#academically rigorous

[n0b0dyukn0w]

Productivity Log- Day 1

So basically I'm going to start using this log to keep track of studying, reading, grades, etc so if you don't want to see it just block the tag Pelly's Productivity <3

School

Attention: 3/10 Productivity: 6/10 Missing Assignments: None Finished Assignments: 3 (math) 1 (science)

Home

Productivity: 9.5/10 Studying: 1.5hr Pages read: 100 (not school related book)

Studying

Method: 10 minutes reviewing stuff I know, 2-4 minute break, 1 hour studying hardest subjects, 5 minute break (i didn't really need one) 20 minutes planning/organizing/etc

Quizlet: 10 minutes Notes: 70 minutes Planning/Organizing: 10 minutes

Focus: Science Other: Math

Summary

Productivity: 8.5/10 I was slow and tired at school, but pulled through in the end and at home.

Grades: Good (Most classes haven't put in grades yet, bull all assignments have come back with 100s)

Playlist:

What I will do to grow: Bring coffee/caffeine to help me wake up, put effort to stay away from distractions, ask at least one question per class

[manwrre]

sooooo i totally disappeared because mental health decline ⬇️ and then i started uni and my academically rigorous program is actually so fucking academically rigorous??? who would’ve thought?? not me. i am sorta kinda back (kinda) (idk man) but yea.

[oacest]

Hey, oacest mention on twitter! yay

https://x.com/natonfilm/status/1931811948129341911?s=46

LOLLLLLLLL YAY 💖🤗. but technically there's no name mentioned so we'll just accept this win on behalf of all heroic tumblr blogs hard at work disturbingly normalizing incest <3 <3 <3

[specialagentartemis]

from a discussion in the comments of this post:

Learning about things is always valuable; learning how to assess what things are reliable is always valuable; not everything needs academic rigor to be valuable! That's part of what's getting lost here.

It's always good to read critically and ask questions, to think about the logical arguments being made and assess whether they are actually answering the question they set out to answer, or if they provide strong enough evidence for their claim. You certainly don't have to be an expert to do that. And it's a great way to learn.

The idea of academic rigor primarily comes into play if you want to 1) do original research, 2) challenge a scientist or expert and say they're wrong, or 3) give advice in a formal capacity or practice the topic in a formal capacity.

Learning a lot of facts about, say, Ancient Rome, is great for writing a fictional story set in Ancient Rome; academic rigor is necessary if you want to write a nonfiction history of Ancient Rome. Collecting lots of information about local ecosystems is awesome for starting your own native pollinator garden or giving plant cuttings to your neighbors; academic rigor is necessary if you want to start a consulting business giving recommendations to local institutions about rewilding their properties.

I, personally, really love learning about dinosaurs and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about them, but I'm nowhere near an expert, and that's fine: it mostly means I won't be writing any science books or leading any paleontology research projects or being a Jurassic World science consultant. I can still enjoy it, and get a lot of value in learning about it and understanding it, and know enough to go "hmmm there's probably more to the story" when news articles report that some biotech firm has de-enxtinct-ified some prehistoric animal. Those are all valuable things, even if they don't make me an expert!

And then there are topics like woodworking or sewing or rock climbing where "academic rigor" is not a useful framework for expertise at all, because it operates in a completely different space in which expertise comes in a very different way.

Anti-vaxxers are very enthusiastic about "doing their own research" and still very wrong. This is a huge problem because they are also saying the medical experts are liars and making decisions about other people's health because of it. Graham Hancock is very enthusiastic about archaeology, and very wrong. This leads to him getting a Netflix deal to make a popular tv show where he tells you that the academic archaeologists are lying to you to cover up the fact that Atlantis is real.

Conversely, here's a story about an amateur archaeologist who spent a lot of time studying Ice Age cave paintings... and then brought his observations and theories to academic archaeologists, who worked together with him to test those theories!

Getting an academic degree is not the only path to truth and knowledge. But one of the big values of academia is that it teaches you how to research, how to design experiments, how to read critically and assess information, and how to robustly test your ideas. It also has peer review by other experts who are there to assess your work from an outside perspective and give critiques of it, and it teaches you how to accept critique with an open mind. Those are absolutely skills you CAN learn outside academia! For sure! But you have to honestly assess: are you? before you can make a claim to the same standards of original research, challenging other experts, or giving advice from a place of expertise.

