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we should start making zines about cool research papers
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setting intentional goals and holding yourself accountable builds trust in your own abilities and self confidence.
set a goal and try to meet it. you deserve to prove yourself.
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what i read in june. 2023:
(previous editions) bold = favourite
race & gender
a few good men (usa)
catching the men who sell subway groping videos (china/japan)
wonder women
i learnt about masculinity from a colombian telenovela
the romance scammer on my sofa (nigeria)
politics & current affairs
have assisted dying laws gone too far? (canada)
inside man (usa)
cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the home office (uk)
portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. why hasn’t the world copied it?
the twenty-first century of (profitable) war (usa)
history, culture, & personal essays
i called everyone in jeffrey epstein’s little black book
ngũgĩ wa thiong’o: three days with a giant of african literature
the man in the iron lung
a mother’s exchange for her daughter’s future
30 years ago, romania deprived thousands of babies of human contact
inside the secretive world of penile enlargement
the promise that tested my parents until the end
greek migrant boat disaster
drowning in lies
‘If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned’
survivors of greek migrant tragedy say coastguard rope toppled boat
greece imposes silence around shipwreck of overcrowded migrant boat
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something you should know about second language acquisition is that the whole process of learning a new language is dynamic but slow. it doesn’t matter if you’re leaning French, Spanish or German, it is going to take time and that’s okay. it actually takes years for learners to build up a system similar to native speakers. “instantaneous acquisition”? forget about it. so, enjoy the process! do not feel bad bc you’re not native-like. try to communicate as much as you want in your L2 but don’t be harsh on yourself bc you made mistakes <3
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what i read in may. 2023:
(previous editions) bold = favourite
class, race, & labour
blackbirding:��families were ripped apart in the pacific — now, these women are working to reunite them (australia)
the not-so-hidden racism of nancy drew
i’m fucking agitated, are you going to murder me? (usa)
who owns the country? the secretive companies hoarding england’s land
a gruesome severed fingertip tells a painful story about corporate japan
being an honorary white person doesn’t make us more powerful
gender, sexuality, & intersectionality
cocooning
‘fearless, stoic and attractive’: a history of the state-sanctioned russian woman
i am a man, but i am not
chile’s new law blazes trail for children of femicide victims
why foreign wives in south korea are vulnerable to domestic violence
politics & current affairs
the true cost of tuna: marine observers dying at sea
the abolitionists born after hurricane maría (puerto rico)
thailand’s opposition parties start alliance talks after voters reject military rule
how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island (portugal)
el salvador gangs: mass arrests bring calm but at what price?
after the fall (australia/afghanistan)
history, culture, & personal essays
how i left the far right (usa)
‘how do I prove my innocence?’ casting students as would-be cheaters eager to exploit ai tools is disheartening
the rape culture of the 1980s, explained by sixteen candles
i placed my first wager when i was 10. i’ve gambled more than $1 million since
the joy of sulk
missed calls
i asked chatgpt to control my life, and it immediately fell apart
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Study notes but in the style of medieval illuminated manuscripts
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we need to destroy the "dark academia"/"light academia" binary by creating "normal academia" which involves doing schoolwork occasionally and wearing sweatpants and a t shirt in a normally lit room
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making myself a third cup of coffee so i can sit around doing nothing more efficiently
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Psych final review🫧
Went to another coffee shop on campus, this one has my favorite cold brew ever ^^ Working on creating knowt flash cards for the final tomorrow, it’s cumulative but it’s also online so I’m hoping it won’t be too bad.
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No you cannot fix your entire life at 2am. Go to bed.
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to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer
connectedpapers
the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!
for example: here i search "human B12"
i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"
here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)
you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.
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2023.02.09 // 18:01 reading an essay for class by a syrian academic living in exile (you can read it without the paywall here)
pic: grace church, manhattan, n.y.
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first morning after three weeks studying & working outside 🌷 trying to put together some notes to give a class about cultural management soon
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed right now, pick one thing to do. It can be tiny, like wiggling your toes. Then try just one more, and another, a keep adding little things. Before you know it you’ve wiggled your toes, moved your legs, stood up, walked across the room, turned the sink on, and washed a dish! Sometimes big things just need to be separated into smaller manageable tasks, and that’s okay.
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what i read in jan. 2023:
(previous editions) bold = favourite
class, race, & labour
why memphis is different (usa)
‘the goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
the gentrification of consciousness
corky lee and the work of seeing (usa)
gender, sexuality, & intersectionality
what fandom racism looks like: (not-so) sexy slavefic
women at the barricades
how the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided ireland
trans woman tells us stories of a wilder bugis street (singapore)
the narcissism of angry young men
the realtor fighting for public housing for singapore’s lgbtq+ community
politics & current affairs
what brazil’s failed coup means for the future of its democracy
sicily’s rich olive pickings - the fruit of italy’s migrant exploitation
global firms help myanmar’s military make weapons, says report
there’s no planet b
shadow diplomats have posed a threat for decades. governments looked the other way
history, culture, & media
singapore’s lion dancers are international winners. yet national support eludes them
from inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
the strangely beautiful experience of google reviews
chinese new year reminded me why i love my grandmother
it never existed
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things i learnt during my first term at uni
have a system to classify and organise your notes!
whether you type or handwrite your notes or write them digitally, make sure you work out a labelling system to keep all your documents in order.
i have google drive folders for every year and class and label things by week, lecture slides and notes/seminar notes/reading document/reading notes using abbreviations.
W1L1 - Pol0004 is Week 1, Lecture 1 for HSPS004 et cetera
don’t be afraid of office hours!
to me office hours seemed super scary, as with many new things at uni i didn’t know what the exact procedure would be and thus shied away at first.
the office hours i actually attended were genuinely useful and in case you also feel a bit iffy about going, i recommend sticking to a few key points to get the conversation started
1. why are you there? - easy but prepare to talk about a) the class, b) the assignment, c) the readings, d) the workload, e) the professor’s research, f) further materials, g) …
2. what help would you benefit from? - assignments, extracurriculars in a specific field, internship ideas, how to access or find out about certain services on campus, ... etc.!
TRY. don't be afraid to fail, you might even succeed.
instead of holding yourself back because you either don't like being amazing at something first try or because you are afraid people might be better than you at something and you would feel "out of place", just show up! go and try out for this really random thing, run in that election for this cool society you wanna hold a position in, go to castings and submit your writing to competitions, don't be afraid to try new stuff! i went from being afraid to participate in a selection trial to being offered a really amazing opportunity and from committing to a debate tournament (fully expecting to bomb) to actually ending up in the finale. and even when things don't go amazing and you rank last, you tried, and that's worth a win.
last but not least: give yourself breaks and don’t be afraid to ask questions!
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london in autumn.
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