Sargoth (skateboard aspect) @Sargoth@scholar.social

become the bibliography you want to see in the world

sometimes I think about how getting access to the articles I used in my latest master thesis would handily approach five month's rent

'tis, as they say, a slightly too onerous cost of doing business

email templates

think about it

the meanest thing you can do to someone is to write them into one of the standard ethical frameworks discussed in an introductory textbook on ethics

each and every one of the introductions to said frameworks come complete with concrete examples showing why they do not work in the real work, so saying someone adheres to any of them instantly implies their ethics are faulty and wrong

Sometimes I think back on my student days, and think to myself:
daym
what a noob. such an ignoramus. a know-nothing. uncultured lout. a veritable lacuna of knowledge. where sense and sensibility should have been, there was nothing. the extent of the dearth of internal life transcended all boundaries and could suffice for two

in short
I miss it

I solved an email conversation by knocking on someone's door

where is my honorary doctor's title, I've earned it

The digital humanities
or, as we also call them
the humanities

Someone: one of the perils of free education is that you might very well end up like mastodon user sargoth

Me, in the background: it rules

I found a useful, handy guide geared towards steering doctoral students towards not graduating for as long as possible, and thought I'd translate it to a language actual people can actually read

enjoy. and, also, stay in school!

https://streetremix.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-avoid-graduating-guide-for-phd.html

A secret network of guerrilla translators, finding small but significant texts and releasing unofficial translations on the open web

When writing your guide to systematic literature reviews, make sure to include a subsection about how to infiltrate or gain access the social environments of active scientists in the field

Y'know, to be able to find out where the contemporary discussion is at, and what's going on at the moment

How To Create Content For Scientific Journals

I just sent an email poking the university for being slow in grading a paper I turned in two months ago

the original deadline was in 2016, but the key to a good poke is to do it with confidence

you know all those applications, requests and other emails you've wanted to write or thought about writing?
write them today, as a joek, with no intention at all of sending. just to see what it feels like

then hit send

This is a general reminder that it is perfectly okay to not see academia and the work associated with it as a source of emotional validation, and that it might in fact be a strategically correct move to withdraw those aspects of oneself from this area of life

So I just sent in my first article proposal. It will with 98% certainty not get in
but
the next time I send a proposal will be the second time, and I will be ruthlessly free of the pressure of it being the first time

regardless of the outcome, I win this round

finding out how many persons there actually are per netflix or other streaming service account, and how passwords are shared across family units or networks of friends

the key to reading Friere is to pay as much attention to the oppression as to the pedagogy