Tisa Loewen
@tisaloewen.bsky.social
PHD-ASU, MA-NYU. °🦷° anthro, bioarchaeology, Roman Croatia, science 🎮🎨🖌️
What does it mean to be ‘Wasian’ – and is it OK to celebrate it? share.google/gCkQpbEGY4xR...
What does it mean to be ‘Wasian’ – and is it OK to celebrate it?
Drawn from the words white and Asian, many use the term to celebrate shared experiences. But the label raises questions about valuing proximity to whiteness.
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Build confidence in sci by leading ppl confident in themselves to learning & those not to production. It's not click bait if skillful- its really subconsciously walking someone to nuance w/o flagging that this is what you are doing. Emergent engagement/ teaching. #TRAC @tracconference.bsky.social
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
NEW YORK CITY BABY! We’re all Knicks fans right now. Collective joy FTW.
"Living a double life in recovery started to mimic aspects of her double life as a high-functioning alcoholic, with all its cognitive dissonance."
Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2mo agoHow and why do higher education’s peculiar working conditions and culture foster a hidden world of substance abuse, and what can be done about it? https://chroni.cl/4u15Mm4
Met a medical anthropologist in the kitchen at Padmasambhava Buddhist Center while we were celebrating Saga Dawa Duchen. We are everywhere haha. ❤️
A central point of college is to offer a foundation broad enough to open up several personal and professional paths that can develop over time. Electives and other free choices could be key in developing those paths. https://chroni.cl/4eFN2V2
How Colleges Stopped Rewarding Curiosity
For students focused on debt and career, intellectual wandering feels like a luxury they can’t afford.
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Proud to announce mine and Dr. Marklein's article is finally live on the Oxford Encyclopedia of Anthropology 🏛️ Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism 🏛️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Bioarchaeology of Roman Imperialism
Abstract. Bioarchaeological approaches and analyses not only reconstruct the experiences of individuals and populations under Roman imperial rule but also
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The extra teaching and prep burden is immense!! The run around to avoid anything written costs hours. @arstechnica.com To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain - Ars Technica share.google/L4FzSpegg1ji...
To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.
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Interesting & important article though it does sadden me that the work of biological anthropologists who have been doing this, as adjuncts, without research funding for years is overlooked. It's exhausting. I hope he does well in his next steps. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b... via @statnews.com
A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.
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If you're curious and trying to avoid trolls, here is the link to official #nasa pictures from Artemis 2. www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...
Journey to the Moon - NASA
Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...
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Artemis 2 godspeed!!! You are a beautiful miracle of science.
Congratulations Dr. Achorn and it is an honor to join you and the rest of the Cobb Prof Dev Grant awardees. I cannot put into words how seeing Dr. Cobb next to my name is so meaningful, knowing he paved the way for Black anthropologists. Thank you to the #aaba2026 as well.
Dr. Angie Achorn@angachorn.bsky.social · 5mo agoI am so incredibly honored and grateful to have received a Cobb Professional Development Grant from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists to fund research on bone proteomes and skeletal pathologies in nonhuman primates! 🐒🦴 Congrats to the other recipients too!! #AABA2026
A just-published study by Elinor Karlsson, PhD, and Kathryn Lord, PhD, in @pnas.org found no evidence of behavior-associated genetic variations in dogs: direc.to/oaxf Genetic tests only revealed strong associations for traits like height & leg length. #dogs @elinork.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
Expert-ness is a craft/ art form. My art & my scientific expertise were cultivated in the same way. What I understand about the world scientifically is nuanced & not the same as wiki 'facts' an AI can give you. We should value things that humans put blood, sweat, & years of tears and practice into.
Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.