If that's not what you're interested in doing with your knowledge, then learning facts is awesome. Learning about the world to broaden your worldview and understand more about the world around you is always good. And I don't know an academic who will ever claim otherwise.

[brown-little-robin]

I just applied for a job, everyone clap and cheer!!!

[leonardcohenofficial]

and to be clear being able to produce good academic writing is not the end all be all of anything lmfao i just have a specific relationship to my writing and being able to take pride in it does mean something important to me <3

[fwrails]

feeling like i’m outgrowing my irls i feel terrified

[presidentkamala]

I went to columbia a few years ago and all my professors fucking railed against chatgpt, what a progression it's been lol. of course they also would probably give an A+ to al qaeda at this point if they submitted essays analyzing western decadence so wtf do i know

SCREAM Columbia has really entered the Vortex like idek what to think!! Back in my youth the folks that did go were a little more ~~radical~~ ig but it was early obama/ending the war on terror years and felt proportional! But now i guess they all grew up and have been laundering their opinions through academic studies through various "lenses" and managed to scrape by enough to effect some of the academic culture at these schools

[madmonksandmaenads]

I am at a funny place in my amateur study of religious history and magic. People who aren't very familiar with the topics think I am some sort of expert. However I am deeply aware of the vast gulf between my knowledge and expertise. It's one of those things were I can see how a less scrupulous person could easily make this into a con. Be safe out there, and learn to recognize the difference between an amateur and a real scholar of a topic.

[n0b0dyukn0w]

Productivity Log- Day 2

01/09/25

School

Attention: 9/10 Productivity: 10/10 Missing Assignments: None Finished Assignments: 7

Home

Productivity: 10/10 Studying: 5 hrs Pages: 470 (150 novel, 320 graphic novel)

Studying

Read for 3.5 hours, refill water, homework for 30 minutes, online worksheets for 1 hr

Focus Area: Math, English

Other: Comp Sci

Summary

Productivity: 10/10

Drank a ton of coffee, worked hard in school, got home, studied and read for five hours, finally took a break and made a pizza after :)

Grades: Good

didn't have a specific Playlist, but there's a sleepy blahaj Playlist on Spotify I like

[dxppercxdxver]

tagged by @iamthemaestro! thank ya friend :3

last song: taylor mac's rendition of 'coal black rose' from judy's 24-hour performance art piece a 24-decade history of popular music

favorite color: dark cool greeeeeen, i love a good phthalo green

last book: i'm not actually sure! i think it was either carl bergstrom and jevin d. west's calling bullshit: the art of skepticism in a data-driven world (for class) or sebastian nothwell's mr. warren's profession (read it for about two minutes at my airport gate)

last audiobook: i don't listen to audiobooks, they don't jive with me At All (technical answer i think is Maybe daniel o'malley's stiletto on a road trip when i was about 13 lmao)

last movie: taylor mac's a 24-decade history of popular music lol (before that i think it was either el corrido (de jesus pelado rasquachi) if you count a televised theatrical production or master and commander if you don't)

last tv show: i think it was mystery science theater 3000? persnaps? either that or a very small clip of supernatural ://

relationship: engaged to my dear @firstmatedville :3 and in a casual friendswithbenefits relationship with a friend from school

last thing I looked up: the title of el corrido (de jesus pelado rasquachi) the costume designer machine dazzle!

current obsession: i'm actually not sure! i'm in the crunch of Finals Season bearing down so anything outside of my academic brain is kind of. souped. however i do love looking at pictures of emily benjamin as kate in the knight's tale musical. i want to kiss her gaystyle

looking forward to: seeing multiple shows this weekend! will hopefully see a friend i haven't seen properly in awhile next week! tap show Next next week! these are things i'm looking forward to and also so so scared of lmao

tagging: @chiropteracupola, @sailorpants, @firstmatedville, and @nico-demons :3

[dancing-homestuck]

I’ll bet if I actually went and looked I’d find a lot of it, but it’d be kinda funny if when they’re rebuilding Heaven Ling Wen was like “and where’s intern X?” “Oh, he was a Blackwater clone.” “Okay, what about Scholar Y” “Oh, uh, he was Also a Blackwater clone.” “Fucking- Scribe Z???” “………… her too.” And look listen if maybe some time later some of those scholars start working in the New Palace….. who amongst the gods has the paperwork detailing which middle court officials were or were not Blackwater? No one? Okay, moving on

[frogsinflannel]

HJ, I love the horror genre! I would def enjoy to read your yapping about it. I have a strong preference for the more psychological horror types like Hereditary, Relic, Lake Mungo, etcetera. Any thoughts on any of these or musings about what your own preferred flavor of horror is?

