My "favourite" thing about this study is the part where achaeologists who found hunting tools/weapons in women's graves assumed they were kitchen implements.
Like, "well Hans, in this woman's grave, we found what inscriptions at the time have named the Flail of Vengeance. As of right now, we are not sure to what culinary task this tool was turned, but conjecture that it was possibly the preparation of small pies."
Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.
I would really appreciate it if some of my white coworkers would stop telling students that identity politics are "on the rise," when this whole fucking country was literally founded on identity politics. Like, ask the Native Americans. Or read a book.
Academic mastodon! Especially people with specialities/focuses in environmental politics, environmental justice, and/or environmental governance - I am the book review editor of Global Environmental Politics, one of the leading journals on the global environment. I am looking for reviewers for several very exciting looking publications on (among others) ecocriticism and environmental narratives/storytelling, plastic pollution, and environmental securitization.
If you are a potential reviewer, or interested in becoming one, please contact me. I am particularly interested in promoting the voices of women and/or BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ and other marginalized voices, but of course, am not restricted to that.
Call to #AcademicMastodon - I am the Book Review Editor for Global Environmental Politics Journal, one of the (if not THE) top journal on... global environmental politics. As such, I am responsible for commissioning reviews of recent books (my timeline is: published within the past 5 years) for publication. These would be both reviews of single books, AND book review essays of 3 books on a shared theme.
For clarity, I am very much committed to using this position to improve the visibility of BIPOC and/or women and/or nonbinary scholarship. As such, while I do NOT accept unsolicited reviews (please don't send them) I am always interested in suggestions for reviewers or recent books.
If you think you know a book that needs more visibility, or a scholar that could benefit from publishing a review in a top journal on global environmental politics, hmu!
When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.
We're calling on #ScienceMastodon#AcademicMastodon & #OpenScience enthusiasts to help us know which communities we should be speaking with as we seek to understand the difficulties around preprint discovery. From societies, labs, preprint review groups & tech initiatives - we’d love to know them all! Here's why 🧵(1/3)
I’m trying to be social here on mastodon but can’t figure out what hashtags people in my field are using??? Looking for Romantic Lit and 18th century lit peeps. Also Gothicists, ecocritics and ecofeminists. #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon
Horrifying look at the new climate reality. Something to keep in mind though, is the way in which environmental vulnerability and stress are mediated by socio-politics: choices about who is made vulnerable and who is not, which predictably fall along ethnic, racial, and class lines, all exacerbate the injustice embedded in climate change.
New publication. Probably the most accessible academic writing I've done. Featuring interviews and conversations with #Indigenous environmental leaders, like my main man, Clayton Thomas-Muller.
EDIT: it's not open source, but I hear that certain unscrupulous individuals may be willing to send copies, if asked. Can you believe that shameful behaviour smh
My dept is hiring! We care about and support folks doing both research and teaching. And #Philly is a great city to live in / near. Come join us! And please help spread the word!
New on my sort-of-academic blog:
"Tldr, not all PhDs are smart, open to criticism, engage in the academic process in good faith, or even do their jobs well. [...] What a PhD does make is egos. A lot of really big egos. Big, fragile egos that they tear down on their own after seeing some young Asian female-passing bitch boost their content."
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On the #enshitification of #academic#publishing. Where scientists burn the candle at both ends, paying to read and publish their work, in what is the ultimate grift.
Do people know about the Zotero group, the 'Fediverse Observatory'? Its a long list of relevant information and sources that mention Fediverse related stuff. Check it out.
Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory. A preprint on SocArxiv of my paper (Trevor Norris co author) on how the Fediverse could help to create instances of urban civic memory archives using place-name/geocoded posts and instance cache archiving. technically a laymans view (me!), but feedback on technical or other aspects gratefully received :)