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[cyberstudious]

tuesday, june 25th, 2024

I got up early this morning to do some reading & commonplacing before work. I always have tons of ideas for things I want to do, but then I'm just too tired by the evening - so I'm trying out a thing where I wake up extra early, do the fun things before work, and then just rest and go to bed early in the evenings. we'll see how it goes lol

[chaotic-archaeologist]

As promised, here's my grad student's guide to formatting citations! This is essentially the presentation I gave to my undergraduate students to help them know when and how to cite things properly in their papers. The links included are:

Also, the Zotero web extensions work with @jstor so that you can import all of the information necessary for a citation directly from your browser! No need to enter things manually!

-Reid

[zinjanthropusboisei]

As a counterbalance to whining earlier, here's a cool thing I just realized: if you highlight a quote in Zotero and drag-and-drop it into your text, it will automatically format it properly with quotation marks and a citation with the page number:

[kissycat]

I feel like humanities people are always talking about formatting citations and bibliographies and I am concerned that they don't use/don't know about literature management programs where this takes literally 1 click .... if you're reading this and it's applicable, download zotero and look up how to use it, takes a bit to get used to it but saves you hours and hours of work down the line

[un-pearable]

nothing like a good public flaying to reinstate the value of citing your goddamn sources into folks on the internet !

[transformativeworks]

OTW Guest Post: Tanisha Rao

Today's OTW Guest, Tanisha Rao, developed her MA thesis after reading on AO3, and also shares some love for the OTW's fan studies bibliography. Read more at https://otw-news.org/bddt3fdy

[iamthepulta]

I've been listening to Glasgow Ghost Stories and it's so sweet and also clever and good <3

I was hooked by the actually-unnerving horror/ghost writing in the first few episodes, and how short the episodes were. And then I found myself getting genuinely attached to the ghosts and the story itself. Highly recommend~

[imanes]

if anybody is doing/has done research and is like good at organizing their material for their literature review what method do you usually use? I've been at it on/off for several years through various eras of my life and i don't think what I'm doing is efficient or even working for me tbh... i watched a couple of videos that suggested to use notion but to me multiplying apps and shit has never worked for more than two days. should i try one note instead? and before you ask... I've only inefficiently used Microsoft word so far aflgdhkg

[tchaikovskym]

keeping this bad boy in front of me when making a list of cited articles

[star-byrd]

zotero update which means i have to say goodbye to zotfile... you served me well, old friend.... may you have a viking funeral

[official-linguistics-post]

hi!

I'm writing my dissertation on the Rosetta Stone, and a key point of that is the evolution of writing systems. I'm trying to find a scholarly article or book that states that writing systems usually start off ideographic but evolve wholely/partially to alphabetic.

I haven't been able to find anything apart from one focusing on ancient Mesopotamia, and I'd really appreciate it if you knew of, or could direct me in the direction of, a scholarly article that states it.

thank you so so much, I'm beyond desperate at this point 😭

first i have a caution against the "evolution" tilt — don't fall into hyperevolutionism à la sylvanus morley or ignace gelb. an alphabet isn't an evolutionary stage, it's just one possible path, distinct from other script types.

with that said, i think andrew robinson's the story of writing hits on writing system development in general, and the "further reading" section of that book has some great starting points. i can't necessarily vouch for these texts but here's some that look useful for you at first glance:

peter daniels and william bright (eds), the world's writing systems, 1996

roy harris, the origin of writing, 1986

stephen d. houston (ed), the first writing: script invention as history and process, 2004

robert k. englund, "the origins of script," science, 11 june 1993

please take note that none of these will explicitly support that "writing systems usually start off ideographic but evolve wholly/partially to alphabetic" because that just isn't true, at least the way i'm interpreting your phrasing, so you might have to tweak your argument a little bit. (don't worry, it's healthy for your scholarship!)

[eldritch-elrics]

honestly though this whole thing is making me more enthusiastic about doing citations than i've ever been. like obviously you should always cite your sources regardless of whether or not they're the Hot New Topic, but there is something nice about something you've always found tedious becoming Cool in your brain

[hapalopus]

One pro of ADHD is that you get really good at handling stress. I've survived missed/near-missed deadlines so many times now, I'm cool as a cucumber, meanwhile the others in my group are stressing because Mendeley just fucked up. Girls, it's fine. We have until 9am tomorrow to fix it. Breathe. We literally have 12½ hours left.

[classicslesbianopinions]

does anyone have a note taking app/website they like that i could use on desktop. specifically for advanced latin and greek classes where i have to take notes on vocab and grammar in a given text. ideally something i can use offline that doesn't try to get me to subscribe to anything (i don't necessarily mind a paid app if it's a one-time purchase but i cannot abide the constant attempts to upsell me).

[hylianengineer]

So, I got a new laptop. Yay, I don't have to rely on the library loaner one anymore!

Huge thank you to everyone who chimed in when I asked for laptop buying advice - I ended up with an ASUS Zenbook. So far so good, I guess? Most of the things I need in a computer won't be evidence until I've been using it long term, but it is endearingly tiny.

Also, they were not kidding about the fancy OLED screen. Why are all the colors so BRIGHT?! It's a touch screen and I kind of live in fear of breaking it because my sibling has a touchscreen laptop that broke from getting a dent in the back of the casing.

And for whatever reason, the touchpad doubles as a number pad. Not sure what to make of that yet.