Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 16

The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 22:38:19 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈
- ionchy ✔
@nonphatic That's my favourite!!!

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 22:32:53 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈
- ionchy ✔
@nonphatic
🍍 Bagels
🍍 Poutine
🍍 Smoked salmon
🍍 Sit in a park with your wine and a baguette
🍍 Cute cafes on the plateau

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Allison Parrish (aparrish@friend.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 22:23:17 EDT Allison Parrish

Elisabeth of Poland's first invention, Hungary water, was an international hit. However, critical response to her follow up, Thirsty food, was somewhat muted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary_water

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jasmine (jasminee@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 16:06:32 EDT jasmine

#ICanHazPDF
Does anyone have access to a PDF copy of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin Kelley?
I found the introduction and Chapter 8 so far but I would like the whole PDF if possible.
Thanks!

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Zen Faulkes (doctorzen@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 14:53:54 EDT Zen Faulkes

If you are a Canadian academic living outside of Canada, you CAN VOTE in the coming federal election! Supreme Court ruling this year made it possible for expats to vote! Get on the international voters' registry here: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=reg/svr&document=index&lang=e

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Alex Fitzpatrick (archaeologyfitz@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 09:05:53 EDT Alex Fitzpatrick

New blog post! I wrote an incredibly rambling piece on death positivity within academia and where the line is between "respect" and "objectification" - https://animalarchaeology.com/2019/09/10/where-is-the-line-between-respectful-and-objectifying-some-thoughts-on-death-positivity-and-academia/ #archaeology #deathpositivity #sciencecommunication
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1. Where is the Line Between “Respectful” and “Objectifying”? Some Thoughts on Death Positivity and Academia.
  
  By Alex Fitzpatrick from Animal Archaeology
  
  I recently finished reading Caitlyn Doughty’s book, From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death (2017), which I absolutely loved. As an archaeologist whose research is partially focused on funerary archaeologies, I was happy to find a non-judgemental book detailing the diversity of death practices and cultures around the world. However, I couldn’t help but wonder about “death positivity” (for example, see Doughty’s movement for more positive and normalised engagement with death and dying – see more in this blog post) within academia…what actually is the line between “respectful” and “objectifying”?
  
  Note: This is a 3D-printed replica of a human skull.
  
  For starters, let me note that Doughty makes clear that her death positivity movement, known as The Order of the Good Death, is based on respect – particularly in regards to the deceased person’s wishes, the cultural values and ways in which death is engaged with that are non-Western/European, and not viewing said death cultures as “oddities” (Doughty 2011, Kelly 2017). In this blog post, however, I am speaking of “death positivity” as a broader movement, which includes but is not exclusive to Doughty’s specific approach. In particular, I am interested in the sort of “death positivity” that appears in research disciplines and fields that are intimately connected to death studies, such as bioarchaeology and osteology.
  
  As someone who works within these fields, I have a lot of first hand experience of seeing how academics engage with death, both as a concept and as a tangible thing in the form of remains. Amongst some academics, it’s hard not to shake this feeling of pride in their hands-on engagement with the dead – whether it’s by writing about death freely and without fear in literature and papers and texts, or by trying to share these positive interactions with others through hands-on workshops and demonstrations and, again, death positive movements, to show that there is nothing to fear from the dead or from death itself.
  
  But at what point can “respect” cross into “objectification”? Many archaeologists decorate their offices with models of skeletons – sometimes even with real human bones – is that respectful adoration of their research subjects, or reduction of human remains to their ornamental value (side note: I am currently writing this from my home office which is covered with animal bones – both real and fake – so this is not me trying to be sanctimonious or preachy!)? What about how we approach physical analysis of the dead? I know some scientists who refer to their research subjects by name and treat them as though they were alive – on the opposite side, I also know scientists who give unnamed individuals names of their choosing and develop nicknames or imaginary backstories. Is this humanising their research subjects? Or is it (unintentionally) demonstrating dominance over the narrative of a deceased person’s life (and death)?
  
