How did we get to the point where being able to write well on your own is an āadvantageā in this world instead of a baseline ability? Iām horrified by this.
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How did we get to the point where being able to write well on your own is an āadvantageā in this world instead of a baseline ability? Iām horrified by this.
šØMY DAUGHTER DREW ME PREGNANT WITH HERšØ
Right? Like where did my money go? Oh shoot, it was me
here's what I'm struggling with in my journey to a high fiber diet: I DON'T LIKE BEANS š halp
Itās an advert on insta for some kind of AI you attach to your bank accounts??? Seems like a bad idea?????
Uuuummmmm no??????,,,,???????
My Rapidash is now level 95 and a permanent member of my party
Thrilled for him. Also, it's extremely embarrassing that we're still in "First Black person to ever..." territory in the big year 2025. Please. We know it's not because they're not excellent.
All Iām saying is that it really does say a lot that trump ordered flags half mast for this person but commanded flags be at full mast for his inauguration while they were still meant to be at half for president jimmy carter, a genuinely good man.
I have to admit, Iām confused why flags are half mast right now. He wasnāt a politician, public servant, or particularly impressive person. He was a mediocre white guy with bad opinions and spoke really loud about them. Never ādebatedā in good faith, was openly racist and misogynistic.
It's so important to learn that not all opinions are valid. If someone says that Black people were better off enslaved or under Jim Crow law, that is a shitty opinion and you deserve to be called out and absolutely no one is required to respect that shitty opinion.
Thank you Kroger gas station for giving me a $0.03/gallon discount š„²
So itās possible that this is their martyr
my university is offering $500 to faculty who complete a series of workshops in the spring and guess when they are? that's right, the exact time of day that parents who need to be home for the school bus or pick up from school cannot attend. love it
I mean, he is literally just making stuff up, right?
This is a terrible spot to be in, bc I, like all sane ppl, want grocery prices to go down, but I also do not want them to go down bc I donāt want the orange man to be right about anything
The United States is not a Christian nation, therefore I will not be praying š¤
āDoes not offer many extra credit opportunitiesā is one of my favorite criticisms of a professor bc it tells on itself. Professors (mostly) want you to succeed, and if you do the work originally assigned you probably will
I was upset that Chipotle discontinued the spicy honey chicken, then I remembered that I have a smart brain and that I have honey, spices, and chicken and I can just make it my own damn self
Would it be crazy to do a class on paper next semester? I want to do my Qualitative Research Methods class analog. Printed articles, pens and highlighters in hands, working on reading and thinking together. Will it work
A childrenās book about the Black Death. This goes so hard, I love it š
āYou canāt give ALL your students Asā yes I can and I will
I know it's a big ask for my students to be interested in/excited about cultural theory at 8:00am but I'm feeling really dejected at the lack of any interest in anything I say apparently at all :C most don't even look up
got absolutely slaughtered in a review today. I can't say I disagree with a lot of things they said. First time I've had to consider just withdrawing the manuscript during the revision stage. feels bad!
I loved this one too!
āWhat are even the benefits of your specific researchā well itās always beneficial to improve our knowledge of something, Karen
This popped up in my inbox this morning and I simply refuse to believe I have 17 years of gmail history. They made that up
Iām sitting at the podium preparing my class and Iām thinking the same thing
The fact that my university has class today (a national holiday) is diabolical
My daughter has only been in kindergarten for 2 weeks and I kid you not she can already read
And by referring to my husband and me as kids, I mean we were 26 when she was born and now weāre both 32 and feel like we are both way too young and way too old for everything simultaneously
I hope our daughter loves her life and is gracious enough to realize later that me and her dad were just two kids trying to raise a kid and we did our best
We are never prepared for any pandemic. That's the point. We are reactors, not preventers or preparers. Now, we won't even have the tools to react.
I kind of want to do Death Without Weeping but idk if that would be too long/intense for an undergraduate class? I feel like I read 10 ethnographies per semester (among all my classes) as an upper level undergrad, but that doesn't seem to be the case now.
So I get to teach Qualitative Research Methods next semester! I'd really like my students to read 1 classic ethnography and 1 contemporary ethnography. I have my contemporary pick. I'd be interested to hear from #anthropology #academicsky about their fave classic ethnography for undergrads
I posted this exact thing on Threads and it has received over 400 likes. Bluesky is a tough crowd
the bookstore would be offended if you didn't visit it
it sounds like it could be a pretty big flex to know that for the rest of my life I will have known more about public health than the secretary of HHS, but you peel one layer back from that onion and see who that secretary was and my 5 year old could probably claim the same as me
cis people seek gender-affirming care, too. but even more sinister, the subtext of this is "trans people are dangerous and will k*ll you." don't even think about falling for that message.
add it to the list of reasons health insurance sucks in this place: we decided to consolidate our health insurance onto 1 policy, but we have to pay a $50/paycheck penalty bc I am technically eligible for insurance through my own employerš
My maybe unpopular take about the critique of R. F. Kuang being heavy-handed and not trusting her readers to "get it" is that the vast majority of the audience reading her books wouldn't "get it" without her explaining it to them and the ideas she explores are too important not to get
He will probably enjoy that so much, genuinely. Heās with you!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND TAYLOR SWIFT
I heard myself speak on a recording recently, and idk how my husband tolerates my voice everyday
I feel so inspired right now
Update: I asked it to create a powerpoint slide deck of a lecture outline and the product was absolutely atrocious: ugly, creepy images, bad content. BAD!!!
good morning and happy friday to all, except for people who cruise in the left lane and trucks who speed in the rain
AI is in absolutely everything in Microsoft 365 now. I can't open one single thing without AI Copilot jumping out at me and demanding I input a query. I don't want to "do more work faster" š©
Teaching is super fun for me so that's a given!!š¤
Okay LITERALLY didn't realize how much of a difference 3 years would make but they do look significantly younger!! I had all freshman today which means they were all born in 2007 š
Thank you! I love teaching just a little out of practice!!
