Posted in academia, political on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Have you guys heard about this? The Pentagon has a project to tap the knowledge of social science called Minerva. I found a Wired blog entry with some details. My first reaction was negative. When I thought about it a bit more, though, I wondered if maybe this is a good thing. In other arenas [...]
Posted in academia on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Anomie is selling blind reviewer voodoo dolls on Etsy to help fund her trip to Boston this summer to present a paper!! I love it.
Posted in academia, the internet on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I love the internet. I’ve been preaching to everyone who will listen about this long tail thing, which I do not have time to elaborate on at the moment. However, I cannot let it pass that I have experienced a mounting surge in traffic here at the end of the semester on two particular posts:
The [...]
Posted in academia on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
More undergrads are majoring in philosophy. [NYTimes] Yeesh. More people like my husband? I don’t know how many the world can take.
I am (mostly) kidding. The article linked above is very interesting. I’d rather people major in philosophy and learn to take a critical stance as early in life as possible than the alternative. Even [...]
Posted in academia, blogging on March 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This post is dedicated to all the socio-bloggers who have mused about quitting lately, as it seems like there are a few. Becoming Dr. Warner seems to be closed down, Radio Free Newport is considering quitting, as is New Soc Prof… and many others have talked about quitting in comments.
You know, when I was [...]
Posted in academia on March 11, 2008 | 21 Comments »
I had this thought the other day: “You know what’s strange? I didn’t know many academics before I started going to grad school.” I mean, I remember meeting this one guy at a party once. He was an academic in Ohio. I forget which field. Anyway he was in Austin to visit his girlfriend, who [...]
Posted in academia, sociology on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an awesome, succinct summary of how to write a research proposal from scatterplot’s Tina Fetner.
My proposed study is about this. Here is why this problem is important. Here is what we know about this problem. These studies leave THIS IMPORTANT THING that needs to be found out. Here is what I will do to [...]
Posted in academia, music, tagged sia nerdcore mcfrontalot on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I just noticed that there is a song called Academia on that Aussie woman Sia’s new album. Teehee. The lyrics are amusing if mostly nonsensical. It’s funny to hear the word “mean” used in song lyrics that aren’t nerdcore. Speaking of nerdcore, here’s my favorite:
Posted in academia on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out this post, which is mostly rubbish (in my humble, humble opinion) but toward the end lists all of the offerings of iTunes U. I already knew about the Stanford lectures, but holy cripes! There’s a lot of free, fascinating stuff to be had! Knowledge! For free! Love it. (I would also love to [...]
Posted in academia on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
It somehow adds to the weirdness and despair to learn that the NIU shooter was a grad student in sociology.
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