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Returning today to data and unpublished writing that are more than 10 years old, but speak to a phenomenon of ongoing interest. 🥲😶 I am filled with compassion towards my younger self, even while amused at her evident immaturity in the academic profession:🧵 #AcademicSky #STS #Anthropology

Mallory James

@secondordersocialresearch.com

The unfortunate MA student, whom I used to be, had no idea how to correctly input government and corporate reports into the bibliography and integrate their ideas into the flow of a disciplinary argument. Poor lady 🧵

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Mallory James

@secondordersocialresearch.com

4 Feb

But at least she knew how to use subfolders with names such as 'Added to bibliography' so I could follow her 👣. That's a hardworking girl, with faith in the future, sufficient to keep good records for it! 🧵

Mallory James

@secondordersocialresearch.com

4 Feb

At the time, I did not have funding, courage, or advice to help me do better with these micro-details I should have known about before attempting an empirical MA in a humanistic R1 department, after coming straight out of a tech writer role that mainly positioned me as a scribe for men's ideas. 🧵

Mallory James

@secondordersocialresearch.com

4 Feb

I still don't have the funding for this particular inquiry, but today I have the courage. I still don't have the help, but now I AM the help. 💪🏼📚 That's right: I have coaxed so many other students forward with their interests, in the meantime; now I will do the same with myself. 💛🧵 #AcademicChatter