#FieldWork

I wrote a chapter for “The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork”. It argues that1) Key security decisions in the field are made by researchers, alone2) Indiana Jones researchers and
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.@Scripps_Polar is featured in today's @sdut: reporting on work by the Severinghaus lab & collaborators on finding Antarctica's oldest ice + interview with @helenafricker on the crucial climate records in
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Tonight I got off my flight from Seattle to London & went straight to an archaeology awards ceremony. I was excited - I’ve never been nominated for a research award
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Today @Facebook published executive summaries of 3 #HRIAs done in #Cambodia, #SriLanka and #Indonesia. The modicum of transparency is welcome. But they leave a lot of questions unanswered. Here are
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Love it when machine learning re-discovers the field of linguistics every couple months.https://twitter.com/anthrocharya/status/1297288137761345536 Tbf I should also consider this thread; I’ve read the abstract three times (paywall + bein
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Maybe it's all the love for fat bear week that's got me thinking about this. Maybe it's my ongoing struggle to find good tank tops to box in, or rain
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THREAD: Today I've gathered methods and advice for remote exploratory and generative qualitative research that is not workshops. First one is from @wearesnook, illustrated by @isabellabunnell. I first saw it
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I have 30 minutes before my next work meeting and while I have to finish a paper BY TONIGHT, I can't focus so I am going to do a MINI-THREAD
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I'm a virologist and while I might spend more time in the lab than out, my love of science came from my love of animals and the environment/being outside. Ive
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This is an unusual #fieldwork trip not just because of political revolution. Rather than collecting new data, I'm trying to save old data: nearly 20 years worth of accumulated interviews
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Do you know #Rabindranath Tagore has a dinosaur named after him. Barapasaurus #tagorei was a 18m long & 7 tonned #dinosaur which walked through #India once. It was the first
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[THREAD]The inspiration for my latest book came back in November of 2012. I was in my first semester as a VAP at the University of Mississippi. On the night of
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Some (unsolicited) thoughts/musings on ethnomusicology and the IRB process as someone who works with displaced children and young people:1) Currently, IRB is a major deterrent for people wanting to include
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Just to add context to this comment I made in the @BlkinGeoscience #Georacism panel, I want to state that it arose from the reasonable question, "What is the biggest barrier
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Look, I KNOW that being a white woman who “looks like a librarian” has helped me get access to, and ask pointed questions in, places like law enforcement agencies that
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been saying this for months, but especially as the pandemic stretches on without a real end in sight... #GoodEnoughPhD is a convo universities neeeeed to be having.https://twitter.com/H_Wohl/status/1301223369795424256 bc I'm a
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