Sam Chew Chin
@SamChewChin
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A fish biologist from the big city who dreams of being a country star.
Ocean Grove, NJ
Joined February 2014
Michigan! We meet again, for a fish conference this time. Last time it was to race to your island of car-free living and fudge. Why did I wait so long to return?
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What's the deal with this you just say whatever you want? Why do/did people take this seriously?
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Well I guess I should remind the world that I published about Barbie way back when.... https://t.co/TWCrbjOfBW
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children's lives. Ethnographic work with ten-year-old, poor and...
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Hey what's up Twitter? You and I have never really clicked, but FB ain't what it once was, and the Gram just wants to be TikTok. I now feel that it's comfortably out of fashion for me to engage with you. I have no idea the etiquette here! I mainly used you for hating Delta
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My sister is a merciful god
One problem with the pressure for grad students to publish is that their analysis is likely to be undercooked and over claimed and it's not their fault.
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"thanks to wildlife ecologists" raves the NY Times. I have detected human DNA in NYC's rivers, but nothing I could ID someone from.
Wildlife researchers have refined techniques for recovering environmental DNA, or eDNA — floating in the air, or lingering in water, snow, honey and even your cup of tea — posing dilemmas for the preservation of privacy and civil liberties. https://t.co/CuUVFJtRkK
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eDNA, AI, and urban ecology all exist on the interface between the rigid mechanical world and the defiantly organic one.
fun prompt: put the title of your graduate thesis into this app and see what kind of art it creates
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I first read/listened to DUNE while towing a sailboat across the deserts of California, Nevada, and Utah. My terrible purpose was to race that boat in a reservoir in Colorado.
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Spoiler: it's rat poison. Our attempt to control rats is harming the very animals best adapted to hunt them.
"What’s Killing Hawks, Owls, Ducks and Squirrels in New York City Parks?" via @THECITYNY
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“Being” really doesn’t get enough credit as an action verb, but it’s a pretty impressive achievement and my favorite hobby
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The best part of Facebook crashing was that I didn’t notice.
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I was excited to have a job lined up for five years, but @CUNY has done a good job of being late with my funding nearly every semester that I’ve been here. I don’t need much, but I do need it on time.
@nelsonlflores My grad school stipend gave me financial security for the first time and I was like: all I have to do is go to class and study for all this money?????
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The news is a lot more fun if you don’t bother to differentiate between Milley and Miley.
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California was on fire the whole month I was there. I come back to New York in time to see the city flooded by a 200 year storm and the rainiest hour on record. It’s like it’s trying too hard to show me it’s the better state for an aquatic ecologist.
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Anthropologists: can you PLEASE stop featuring photos of yourself in the field wearing native garb, taking notes while young children hold electronics and stare at them in wonder? It's not a good look.
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I am completely enthralled with the herd of 15 elephants in China that have wandered hundreds of miles from their home through towns and cities. One had a baby. Others got drunk. They eat pineapples by the truckload.
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