Timothy Y. Loh, PhD
@timothyyloh.com
anthropologist of science and tech in the Princeton Society of Fellows, PhD from MIT in HASTS (History, Anthropology, STS), research on assistive tech for deaf people in Jordan, MENA, and Singapore. he/他/هو
www.timothyyloh.com.
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Timothy Y. Loh, PhD
@timothyyloh.com
· May 7
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article examines competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) among deaf and hearing people in Amman, based on ethnographic fieldwork at an educational start-up for deaf children and...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
pub day with the Journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social! this is the first piece out of my book project on assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan, and is about different ways people in Amman talk about Jordanian Sign Language. open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
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lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
pub day with the Journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social! this is the first piece out of my book project on assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan, and is about different ways people in Amman talk about Jordanian Sign Language. open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article examines competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) among deaf and hearing people in Amman, based on ethnographic fieldwork at an educational start-up for deaf children and...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
pub day with the Journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social! this is the first piece out of my book project on assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan, and is about different ways people in Amman talk about Jordanian Sign Language. open access: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚
Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky
Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky
Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚
Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky
Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Timothy Y. Loh reviews //Disability Worlds// by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social #AnthroSky
Find it here in the latest issue of AE (52.1): ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a co...
www.routledge.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...
i interviewed Mara Green on her wonderful new book, Making Sense, about signing, ethics, and communication in Nepal on the CaMP Anthropology blog! check it out here: campanthropology.org/2025/02/17/m...
Mara Green on her book, Making Sense
Timothy Loh: Thank you so much for this wonderful and incisive book! It’s such an exciting contribution not only to deaf anthropology and sign language studies but also to the broader study of how …
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February 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i interviewed Mara Green on her wonderful new book, Making Sense, about signing, ethics, and communication in Nepal on the CaMP Anthropology blog! check it out here: campanthropology.org/2025/02/17/m...
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May this ceasefire last. May it be the first of many steps towards liberation for Palestinians. May Sudan follow!
January 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
May this ceasefire last. May it be the first of many steps towards liberation for Palestinians. May Sudan follow!
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#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period.
Please share widely!
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January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period.
Please share widely!
apply.interfolio.com/161627
Please share widely!
apply.interfolio.com/161627
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In July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.
The official death toll in Gaza is over 45,000, but the true figure "is closer to 300,000," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon. "This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project."
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/gaza_hospitals
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/gaza_hospitals
January 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.
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Remember when Israel bombed ONE Gaza hospital causing outrage & Israeli Govt declared “We don’t bomb hospitals it was actually Hamas.”
UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.
But it’s not genocide😐
www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commiss...
UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.
But it’s not genocide😐
www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commiss...
UN Commission: The IDF Is Raping, Killing, & Torturing Palestinians
Legacy media has conducted a near blackout of this damning report and the Biden administration is refusing to act to uphold international human rights law
www.qasimrashid.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Remember when Israel bombed ONE Gaza hospital causing outrage & Israeli Govt declared “We don’t bomb hospitals it was actually Hamas.”
UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.
But it’s not genocide😐
www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commiss...
UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.
But it’s not genocide😐
www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commiss...
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If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
my Bluesky handle is now @timothyyloh.com!
Today we look at why your Bluesky handle is a domain name. For most people it is a subdomain of bsky.social, but if you own your own domain you can easily use that instead. My handle is my homepage: kerim.oxus.net
Why is it like this? Two reasons:
Why is it like this? Two reasons:
December 17, 2024 at 3:11 AM
my Bluesky handle is now @timothyyloh.com!
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Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
November 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
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Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies
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December 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
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I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy
The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
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Sharing a recent article by @timloh.bsky.social: “An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.” #disabilityanthropology #disabilityjustice
Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide
An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.
www.sapiens.org
December 9, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Sharing a recent article by @timloh.bsky.social: “An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.” #disabilityanthropology #disabilityjustice
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I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️
#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies
#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️
#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies
#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies
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November 18, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add!
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
November 15, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add!
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
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Looking forward to discussing this piece by @timloh.bsky.social with my intro disability studies class at @utsc.bsky.social this week!
www.sapiens.org/culture/gaza... thanks to SAPIENS Magazine for their editorial support and for giving this a home. donate to the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children here: www.atfaluna.org/en/Donate
Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide
An anthropologist argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice.
www.sapiens.org
November 15, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Looking forward to discussing this piece by @timloh.bsky.social with my intro disability studies class at @utsc.bsky.social this week!
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I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
November 14, 2024 at 11:22 AM
I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
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🙌Starter pack on Disability, Neurodivergence & Chronic illness
go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
November 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM
🙌Starter pack on Disability, Neurodivergence & Chronic illness
go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
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I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
November 9, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46
It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/H4NcX46