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12 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
52 words written is a win?

52 words written is a win.
You did not hear this from me, but make that 262 words!
I'm going to bed with 529 words written and really excited to continue writing this memo, where I'm citing @AdrienneStrong @BeckyGMartinez @g_capurro @BeatriAnthro (I'm pretty sure you can imagine what I'm writing about).

To note: it is EXTREMELY RARE that I write at night.
MAke that 631 words. #AcWri #AmWriting #ThisIsAMiracle

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13 Jul
THREAD: answering the “how do we decide whether to write an Index Card, a Cornell Note, an entry in my Everything Notebook, etc.”

I get asked this question all the time (by my students and/or workshop participants).

I don’t have hard and fast rules. Here’s an example. Image
This article is one that I have decided is worth reading in depth (see my triaging strategy raulpacheco.org/2019/08/triagi…)

As a general rule, the first step for me when I read is to do a quick AIC content extraction +CSED entry row raulpacheco.org/2017/12/carvin…
Because I've chosen this as an article I'm going to read in much depth, I need to first decide how much time I'm going to spend on it and how I can systematize what I am going to learn from it.

First step: go through the headings and list them. This gives me the paper structure
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12 Jul
Ya me imagino en mi evaluación del SNI: "Dr. Pacheco-Vega, y por qué publicó algo sobre etnografía hospitalaria si su área de especialidad es política ambiental?"

En realidad, integrarme al Laboratorio de Métodos de la FLACSO México me ABRE el campo, más que cerrármelo. Por eso.
Técnicamente, mi área de especialidad es política pública comparada. Los casos de estudio que analizo son de política ambiental, pero también he examinado políticas para personas en situación de calle, política gerontológica, y ahora un poco de política de salud pública.
Mis intereses de investigación también son metodológicos: cómo podemos diseñar mejores estrategias empíricas para comprender problemas complejos (los "problemas retorcidos", "wicked problems")?

No nada más me interesa la política pública comparada.
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10 Jul
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.
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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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