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Okay. Okay.

<taps mic>

Here's the thing. I am overjoyed, thrilled, and grateful to see what I am interpreting as the gates (the ones kept by science gatekeepers) being ajar and potentially open to indigenous knowledge.
Simultaneously, I am furious that what it takes for me to discover this, is dressing up indigenous knowledge in language that is deemed 'sufficiently smart' by the academy.
Gwen Benaway did a great thread recently about how poetry written by indgenous people is often coded as 'plain' and 'simple' and 'raw', and how those words are used to other and dismiss the messages and humanity of the writers.
The fact that my writing about indigenous knowledge gets amplified is a huge privilege and I'm SO grateful for it

The fact that my writing about indigenous knowledge is considered worth amplifying is a function of privilege. It's a result of colonized concepts of worth and value
It is on me to use that privilege to lift up the people who do not have it, and I intend to continue my work doing just that.

My goal is not to profit out of this, and it is not okay that the reason I get to be listened to is my formal education and formal locution.
But whether or not it is my goal, I still gain.

It's on me to give to my community (communities) more than I extract. To remember that my privilege doesn't make me better

And it's on me to keep doing the work. The gates might be open a little right now. It's my job to push them
It's not ONLY my job, but it's my responsibility.

So today I have joy, and I have anger, and most of all I have this poignant, substantial, heartbreaking, fight-affirming reminder of the ways that settler colonialism privileges me, and fuels my determination to break it down.
I am not better than anyone.

I am lucky, with luck shaped by the hatred leveled at my people, and others.

I have not forgotten, I will not forget.

And, to all my relatives, please know that if I could smash it right this second, I would not hesitate.
I am working against it the best way I know how, and that doesn't excuse my privilege or give me a pass.

I am here to lift up others. The last few days, my voice has been lifted. I am grateful for that.

But in the larger picture, that hasn't changed a thing.
Here's what I'm talking about

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I wish conservation biologists would build their field using indigenous (to whatever area) knowledge.

It’s exhausting, as a Native scientist, to watch colonialist framings constantly set up unjust precedents and then subtly (or not) blame nonscientists for issues.
That’s a lot I’m asking for because in order to do it nonextractively, (mostly white) folks who want to do their science in (mostly) not-their-backyard would have to really come to grips with the imperialist idea that parachuting in to study A Species isn’t privileged af.
It would require building authentic, culturally relevant, mutually respectful LONG TERM relationships with indigenous people who live near That Species.

It would require being told “no” and respecting it.

It would require dismantling baked-in white supremacy in STEM.
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CW anti-Islam

Let’s examine shall we the intense anti-Islam sentiment embedded in this smug liberal statement.
Encoding “violent totalitarianism using theology as an excuse” as trademarkedly a property of Islam is a pretty great example of the pervasive antipathy towards other belief systems, that I was talking about in my initial tweet.

The reply was especially disquieting because, well
Because first off the person was situating themself as an outgroup—as in “not one of those violent religious bigots”...

...while using an Islamic extremist group as the holotype example.

That’s so obviously bigoted along religious lines that I almost don’t know what to say
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An attorney in Tennessee and has been cc-ing me on emails thinking I was his wife (we have similar names), for the last 18 months.

They have progressed to calling me.

I’ve tried calling them to explain. I’ve tried emailing. This guy does not give up.

I am unhappy about this.
I may have typos in my tweets but I know my partner’s email.

Today I called his business associates to ask if they could remove me from THEIR lists.

They were like “oh...well....his wife’s name is Katherine Crocker”

That’s fair.

But also?
This guy has a law degree though am I wrong in being concerned that he doesn’t realize YOU CANNOT JUST PUT SOMEONES INITIALS OR NAME OR WHATEVER IN FRONT OF @-EMAILSERVER.COM AND HAVE IT AUTOMATICALLY GO TO THE PERSON YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT.

The internet is magic, not psychic.
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The secrecy surrounding large portions of Brett Kavanaugh’s records by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley’s outright support of it, is something that should be a much bigger deal.
It’s not sexy, so not enough people appear to care, but it’s astonishing given that Mitch McConnell *knew* Kavanaugh had a huge # of public records that would need to be reviewed (see NYT). Then, he was nominated, and Grassley just turned on a dime and ignored that.
Grassley decided to short-circuit the National Archives process — which said its review would go through late October — by going directly to GWB and his lawyer (Burck). Those withheld will still be NARA-reviewed, per Grassley, but it’s not clear all will be reviewed by Tues.
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There has been a lot of attention in the law prof world recently to citation rankings, mostly b/c of @BrianLeiter's posting the latest Sisk numbers. I have two very small thoughts about what these numbers mean/don't mean. /1
1st, I think of citation rankings as mostly useful to learn of people in your field whose work may be worth checking out. It's not a ranking of quality, but just of mentions. Esp if you're new to the field, can help at the margins to see what ideas are being discussed. /2
2nd, it would be interesting, and maybe helpful, if the Sisk #s came with an additional # of how many of the scholar's papers are in the database. On the whole, more papers = more papers to cite = more citations. Depending on what you see rankings as for, citations/paper # /3
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Okay, I've had to keep my mouth shut for several months but now I can talk about this amazing object in orbit around CS Cha! Here's the paper led by Christian Ginski at @SterrewachtNL : arxiv.org/abs/1805.02261 (disclosure: I am a coauthor on the paper)
So: CS Cha is a very young binary star system, with a dust disk surrounding a binary star system. Starlight is unpolarised, but light that bounces from the dust in the surrounding disk is polarised, as seen in the image below 2/n
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But now it gets weird.

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