Dan Scott @dbs@scholar.social

Side note: figured out how to use stem: blocks in Asciidoc so that I can continue taking notes on my laptop rather than scrawling in my notepad.

I think it helps to be able to express things in the required notation rather than just using symbols, e.g.

stem:[\forall x, y \in I, x > y => f(x) \lt f(y)]

I survived day one. The agenda was... ambitious, and predictably the workshop leader began to start skipping through content. Which leads to shaky foundations, because of course almost all math builds on previous math.

So the next three days are going to be very challenging. But I can do it!

Settling in as a student in what's going to be a heck of a day. Coming up: 200+ slides and associated exercises in set logic / basic algebra, and functions.

Workshop hasn't started yet but I've already pointed out a transposition error in one of the problems and a Markdown quirk (lettered list in source generating a numbered list output, screwing up references) to the instructor. Probably a nervous/defensive reaction on my part. Have to try not to be _that student_

I was about to recommend zenodo.org as a data repository then discovered it has been down for over three hours. #notGoodTiming.

So you might think a PhD symposium on information studies research might a) archive the website & program and b) include links for presenters and their presentations but (at least in my most recent anecdotal case) you would be wrong.

I went ahead and saved the current site in the Wayback Machine, sent my links to the organizers, and suggested they might want to create folders for each year of the symposium. But I'm sure they're tired!

My relationship to "word count" has shifted over time

Before: start writing a day or two before a deadline (or a few hours...) stop writing when I reach the expected word count, slap on a title, intro, and conclusion that seem to match, done

Now: write everything I need to say, see I've doubled the expected word count, spend days revising/cutting/crafting and worrying about the removal of so much context and qualifiers

Almost done this draft proposal, all I have to do is outline the expected theoretical and applied contributions of my proposed area of study.

hahahaha I expect to be doing that for years to come; let me just summarize that in 100 words

2018 article w/20 citations: "The complete overview of our model can be found at [URL]"

Today: URL = 404, nothing in Wayback Machine, no trace found manually browsing web domain, research group's site, or first author's site

Off goes another email to the author...

Called it. Despite including the journal title, vol/iss, pub date, and pages in the ILL request, I received the conference paper of the same name (but different date, pages, pub venue...) instead of the journal article.

I had even put the DOI in the comments field.

*sigh*

But at least it was really fast? Less than 20 hour turnaround time for a request issued on a Sunday.

https://scholar.social/@dbs/101926418941465138

"Qualitative tools that have been demonstrated reliable and applicable in several domains are Likert Scale surveys, that […]" - from a 2008 paper

No, no, please stop!

Please don't give the exact same title to your conference paper and journal article.

It can be a little hellish to track down the correct content, and if things get difficult for a researcher, they just might decide to skip over that resource.

(says person who just placed an ILL request for the article and fully expects to get the conf paper...)

Hello, computer science journal homepage straight out of the 90's (but issue 1 in 2005 and still publishing in 2019):

http://www.ijicic.org/

Just found out that an international conference at which I co-led an all-day workshop is reimbursing my travel expenses!

Icy icy branches day (a photo reply to https://scholar.social/@bgcarlisle/101892154082052918)

I used 30 seconds of my allotted 15 minutes to acknowledge that McGill is situated on the traditional meeting grounds of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnabeg nations.

We had four speakers and more attendees than usual for today's seminar so it really needed doing.

https://www.mcgill.ca/edu4all/other-equity-resources/traditional-territories

Well I gave a 15 minute presentation summarizing the synthesis of my reading course, including gaps I had identified and NOBODY LAUGHED AT MY BABY STEPS.

Even got to answer one of the audience questions with a "well thank you for asking, I just happen to have a Proposals slide in my appendices!" ta-da moment.

It's weird, I've given a ton of presentations before, but this one really stressed me out.Onwards!

I'm going to borrow from @artsyhonker and try #FocusTime today: 10 minutes of check-in/planning, followed by 50 minutes of work. Kind of a modified Pomodoro technique.

Starting... now.

Prof, reviewing the research proposal I submitted as the final assignment for our research design class (iteration #3 for this term), stated that he thought it would probably pass an actual thesis proposal.

That event is still way off in the future but holy heck I needed that validation.