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10 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It occurred to me that I tweet a lot about the mechanics of doing research in the social sciences and humanities. This may be a bit disappointing to those who chose to follow me for my research on comparative public policy, water governance, discards, commons and social movements
I also retweet a metric tonne of opportunities (jobs, fellowships, courses) and links to books/articles, particularly when they are #Free2DownloadAndRead.

I do retweet a lot of stuff in my areas of research, but as I’ve pondered my digital identity, I’ve made choices.
A substantive portion of why I tweet is to share whatever knowledge I’ve accumulated in ways that I hope make life easier for those in my guild (academia, research, higher education).

I also tweet a lot about research methods (qualitative, quantitative, mixed), because I teach.
Im going to try to be a bit more systematic about tweeting more on my research and my areas of study, but I wanted to explain why my choices may seem strange to those who choose to follow me for my research endeavours.

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9 Jul
THREAD. A live quick AIC content extraction of an article (tracking the time I have spent on it).

Every single person who reads my blog, every single one of my students, every attendee who participates in my workshops, all ask me "how long does it take you to read an article?"
I just downloaded and printed this article on qualitative social network analysis. It’s going to be useful to my FLACSO students. Reading and highlighting the abstract took me 1 minute and 15 seconds.

I have NOT scribbled anything nor have I created a CSED row entry (yet)
Because I like being systematic with my files and my reading process, I need to file this PDF within the right folder ("Social Network Analysis") and then upload it on to Mendeley and file it within the correct folder too ("SNA"). This should takes me a minute or two.
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9 Jul
A few weeks ago, Dr. @sule_tomkinson kindly offered to review CVs and cover letters of 10 job market candidates. This was an incredibly generous offer. She only asked for those who received her feedback to share it on Twitter. I will follow her lead.

My review would be particularly suited for the academic job markets in political science, public policy, public administration, and human geography. Happy to review for other markets/disciplines, but I don't know that I can make extremely useful suggestions for STEM, for example.
On my website I have a special sub-page for Resources for Job-Market Seekers raulpacheco.org/resources/surv…

I would recommend reading this post BEFORE sending me materials so as to rework them to prevent these common mistakes.
raulpacheco.org/2017/07/common…
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8 Jul
Something that has completely revolutionized how I do online meetings is Zoom integration with Google Calendar.

I create the Zoom link, email my colleagues through the email function of Google Calendar, and that way, they can add it to their own (Outlook, GC, iCal, etc.)
There are two ways of doing this (on screenshot, notice the red arrows. You can create a new calendar event and click on the button "Make It A Zoom Meeting") OR you can click on the Zoom integration Chrome extension. On screen right now is what the "New GCal event" generates.
If you use the Zoom integration Chrome extension, you'll need to link both your Google Calendar and your Zoom account. Once you do that, clicking on the blue button shown on your extensions in Chrome will tell you if you want to create a new meeting or start one. Click "Schedule"
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7 Jul
It's July 7th, 2021, and I have finally gained an insight I had obscured for years.

I TRAVELLED TOO MUCH THROUGHOUT MY EARLIER CAREER.

Yes, obviously, I'm a senior professor now and I can get away with saying "thanks for the invitation but no thanks".

I didn't feel that way.
I felt that, in the absence of many publications, I HAD to travel the globe, attend conferences, network and showcase my research. I wasn't publishing enough, and even more so, I wasn't publishing A LOT in English, which is the lingua franca of academia whether we like it or not.
I've also the "Publish A Metric Tonne" strategy for Fear of Being Missed Out (FOBMO) raulpacheco.org/2019/12/on-imp…

At the time, my decisions made sense, even if I knew that travelling that much had many downsides (particularly for my health) raulpacheco.org/2013/11/the-do…
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5 Jul
I left my partner of 8 years back in my hometown of Vancouver, packed my bags and moved to Aguascalientes, Mexico, to be able to drive 2 hours to see both my parents, and spend time with them.

100/100 would recommend.

Like Jess, I treasure the time I spend with my parents.
Do I miss my ex-boyfriend? Of course I do. So I'm going to share something VERY personal.

Around late 2011, a bunch of my parents' friends and a bunch of parents of MY friends passed away. I had lived away from my parents for many, many years. I didn't want this to happen to me
I didn't want to regret being in Canada as my parents aged and then, one day get a phone call saying "Mom/Dad is gone". I wanted to spend time with both my parents as an adult while they're still healthy and able to do things with me (travel, eat out, go to concerts, etc.)
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4 Jul
It's Sunday morning, I slept well and I am just having my first cup of coffee after sleeping in until about 8am, so I am going to share with you a few insights I learned from designing (from scratch) a qualitative methods course.

Buckle up.
Disclosure: I was the Editor for the Americas of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods (@IJQMonline). I apply qualitative methods in my research. I teach qualitative methods. I write and publish methods pieces.

I'm not a newbie to the field/to the methods.
In order for me to properly design a "Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation" Masters/PhD level course, I:
- went and read (and in some cases, re-read) 31 books.
- emailed two professor friends who shared their syllabi with me.
- downloaded and read 15 different syllabi.
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