Daniel Cardoso @danielscardoso@scholar.social

PhD Comics reveals the secret of the academic summer life: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=2013

Without knowing anything about Hannah Gadsby, I just watched her show "Nanette" and it's possible that I've never seen as masterful a work of stand-up "comedy". It transcended a stand-up routine and I'm not quite sure how to immediately describe it. It certainly gave me some new paths of understanding on LGBTQ and women's issues. But I think that alone would be too restrictive a description for all that she conveyed. Look it up, it's stunning. Everyone should see it.

Thériault, Anne. "Real Gender Equality Includes Femininity (and the Color Pink)." YES! Magazine. June 13, 2018.
#feminism
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/real-gender-equality-includes-femininity-and-the-color-pink-20180613

@aristoxenos

HELLO yes i was briefly a master's student trying to do digital ethnography about trans people on tumblr before i dropped out because it was too ambitious of a project for me to handle so uh, what's up hi

not super current, but a great read / approach to discussing online culture: digitizing race by lisa nakamura

Christine Hine, Jack Postill, and Sarah Pink all have done some great recent work on the topic of digital ethnography. I really like Hine's approach in particular.

So is there some good federated blogging software yet?

I'm starting a new blog, content for the next few months is lined up

I was gonna do a standard self-hosted Wordpress install, but I'm feeling frisky and want to try something different

Boosts appreciated!

1 - Competition and Cooperation
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19821/

2 - The Geopolitics of Open
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19819/

3 - Guerrilla Open Access
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19825/

4 - The Commons and Care
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19817/

5 - Predatory Publishing
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19827/

6 - The Poethics of Scholarship
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19815/

7 - Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/

"The purpose of bigotry is to exalt the mediocre." - a good Twitter thread from N K Jemisin:
https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1010980090577084416

The 1735 Act's reasoning is mostly unknown, because there's no available record of the debate or vote on it in Parliament.

But it's quite interesting in how big a backflip it was. IIRC, it made it a criminal offense to claim to have supernatural abilities or to accuse others of witchcraft without evidence of actual harm.

I think that might also have been the point where the UK courts stopped accepting hearsay or 'supernatural' evidence (ie dreams, visions, etc).

Whoever put these in the men stalls at work need a fucking medal.

There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?

Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

3 considerations for any political action:
1. If your action couldn't possibly have negative consequences for you, it is of no consequence
2. If your action requires media attention to have any impact, it has no impact.
3. Working in the realm of ideas and symbols is not worthless, but working exclusively at that level is.

"Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction."

—Walidah Imarisha

If you're too poor for A/C, here's what I did when I was also too poor for A/C. Copper tubing attached to fan with zip ties. Plastic tubing attached to fishtank pump, submerged in beer cooler full of ice water. Cold water runs through the pipes and makes 'em frostycold, fan blows frostycold at hot people. Works pretty well! Lots of guides online on how to make one. Put a towel on the floor in front of it, lots of condensation.

http://sci-hub.app will always redirect to the Sci-Hub working domain, just add it to your bookmarks

#SciHub #Academia

I wrote about why Mastodon is growing so fast. Short version: sex workers and lolicon.

https://jonne.arjoranta.fi/2018/why-is-mastodon-growing/

I read a book about her and other 19th century women doing similar kinds of astronomy, called The Glass Universe. It was good!