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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My amazing department is hiring a Linguistic Anthropologist!
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/707272/a...
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/707272/a...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Linguistic Anthropology) - Williamsburg, Virginia job with William & Mary | 707272
Tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in linguistic anthropology
careercenter.americananthro.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My amazing department is hiring a Linguistic Anthropologist!
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/707272/a...
careercenter.americananthro.org/job/707272/a...
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#AARSBL2025 is drawing to a close. Through January 2, save 40% on all books and journal issues in #ReligiousStudies or any other discipline with code AAR25 when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/jewabnc
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#AARSBL2025 is drawing to a close. Through January 2, save 40% on all books and journal issues in #ReligiousStudies or any other discipline with code AAR25 when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/jewabnc
Sending out lots of minor revisions and accept decisions today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sending out lots of minor revisions and accept decisions today.
This was my mother's favorite childhood book, and mine too.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This was my mother's favorite childhood book, and mine too.
Wasn't the 41st floor amazing???
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wasn't the 41st floor amazing???
Realizing yet again that I have no power over the narrative people may have created about who I am, how I work, or anything else. Yet I'm still surprised when they treat me like who they think I am without actually finding out who I am.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Realizing yet again that I have no power over the narrative people may have created about who I am, how I work, or anything else. Yet I'm still surprised when they treat me like who they think I am without actually finding out who I am.
Whaaaat I missed you!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Whaaaat I missed you!!!!
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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.
We are publishing an essay on zines!
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We are publishing an essay on zines!
The long COVID writing rhythm is....a whole new experience.
October 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The long COVID writing rhythm is....a whole new experience.
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JOOOOOOOBS! come join us at SUNY Binghamton!
#GeoSky #AcademicSky
Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940
#GeoSky #AcademicSky
Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
JOOOOOOOBS! come join us at SUNY Binghamton!
#GeoSky #AcademicSky
Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940
#GeoSky #AcademicSky
Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940
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#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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Nory Doesn’t Go to School Here Anymore
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Yeah just like back in the day when the 'nice kids' from San Diego had shot up a homeless encampment and charged as adults per the new law, but that was unfair because that law wasnt meant for them!
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yeah just like back in the day when the 'nice kids' from San Diego had shot up a homeless encampment and charged as adults per the new law, but that was unfair because that law wasnt meant for them!
Writing is hard and it takes time and practice to learn. There are child prodigies in music and math, but not in writing.
October 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Writing is hard and it takes time and practice to learn. There are child prodigies in music and math, but not in writing.
I had to say "This won't make YOU look bad." ( Should have added, esp in the age of social media.)
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I had to say "This won't make YOU look bad." ( Should have added, esp in the age of social media.)
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"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."
St. Louis native Shamari Jackson began studying mortuary science after her boyfriend was fatally shot. Now she uses her work as a form of therapy.
What Being a Mortician to Homicide Victims Taught Me About Grief
St. Louis native Shamari Jackson began studying mortuary science after her boyfriend was fatally shot. Now she uses her work as a form of therapy.
www.themarshallproject.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"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."
Humbling is good! But I'm sure you will also find ways to usefully add your expertise to the discussion.
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Humbling is good! But I'm sure you will also find ways to usefully add your expertise to the discussion.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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.
My pittie is extremely sweet and gentle.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My pittie is extremely sweet and gentle.
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I need this book. Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color’s Guide to Teaching & Thriving by Chavella T. Pittman.
Empowered - University of Oklahoma Press
Experience tells us, and studies confirm, that women faculty of color are among the most overworked, unfairly criticized, and least rewarded individuals serv...
www.oupress.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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.
I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care.
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
The Distortions Hindering Gender-Affirming Care
A Low Quality of Evidence Does Not Mean “Do Not Treat”
jdrescher.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am suspicious of ANY model that is conveniently visualized as a pyramid.
I have books that I will never read, too.
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I have books that I will never read, too.
Create the problem to monetize the solution!
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Create the problem to monetize the solution!