Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 22hHey anthropologists, what is an ethnography that you return to again and again, whether because you love it or hate it? 211
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."recruit.apo.ucla.eduAssistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now! 05942
Reposted by Elizabeth Chinnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 5452232094
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 193112202139
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I miss having a neighborhood tamale guy driving the streets. 010
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinKatharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @kokedit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I admire what editor-in-chief Jeffrey A. Brune did, & I hope other #journals’ #EditorsInChief follow his lead. @retractionwatch.com: “The editor took the extra step of informing all scholars who could have been harmed by the #hallucinated #citation[s]. …” retractionwatch.com/2026/09/25/a...retractionwatch.comAbove and beyond: An editor wanted authors to know they’d been falsely citedCredit: tadamichi/iStock Like many college professors today, Sarah S. Richardson has seen AI-hallucinated citations in work submitted by her students. But she was surprised when an editor recently … 031
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ok....the anthropology section of the Vanderbilt Report has dropped. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...vanderbilt.eduJoseph HenrichThe Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse... 022
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much hidden curriculum in academic publishing. 000
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinMyriam Mompoint @mmompointphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A comparative look at televisual productions exploring dramatic narratives of chattel slavery in Brazil, Colombia, Canada, the United States, Saint Domingue (Haiti), Jamaica. 084
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Working on an ms. written by an Oxford professor who (horrors) does not use the Oxford comma! The world is ending. 011
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinEmily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Technology can be surprising. Today in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social, Emeka Nwachinemere explains how sometimes the most powerful climate technology is not invented in a laboratory. It is rediscovered in a farmer's field. sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/23/t...sciencepolitics.orgThe Farmer Who Refused to Surrender to the Desert - Science PoliticsSometimes the most powerful climate technology is not invented in a laboratory. It is rediscovered in a farmer's field. 001
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Job Klaxon!! Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage, Birkbeck: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY235/l...jobs.ac.ukLecturer in Archaeology and Heritage at Birkbeck, University of LondonLooking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage on jobs.ac.uk! 0712
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What if the AIs had been coded and trained by ppl who never experienced capitalism or Continental philosophy or the "Enlightenment"? 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just had a reviewer tell me they can't do the review because they have to go to so many emergency meetings about budget cuts and structural changes. I'm mad, but I'm not mad at the reviewer. 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only "high performing" but kind and generous as well! Congratulations!!! 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026 "The real Al risk to the industry may not be to the largest publishers, but to those without the resources to manage Al's growing burden on the publishing process." www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/gr...ce-strategy.comGrowth | Clarke & EspositoPublishers appear to be doing just fine despite AI fears. Two associations run into member backlash for very different reasons. 011
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 14/09/2026hello, comrade Wall Street Journal 0193
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Replacing most men with Chrisopher Walken might be a good idea. 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is to say/I have rejected the article you submitted/and you probably thought it was brilliant/but it was twice the word limit/and your email to your friends seeking "blind" reviewers/was so unethical/ and so rude 030
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And let's have allllll the scientific data viz and illustrations made by AI. 010
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinKatharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS @kokedit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#Editors, here is info about a guide (in PDF form) to things #designers wish #authors and editors knew before sending a #manuscript for #layout: lnkd.in/p/gGewHwgJ 042
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinJean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My new essay—on prosopopoeia, late liberalism, nuclear colonialism and imperialism, and sexual difference—is out in the Sept. issue of @differences.bsky.social. With readings of Albert Serra's Pacifiction, Anohni's Hopelessness, and an ecodrama by Ontroerend Goed. A taste of the big-book-to-come.read.dukeupress.eduCalamity as DefacementAbstract. Prosopopoeia defines legal and discursive efforts to cognize, and to exempt ourselves from, extinction. The figure of the Anthropocene, for instance, fits a human mask onto the modulation of... 02412
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Told an author that their paper read like the forest and the trees and the kitchen sink thrown in. I meant it nicely. 000
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Decision queue back up to 22 and that's AFTER making a half dozen decisions. 000
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Thinking that once I'm done editing American Anthropologist, I might quietly exit the discipline altogether. I have other things to do! 050
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I mean when you already know everything, why cite anybody else? 110
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yeah well in academia....you'd better be having some kind of spiritual protective gear! 010
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinJulie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 07/09/2026#IvoryHeir: the protégé who inherits a powerful faculty member's lab, grants, network, and methods. The system doesn't just protect predators. It reproduces them. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem 043
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026So many groups studying groups! www.poetryproject.org/people/group... pdf-institute.com/courses/expe... www.are.na/block/49209422pdf-institute.comExperiences in Groups — P.D.F.P.D.F. is an experimental school based in New York City that takes the syllabus seriously as a form unto itself. 0144
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Decision queue down below 20 for the first time in weeks. We will see how long this lasts. 011
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026So sad. My daughter went to Hampshire. My high school was a lot like Hampshire, and bit the dust in the early 90s. 110
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinJulie Cruse @academicabuse.com · 06/09/2026Academia shapes you slowly, subtly, and without asking permission. Here's a new resource to help you process that and come back to the real you. buff.ly/wuDf8vr 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStembuff.lyAcademic Recovery Workbook | Academic AbuseAcademia shapes you slowly and without asking permission. This free reflection tool helps you see how and find your way back to who you were before it did. 073
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Super fun project! Keep us posted. I have some former students who might be interested or know ppl who would be... 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Update on the article I rejected because: 15 invites, zero reviewers. Sr. Scholar contacted me and said they were going to send a list of other ppl to ask. Another person wrote saying they would do it. So it's going back into the hopper. Solidarity for the win! 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026From the Dean's bio...this might help explain his position...."David Deming is an economist whose work focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market." 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My daughter used to perform along with the film. "Mommy, where's my bucket?" She'd call just before 'Hard knocks life" began. 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Haha but if you don't want your students to get stuck on Mt. Shasta, at least teach them to be very wary.... 110
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 06/09/2026canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comThe university is the crisisThe crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ... 0259
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I am so tired of anthropological theory that goes immediately to continental philosophy. 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026When I worked at a fancy art school, I started teaching a course on race and racism because there were zero classes addressing it...students had the option to work on real life illustrations or data viz..this would be an amazing collaboration opportunity with a graphic design dept! 120
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinSidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Pan-Asian solidarity here is a precarious balance between historical colonisers and the historically colonised, transported to a new colonial framework in the Pākehā settler state." @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-09-...?thespinoff.co.nzWhat even is an ‘Asian’? And why are we bundled together?A new book presents fresh perspectives on what it means to be Asian in Aotearoa. 1149
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You can't see one up out of your cute scraps????? 110
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A couple of people "made it" (John Leguizamo, Alec Mapa, Felicity Huffman...) but those of us who didn't aren't failures and I'd do it all again. 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Thinking back to my undergrad degree in drama and how few of us saw salaries to justify the expense by working in the field. It was a fantastic education that served us in other pursuits. Anthropology, real estate, teaching, law, medicine, entrepreneurship..... . 130
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For me, the conversations are where most of the work gets done! 010
Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Anthropologists working on books: has your press asked you to provide signed release forms for identifiable public figures? Even if you have interview recordings and context that makes it clear they knew they were talking to a researcher? 000
Reposted by Elizabeth ChinDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In "Materia Medica," Nicole N. Ivy @nicotron3000.bsky.social traces the lives of the enslaved women conscripted into the development of US gynecology, exposing the representational labor imposed on black female bodies in both medical and creative works. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/YQSWs0T 11413