Today in the Chronicles of Being North of 30: great feeling to assume that your feet are swollen only to look down and find that they are not in fact swollen and that you will live to see another day
Itās my first day teaching as an assistant professor! And boy, after 3 years of all-research postdocs, I am RUSTY
Celebrating a cute milestone today š¤š
My husband got me PokĆ©mon Arceus for my birthday and just asked me what I was doing on it, so I told him I āhave a Ponyta that I want to evolve into a Rapidash so Iām figuring out how to do thatā and he was IN TEARS laughing (affectionately)
Extremely important headline this morning
tacky tacky tacky
the one on the right could honestly be a photograph
:-)
Thereās NOTHING about it in anthro, itās all from economics and focused on human capital development, so thereās a lot of space to at least think about it from our perspectives!
This paper is the thesis statement of my NSF postdoc fellowship and I am so happy itās out in the world!!!
My new paper "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic" is now published in Evolutionary Anthropology! Please check it out at the link below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
why is amazon sending me an update that my package is 10 stops away? do they think I'm sitting by the door waiting for it? because they're right
what's the science behind kpop? like, specifically why it is consistently so good while other music is only sometimes good
as an anthropologist I looked at this and my first thought was "wow, that's actually good" (I know it's not, it's very bad, but it's another metric for how cooked we are across the board for me to instantly think this was better than usual)
may he rest in peace
that is to say, he'd clearly been thinking about the concept for a long time and the name finally came to him at some point. and a million dollar word at that
Imagine being the person who thought of the concept of "syndemics". I bet it came to Merrill Singer in a dream, and he sat straight up in bed sometime in the year 1990 and said "syndemics"
I ordered one (1) poblano pepper and received nine (9) jalapeƱosš©
I was on Medicaid in 2019 when I was pregnant, because my husband and I were yet to be married and I made $1700/month as a graduate student. Just applying for Medicaid and trying to prove my financial need was a humbling and kind of embarrassing experience.
Me putting Amusing Ourselves To Death (1985) on my Mass Media & Society syllabus for this fall
Iād be a really good NFL analyst
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS WAS SO GOOD OMG
I've seen these ships before at a museum in Oslo and they are much, much bigger than you think they are. It was mesmerizing. 15/10 experience
I just wrote this sentence in a manuscript: "At the end of the 20th century" and now I feel icky. I was born at the end of the 20th century and I don't want it to feel like it was a long time ago.
it's more than a little weird that my new institution sends out emails with motivational quotes followed by an advertisement to buy the university president's motivational book
Kids are so interesting and ask good questions 5yo: Mom, what number is āinfinityā? Me: Infinity isnāt really a number, itās a concept 5yo: What is a concept? Me: Itās like an idea 5yo: So I could say something like āI have an infinity??ā
Wileyās proofing platform is just aaaAAERRTGGGGHHHH *pulls out hair* *kicks and screams on floor* *pushes cup off desk* it could be improved
I finally got my Virginia license and y'all I did NOT know that a Real ID costs $42. I am shook right now
So I haven't taught a class since Spring 2022. We putting AI statements in our syllabi now? And if so, what do they say?
so upsetting
I am supervising a senior thesis this fall (!!!!!!!!!!!) and sent an email to my student this morning, to which I received a "like" over email. Didn't know this was a thing???? I don't mind it bc it was just a basic "hope you're enjoying your summer, see you soon" email but an email like???
NFL is killing us. "Streaming is the solution to cable" is a thing of the distant past. Cable is cheaper now than NFL Sunday Ticket, Prime, and Fubo combined, and it's not close
I do believe one day the US will have a train renaissance. Enough people will long for the trains that we will finally get them. And then we will all be happier. And everything will be fixed. All thanks to the trains.
What makes me mad about this is that as someone who has fully vaccinated my child, and who plans to fully vaccinate future children, my fully vaccinated children will be at risk because of these peoples' selfishness and misunderstanding
my favorite thing about the blue ridge mountains is that they really are blue
Oh I can imagine it quite well. That is evil in the first place, but to have some "guaranteed" money and then for it to be taken as a punishment for not being able to get enough of your other money for reasons that are out of your control is a special different kind of evil
Off topic, this is probably my favorite Seinfeld moment
Hope you find some!!
This is a long-shot, but do any of my anthro colleagues have longitudinal child growth data to share? I'm looking to give my students data on individual, anonymous kids for them to analyze.
Imagine having a 50% soft money job for which you're having trouble filling out the other 50% for bc of the caprice of funding, and then getting your guaranteed salary reduced on top of that lmao we are soooo beyond cooked
This is my heart rate chart from my workout today. Do you think itās obvious that I started running and then decided I would actually be walking
P.S. $5000 open access fee š I don't have that, so if you ever want this article I will happily share with you, just ask.
I just read it again and it rocks. I hope y'all like it
I wrote a 13,000-word paper and to my tremendous surprise they have actually accepted it LOL "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic" forthcoming in Evolutionary Anthropology, sole-authored by yours trulyš¤
The number of those I applied to and was rejected fromā¦
And while I'm still here, demography does not inherently belong in sociology
And while I'm here already/still mad about this the population studies centers say that they want to hire anthropologists then they should actually do it instead of hiring sociologists for every single postdoctoral fellowship and faculty position that has ever existed
A distaunt cousin of the Pret a Manger wher Virginia Woolf worked out the structure of *To the Lighthouse*
I have literally also always thought this as well