Himalayan Musk Rose (Rosa brunanii): As beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru #modernity, to #internetity, in #MediaCreated #covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCulturalArtForms will emerge post #GroupVideo in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook? * * * Blockchain DNA (at atom & cell levels)? * * * MIT: "Thinking with Microbes - a seminar series on infection, disease and finitude" * * Where could a genetic historian find all the evidence & data, scientifically & legally, for #SARSCoV2 #covid19 in all 200 countries' labs, medical systems, & navigating these nation states' ~200 languages & scientific practices? Add this to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics? * * * To online MD Psychiatry at @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry planned in each of all ~200 countries' Univs. * "@StanfordPSY's @_Roberts_Laura & editorial board colleagues from @AcadMedJournal share their perspective on reporting guidelines to promote ongoing dialogue on the subject: https://bit.ly/2U0CrcX"

Such beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru time to bring Indians TOGETHER as ritual~ #Bollywood ~thru #modernity, & #internetity In Media-created #covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCulturalArtForms emerge in #GroupVideo?

Such beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru time to bring Indians TOGETHER as ritual~ #Bollywood ~thru #modernity, & #internetity In Media-created #covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology#AmericanCulturalArtForms emerge in #GroupVideo? https://t.co/K8vghmAjvD

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) November 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1328866573046562816?s=20

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Such beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru time to bring Indians TOGETHER as ritual~ #Bollywood ~thru #modernity, & #internetity In Media-created #covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCulturalArtForms emerge in #GroupVideo?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1328860780083568643?s=20

Pic

https://twitter.com/Shaadifever_ent/status/1326800567327313920?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1328862115772305408?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1328865586294636544?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1328866040780996608?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1328866573046562816?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1328867164137218048?s=20

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As beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru #modernity, to #internetity, in #MediaCreated #covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology #AmericanCulturalArtForms will emerge post #GroupVideo in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook?

As beautiful #ClassicalIndianMusic comes thru #modernity, to #internetity, in #MediaCreated#covid19 pandemic, to further #GeneticEngineering, what new #WUaSanthropology#AmericanCulturalArtForms will emerge post #GroupVideo in #RealisticVirtualHarbin#VirtualSoaking@HarbinBook? https://t.co/JQwBL5Ip16

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) November 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329166990154469377?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1329197801746489345?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329198248351854594?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1329198480611438593?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329198884468342785?s=20

https://twitter.com/TantwayRaj/status/1329058654893445121

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Blockchain DNA (at atom & cell levels)? "George Church’s genetics on the blockchain startup just raised $4.3 million from Khosla"https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/george-churchs-genetics-on-the-blockchain-startup-just-raised-4-3-million-from-khosla/"With startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost genome sequencing" https://www.statnews.com/2018/02/07/george-church-cryptocurrency-genome-sequencing/ ? #WUaSBlockchainLedger ~

Blockchain DNA (at atom & cell levels)? "George Church’s genetics on the blockchain startup just raised $4.3 million from Khosla"https://t.co/jroSJsq8ve"With startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost genome sequencing"https://t.co/fSMzZnT0uG? #WUaSBlockchainLedger~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329145797993066496?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329194979877474304?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329198968702529536?s=20

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MIT: Thinking with Microbes - a seminar series on infection, disease and finitude

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-with-microbes-seminar-2-on-infection-disease-and-finitude-tickets-126063975745

https://twitter.com/MITanthropology/status/1329097282604527617?s=20

A question for Heather & Celia: first of all, thank you again for this excellent conversation! If scientists, anthropologists, and researchers begin to blockchain microbes (see George Church video & Tweets below) and viruses for further study re security (of blockchains) at cellular and atomic levels, including block chaining genomics for privacy in reproduction - how might we best begin to study this socioculturally (in the context of ‘internality,’ that is analytically post ‘modernity,’ and post ‘postmodernity’ - as conditions) as context informing the finitude of Covid-19, for ex.?

blockchain - 

George Church - The Future of Humanity | Xapiens Symposium

https://youtu.be/oQV_1b_sC_g

privacy - 

We are excited to be launching safeM8, the first and only privacy-preserving app that allows you to check genetic compatibility for severe inherited conditions with your romantic partners. 

https://twitter.com/digid8fun/status/1326268262921998342?s=20

re the above privacy post on Prof Church's feed -

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20

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Thinking with Microbes - a seminar series on infection, disease and finitude

