Eleanor Konik @eleanorkonik@scholar.social

So I was rewatching the Two Towers the other day

Attending a highly interdisciplinary conference only 2 hours away with a mix of academic & community practitioners. The moderators have not contacted me & the chair has not answered my question about presentation logistics or getting the moderator's info. I come from a field that usually uses basic PPT slide decks for conference talks. My topic is highly technical but also very interesting to a broad audience if presented well (which I am capable of). Reader, what would you do in my situation?

Have you ever thought about folk songs in fantasy worlds?

Preindustrial types sing a LOT. Shanties and hollers pace your work but without the coherent storytelling of ballads or protest songs, they get convoluted. F’rex “Black Betty” popularized by Ram Jam might be about a police wagon, a whip, a musket, a prostitute, all the above. Or “Haul Away Joe” probably existed for decades before adding a lyric about the French Revolution.

Dear authors,

Please stop using both ω and w in your equations.

Yours,
People tired of squinting at papers trying to figure out which is which

So I'm sure you're all familiar with the UN projection of the Earth that puts the Arctic at the center and shows all the land, but let me present to you the inverse of that, the Spilhaus projection, which centers the map on Antarctica and shows the world's ocean as the single, continuous mass of water that it is.

trying to promote Mastodon at the Association of Internet Researchers #aoir2019 conference... any other Mastodon users here?

Some sort of weirdo yellow flower with black stems and leaves??

Trans-inclusive Design

Late one night a few years ago, a panicked professor emailed me: “My transgender student’s legal name is showing on our online discussion board. How can I keep him from being outed to his classmates?” Short story: we couldn’t. The professor created an offline workaround with the student. Years later this problem persists not just in campus systems, but in many systems we use every day.

https://alistapart.com/article/trans-inclusive-design/

New Post: The Agricultural Surplus is a Dangerous Idea https://bookandsword.com/2019/09/07/agricultural-surplus-is-a-dangerous-idea/ #economicHistory #agriculture #farming #ancient #economics

If you want to seriously change inequality there is a small thing you can do. Support a small southern US black owned coop so they can pasteurize their awesome pecan milk to have a longer shelf life so they can ship it. https://pecanmilk.com/ This coop must survive but they are in a catch-22 where they do not make enough to qualify for a loan. Their product is so good that it will be a sustainable coop venture. Without us they have no real way out. Ideas are welcomed.

Heard of a cool tech-bro-weeding interview technique the other day. A male and female engineer conduct the interview session together. If, when the female engineer asks the candidate a question, he directs his answer to the male engineer, then he's out. They said it happens a lot

@arteteco sometimes people (especially with less power) have no way to get a word in edgewise other than to use such a strategy. if they asked "can I speak ," it could be misinterpreted as aggression. conversations so often in academia are biased towards people unwilling to cede the floor. point is that these filler words are symptom of broader problem in academic discourse. as a student grows more confident these fillers decline. but faculty often miss the forest focusing on one tree

https://supchina.com/2019/08/07/uyghur-love-in-a-time-of-interethnic-marriage/

In case you feel like getting really mad about how Uyghur women are being portrayed as ideal brides, with Uyghur men "safely" locked away in concentration camps.

Is there a federated place for publications?