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I worked on this dataset and this is a fun visualization!! Loving the bookshelf concept

Totally get this.

It’s imperfect, but I think our kind of work has 3 roles right now:

- to document & remember (radical when time feels unmoored)

- to think & speak with precision (when so much noise rejects rigour)

- to see seemingly familiar things anew (articulating alternatives is a way out)

A reminder that if your schedules and goals make you panicky… take a deep breath. Reset. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that it’s what’s best for you.
(Really, this is a reminder to myself). It’s not flaky to know what will work for you and what will burn you out

Gotta say, I’m such a sucker for Strava’s fitness score thing. I can be manipulated so easy just by seeing number go up

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

I've updated the Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading list! If you know of any other fantasy and science fiction works by Palestinian writers around the world, do let me know!

soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

They died because they were women.
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989 Polytechnique Massacre. 14 women, most engineering students, were murdered by a misogynist gunman. December 6 is now the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

Poet Vachel Lindsay sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lindsa... died on this day, so here's some of the artwork (by Lindsay) from his Collected Poems (1923), though I think they'd first appeared in earlier collections:

Daydream

We (as a culture) have an extremely sophisticated vocabulary for discussing art, but we also have a constant drumbeat of powerful people saying that criticism is useless and stupid and no one should study it, so people are left winging it and relying on the dominant spreadsheet model of everything

A cross walk and row of apartments in Montreal. They are lit from the side in golden light

Sunny Montréal 💛🤍🩵
On Kodak ultramax 400 iso #film #35mm #montreal

Bookish checkpoint!
Last book read: Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel
Current read: Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox Gambit + Border Aesthetics ed. Schimanski & Wolfe (both rereads for the dissertation)
Last added to the TBR: Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue
Next up: like 800 books all for the dissertation (😅)

Anti-trans bathroom bills are not "distractions." They are an expansion of the police state targeted at the extermination of trans people. They are an act of state violence that requires confrontation.

It’s great to be friends with someone in a no-sources-older-than-5-years field when you are in a literally-anything-ever-if-it’s-useful field. Very fun to talk about methodologies to each other and just 😧 😧 back and forth

Your brain is very good at nightmares 😬😬

I finally get to do that horrible #academic thing: not sure how much I can tell you, but something exciting is going to be coming soon(ish) (emphasis on the ish)

So much of #phdlife is just waiting to hear back. Project proposals… grant proposals… award applications… conference proposals… when will it end??

Thank you! It’s a really expansive, fun project & I love how so many fields can relate because borders/boundaries are so present in so many things

#PhDSky let’s get to know each other!
Quote this with: 1) your PhD topic & 2) university you are at:

1) How borders are represented and interacted with in speculative fiction; how we imagine borders in non real worlds & imagine border resistance in those spaces
2) University of Alberta

Consistently below zero temperatures means that it’s the season of dogs in jackets and lil boots, which is a delight for me personally

Film photograph of a red mini-cooper driving past. The trees are bare and there are patches of light snow in the foreground

Film photograph of a dog park with brown grass, surrounded by conifers. There are some dogs and people in the distance.

Some passable photos from my latest film roll. First time out with the Olympus AF-1 super… made the mistake of shooting this Kodak Gold in low/indoor light for most of the roll & the cameras auto exposure+focus didn’t like that #filmphotography #35mm

Brief intro:
I’m a PhD candidate working on a dissertation on how speculative fiction represents borders on multiple scales (the multiverse to body borders). I mobilize Critical Border Studies to read SFF and I use SFF to think about border studies.
I dabble in other fields and about 800 hobbies

Thank you!

It would be great to be added - I’m a PhD candidate working on a dissertation on spec fic/sff!

Art drawn by people who very rarely make art and think they are “bad at art” is 1000x cooler than AI art. It’s life-affirming. It’s often unexpected. I cannot overemphasize how much I love when people just go for it. You do not need the machine for this human endeavor.

If anyone is not watching Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born, they absolutely need to be watching Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born
Another Kim Tae Ri masterclass in acting & brilliant performances by all of her costars as well

Shunrō Oshikawa sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oshika... died on this day, so here's some related artwork. The 4th is a poster for the film 'Atragon', based on his series "Kaitei Gunkan". I couldn't identify the artists:

Woah, this is a really great series! Looking forward to looking through these and adding too many books to the definitely-will-read-(at some point) list

I’m serving on chairs advisory committee, running the depts grad student org, (mostly succeeding at) writing 2k words a week, holding an RA-ship, just submitted a chapter proposal…
… and yet I still feel like I should be working harder to write reviews and short articles, revise work for pub etc etc

#phdsky anyone else feeling like they should be doing way more as a grad student even when current responsibilities are already only being shuffled from the back burner when they start burning?