Dan Prisk

My ideal life would be mostly reading books and riding bikes. Social theory, feminism, socialism, and dogs. Current sociology grad @ UBC. he/him.

[Dan Prisk @danprisk]

"one cannot create a happy [society] through joyless self-sacrifice."
- @davidgraeber

[Dan Prisk @danprisk]

I think this is the best summary of assemblage theory I've found, and maybe the first time I really feel like I'm starting to get it?
From Fox & Alldred (2015) New Materialist Social Inquiry

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Zotero's inbuilt Note Editor can REVOLUTIONIZE your note-taking and writing processes.

But most academics don't know much about it.

Here's how to supercharge your writing using Zotero's Note Editor 👇

A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵

[Dan Prisk @danprisk]

SFU Soc/Anth is hiring an assistant prof. This will be such an incredible job. It's really a wonderful department, full of interesting and smart people, that I very much miss being a part of.

https://t.co/iZtMpdvcyQ

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Meghan O'Rourke's book on chronic illness, The Invisible Kingdom, is so good. Absolutely at its best where it puts the experience of chronic illness into poetic clarity.

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@danielleboccell Here's a sample to show what I mean. These notes were taken for a class, so I find tagging it with that context helps me find things later when I have half a memory of something important I read!

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@danielleboccell The handwriting recognition in search is mega useful!

If it helps, I use a really simple method for storage: all notes get titled with creation date and 3-4 key words (e.g. author last name and short title), then tagged with one or two basic tags (e.g. #readingnotes or #soci500)

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@danielleboccell @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @ThePhDPlace I tried a bunch of other ways for storing my notes, but the simple paper journal + Evernote has proved to be the most robust for both making sure I take good notes with minimum friction, and letting me find them again in future.

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@danielleboccell @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @ThePhDPlace My reading is all managed through Zotero & Zotfile, with reading itself split between my Boox reader and Zathura.

All my notes go into a single paper journal, that I digitize and tag with the Evernote app.

Writing & code/data all is done in Emacs + Org-Mode + ESS.

[Dan Prisk @danprisk]

Personally, I think I burnt out hard in my first semester, and the need to keep pushing through drained my energy, so that I couldn't recover properly when I got sick. That I was also pushing my body pretty hard at the same time likely didn't help!

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I'm a day late with this one, but here it is. I was diagnosed with ME/CFS in March after being sick on and off since August last year. As far as ME/CFS goes I'm doing pretty well, but it's still wreaked havoc on my life.

[#MEAction Network @MEActNet]

Today we came together to tell our stories & to highlight our common thread. We do this so we can rise in a wave of power that will create a moral mandate for change.

Our #MillionsMissing event was so powerful. Each speaker bringing something unique & needed to the movement.

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I don't really know why I got sick, but like a lot of people I had an extended period of very high stress (first year grad school), with some personal trauma thrown in, followed by a viral infection that immediately precipitated symptoms.

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@DRxBrown @TiffBromfield @AcademicChatter This is really not true. An equivalent priced Thinkpad will be just as well built, and last just as well, it's just that Apple only make very high priced machines. If you bought a Macbook Pro ~2007-2020 it effectively was a PC.

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@LeahAtWhatPrice @klimkowa1 My experience on my Note Air is that trying to use handwriting in installed apps is quite disappointing. It seems like they've done a lot of work on the built-in apps to make handwriting work nicely, and it's just not that usable for me on anything else.

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@LeahAtWhatPrice @dontworryteach @klimkowa1 Although I've admittedly not really used the annotation tool as I ended up finding a paper journal more useful for notes in the long run.

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@LeahAtWhatPrice @dontworryteach @klimkowa1 I think you should be able to do it on your computer. I use Syncthing to share a to-read folder, then push papers I want to read to that folder from Zotero/Zotfile. After they're edited on the Onyx you can re-import them into Zotero on the computer.

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@TiffBromfield @AcademicChatter I should note though that I'm running Linux on these. I might well be swung towards a Mac if I had to run Windows.

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@TiffBromfield @AcademicChatter If you do need to buy something, I've had good luck with refurbed Thinkpads. They're solidly built, have lots of ports for connecting *stuff*, often lightly used in corporate settings, and can be often found refurbed for a decent price.

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@TiffBromfield @AcademicChatter I got the Onyx Boox Air, which was one of the best deals at the time. It's basically an Android tablet with an e-ink screen, so flexible to install most tools you might need, but not really something that you'll get distracted on (social media really doesn't work on e-ink).

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@TiffBromfield @AcademicChatter One thing I did splash out on was a large format ereader, which I definitely recommend if you're in a reading intensive course. Being able to do most of my reading on an e-ink screen is just so much nicer on my eyes than staring at a monitor.