Centre for Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London

Speakers: Celia Lowe and Heather Paxson

Chaired by Bryan Lim & Marsha Rosengarten

Prevailing ideas around the autonomous self are being revised in the field of biology. No longer framed as the study of self-contained entities, biology increasingly appreciates ‘individual’ animals as organised multispecies consortias living in symbiotic commune. This ecological shift in the biological sciences is also paralleled by a similar turn to the ‘non-human’ in the social sciences and humanities, and can be seen more specifically in the work of scholars affiliated with philosophical Posthumanism and other related and cognate fields such as human-animal studies, political ecology, new materialisms and multispecies ethnography. Focusing on human entanglements and dependencies with insects (Beisel, Kelly, & Tousignant, 2013; Raffles, 2010), dogs (Haraway, 2008; Kohn, 2007), meerkats (Candea, 2010), forests (Kohn, 2013), plants (Hustak & Myers, 2012) and matsutake mushrooms (Tsing, 2015), scholars have interrogated anthropocentrism by illustrating the myriad of ways in which the world we inhabit and what we are, only comes-into-being through multispecies engagements. Anthropologist and multispecies scholar, Stefan Helmreich (2014), proposes for example, that the human, Homo sapien be reconceptualised as Homo microbis, a fleshy assemblage co-produced with and through messy entanglements with our more-than-human microbial companions whom we share the world with.

As a means of thinking through the pragmatics of being kin with more-than-human others, such research has thus far tended to focus on commensal or at the very least, non-lethal others as a means of illustrating symbiotic relations that challenges the idea of human exceptionalism and atomistic self-sufficiency. From helminths to gut bacteria to palm trees and sheep, living with these more-than-human others may be problematic and inconvenient at times, but very rarely do they pose a direct threat to human life. Yet, the recent emergence of COVID-19 raises a different set of questions related to finitude - both for the virus, and for us humans. What might it mean to embrace an ‘unloved’ and ‘unloving’ other, if doing so also simultaneously threatens to obliterate one’s very own existence? Faced with a lethal and omnipresent microbe, how do we reckon with the kinds of biopolitical and microbiopolitical calculations needed to reassemble modern life? Is the eradication and/or elimination of such unfavourable microbes the only way forward? Untethered from the drive towards eradication, what then might microbes and infectious diseases have to teach us about different ways of wading through viral clouds, uncertain episto-ontological projects and proliferating utopian and apocalyptic futures?

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FAHE's November Event: Quakers, Social Work and Justice Concerns

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>	Wed, Nov 18, 5:45 PM (19 hours ago)
to paxson

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Hi, Heather, 

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Where could a genetic historian find all the evidence & data, scientifically & legally, for #SARSCoV2 #covid19 in all 200 countries' labs, medical systems, & navigating these nation states' ~200 languages & scientific practices? Add this to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1328949519896154115?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329144556449763328?s=20

Where could a genetic historian find all the EVIDENCE & DATA, scientifically & legally, for #SARSCoV2 #covid19 in all 200 countries' labs, medical systems, & navigating these nation states' ~200 languages & scientific practices? Add this to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

Where could a genetic historian find all the EVIDENCE & DATA, scientifically & legally, for #SARSCoV2#covid19 in all 200 countries' labs, medical systems, & navigating these nation states' ~200 languages & scientific practices? Add this to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics? https://t.co/7pbbWUhqd0

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) November 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/heritagetoronto/status/1263817393421332480?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1329195951123165184?s=20

Where could a genetic historian find all the #EVIDENCE & #covid19DATA, scientifically & legally, for #SARSCoV2 in all 200 countries' labs, medical systems, & navigating these nation states' ~200 languages & scientific practices? Add this to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?

https://twitter.com/heritagetoronto/status/1263817393421332480?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1329199278418399233?s=20

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To online MD Psychiatry at @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry planned in each of all ~200 countries' Univs. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States& in all 7,117 living languages too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages? Online Psychoanalysis too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis /Psychotherapy /Counseling? 

To online MD Psychiatry at @WorldUnivAndSchhttps://t.co/WVSmQmbi7g planned in each of all ~200 countries' Univs. https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4& in all 7,117 living languages too - https://t.co/vPfIrX8DnH? Online Psychoanalysis too https://t.co/Kwr2uv6Heo /Psychotherapy /Counseling? https://t.co/8YX1S2tggy

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1329203121139040256?s=20

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Stanford Psychiatry @StanfordPSY

"@StanfordPSY's @_Roberts_Laura & editorial board colleagues from @AcadMedJournal share their perspective on reporting guidelines to promote ongoing dialogue on the subject: https://bit.ly/2U0CrcX"

https://twitter.com/StanfordPSY/status/1329116164950208513?s=20

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https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rosa_brunonii

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309878

https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_brunonii

https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_brunonii

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/nimrethanda.pdf

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