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24 Feb, 8 tweets, 3 min read
I got myself a few new methods books.

First, Pandian’s Methods Book. Image
This book will be well known to my public policy friends. Image
This book is one I am discussing in a forthcoming edited volume. Image
This one is because I am teaching Mixed Methods next term. Image
This one goes to the “illicit, illegal, informal” side project I am writing. Image
As most of you know, my Grandma was a nurse and I always wanted to study nursing. Hospital ethnography is a dicey methodological area and I wanted to learn more about it (thanks to whoever recommended this one!) Image
You probably want to pair up Julie Livingston's book with @BeckyGMartinez 's award winning "Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela" sup.org/books/title/?i…
Finally, Carole McGranahan’s edited volume on writing anthropology. Image

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25 Feb
THREAD: A couple of strategies to "stay on top of the literature"

It's important to note that just about everyone feels the same (see my Twitter search twitter.com/search?q=%22st…). It's absurdly difficult to stay on top of the literature. Thousands of papers are published EVERY DAY
Let's start with stating the obvious:
- There is an absolutely unmanageable influx of published work that would necessitate that we devote our lives to reading to even barely make it to "stay on top of the literature"
- There are too many competing demands for our time.
- Increased care work has meant that women have been disproportionately (NEGATIVELY) affected by this global pandemic.
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24 Feb
Attending this webinar right now. @JimGoldgeier is hosting and moderating, @adam_m_auerbach @ProfSaunders @LindsayMayka are panelists alongside David McBride from @OUPAcademic

The webinar will focus on the challenges facing academic authors of first books (dissertation-to-book) Image
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- @LindsayMayka - massive fieldwork, making sense of it, instead she wrote memos, not "a full dissertation"

- @ProfSaunders - the unpredictability of the process of writing itself.

- @adam_m_auerbach - impostor syndrome, raised expectations about the book.
In the second round of commentaries, @LindsayMayka mentions "writing dates" (log on to Zoom, write together for a couple of hours, converse on the chat about stuff if it comes up) - this is *exactly* the process that @amandabittner 's writing group follows (9-11 EST M-F)
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19 Feb
THREAD: On doing citation tracing for a review/survey of the literature/state of the art, on the ground.

Most of you who read my blog will know I've written several posts about how we need to map relationships across authors, papers, literatures, disciplines, bodies of work.
I am collaborating on a grant proposal, and also writing a paper on subnational comparative public policy. Most of you who have followed me for a long time or have read my scholarly work will know I have also taught State and Local Government (feel free to ask for my syllabi).
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17 Feb
Evento: "Encuestas y Elecciones: Metodologías, Muestras y Aplicaciones"

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Facebook Live: facebook.com/CiopMX/videos/…

Participa Rodrigo @salazar_elena Coordinador del #LabdeM (Laboratorio de Métodos) de la @FlacsoMx
Inicia @IsaCordu su presentación. Isabel sugiere que en el estudio de la opinión pública, utilizar métodos mixtos puede ser interesante. Image
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No toda la población se puede analizar. Image
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13 Feb
THREAD: On the full-fledged process of responding to a Revise-And-Resubmit (R&R).

I have written pieces of the process, but I hadn't actually written a thread or a blog post showcasing how all my blog posts fit with one another. I teach this process when I give workshops.
So here's what I do (now), and let me share a lesson from my past lives:

DO NOT SIT ON R&Rs.

I know, they're painful and scary and sometimes we don't know if our paper will get rejected in the end.

But remember, an R&R means an OPPORTUNITY to get your paper published.
Sitting on R&Rs, leaving them for later, and not prioritizing them has gotten me fewer publications. I know this for a fact. I am not ashamed of admitting that I have sometimes felt that I will not be capable of responding to multiple (often conflicting) comments.

HOWEVER...
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It's almost February 15th, 2021, which means I get to muse about planning, yearly planning, etc.

As most of you know, I'm a very systematic planner. Even in the face of COVID19, which threw every plan I had out the window. Even in the face of chronic illness, which did the same
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My yearly planning process through the Everything Notebook has the advantage (for me) that I can be as ambitious or non-ambitious as I want or need.

There is stuff that MUST go in there, but there are also things that can be rescheduled/terminated. raulpacheco.org/2016/12/my-yea…
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