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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Publishing a book in an academic series can offer increased visibility and credibility. We’ll help you navigate the unique considerations that come with this opportunity during our March 2 webinar Publishing in a Series for Your First Book.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Publishing a book in an academic series can offer increased visibility and credibility. We’ll help you navigate the unique considerations that come with this opportunity during our March 2 webinar Publishing in a Series for Your First Book.
ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...
ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...
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A thing I got into an argument about with the research ethics board where I'm at is...well, I'm not putting non-anonymized interviews in a server where they might be implicated in AI in deeply unethical ways.
How does research ethics get implicated in this, on top of everything else?
How does research ethics get implicated in this, on top of everything else?
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."
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February 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A thing I got into an argument about with the research ethics board where I'm at is...well, I'm not putting non-anonymized interviews in a server where they might be implicated in AI in deeply unethical ways.
How does research ethics get implicated in this, on top of everything else?
How does research ethics get implicated in this, on top of everything else?
Unicorn alert! Yes! Another author gets minor revisions on first submission! ( Note this often happens because the piece went through review somewhere else and the author has significantly benefitted from that process.)
February 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Unicorn alert! Yes! Another author gets minor revisions on first submission! ( Note this often happens because the piece went through review somewhere else and the author has significantly benefitted from that process.)
I just cannot actually believe that there is an anthropology journal that gets 800 submissions a year. Nope.
February 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I just cannot actually believe that there is an anthropology journal that gets 800 submissions a year. Nope.
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Administration secretly recording faculty.
UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*
UNC-Chapel Hill Preps Policy on Recording Professors
The school aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy and growing fear of surveillance.
www.theassemblync.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Administration secretly recording faculty.
Love this un-essay. There are many ways to do knowledge and thinking.
Look at this amazing textile map of hidden empire that one of my students made!
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Love this un-essay. There are many ways to do knowledge and thinking.
Just realized my data is all incomplete and there's work to do....waaaaaah.
February 9, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Just realized my data is all incomplete and there's work to do....waaaaaah.
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Now we just need the Seahawks & Patriots to come up with some ballet touchdown celebrations.
Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Now we just need the Seahawks & Patriots to come up with some ballet touchdown celebrations.
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looking forward to "wayback studio" exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchive.eu ✨
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
public data cultures at Internet Archive Europe, 9th February 2026
There will be a book event for Public Data Cultures book at the Internet Archive Europe in Amsterdam on 9th February 2026.
jonathangray.org
February 8, 2026 at 11:29 AM
looking forward to "wayback studio" exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchive.eu ✨
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
Is there a through line in wacky racial reproduction behavior that runs from Thomas Jefferson through Elon Musk?
February 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Is there a through line in wacky racial reproduction behavior that runs from Thomas Jefferson through Elon Musk?
I'm not mad when another journal rejects an article after peer review, and the author asks if my journal is interested. Often the author has already done the suggested revisions. If the paper is good enough to publish, publish. The other journal did the peer review and my journal gets the credit!
February 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I'm not mad when another journal rejects an article after peer review, and the author asks if my journal is interested. Often the author has already done the suggested revisions. If the paper is good enough to publish, publish. The other journal did the peer review and my journal gets the credit!
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Be sure to register for Tuesday’s webinar Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book, part of our First Book Publishing Series! Gain tips to decode reviewer comments, respond strategically to critiques, and revise effectively to ensure the best possible book.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Be sure to register for Tuesday’s webinar Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book, part of our First Book Publishing Series! Gain tips to decode reviewer comments, respond strategically to critiques, and revise effectively to ensure the best possible book.
ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...
ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...
Dear authors, when I hold your feet to the fire it's because I care a lot. I'm not trying to torture you.
February 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Dear authors, when I hold your feet to the fire it's because I care a lot. I'm not trying to torture you.
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The first issue of EJA for 2026 is now available to read 🧵
The opening article presents the sobering results of research into the post-Second World War mass grave site of Jama pod Macesnovo gorico in Slovenia:
doi.org/10.1017/eaa....
The opening article presents the sobering results of research into the post-Second World War mass grave site of Jama pod Macesnovo gorico in Slovenia:
doi.org/10.1017/eaa....
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The first issue of EJA for 2026 is now available to read 🧵
The opening article presents the sobering results of research into the post-Second World War mass grave site of Jama pod Macesnovo gorico in Slovenia:
doi.org/10.1017/eaa....
