Luísa Reis Castro
Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof at the University of Southern California; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
In a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles – ela/she
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroNATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro📢 Appel à candidatures – Chaire Amérique Latine (ChAL) La ChAL accueille des enseignants-chercheurs de toute nationalité, spécialistes de l’étude des sociétés latino-américaines. 📄 Le dossier de candidature est à télécharger ici : ipeat.univ-tlse2.fr/.../chaire..... #Chaire #Amérique #Latine
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroMy department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroQ: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them? TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroMy takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro“It’s so sad to see what’s happening in our communities. It’s terrible what the people who live there are going through … Those who live in war zones will understand this pain, this despair and this revolt.”
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- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroICE deteve a diretora brasileira durante entrevista para obtenção do green card: "Ao final do que nos disseram ter sido uma reunião bem-sucedida, o policial usou a desculpa de uma copiadora quebrada para enganá-la e fazê-la se afastar do nosso advogado. Uma vez separada de seu adv, ela foi presa."
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroCan you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
- #AcademicSky #AnthroSky 👇 I just deleted my account...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro🚨 URGENTE A Câmara pode votar hoje a PEC DA BLINDAGEM, uma proposta que serve pra impedir que políticos corruptos sejam presos. 👉🏽 Também chamada de PEC DA BANDIDAGEM, ela determina que deputados só poderão ser investigados pela Polícia com autorização dos PRÓPRIOS DEPUTADOS em VOTAÇÃO SECRETA. +👇🏽
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroAbertura do Jornal Nacional pra colecionar "A história do Brasil tem a primeira condenação de um ex-presidente da república por tentativa de golpe de Estado"
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroJustice Sotomayor, once again, get to the heart of the matter here: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job."
- Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society #STSsky
- We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroNEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroBrazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroSo many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
- TT job in critical sociology of science at the University of San Diego: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroWe had a lot of fun writing this! It’s a nice distillation of what we’ve learned over the past three years editing American Ethnologist, and how we have applied our vision for it. Link in 🧵below. #Anthropology #AnthroSky #publishing #PeerReview #academia
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war. Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.
- 🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟 The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations? New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky
- Out now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell
- Link to the article: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
- I should add that this research was only possible thanks to funding from @ssrc.org's International Diss. Research Fellowship (now defunct), NSF’s Anthro Diss Research Improvement Grant (status: ???) & @wennergrenorg.bsky.social's Diss Fieldwork Grant (the last one standing). Research needs funding!
- 🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟 The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations? New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky
- As I start advising grad students, I’m concerned by how little funding is available for their brilliant projects. Even if we change course (& that will take work!), the long-term effects will be devastating. WG noted this in their letter ending Sapiens to focus on research. bsky.app/profile/wenn...
- The Wenner-Gren Foundation has made the difficult decision to halt the creation of new content for SAPIENS Magazine at the end of 2025. Read President Danilyn Rutherford’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/article/sapi...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroJoin @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10. Please circulate widely!
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroOut now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroNew from @michaelfakhri.bsky.social ‘Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
- Lorena grandona! Brasillll!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 #CopaAmerica
- É emoção demais esse jogo...
- Gooool!
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroThe “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroBetween March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period … Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroPeople keep saying foundations are going to pick up the funding slack, but even Wenner Gren notes that they are seeing a massive uptick in applications as other foundations (not just federal funding agencies!) are themselves not funding basic science as much as they used to.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroThe distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroAs promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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Just finished up this dystopian tv interview regarding disappearances in LA/SoCal/beyond, & here are things YOU can do to help take care of the people in your life that are at high risk as ICE raids continue: - Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health. ”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroBrazilian Table Tenis player was denied entrance in USA for competing in Las Vegas Grand Smash, the reason: He went to Cuba in 2023 for a panamerican tournament competition that was qualifying to 2024 Paris Olympics. Hugo is ranked the 3rd best in the world.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroShabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroOrganizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroI’m not sure how to express how intensely personal these raids feel as an Angeleno. Whatever stereotypes you have in your head about La-La-Land, immigrants are the lifeblood of this city. It’s an assault on what we love about this place.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castro🚨 URGENTE! Mesmo com a forte mobilização contrária, o Senado aprova o #PLdaDevastação, que implode o licenciamento ambiental do país. MAS A PRESSÃO CONTINUA! Agora, o texto volta para a Câmara. A pressão continua para que os deputados rejeitem a proposta e o presidente Lula a vete!
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- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroThey blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroNone of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroHey #anthropology students, consider applying to this opportunity sponsored by @napa-anthro.bsky.social. NAPA is presenting two annual Student Achievement Awards that recognize undergrad & graduate contributions in practicing and applied anthro. Due: 5/23 tinyurl.com/277zfd5b #anthrosky #highered
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroGrávida aos 13 anos após um estupro, Júlia, de 13 anos, e sua mãe foram pressionadas para q a menina ñ realizasse aborto. Dps q o bebê nasceu, elas foram completamente abandonadas pela ONG anti-aborto www.intercept.com.br/2025/05/14/a...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroScience Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
- “Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroThe proposed solution would only provide food and aid to around 60 percent of Gaza's civilians initially, according to a copy of the proposal reviewed by NPR.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroHey, LA region: You have a Hep A outbreak. It’s worse than most years, and the vector is not as easily defined as previous outbreaks. It can be food/water borne, sexually transmitted, transmitted by caregiving, travel, or shared drug use. There is a HIGHLY Effective vaccine & wash your hands!
- Reposted by Luísa Reis Castroi realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroWorth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
- Reposted by Luísa Reis CastroDHS now threatening *all* of Harvard's international students with loss of legal status. Just beyond the pale. #edusky #academicsky #phdsky #highered