Ooooh, so I haven’t seen Lake Mungo yet, and I actually hadn’t heard of Relic! At least for Lake Mungo, I really like found footage but I’m also kind of picky about it, so ironically I don’t watch much of it.

Your question really made me think, because I hadn’t exactly considered what flavor of horror I preferred? I like specific movies, and the genre as a whole I suppose, but I’ve never been able to pin down a preference. I think psychological horror is probably what I enjoy most as well. I have a weak stomach, so I can’t handle much gore—I’ll watch movies with gore, though not to any extreme, but sometimes I might have to watch through my fingers.

My own particular interest is, weirdly, slasher films. I wouldn’t even necessarily put many of them in a list of my favorites (except Scream, I do love that franchise) but they fascinate me. Especially the idea of the “final girl”—horror and gender is my fuckin bread and butter, like that’s what I am about, and the final girl trope is an interesting look at that. There’s this push and pull between the idea of this “pure” young girl escaping and making it out of whatever nightmare scenario because she’s “good” and the audience’s positioning alongside her. There was, and perhaps still is, this idea that men are the primary viewers of horror, and it’s interesting to see how this idea of the final girl can be subverted, and then even in those staples of the genre, how the experience of watching plays on gendered fear and puts the (male) audience in that role of victim and hero.

My favorite final girl is Ellen Ripley in the first Alien movie, mostly because she’s not really a typical final girl at all (and obviously that film is not a slasher, so it’s not using the same tropes anyway, though there are similarities). I love talking about Alien as horror because it’s so, so unsubtle in what it’s doing. Like. Alllll the phallic imagery, what’s essentially a scene of birth? Come on now, we all see what you’re doing. Lmao this movie is, uh, important in HJ lore iykyk

I also really like Happy Death Day, which is a very unserious whodunnit slasher type movie. The protagonist Tree is not a final girl in any traditional because she is in fact dying, over and over, but the time loop positions her as final girl and it’s really interesting how her (multiple) deaths are used to move the narrative. She becomes the he final girl because, well, she’s the only girl, her death specifically is the endgame. Trying to save her friends or being the only one left alive is reversed, where Tree has to make friends and learn to care about people more. Like maybe this isn’t the greatest film, but it’s very specifically catered to my interests, so. I’ll shut up about it but it is one I recommend if you like this type of thing.

Ooh, other final girl I like is Erin from You’re Next. That’s another slasher but it’s very good. Great tension, the killers’ hunting gave me chills, and Erin is a great character. Another more subversive type of final girl.

(Shout out to Carol Clover, who I believe coined the term final girl, and she wrote a book on gender and horror if anyone is interested in that. Worth checking out, maybe with Mulvey’s original essay on “male gaze.” This topic has been written about extensively so there’s a lot of scholarship out there btw. Also I recommend reading up on queer horror too! <-directed at a general audience)

[joelletwo]

imagine i have the ability to write this all in greentext cuz thats how im thinking today but. see a post w a video of hilarious ai-gen gymnastics. scroll ten thousand years to see if anyones described. no. okay i can do that.

go down the usual rabbithole of describing prompting me to look for the origin of the material to add whatever context i can find out. the linked article just links to someone reposting it on twitter with no other info. google it. nearly every article and repost is doing the same. eventually one article gives a name for the guy who made it but no links and i have trouble finding where he wouldve even posted it. keep digging.

ONE. article. that properly credits and links. so anyways go enjoy fucked up video that brought me to tears.

but im just kind of boggled and derailed [unfairly!!!! not the same people!!!!] about the 'ai is bad bc it steals ppls work uncompensated' site passing that around so i can ultimately read the impressively passive voice'd

A.I. was prompted to recreate some footage of gymnastics

[onelonelystory]

you need to stop thinking your anecdotal experience is a substantive generally applicable argument. you need to stop assuming that being directly impacted means you have a comprehensive understanding of things. and you need to stop feeling like people who say batshit things are correct because they’re speaking from experience and the broad strokes sentiment is something you agree with and support. please.

[girl-mercury]

please enjoy the slightly wild assortment of books to be found on the shelf in my parents’ guest room