  Perhaps the most serious example of this question is when it crosses paths with research ethics – for example, when a skeleton that could be considered scientifically important for X reason is also being called for immediate repatriation and reburial by the deceased person’s living descendants (Lambert 2012). Is refusing to repatriate these remains until scientific analysis is done a sign of “respect” – in that the deceased person is now (posthumously) contributed to scientific knowledge – or is it “objectification” – in that the deceased person is reduced to data? I’d like to believe that most scientists today would agree with the latter and choose to repatriate and rebury the remains…but, unfortunately, there are still those who decry these acts of respect as “social justice gone awry” or “anti-science”.
  
  I don’t blame folks who think the idea of physical analysis of human remains as a whole could be disrespectful (not including situations in which one has the deceased person’s consent to donate their body to science, of course). Archaeological research of human remains has resulted in a greater understanding of the past and the people who lived within it…but often as the result of racist, colonial approaches that dehumanises and objectifies others. Science has (finally!) begun to take ethical considerations seriously, but we still have a long way to go to regain a semblance of morality in the grander scheme of things.
  
  As with many – if not all! – of these blog posts, I don’t necessarily have an answer to the overarching question. I think there’s less to debate with regards to repatriation cases, particularly when it concerns the bodies of Indigenous ancestors. But, despite how circular and perhaps unanswerable these thoughts and questions may be, I wonder if we, as academics and scientists who work with death, need to think more about our actions and how we ultimately contribute to death cultures today.
  
  References
  
  Doughty, C. (2011) The Tenets of the Death Positive Movement. The Order of the Good Death. Retrieved from http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/death-positive.
  
  Doughty, C. (2017) From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
  
  Kelly, K. (2017) Welcome the Reaper: Caitlyn Doughty and the ‘Death Positivity’ Movement. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/27/caitlin-doughty-death-positivity
  
  Lambert, P.M. (2012) Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology. In A.L. Grauer (ed) A Companion to Paleopathology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 17-33.
The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 15:55:29 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈
- ~nick•nick•nick•nick~
@nicknicknicknick I ❤️ :RSS:

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 15:55:17 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

My colleague just successfully defended her PhD thesis
I'm so proud!

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Cyborgneticz Ghost Edition (cyborgneticz@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 11:33:01 EDT Cyborgneticz Ghost Edition

My favorite time of the year is when people have given up on the gym so I'm left alone

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˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗ (liaizon@social.wake.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2019 16:17:32 EDT ˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗
- Darius Kazemi
somehow I missed that Marketplace did a feature about the #fediverse with @darius!
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/

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Dracula Sex Tape (dubsteppenwolf@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 10:46:53 EST Dracula Sex Tape

Me whenever anyone does anything

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katt, sky-guided 🌈🌌 (starkatt@vulpine.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2019 21:43:11 EDT katt, sky-guided 🌈🌌

Anyone else feel like SEO saturation -- and especially saturation by products, product shills, and content farms -- has made web searches way less useful than they were 5-10 years ago?

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completely normal duende (duende@snouts.online)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 07:16:31 EDT completely normal duende

bats are so cute. they’re all like *flapflapflapflap* (screeching noise)

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Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 07:59:48 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber

I wish fediverse clients had a working petname based contact list type system so I could write down notes about people and give them my own names so I can actually contextually remember who they are
Especially a big problem after APConf, where now I just followed a bunch of people I really cared about the conversations of, and will have a hard time mentally mapping them to their online identities :(

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 08:49:51 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

I wish that when medical doctors talked about following their consciences, they meant refusal to cooperate with the police in cases where there is an attempt to weaponize the medical establishment against minorities
Usually it just means "doctors making life worse for women"

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moutmout (moutmout@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 07:27:53 EDT moutmout

Currently reading a cosmology book from 2000. It's funny to see everything that has changed in the last 20 years. And some people still say nothing new is found in physics anymore!

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 08:05:58 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

The existence of the Instagram implies the existence of the Instameter, Instaliter and the other Insta-SI units

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2019 19:13:24 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈
- Some thing
@Camas She's a mischeivous cat

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2019 18:53:32 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

My little sister's cat; Eye-contact from a cat

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2019 08:30:28 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

You can:
* Use filters liberally to remove posts that annoys you
* Mute or block other people or bots who get boosted into your timeline if you don't want to see them again
* Try to remember to not click on CW's for stuff that will leave you feeling worse
* Unfollow
And you never have to explain why
You can do so for reasons that are entirely "selfish" or "petty"
E.g. "Their jokes were crass so I muted them"
Make the Fediverse a place that's good for you

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