Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).
Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for me lately is correlated with an increase in screen time.
My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting the A-story that goes with it “The Outrageous Okona” becomes “Data meets Joe Piscopo” and “Peak Performance” becomes “Data has impostor syndrome thanks to Strategema.” 🖖
My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today he & I talked about our epistemological stances. When I defined epistemological stance for him I was like, “There, just saved you 6 years of grad school.”
🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter
I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”
🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month
This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.
I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. Listen, body: I am doing my best to build a life where I take good care of you. Could you stop derailing literally everything else I want to do?
This is an example of process art.
I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience this as meditative and do it when I have energy, so I’m currently parsing out the things that keep that from happening. Maybe I start making really excellent lunches.
How to Scholar(?)
In my doctoral program, there was a class that we colloquially referred to as “babydocs.” As it was taught the year I took it, the purpose of babydocs was two-fold: 1. to introduce us to the field of library and information science and the variety of potential research areas and 2. to introduce us to the skills a person needs to be a scholar.
It’s been over seven years since I started babydocs and I’m still trying to get that “how to be a scholar” part down. Here are the topics and skills babydocs covered in this vein:
- Theory and methods
- Literature reviews
- searching for literature
- reading other people’s literature reviews
- managing literature
- writing literature reviews
- Peer review
- Project management
- Research ethics
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Presenting orally
- Empirical research methods
- Collaborative & interdisciplinary work
- Creating posters
- Writing research proposals
- Grants and funding
- Data management
- Writing referred papers
- Metrics
This was a two-semester course and that was only HALF of what we covered, with the other half being specific to our discipline.
I know how to do all of the things on this list, but I still haven’t created a cohesive framework or workflow that lets me do them in any but the most just-in-time manner. But a just-in-time scholar isn’t really the kind of scholar I want to be.
(And I do want to be a scholar, even though I’m not interested in tenure-track work.)
I share all of this because I’m going to try, all these years later, to create such a framework. Something that wasn’t part of babydocs.
I plan to blog about it and I thought y’all might like to follow along.