Elizabeth Chin
@labspeceth.bsky.social
I am an anthropologist and editor in chief of American Anthropologist. Talking about editing, being transparent and stuff like that. #academicsky #anthropology
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Job Klaxon!! Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage, Birkbeck: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY235/l...
Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage at Birkbeck, University of London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Job Klaxon!! Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage, Birkbeck: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY235/l...
What if the AIs had been coded and trained by ppl who never experienced capitalism or Continental philosophy or the "Enlightenment"?
September 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
What if the AIs had been coded and trained by ppl who never experienced capitalism or Continental philosophy or the "Enlightenment"?
Just 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.
September 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Just 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.
"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...
Growth | Clarke & Esposito
Publishers appear to be doing just fine despite AI fears. Two associations run into member backlash for very different reasons.
www.ce-strategy.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"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...
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hello, comrade Wall Street Journal
Not often in agreement the @wsj.com but am here: "Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology"
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Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
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September 14, 2026 at 12:37 PM
hello, comrade Wall Street Journal
This 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
September 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This 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
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#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
lnkd.in/p/gGewHwgJ
September 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
#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
lnkd.in/p/gGewHwgJ
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My 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.
Calamity as Defacement
Abstract. 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...
read.dukeupress.edu
September 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
My 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.
Told an author that their paper read like the forest and the trees and the kitchen sink thrown in. I meant it nicely.
September 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Told an author that their paper read like the forest and the trees and the kitchen sink thrown in. I meant it nicely.
Decision queue back up to 22 and that's AFTER making a half dozen decisions.
September 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Decision queue back up to 22 and that's AFTER making a half dozen decisions.
Thinking that once I'm done editing American Anthropologist, I might quietly exit the discipline altogether. I have other things to do!
September 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Thinking that once I'm done editing American Anthropologist, I might quietly exit the discipline altogether. I have other things to do!
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#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
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
September 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
#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
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
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So many groups studying groups!
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www.poetryproject.org/people/group...
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Experiences 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.
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September 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
So many groups studying groups!
www.poetryproject.org/people/group...
pdf-institute.com/courses/expe...
www.are.na/block/49209422
www.poetryproject.org/people/group...
pdf-institute.com/courses/expe...
www.are.na/block/49209422
Decision queue down below 20 for the first time in weeks. We will see how long this lasts.
September 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Decision queue down below 20 for the first time in weeks. We will see how long this lasts.
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Academia 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.
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Academia 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.
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September 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Academia 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.
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🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
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🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
Update 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!
September 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Update 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!
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I am so tired of anthropological theory that goes immediately to continental philosophy.
September 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I am so tired of anthropological theory that goes immediately to continental philosophy.
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"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-...?
What 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.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"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-...?
Thinking 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..... .
September 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Thinking 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..... .
Anthropologists 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?
September 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Anthropologists 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?
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In "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
September 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
In "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
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Another paper rejected because after sending 15 invites, we couldn't find even one reviewer. This sucks for everyone.
August 30, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Another paper rejected because after sending 15 invites, we couldn't find even one reviewer. This sucks for everyone.
I am no longer backing up my photos to Google. Soon I will be off Google altogether. Whew!
August 30, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I am no longer backing up my photos to Google. Soon I will be off Google altogether. Whew!