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!

My income is less than half of what it was when I had my academic job. But I'M SO HAPPY NOW THAT I DON'T CARE.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Started my Friday by sending a decision of minor revisions. Yay!

Just learned that a college hired Deloitte to do things that any competent registrar should already have been doing....while letting go 40 staff because of budget problems.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Beyond Sanctuary," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. The contributors examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. buff.ly/dkugyD1

For the first time since I got Covid in May, I wrote a paragraph!

Usually I have way too many thoughts in my head. Post covid, not so much. I kind of like it.

The course is finally starting tomorrow

Shannon is one of my role models. There's life beyond the shit show that is and was academia.

Rather than writing blah lit review, it might be useful to think of those you cite as guests invited to a wedding. You know, EVERYBODY knows that old uncle Bob is gross. You could invite him and stick him in the corner. Or you could not invite him. But do not seat him at the main table.

Luckily, it is extremely difficult for good ethnography to be AI generated.

Higher up admins do not acknowledged the very concrete negative effects on junior faculty when it comes to meeting tenure and promotion expectations. 1/5 🧵#AcademicSky