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Rick W. A. Smith

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

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Neil Renic@NC_Renic22 Jun 2024
GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining it’s had a mental breakdown
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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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StoneLab_ASU@StoneLab_ASU9 Apr 2024
I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on projects related to forensic genetic, conservation genomics and/or ancient DNA analyses of ancient pathogens! See apply.interfolio.com/144157 & join us! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!
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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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AABA@BiologicalAnth27 Nov 2023
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists affirms our support of trans lives. Please see the full text of our statement on our website: bioanth.org/about/position-s…
AABA ... stand together against the escalating legislation and governance in the United States and across the globe that attacks the existence of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse peoples. We affirm the power of all persons to make the ultimate decisions over what happens to our/their own bodies. We oppose legislation that is rooted in and maintains rigid binary conceptions of sex and gender which impact reproductive justice and access to care for everyone. We condemn the biological essentialism driving much of this legislation. As biological anthropologists, we condemn the historical role of our discipline in producing binaries of sex, gender, and sexuality and are committed to work that enacts a more livable world. We condemn discrimination and denial of healthcare for youth and adults, including care that is gender and life affirming. We stand for the lives of transgender, non-binary, gender and sex diverse, and queer communities.

ALT AABA ... stand together against the escalating legislation and governance in the United States and across the globe that attacks the existence of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse peoples. We affirm the power of all persons to make the ultimate decisions over what happens to our/their own bodies. We oppose legislation that is rooted in and maintains rigid binary conceptions of sex and gender which impact reproductive justice and access to care for everyone. We condemn the biological essentialism driving much of this legislation. As biological anthropologists, we condemn the historical role of our discipline in producing binaries of sex, gender, and sexuality and are committed to work that enacts a more livable world. We condemn discrimination and denial of healthcare for youth and adults, including care that is gender and life affirming. We stand for the lives of transgender, non-binary, gender and sex diverse, and queer communities.

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Dan Baldassarre@evornithology5 Nov 2023
This site is such a hellscape now. I miss the good old days. Like when that professor had a burner account and pretended to die from Covid. That was when Twitter was pure.
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We find that the plantation system accounts for nearly all the variation in mortality that exists across the rural/urban divide in the Blackland Prairies of Texas, elucidating the historical processes underlying the emergence of rural health disparities in the region.
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We collected & analyzed vital records data from post-emancipation period Texas, when emerging forms of plantation labor such as tenant farming, convict leasing, & migrant labor were developed to sustain the plantation economy after the abolishment of chattel slavery.
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Here we focus on the plantation system in Texas as a form of historical and ongoing systemic violence where geospatial, racial, and sexual health disparities, often studied separately, find a convergence.
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What can often be unsatisfying about some previous analyses of rural health is that they offer spatial and/or demographic rationales, with less attention to the historical processes and systems that produced them.
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This latter model, known as the Southern Rural Health and Mortality Penalty, calls for greater attention to the structural factors that differentially drive health outcomes in the rural American South.
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Rural health researchers have also documented geospatial variation in rural health across the US, with rural Southerners bearing the brunt of worsened health outcomes relative to other rural communities.
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But rural communities in the US are not homogeneous, and public health researchers have also shown that the landscape of rural health varies across race, sex, gender, and other factors.
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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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