#research life

[phd-in-prog]

actual footage of me working on this paper all weekend and monday

[ineedfairypee]

To P or not to P(hD)

[gomzdrawfr]

Need to lock tf in for these few weeks for my research except im an idiot and didn’t monitor my stats

[zakalwe-the-ninth]

Doing research using semi-structured interviews is all well and good until it comes to the point you have to transcribe the bastards.

Turns out I cannot physically listen to my own voice without wanting to die.

[huntingorbits]

Me: *Gets my reading list up to date* "Ah, yes. Perfect. Now I can finish the books I'm currently reading and then start fresh."

Also Me: *Starts reading two more books almost right away*

[100secondegyptology]

Dissertation logs

Currently reading:

Simon Conner: Ancient Egyptian Statues. Their many lives and deaths. Cairo 2022.

Am enjoying the book immensely, especially his focus on agency and use life - a good introduction which offers a lot of contextual information. Overall quite refreshing.

[heraspeacocks]

Me, after presenting my research.

Pedro Pascal wins Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for The Last of Us at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards

[elbiotipo]

👀

[annabelle--cane]

things jon missed while stalking his colleagues:

the fact that sasha had been half lined up for gertrude's job and how that would be a pretty good murder motive

the discrepancy between elias's hiring in 1991 and how he said he was working as a filing clerk in 1972

tim's brother's mysterious disappearance/death directly preceding his change in careers

martin's real age and literally any of his academic or employment history

conclusion: he's bad at this <3

[mycroftrh]

Tim: *draped over Jason’s couch, deeply depressed*

Jason, awkwardly: Would you, uh, like a gun? That always seems to help me…

Tim, wailing: You want to turn me into Gun Batman???

Jason: Gun… what?

Tim: I thought I could trust you!

Jason: In retrospect I’m sure you can see where you went wrong there.

[phd-in-prog]

How do you keep your readings (articles, books) organized for future reference? Like, when you're done reading a paper, what do you do with it so that when you want to return to it later, you'll be able to find it again?

so I put all the papers I read in Zotero and use tags to keep things accessible (because I can NEVER remember authors, no matter how many times my advisor refers to them by name)

when I remember, I'll attach the marked-up version of the PDF with all my notes (I historically use Goodnotes, but I'm not pleased with some of their business decisions lately and am taking suggestions on alternatives, ESPECIALLY self-hosted [I run a home server hahahaha])

for really important papers I (use the department's printer to) print them out and mark them up by hand, then put them in a pile where I probably never look at them again until it's time to write a literature review section of something

[ineedfairypee]

3.5k over the wordcount 🫠

[deamortis66]

why does every farming/life sim game have a different fishing mechanic and no tutorial for it. you pull out your fishing pole and click on the water and the next thing you know hieroglyphics are flying around everywhere, there's a timer in the bottom right counting down from 47.4, and the whole screen is shaking violently and flashing red every time you move your mouse

[prokopetz]

Just to give you an idea of what archival research looks like these days, in attempting to track down the September 1988 issue of White Dwarf for a recent post, I stumbled across half a dozen DMCA takedowns from Games Workshop, a file-sharing service which no longer exists, multiple archives which inexplicably have every 1988 issue of White Dwarf except September's, and a worrying number of false positives because many periodical databases seem to be unaware that the UK and US editions of White Dwarf are different magazines, and they keep mislabelling scans of the US January 2016 issue as the UK September 1988 issue because they have the same issue number.

You wanna know where I eventually did find a correctly labelled scan of the stupid thing? In a random-ass torrent that wasn't even Games Workshop related – it was, like, a collection of Spanish-language sourcebooks for Vampire: The Masquerade, plus the September 1988 issue of White Dwarf, a Czech translation of H P Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth, and a pirated copy of Policing America: Challenges and Best Practices (9th Ed.) for some fucking reason.

[huntingorbits]

I'm slowly catching up on things and updating my various collection posts. So far, I've updated My Tarot & Oracle Collection and Works I've Read, so next is going to be Currently Reading & Queue.

I'm also looking forward to sharing my notes from the book I'm currently studying from, which discusses witchcraft from a primarily anthropological perspective, with respect to areas often overlooked by anthropologists as well. It's a nice blend of history and anthropology and has given me a lot to think about in terms of how witchcraft has become what it is today based on history and more recent resurgence.

Anyways, I'll share that in a proper review once I get to that point. :)

[100secondegyptology]

Travelling to the UK for a conference in a few months... frustratingly a lot of museums I haven't visited (yet) are barely reachable by public transport.

It's a minor issue, though! I'm very excited to go and meet some colleagues I have not seen in a long time.

I might also add a few photographs from my previous travels in the coming months to this blog as I am currently sorting through them :)