I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

That feeling when you submit something that really isn't where you want it to be but you are way past the deadline and just have to get something in.

The long COVID writing rhythm is....a whole new experience.

JOOOOOOOBS! come join us at SUNY Binghamton! #GeoSky #AcademicSky Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940

#GiftArticle from the NYT about a 17-yo Los Angeles student & her mother deported at the start of her senior year, with reporting from Guatemala on what happened there.... 💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Writing is hard and it takes time and practice to learn. There are child prodigies in music and math, but not in writing.

"I focus on letting them know what I’ve learned. And the crazy thing about grief is it’s like rain: Sometimes you can smell when the rain is coming, and sometimes it just comes outta nowhere."

To that senior person who reviewed the junior scholar's work for another publication, then went out and published the concept....we see you. And it ain't pretty.

I need this book. Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color’s Guide to Teaching & Thriving by Chavella T. Pittman.

I am suspicious of ANY model that is conveniently visualized as a pyramid.

Attended the indie comics festival DICE Comics again this year and purchased a few fun comics and zines. #comics #ComicsStudies #zines

Today's editorial advice to an author: OMG please do not add the idea of the more than human in the very last sentence of your piece! #anthropology #academicsky

Tatter is just so cool. Now, a class on Wiener Werkstätte embroidery:

My teammate on an H1B was just starting some fieldwork at a new implementation site for safe+natal. But instead of engaging with our community partners, he's rushing back to the US this weekend to avoid the possible $100k ransom. Science is impossible under these conditions.

Guys they're onto trantifa but they don't know about the trantifada

As an anthropologist I can tell you that people are always the problem.

The amazing ppl at IDEAS ON Fire are offering a free first book webinar.#academicsky

Plagiarism? Not on my watch. Learn how to identify intellectual property theft in academia, and how to defend against it: buff.ly/klswTSM 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #AddToBlackEduSky #FeministSky

This is so incredibly cool!!!

Pre-orders for Carved in Stone are open!! This book is gorgeous, and I am so grateful to use it (and the artwork!) in my videos. You can pre-order from @stoutstoat.co.uk here: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone Thanks to @archaeonado.bsky.social for the endorsement! 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky

Maybe I will have a pop up rage room at the annual meeting. Yea or nay?

The first time I heard the phrase "publish a dataset" I thought, "well, that doesn't apply to us. Why would an anthropologist publish their data?" It's been a minute, and now I understand why *sometimes* it's actually a great thing to do. And we did it!

In this time of expanding state violence, ramped up racism, and fascist nationalism, we need to remind ourselves that people do rise up against all odds. And sometimes set themselves free.

Feeling a little chicken little x Cassandra.

I love footnote brawls! (though sometimes they're ⬇️ 😬)

Slightly diminish a book. Reasonable Expectations

I was today years old when I learned for myself that sometimes the author's advisor does not disclose a conflict of interest as a reviewer.

Really excited that this news has finally become public! Gordon is dearly missed around here, but this will ensure his legacy: Wayne State anthropology museum receives $1.3 million bequest clas.wayne.edu/anthropology...

Crest Hardware is slated for demolition and replacement with an 11-story rental property 😢

Have you recently published a book using anthropological perspectives to study the past? Or the role of the past in the present? Nominations for the Sutlive Prize are open now! #academicsky 🏺🗃️

Sometimes an author--or a reviewer-- just can't let that thing go and I think "do you really want to die on that molehill?"

Kudos are in order for Ideas on Fire author Kris Cohen! His new book, The Human in Bits: Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions, is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉 www.dukeupress.edu/the-human-in... #IoFAuthors

Not my tempest, not my teapot.

That spilt milk has already flown under the bridge.

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

My new long covid symptoms is that I keep coming up with mixed metaphors like: wake up and smell the bacon that I brought home. More coming.

That water under the bridge is spilt milk and we gave away the cow. That's what I have to say about publishing.

#AcademicSky no surprises “Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you’ve ever been curious about what’s involved in being a professional developmental editor for academic writers, I’ve got a webinar coming up on Sept 4 through @efafreelancers.bsky.social where I’ll be giving a comprehensive overview community.the-efa.org/events/Event...

As a journal editor, I think it's useful for authors to aim to submit a piece that is not perfect, but rather, reviewable. #academicsky

The many stages of managing peer reviews..denial, writing, anger, writing, cursing, writing, bargaining, writing,...acceptance for publication..

Picture of my auntie doing sone research w/ Ganak da i-Licoy & 11 indigenous groups (including Madukayan, Balangao) in Paracelis in the Philippines (my family is from Cabugbugan) to think through their application for CADT. I think this is great example of true PAR. Having elders lead

Dear everybody who is routinely writing "I hope you're well" in emails, nope, I'm not and don't know when I will be again. It is what it is. I'm not mad. But switch up the language, if only to entertain me!

Save 30% on #NewBook "Land of Famished Beings" by anthropologist Sophie Chao, which examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua. buff.ly/Nh2IFUJ

Also: I'm learning how to write in super small bites, post covid. Like a sentence or two a day because more than that flattens me.

Thinking we ought to call Thomas Jefferson a pathological progenitor instead of a founding father ..

ScholarOne has locked me out of the system AGAIN. I hope it doesn't take them two weeks to fix the problem this time.

I love a mixed metaphor. Today's is: transparency lifts all boats.

Also: I'm taking on editing clients once I get over this covid crap. I love working with authors!