Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

pub day with the Journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social! this is the first piece out of my book project on assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan, and is about different ways people in Amman talk about Jordanian Sign Language. open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...

i interviewed Mara Green on her wonderful new book, Making Sense, about signing, ethics, and communication in Nepal on the CaMP Anthropology blog! check it out here: campanthropology.org/2025/02/17/m...

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May this ceasefire last. May it be the first of many steps towards liberation for Palestinians. May Sudan follow!

#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/161627

In July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.

Remember when Israel bombed ONE Gaza hospital causing outrage & Israeli Govt declared “We don’t bomb hospitals it was actually Hamas.” UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them. But it’s not genocide😐 www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commiss...

If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦

my Bluesky handle is now @timothyyloh.com!

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack! Please share and let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Sharing a recent article by @timloh.bsky.social: “An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.” #disabilityanthropology #disabilityjustice

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️ #disability #anthropology #ethnography #CriticalDisabilityStudies

Starter pack for sociolinguistics. Let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/SN3TdzY

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk

Looking forward to discussing this piece by @timloh.bsky.social with my intro disability studies class at @utsc.bsky.social this week!

I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8

🙌Starter pack on Disability, Neurodivergence & Chronic illness go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

Hi friends, please join us for Phoenix of Gaza: From Freedom Dreams to Falasteen Futures🐦‍🔥 Dec 5-6, 2024: bit.ly/PhoenixOfGaza. *Art by Imad Abu Shtayyah + Delali Agawu

We asked Palestinians in Gaza to share their last memories before the genocide. This is what they said. https://buff.ly/48my0i5 #Palestine #Israel

www.sapiens.org/culture/gaza... thanks to SAPIENS Magazine for their editorial support and for giving this a home. donate to the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children here: www.atfaluna.org/en/Donate

Here's a start at a Starter Pack for #medanthro, broadly defined. Some of these folks might not call themselves medical anthropologists, but if they study health, healing systems, or human biology in context, I've included them. Let me know who else should be added to the list. #anthrosky

I’ve tried to put together a non-exhaustive list of anthropologists on bluesky together. Did I miss anyone? Should I add you? go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK #anthropology #anthrosky

September is National Deaf Awareness Month (in the US). We celebrate deaf, deafblind, and deafdisabled people and their intersectional experiences and contributions to the world. 1/n

so excited for the upcoming panel — STACKED full of scholars i admire — in honor of jon henner, led by Octavian Robinson, with Anna Lim, Erin Moriarty, and my collaborator/bluesky parent @linasigns.bsky.social

on Christmas, Gaza, and silence in the face of genocide, and probably one of the most personal things I’ve written. thanks to Red Letter Christians for giving it a home. www.redletterchristians.org/for-this-chr... الله يقويك ويحررك يا فلسطين