The opening article presents the sobering results of research into the post-Second World War mass grave site of Jama pod Macesnovo gorico in Slovenia:
doi.org/10.1017/eaa....
This interview gets at the resonance between making and writing so beautifully. Both are very rigorous, yielding different but also depthful things ....
Lesley Finn and collage as sensemaking by thoughtful intuition - The Weird Show
Artist Lesley Finn talks about collage, found materials, and archive research, and her interest on mysticism, poetry and book arts.
theweirdshow.info
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This interview gets at the resonance between making and writing so beautifully. Both are very rigorous, yielding different but also depthful things ....
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Occupied Refuge" by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, which shows how humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. buff.ly/HAgl1ii
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Occupied Refuge" by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, which shows how humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. buff.ly/HAgl1ii
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This was my reply to every student who wrote to express interest in working with me as of January 2025, when I realized that each member of our family would be targeted by a different fascist policy and that we had to get out before anyone got seriously injured - or killed.
My reply to an Armenian seeking to do a PhD at Stanford:
I strongly recommend you change your plans and seek a PhD in Europe or China - anywhere but the USA. Even with a student visa, as a foreigner you would be in danger from the Trump administration’s ICE. Even US citizens are in danger.
I strongly recommend you change your plans and seek a PhD in Europe or China - anywhere but the USA. Even with a student visa, as a foreigner you would be in danger from the Trump administration’s ICE. Even US citizens are in danger.
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
This was my reply to every student who wrote to express interest in working with me as of January 2025, when I realized that each member of our family would be targeted by a different fascist policy and that we had to get out before anyone got seriously injured - or killed.
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I really shouldn’t have to say this, but… don’t put archaeological artifacts in your rectum. 🏺🧪
Frenchman hospitalized after inserting WWI munition up his rear
The shell, unexploded at the time of removal, resulted in the evacuation of the hospital, with an EOD squad called to clear the area.
www.militarytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I really shouldn’t have to say this, but… don’t put archaeological artifacts in your rectum. 🏺🧪
Can't help but think so much of this Epstein nastiness is tied up in crap that has roots in Ivy League universities. As in behaviors and traditions among the self appointed elite. The best of the best egging their egos on!
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Can't help but think so much of this Epstein nastiness is tied up in crap that has roots in Ivy League universities. As in behaviors and traditions among the self appointed elite. The best of the best egging their egos on!
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It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Beans Velocci! Their new book Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🥳
dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real
#IoFAuthors
dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real
#IoFAuthors
February 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Beans Velocci! Their new book Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🥳
dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real
#IoFAuthors
dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real
#IoFAuthors
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We'll be hosting an online info session about our MA in Visual Anthropology on 11 February, 2pm GMT. Please share with any of your students who might be interested in the programme.
www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
More info on the MAVA on our new website: granadacentre.co.uk/ma-visual-an...
www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
More info on the MAVA on our new website: granadacentre.co.uk/ma-visual-an...
Visual Anthropology booking form | Taught master’s | The University of Manchester
Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.
www.manchester.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We'll be hosting an online info session about our MA in Visual Anthropology on 11 February, 2pm GMT. Please share with any of your students who might be interested in the programme.
www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
More info on the MAVA on our new website: granadacentre.co.uk/ma-visual-an...
www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
More info on the MAVA on our new website: granadacentre.co.uk/ma-visual-an...
Radical theorists who manage to stay very patriarchy friendly. Tired of them.
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Radical theorists who manage to stay very patriarchy friendly. Tired of them.
Don't have much to say because the long COVID has had me mostly in bed again....this is getting very old.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Don't have much to say because the long COVID has had me mostly in bed again....this is getting very old.
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Call for papers: Anatomical Sciences Education Special Issue
'Art and Anatomy: A different perspective' from the Global South anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
'Art and Anatomy: A different perspective' from the Global South anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Anatomical Sciences Education Call for Papers Art and Anatomy: A different perspective
<em>Anatomical Sciences Education</em> journal provides an international forum for the exchange of ideas, innovations and research in topics related to anatomy education.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Call for papers: Anatomical Sciences Education Special Issue
'Art and Anatomy: A different perspective' from the Global South anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
'Art and Anatomy: A different perspective' from the Global South anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...