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Rick W. A. Smith

@rickwasmith

Biocultural anthropologist @GeorgeMasonU @indigenous_sts @canada_sing. I work at the intersections of genomics & queer, feminist, & Indigenous STS. Texpat🤘🏻

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Joined December 2008
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Excited to share our new paper from the Texas Rural Health and Heritage project - “The plantation system and the roots of the southern rural mortality penalty in the northern Blackland Prairies of Texas.” @robingnelson @AWRgenes sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Lunch planning with the co-organizers of the forthcoming AJBA special issue, Queer Feminism in Biological Anthropology. #AABA2024
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My new preprint with @robingnelson and @AWRgenes from our Texas Rural Health Project: “The Plantation System and the Roots of the Southern Rural Mortality Penalty.” osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xk…
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In this paper we intervene in existing models of rural health research in the US such as the Rural Mortality Penalty which has identified disparities in rural people's health relative to urban people's health since the middle of the 20th century.
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Our #SINGCanada2023 programming concludes with our Alumni Panel reflecting on the impacts of @canada_sing, this year featuring @cheyenneithomas @experemony and Arlana Redsky
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Our 5th and final day of #SINGCanada2023 begins with a bang with @kstsosie presenting #DATABACK
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Celebrating a wonderful 4th day of #SINGCanada2023 and thrilled to have @kstsosie join us for the end of the workshop
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Day 3 of #SINGCanada2023 began with lab work and our afternoon continues with a series of lectures on ethics and their discontents. @JessKolopenuk kicks us off with “Vanilla Ethics: Institutional Research Ethics”.
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My lecture for Day 1 of #SINGCanada2023: “Ecologies of Colonial Sex and Masculinities” @canada_sing @indigenous_sts
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.@eanelson42 concludes our first day of #SINGCanada2023 with an introduction to metagenomics - in preparation for our genomic study of soil microbiomes beginning tomorrow
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Day 1 of #SINGCanada2023 continues with @JessKolopenuk on “Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Colonial Science in Canada”.
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Opening lecture of #SINGCanada2023 by @KimTallBear: “From Indigenous Peoples as Genomic Objects to Decolonizing Science” @canada_sing @indigenous_sts
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We’ve once again reached that point in the semester where I’m just spontaneously singing hymns.
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The Critical Molecular Anthropology Lab (CMAL) debuted several new projects at #AABA2023 this year that have been many years in the making. Proud of this team.
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Fantastic #AABA2023 panel organized by @smaspellssam and @BioAnthFunFacts, one of my favorites ever at the AABAs - “Queering research: uses of LGBTQIA+ perspectives and queer theory in biological anthropology”.
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@rachel_voyt @claudodont @Anthrofuentes @anthro_justino @MARspidermonkey @irishthicc @sana_saboowala
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Landed in Reno for #AABA2023, Mountains were gorgeous all packed with snow on the flight over. What a gift.
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My recent talk as summarized by @robingnelson: “One thing about Rick is there’s gonna be an Ammon Bundy slide”. One hundred percent yes 🤠.
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I'll say it again. Much of what gets called bioethics in aDNA and elsewhere today represents extractive practices every bit as pernicious as the "Vampire Projects" of the 90s and 00s.
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In a landscape where so much of bioethics sustains rather than overturns colonial power and extraction in science - manifest destiny logic prevails in a virtue contest over who has the moral right to claim and to rule.
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Applications are now open for SING Canada 2023
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Replying to @canada_sing
With the launch of our new site, we’ve also opened applications for SING Canada 2023! Taking place from July 16-22, this year’s theme is #LandBack: Indigenous Peoples, Soil Science, and Disruptive Sequencing Technologies
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Please check out our beautiful new website for @canada_sing!!
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We are excited to share that our new website is LIVE: sing-Canada.ca
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Showing these Northern Virginians how to country.
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