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Header: Still from Howl's Moving Castle where Sophie is taking a tram ride by hanging onto it from the outside and watching the city go by.
Avatar: An avatar generated by lofigirl generator. Some cartoon dude that soooomewhat resembles me, the composition looks like the famous lofi-girl-studying picture.
#introduction Selam! I'm Göktuğ; a Türkiyeli 90s kid, an eternal grad student, a boring dork with too many notebooks.
Doing an MA in linguistics, my thesis concerns discursive identity building in a particular privileged consumption community. As a wannabe researcher, I am interested in discursive construction of privileged identities, and the interface between discourse and reality.
Other than that I am a stationery nerd, a computeing geek, and a bookworm on hiatus. 1/2
vimwiki release proposal, input welcome
this may interest a few of you:
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki/issues/1235
if this doesn't work, i think i'm forking it and doing violence to all the parts i have no desire or capacity to maintain.
it deffo comes off as concern for local LGBTQ+ when you are only finally concerned about equality in Qatar when it comes time to travel there for a bullshit sports event during a global pandemic
stop and think about how the last few decades or centuries have been like for the locals, but ofc maybe you are too white for that aren't you
"I mean this oppressive government has made us rich but *we* can't be openly gay when *we* go there and that's a huge problem"
World Cup in Qatar and homophobia
@attribot Welp, it would have been nice if white colonists hadn't set up all these oppressive regimes with local patriarchal elites, wouldn't it? And then if they didn't make them rich with colonial money, and then if they didn't help build and enrich their cities built on slave labour, and then if they hadn't let them do these organisations the venues of what are again built on slave labour with white money flowing unceasingly into petrol baron pockets.
BlackinMarSci ; cops called by hotel; birdsite link
This is horrific. Having the police called on you by a hotel while supervising students. This is an extra burden no one should have to carry.
https://nitter.fdn.fr/curly_scientist/status/1527445891652759552#m
Unstandardized English: Radical Copyediting, with Alex Kapitan (S3E18)
Episode webpage: https://jpgerald.com
Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CDL9932594137.mp3?updated=1648681404
"[... Host] JPB Gerald and guest Alex Kapitan discuss Alex's work in the world of copyediting and how Alex resists the oppressive structures of the field", and how copyediting can be and may be made not to be a muffler on marginalised voices.
Unstandardized English (podcast): Neurodivergent Narratives, with Ali Oats
Episode webpage: https://anchor.fm/unstandardized/episodes/Neurodivergent-Narratives--with-Ali-Oats-epe0f7
This is a really special episode for me because two PhD students, two scholars with ADHD, here are talking about their childhood and school life.
zotero / reference management / ranty--questioney
Consider: 1 2 and X Y Z are fairly overlapping, all to do with language and identity stuff.
I think part of it is Zotero's terrible UI and lack of swift keybindings, but it's difficult to work..
How do _you_ do this? Zotero or not, and especially if you pursue multiple topics/programs?
zotero / reference management / ranty--questioney
As it is now I have collections like following:
Topic 1
Topic 2
Fiction [related to research]
Misc
Program: X
Program: Z
Program: Y
MA Thesis
I also have an humongous archived DB (which I need to copy stuff from sometime...) where I'd make collections per project, eg assignment, term paper etc.
The latter is okay I think but classifying by topic and program, that's maybe too much?
I mean it's all intersecting too..
zotero / reference management / ranty--questioney
Recently came up with a few "research programs", i.e. general topics for my future research.
Felt like a good idea to organise bib db around these, so created a folder in Zotero for each "program".
Slowly discovering a downside to this: often I'll encounter papers that don't neatly fit into one or more of these.
So I'm wondering, is this maybe too rigid? Would it be better to dump it all in one folder?
I have notebooks per program elsewhere.
academic culture, feminism
Exhaustion becomes a management technique: you tire people out so they are too tired to address what makes them tired” (Ahmed, 2021)
https://theslowacademic.com/2022/05/13/uses-and-abuses-of-slow/
Selam!
I'm Göktuğ (they/he), a master's student in Linguistics at Hacettepe U. Also: millenial/90s kid from Turkey, kuir/queer, computer lover/hater.
My interests are still in flux but mostly revolve around studying how privileged identities are built discursively. Metascience and computing in (social) sciences (and humanities) are my secondary interests.
I'll use this account for posting "scholarly" stuff in the broader sense. My main is @cadxdr.