Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Less ironic update: the grad program advisor agrees that 3 of my post-MA seminars from UC Riverside should apply to my course of study here, and now the long-dreaded Transfer Paperwork is going to the Program Chair!

So with the appropriate signatures, I might be done with classes & need to start putting together a qualifying exam committee (?!).

(plus a language exam & two teaching externships, but hey… progress.)

Uh… so… as I'm about half an hour into crafting a social media post for our library about resources we have related to ADHD Awareness Month, it dawns on me that November & October are in fact entirely(!) different(!) months.

In very related news, I've got a solid start on a post for next year's ADHD Awareness Month!

https://adhdawarenessmonth.org

I don't regularly post about the articles published with the journal I help edit, but today's article touches on so many things (privacy, information capitalism, supply chain ethics, privacy by design principles, vocational awe, etc.) that I can't help myself.

Sarah Lamdan, "Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance": http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/

tired: nano wrimo
wired: emacs wrimo
inspired: spacevim wrimo

I'm not exactly proud of it, but I learned today that when a professor "corrects" me during an infolit session by claiming that double-blind peer review isn't practiced by journals, I'll instinctively search for that as a term and let the results mostly speak for themselves.

Also learned that I'll instinctively help the professor save face by hypothesizing that it might be more common in the social sciences than in the professor's science.

> Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, for instance by using 'he or she', 'his/her' instead of 'he' or 'his'

Okay, we all recognize the bias this journal's editors overlook, right? Gender's not a binary, yet this "inclusive" language presents it as an either/or situation.

I'm hoping this is just an example the journal hasn't examined recently, but it seems like a great case in point for remaining suspicious of claims that someone/something is unbiased.

No, it's not a cemetery for pets. The cemetery IS my pet.

I just… I honestly don't understand why this is such a hard concept.

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Had a great time at the conference last week, but I'm still flummoxed by how my panel ended up without a moderator.

We quickly forged ahead and self-moderated when no one showed up… which also means that everyone else on the panel went well over their time. Since I was last, I had 10 fewer minutes than I should have for my paper. And we had zero time for Q&A without going over the session time.

Organizers, moderators, presenters: don't do that to your colleagues.