Alysse Moldawer

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

"It is time to speak up — clearly, structurally and unapologetically. Time to build sideways, not upwards. Time to lift others without replicating the same extractive ladder."

Great new graphics/slides from The New Yorker on Instagram on the guide to courage that @juliaangwin.com and I wrote after speaking to foreign dissidents and movement leaders. Super helpful way of breaking out advice down to brass tacks.

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Trump administration reverses controversial termination of student visas The Trump administration restored visa registrations for foreign students after setting off a desperate scramble by abruptly terminating them.

ACLU affiliates brought over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration's unlawful termination of student visas across the country — and now the administration seems to be reversing course.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution Science doesn’t occur in a vacuum – politics, harassment and intimidation can hamstring progress.

"Many American scientific institutions are engaged in anticipatory obedience of the Trump administration’s demands that diversity and anti-discrimination programs be abolished, or climate change stop being mentioned. Many even go beyond what is explicitly sought."
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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box

DEI initiatives are still legal.

Universities need to stand their ground.

A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

#citationgratitudes for #primatology #primateconservation Investigates non-participation! Asks WHY ppl choose to not participate. Lack of time, transparency, trust, authority/ownership... "Understanding non-participation in local governance institutions in Indonesia" 2024

This would also be a REALLY good moment for folks to get a lil’ refresher on the Citizens United decision of 2010, which has had the entirely predictable imPACt of making this a country now run by people that billionaires have purchased to do their bidding.

3/ For primatologists, many know Rubis was a 2023
@IPS_Association featured speaker! & many of her works are great reading for her expertise on #decolonial approaches in conservation esp regarding #orangutans #orangutanconservation

June Rubis (@junerubis.bsky.social) In transition.

2/ Making a shortcut of my #citationgratitudes in #primatology & transferring a post I made elsewhere (I have no shame.) This is “Concealing protocols: conservation, Indigenous survivance, and the dilemmas of visibility (2020)” by @junerubis.bsky.social & Noah Theriault

1/ got lots of ?s abt my data & argument on why locally hired, esp Indigenous or ILPC field staff may 'reject' promotions into management roles in research/conservation. I recommend this article for critical insight in what it means to survive, then be asked to participate, in these infrastructures

[A study on forestry management personnel, their perspectives on human-primate conflict & on the lay people impacted by conflict. Discusses how primate management strategies emerge--arguing for research on human-human dimensions to improve clarity on the human aspect of human-primate conflict]

Trying again! #citationgratitudes for #primatology ! Big thanks to @bidisha02.bsky.social to sharing "Is human–rhesus macaque (M...m...) conflict in India a case of human–human conflict?" 2020 by S. Anand, S. Radhakrishna. Excited for more human dimensions research for the human-primate interface!

3/ I feel like DH's work often has under(over?)tones of gender-sex-based violence, & sentence highlights to me how as a white wmn, I must question what it means to "follow" in primatology bcs Im enabled to perpetuate structures of violence (sexism, racism), & must disrupt these

2/ A fav quote abt shift from hunting for sci to conservation sci in primatology: “The best thing to reduce the potency of game for heroic hunting is to demonstrate that inexperienced women could safely do the same thing. Science had already penetrated; women could follow (34).”

1/ Day 2 #citationgratitudes #EthnographyInPrimatology! Seemingly deceptive title & intro subject: hunting & taxidermy! But wonderful analysis on the role of masculine, white heroism in primatological story-telling. Ch.3 “Teddy Bear Patriarchy” in Donna Haraway’s, Primate Visions (transfer from Twt)

3/ Martin, Emily. "Toward an anthropology of immunology: The body as nation state." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4.4 (1990): 410-426.

2/ EM demonstrates constructing immunology can reinforce normalization of the police state, causing me to reflect on unintended consequences of applying primate physiology to conservation-questioning who is unjustly policed at high rates, normalized as protecting NHprimate health

1/ 1st for my #citationgratitudes for #EthnographyInPrimatology (transporting from T to bsky) is the paper that reinforced my commitment to mixing in ethnography as a primate physiology student: “Toward an anthropology of immunology: The body as nation state” by Emily Martin (1990)

3/ To stay engaged daily in finishing my degree, I want to highlight some of my favorite citations that have been wonderful sources, & make me excited to finish my work #citationgratitudes #primatology #ethnography #EthnographyInPrimatology

2/ I study the production of knowledge on free ranging, orangutans in primatological fieldwork. I examine underlying colonial legacies in primate conservation, fieldwork labor, & protocols to assess how fieldwork maintains patterns of inequity, amid goals to correct for it

🧵1/ Finishing my PhD as I work FT outside of school is challenging! So I want to highlight a citation daily(ish?) that Im grateful for to remain engaged & hoping others in #primatology intrsted in social theory, conservation, will find these interesting too! #citationgratitudes

Photo of Alysse [female, white, brown hair tied up], standing in a rubber tree garden, in Indonesia. Alysse is holding a hooked, rubber tree cutter, cutting into the bark of a rubber tree.

Photo of Alysse [female, white, brown hair tied back], collecting orangutan urine by standing in a peat swamp forest (in Indonesia), holding a catch pole out with a plastic bag at the end in one hand, and holding onto a tree to balance with the other.

Photo of a female Bornean orangutan sitting on the forest floor, holding a dead tree branch in both hands. Her face is between her hands as she feeds on termites.

Hi! Im Alysse, PhD Cand. in Anthropology at Rutgers. Live in Davis, CA. Trained in primate physiology, after QEs, switched to ethnography. I study primatology / fieldwork as labor to improve our understanding of how science interacts w society, & how science can be a safer & more inclusive space

Photo of Alysse [female, white, brown hair tied up], standing in a rubber tree garden, in Indonesia. Alysse is holding a hooked, rubber tree cutter, cutting into the bark of a rubber tree.

Photo of Alysse [female, white, brown hair tied back], collecting orangutan urine by standing in a peat swamp forest (in Indonesia), holding a catch pole out with a plastic bag at the end in one hand, and holding onto a tree to balance with the other.

Photo of a female Bornean orangutan sitting on the forest floor, holding a dead tree branch in both hands. Her face is between her hands as she feeds on termites.

Hi! Im Alysse, PhD Cand. in Anthropology at Rutgers. Live in Davis, CA. Trained in primate physiology, after QEs, switched to ethnography. I study primatology / fieldwork as labor to improve our understanding of how science interacts w society, & how science can be a safer & more inclusive space