitter

📢Looking for (visual) #anthro/#STS researcher for a PhD project on human-animal relations, technology and multimodal methods. Applicants can apply with their own project idea! You'll be working with @IldikoZonga, Martha Dietrich & me as supervisory team🤗

Very excited to be welcoming Sophie Chao @chao_mh to the Anthropology department of @UvA_Amsterdam on april 11! @UvA_AISSR with @rebecaibanezm.

Mooie vacature voor een junior onderzoeker of postdoc (dus je kunt ook solliciteren zonder gepromoveerd te zijn) in het "Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives"-project:

Very excited to be welcoming Sophie Chao @chao_mh to the Anthropology department of @UvA_Amsterdam on april 11! @UvA_AISSR with @rebecaibanezm.

Our 2024 Winter issue is on the theme of Utopia! We invite papers to engage with #Utopia as an analytic for the exploration of world-making and world-breaking practices on different scales and in various contexts. https://t.co/3S01iyYl63 #anthromatters @EASAinfo @AntropologenBv

Curious about relations between people and farm animals? Interested in exploring the pressing challenges of European livestock production through studies of veterinary care and its contrasting values? Interested in ethnographic research on farms in NL/IT/SE? Deadline in 3 days!

📢 New on the blog📢 @guillemrubio (@GeosciencesEd) explores the reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia, and how pigs have been transformed into animals that symbolically and economically sustain the nation https://t.co/lT7oOEIWtg

📢Excited to share 3 PhD positions in my project VetValues; PhDs will conduct ethnographic research on the values shaping veterinary farm animal care in NL, Sweden or Italy. Please consider applying and spread the word! https://t.co/ihNXK6YJEN @UvA_AISSR #anthrotwitter @STSeasst

Just a few days left to register for our our webinar on Roots - Unearthing Race, Landscapes, and Ancestors. With Dallas Tomah, Matija Miličić,@GerwinSchie& @MaikeMelles. Hope to see you there! @AntropologenBv. #anthrotwitter

📢Excited to share 3 PhD positions in my project VetValues; PhDs will conduct ethnographic research on the values shaping veterinary farm animal care in NL, Sweden or Italy. Please consider applying and spread the word! https://t.co/ihNXK6YJEN @UvA_AISSR #anthrotwitter @STSeasst

📢 Exciting postdoc vacancy in the “Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives” project. Based in the UvA Medical Faculty, but with strong ties to our anthropology department. Fluency in Dutch is required. Please consider applying!

UPDATE: the first of the two postdoc vacancies for this exciting project is now online:

Join @amyxclare & me at 4S/@STSeasst: 'Veterinary Worlds and the Challenges of Multispecies Coexistence', a panel on veterinary care dilemmas, vets’ roles in the politics & governance of human and animal life & technological innovations of veterinary work.

Mooie PhD vacature: anthro/socio STS studie van het MicroHealth project, over het microbioom van planten, het effect daarvan op de gezondheid van mensen en de sociale en politieke dynamieken rond de ontwikkeling van nieuwe landbouwproducten op dit gebied.

And the link to the PhD positions focusing on either the extraction of phosphate, the fishing of sea sponges or the cultivation of tomatoes:

📢Vacancy: #STS #anthrotwitter postdoc and PhDs in the ERC 'Vital Elements' exploring the chronic, (neo-)colonial depletion of livelihoods in the south of Tunisia through ao phosphate, tomatoes & water. With my dear colleague Amade M'charek @UvA_AISSR.

📢The #EASST4S2024 Call for Open Panels is open! Submit your proposal until October 23rd via the link below. This joint #conferenceof @STSeasst and @4sWebis hosted by @AthenaInst at @VUamsterdam 🗓️16-19 July Questions? ✉️conference@easst4s2024.net https://t.co/BMhYDVwLn4

CFP: Fiction. For our upcoming issue of #Etnofoor, we want to explore what ‘writing otherwise’ may offer #anthropology. We encourage alternative ways and forms of writing and aim to develop an anthropological understanding of #fiction. https://t.co/3S01iyYl63 #EASA #anthrotwitter