#adventures of working in academia

[littlelemontarte]

just finished over eight hours of working in the math help center, someone please put my brain into rice, it's completely fried

[levbolton]

Obsessed with what is currently happening on the MyAnimeList website

[whiteboyfight]

Ultimate White-Haired Anime Guy Tournament

can’t read a damn thing on this bracket but it’s a half hour i will never get back.

Round 1

Ginko (Mushishi) vs Neutrophil (Cells at Work)

Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Shion (No. 6) vs Atsushi Nakajima (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Suzuya Juuzou (Tokyo Ghoul) vs Kite (Hunter x Hunter)

Sugawara Koushi (Haikyuu!!) vs Shogo Makishima (Psycho-Pass)

Soul Evans (Soul Eater) vs .5 of Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Toshiro Hitsugaya (Bleach) vs Griffith (Berserk)

Near (Death Note) vs Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

Jean Pierre Polnareff (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) vs Inuyasha (Inuyasha)

Gintoki Sakata (Gintama) vs Noe Archiviste (Vanitas no Carte)

Nagito Komaeda (Dangan Ronpa) vs Archer (Fate/Stay Night)

Kakashi Hatake (Naruto) vs Clear (Dramatical Murder)

Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen) vs Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Enrico Pucci (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) vs Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Decim (Death Parade) vs Allen Walker (D. Gray Man)

Sesshomaru (Inuyasha) vs Kaneki Ken (Tokyo Ghoul)

Polls go live at 8PM PST tomorrow (2/21)! See you there!

edit: all polls can be found under the "round 1" tag!

[lau-and-history]

October 2023: I was so productive but, boy (gn), was it a stressful month!

[oldshrewsburyian]

Okay, I need a productive outlet for being appalled at the lack of professionalism I'm seeing from graduate students in the program where I teach. I'm going to make myself a pot of tea and volunteer to answer grad school etiquette questions on here, where they have a chance of doing some good.

[uldra]

Today's view from Archiepiscopal Residence of Zagreb whose wall paintings, harmed by the earthquake, I had the opportunity to restore.

[yandere-writer-momo]

Commissions are open!!

My commissions are open so you can message me on my Ko-fi about anything you’d like me to write. There are no rules on what you can request since this is for your own private enjoyment. Anything is on the table so long as it is within my expertise.

It’s $10 per 1k words. It can be Baki, original content, my hero, attack on titan, Jojo, or one piece. I’ll even write a character x your oc.

[seismologically-silly]

The worst part about scientific writing isn't actually the writing. It's organizing all of your sources so that a) you don't plagiarize and b) everything makes sense

[tiffanyachings]

they should add at least 10 points to my grade for completing a dissertation despite the unmedicated adhd and no accommodations. ​as compensation

[smallfrenchstudyblr]

Social sciences need to stop with the assumption of rationality. I suggest we move on to the Assumption of Dumbassery. Let's just assume that social actors are, actually, absolute clowns.

[fanhackers]

Transformative Works and Culture journal new issue out!

The editorial reflects on the directions the journal intends to take. To us, Fanhackers, one sentence inmediately seems relevant.

(…) we continue to resist the tendency within fan studies’ spaces, both casual and academic, to speak about fandom as if it’s a contiguous whole rather than encompassing an enormous variety of people, cultures, practices—and conflicts.

Fanhackers’ own mission is to connect fandom studies that is casual with the one that’s academic. The journal’s focus falls not necessarily connecting these discussions but to expand what academic fandom studies can cover by

(speaking) with potential authors over the past year, including especially those who may not think of what they do as fitting into the field because of who and what they are studying

In the editorial, this expansion is related to an important statement.

It is not uncommon to hear or read words such as “fandom has a whiteness problem,” or “fandom has a race problem,” but neither of those statements are true. There are and have always been Black fandoms, and Indigenous fandoms, and Latinx fandoms, and Asian fandoms, and fandoms of and for people whose identities exist outside of Western-dominant racial formations. Fandom does not have a whiteness problem. White fandoms have a whiteness problem. 

I like, therefore, to say that it is white fandom studies that has a whiteness problem, oftentimes, though, discussion doesn’t name fandom studies as such and scholarship that doesn’t center whiteness the same way might not be included in histories of fandom studies. Then, this expansion needs not only to include new scholarship but by rethinking what our scholarship includes.

In this, the efforts of fandom and fandom studies should be connected.

[littlelemontarte]

meeting again. when will it end.

[soufre-de-paris]

this book is from 1988.

"Recently, a course on 'History and Anthropology of Sexuality', citing names of the likes of Lévi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Foucault, Florestan Fernandes, Reich, etc., shocked an administrator from my university, who labelled the course a 'class in obscenity'. This same authority would go on to oppose the election of a professor with a doctorate to a department head position, claiming that a 'pederast' could not be head of a department."

[spiremire]

How to trick yourself into writing: grad school edition

On days where the words simply aren’t happening, and your fleeting concentration can be broken by a chair squeak down the hall, force yourself to sit down with your document for 2-3 half hour chunks (spread out across the day).

HOWEVER, instead of setting a timer—which will beep and interrupt you if you accidentally fall into a groove—set a stopwatch instead. If you hit your time and don’t make much progress, no harm no foul. But if you do end up finding a groove you won’t be knocked out of it by an errant timer beep!

Things that count as progress, btw:

Making figures, tables, and other visual aids

Coming up with ideas for possible figures to include

Bullet points

Notes to help with later citations

Section headings

Setting the formatting to how you like it

Setting the formatting to how you need it to be for submission

Finding source papers

Unhinged ‘Pepe Silva’-esque rant about how your work ties into the bigger picture of your subject

Finding other angles to look at your data from OR determining a new project you can do with the data you already have

Building out bibliography/citation list

Some of these seem like busywork but they’ll have to be done eventually, so you may as well do them if you’re lacking inspiration for everything else :)

[lau-and-history]

Enjoying the first glimpses of spring and slowly trying to get back into regular PhD work 🌼

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

goncharov this goncharov that how about you “gonch” on some microRNA and its ability to impede normal translation function in eukaryotes. huh.