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STEM student making out with the concept of humanities / Archaeological Science Student

[777cherryvanilla]

So sick of getting that advert about saving water and being told we’re using too much.

Like I turn the tap off whilst I brush my teeth but why don’t we point fingers at the actual culprits..

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[bitten-and-girl-smitten]

Stay educated

[theblackparadeisdead]

One day ur a suicidal 15 year old and then suddenly you wake up and you're 22 years old and genuinely debating the merits of iceberg vs romaine lettuce in the salad ur making. Life goes on ig

[777cherryvanilla]

Study hard enough that Benedict Cumberbatch would play you in a biopic

[777cherryvanilla]

Being aroace is obviously difficult for men too but can we talk about the added layer of the ‘bachelor vs spinster’ outlook for aroace women?

[dogpuppy]

[oneheadtoanother]

[777cherryvanilla]

[stuckinapril]

[stuckinapril]

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

[kosmogrl]

[eudaemaniacal]

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

[rhube]

Read this - oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.

[lrlamauthor]

Where can I read this in full?

[caitiesith]

It’s from  Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories, and that particular section is by Martha Carey Thomas who grew up to be a suffragist, linguist and renowned educator, as well as a badass lesbian.

[pusheen-the-radical]

I really truly love historical sources like this, because they are absolutely invaluable in tackling the meninist argument that womens these days have gotten all uppity and forgotten their god-assigned role of being the good-lady-woman (bangmaid). that whole rhetoric lies on the (false) assertion that some magic, golden period of the past exists in which women enjoyed their oppression, or, better yet, were unaware that they were oppressed at all, and the ‘natural state’ of things (patriarchy) functioned harmoniously.

we need more accounts like this that show rhat women have always been People and have always been aware that how they’re treated is unfair and wrong. women have always craved freedom, intellectual fulfillment, the right to self-determination; we have never been ok with just being mindless servants.

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

and you’ll do it again. and again.

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫’𝔰 𝔣𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[lakewinnipeg]

[werewiire]

welcome back victorian era cross-writing!