Elizabeth Chin

You could start a business and make more money that way!!!

It's called machine vision for a reason.

Time for TUNNEL OF FUDGE!!!!!

Picture from Tebtebba a group of women are standing or sitting in teal plastic chairs outside in nature surrounded by trees. One is explaining something while the others listen

A group of people of Filipino descent sit around in a semi circle outside listening to a presentation

There’s a group of people sitting around in teal plastic chairs watching a presentation on a black sheet hanging up with a screen being projected onto it. The sheet is tied to two trees

Picture of my auntie doing sone research w/ Ganak da i-Licoy & 11 indigenous groups (including Madukayan, Balangao) in Paracelis in the Philippines (my family is from Cabugbugan) to think through their application for CADT. I think this is great example of true PAR. Having elders lead

Dear everybody who is routinely writing "I hope you're well" in emails, nope, I'm not and don't know when I will be again. It is what it is. I'm not mad. But switch up the language, if only to entertain me!

Cover of Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger by Sophie Chao. The cover features a photograph, taken by the author, of dried betel nuts in a plastic bag. The dried nuts are brown and disk shaped with a wrinkled surface. The bag also contains what appear to be green pods. A finger belonging to a person with Black skin points at the dried nuts.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Land of Famished Beings" by anthropologist Sophie Chao, which examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua.
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Also: I'm learning how to write in super small bites, post covid. Like a sentence or two a day because more than that flattens me.

Thinking we ought to call Thomas Jefferson a pathological progenitor instead of a founding father ..

ScholarOne has locked me out of the system AGAIN. I hope it doesn't take them two weeks to fix the problem this time.

Wheeeeee!

I love a mixed metaphor. Today's is: transparency lifts all boats.

Also: I'm taking on editing clients once I get over this covid crap. I love working with authors!

My income is less than half of what it was when I had my academic job. But I'M SO HAPPY NOW THAT I DON'T CARE.

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

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Started my Friday by sending a decision of minor revisions. Yay!

Just learned that a college hired Deloitte to do things that any competent registrar should already have been doing....while letting go 40 staff because of budget problems.

Cover of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. The cover features a photo of a small concrete building painted with red polka dots, set in an arid landscape under a clear blue sky. The house is part of an art installation by Álvaro Enciso, "La Casa de los Puntos Rojos." The image is placed against a black background with minimalist white and pale blue text. Small red dots accent the corners of the design.

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For the first time since I got Covid in May, I wrote a paragraph!

Usually I have way too many thoughts in my head. Post covid, not so much. I kind of like it.

The course is finally starting tomorrow

Shannon is one of my role models. There's life beyond the shit show that is and was academia.

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Feel free to limit your guest list. It's your party, not theirs.

Don't forget your respected elders. But just because they want you to invite their best friends doesn't mean you have to.

Then there are the fabulous friends of friends who you've always wanted to meet. Put them where you can talk to them a lot. But you can only handle a few without spreading yourself too thin. Who are the right guests for this specific event?

Rather than writing blah lit review, it might be useful to think of those you cite as guests invited to a wedding. You know, EVERYBODY knows that old uncle Bob is gross. You could invite him and stick him in the corner. Or you could not invite him. But do not seat him at the main table.

Luckily, it is extremely difficult for good ethnography to be AI generated.

Higher up admins do not acknowledged the very concrete negative effects on junior faculty when it comes to meeting tenure and promotion expectations.
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Any image of watermelon is SUSPECT!!!!!!

Getting some of my editorial mojo back. NOTE: citing relevant literature is not the same thing as laying out a compelling argument or posing a provocation to the discipline.