A matter-of-fact cover page reads: "La Nouvelle Caledonie et ses habitants: Productions - Moeurs - Cannibalisme"
Just opened a French archival text about New Caledonia and its inhabitants and WELP. What a subheading.
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I just read a French article genuinely trying to claim that Kanak people reclaiming the term "Kanak", which was used as a pejorative by the French, are doing it wrong, because they're not using the term according to French grammar rules
That's the most French thing I've heard in my life
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Contributing to the university faculty discussion about how to navigate the neoliberal turn in academia by gently sowing ideas of dissent and strategic disruption into the conversation
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The article I just read about wallpaper produced during the French Revolution was infinitely more interesting than the quotes from Marx scattered liberally within it
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I'm reading some interesting texts about using objects to unpack historical events, but even in this context relevant to my field (museology) I'm finding myself unable to read the quoted passages of Karl Marx on materialism.
What is it about Marxism which makes it so inherently boring
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A panel of three speakers (me on the right in a bowler hat and my Fijian kalavata shirt) are answering questions. The person on the left looks smugly bemused, the speaker in the middle is looking towards me and laughing, and I have my hands thrown up in the air in a table-flip gesture with an incredulous expression on my face. I do not look professional at all.
Just received the batch of photos from the conference I organised, and this one is going straight on my LinkedIn
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Okay, back to deconstructing White Australia's predatory relationship with the Pacific Islands
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Just saw a book about the 'experiences of Pacific historians'. Got really excited thinking that it'll be about how Pasifika scholars engage with historical research--turns out it's a bunch of mainly white people writing about how they write about the Pacific.
Welcome to academia!
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The other day an academic told me that I was their go-to person for when they had a question about the world that had a complex & nuanced answer which needed to be explained in understandable terms, and that was so lovely to hear 😭
I guess that's literally all I do in my YouTube videos eh
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I think the reason why I don't feel imposter syndrome when I'm around academics is because it's basically like hanging out with a bunch of other neurodiverse people (because in all likelihood they are)
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Not me submitting my PhD ethics application 10 days before we planned!
And all this alongside finalising a video about how the CREEP franchise is about #YesAllMen
I'm nailing this
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New video just dropped!
This one's about engaging with Indigenous cultural protocols as an act of resistance against cultural hegemony, which you might assume is kind of a no-brainer, but unfortunately is still a big Western research ethics no-no
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I got a great haircut and now I can't stop looking at my own face in today's online seminars. Send help
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The benefit of being in an online seminar is that I can be looking directly at your face while I subtweet you about your sloppy AI use
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If you're going to be the kind of person who relies entirely on AI to complete the simplest of tasks, please at least have the decency to fucking proofread before pressing 'submit' to spare our second-hand embarrassment
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I'm doing an online group activity with other PhD candidates, and oh my goodness, ffs, who tf relies on AI to complete a simple classroom exercise?? I can't even.
Whatever happened to learning a skill
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Ya KNOW.... it's one thing to try to pass off your AI-generated slop as your own work when you're a student submitting work to an educator, but to submit it as your contribution to a group project is just downright disrespectful to everyone involved 😤
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What does it say about me that just now I went to open up the web version of Zotero (a reference manager for scholars) but typed "Netflix" into the search bar instead?
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"TIL in my PhD" fact of the day: The Eiffel Tower in Paris (you know, that place where everyone proposes) was constructed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, where it overlooked a human zoo containing people from France's colonies
Yyyyeah.... maybe don't propose at an atrocity site 😬 #KavPhD
Being nerdy is asking your PhD colleagues on the group chat for advice they'd give their pre-confirmation self.
Being nerdier is compiling their advice into a Google Doc
Being nerdiest is categorising the advice in the document by theme
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Hello hello all! I do livestreams documenting my PhD research on occasion (museums studies x history x decolonial research), and I'm just starting one now. Please feel free to pop in and have a chat, including about your own research! www.twitch.tv/kav_p #PhDSky #KavPhD
I just read the term "enshittification" in an academic context.
Good.
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Doing a PhD really does bring out the neurotypical lens society is structured around. Every conversation with a PhD candidate, almost every professional development seminar, mentions how "lonely" writing a PhD can be.
I have social anxiety. I am *thriving* in the "loneliness"
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My PhD supervisors have asked me to provide some example citations for a claim I made in a document. Which I was hoping they wouldn't do, bc now I need to trawl through pages of atrocity images to find 'credible' sources for the claim that atrocities were committed in the 'Congo Free State'😬 #KavPhD
My PhD looks at the representation of Global Majority cultures at the "world's fairs" of the 19th century. Looking through the catalogues I've just realised that white ppl winning prizes for exhibiting non-white ppl's objects is kind of like today's trend of people showing off their AI art #KavPhD
I'm always a little taken aback when people talk about how isolating PhD life is like, like it's a bad thing.
I can spend months at a time working away at my research very happily
It's two days after a 2-day PhD conference & I'm still in a full body/brain shutdown from all the socialising
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Another e-ink tablet sketch, this time a half-finished, stylized cartoon of a person with long curling eyelashes, diamond-shaped eyes, and asymmetrical hair lengths looking bemused at the viewer
Afterwards a group of other scholars came up to thank me for unknowingly entertaining them with my Supernote doodling during what had became a rather unwieldy lecture.
Brings me back to my childhood days making friends by just sitting in the corner & drawing. Only now I'm approaching 40
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A cartoonish sketch of a little gray dwarf rabbit, drawn on an e-ink tablet. His has very large eyes and a triangle of white fur over his nose
A photograph of the same little rabbit sitting down in his hat tray in such a way that he looks a bit like an egg, as he is wont to do
Time well spent at my conference today trying to sketch "John-Pierre" from memory on my Supernote
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Current status: wondering if it's too late to change my PhD from a decolonial investigation of 19th-century international exhibitions to a deep deconstruction of how the individual elements which make up the "On Cinema" universe weave together in service of a collective comedic fever dream #KavPhD
I am buying way too many games on the Steam sale for someone who is in the first year of a PhD. Send help
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