Eira Tansey @archivist@scholar.social

When writing a recommendation letter that references specific articles authored by that person, is it copacetic to footnote the letter, or is it preferable to do an inline reference?

(Excited is always a weird adjective to use in conjunction with climate change research, I know)

super super excited that our research on mapping the exposure of American archives to climate change has now been assigned to an issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.03.005

and of course you stumble across A PERFECT ARTICLE in line with your work full of citations you somehow didn't see before but now how are you going to read everything before tomorrow morning when the revision is due ARRRRGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGH ARRRGHGHGH

love this world where "radical" does not apparently apply to critical assessment of your own field

reading about the latest academia birb site dust-up and good god am i glad I left it months ago. What an embarrassment https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-a-Twitter-Tussle-Exposed/243374?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest

Archivist thoughts about May Day http://eiratansey.com/2018/05/01/mayday-on-may-day/

I love this essay about running for office as an alt-ac, because I low-key have thought about doing this if I don't get tenure https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/04/18/essay-running-office-alt-ac-career

This is a delightful browser-based writing goal tool if you just need to sit down and grind out a few hundred words http://writtenkitten.co

I should clarify my requirements: Windows desktop. I mainly miss the visual reorganizing aspect of Scrivener.

Is anyone using a good alternative to Scrivener? I'm falling out of love with it between troubleshooting headaches and it being a little *too* feature-heavy, but the idea of going back to regular word processors for drafting makes me want to cry

It's a testament to the never-ending absurdly pernicious productivity of the American worker that so many of us continue to manage to show up to work each morning despite every day feeling like the worst historical cross-over of 1984, Shakespeare, and the Godfather

Wrote a few archivist/records manager thoughts on the New York Times ISIS files story https://saarmrt.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/disposition-isis-records/

These orgs also play an outsize role in my local and professional identities and social circles, so I'm extra cranky right now. I'm also sleep deprived.

Really angry right now at two major orgs I support (one professional and one local) with massive amounts of unpaid labor that are embodying the worst of the nonprofit industrial complex: depending on our volunteer work to carry out the mission but not granting us the autonomy we need to do this unpaid labor effectively