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Hey guys! This is all about productive stuff you can do on Sunday to make the most out of it and have an amazing week! 🥑

Implementing some of these things in your Sunday routine, will help you not to spend your Mondays trying to get your life together.

PS click on the pictures for better quality 🥑

#self care #not studies

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While careful experimentation has shown that having words for concepts makes them easier or faster to name, it is not true that lacking a concept means you cannot conceive of it, and vice versa. For instance, many languages have gender-neutral pronouns (the same word is used for he and she) but are spoken in cultures with very poor levels of gender equality. This might seem obvious – it’s Orwell’s Newspeak (from 1984) in action. In Orwell’s dystopia, the word “free” was stripped of all meaning of individual freedoms and could be used only in the sense of a dog being free from lice, which in turn was supposed to remove the ability of the citizens of Oceania to conceive of such freedom. But it is not just science fiction. There is an important note of caution that linguists are always aware of: making claims about other cultures risks “exoticising” them. At worst, this results in racism. The Hopi people of Arizona, who are sometimes claimed to have no way to express time based on a misunderstanding of Benjamin Lee Whorf’s work on their language, were assumed by some to be incapable of following bus timetables or arriving at work on schedule, a mistaken belief that led to obvious problems. But even an apparently benign conclusion about how some Australian languages encode space with compass directions (“north”) rather than ego-relative position (“my left-hand side”) suggests English speakers often miss out on knowledge about language and cognition because they are busy measuring things against an arbitrary English-centric benchmark. Different language conventions are usually not exotic or unusual; it’s just that English speakers come from a position of very great privilege because their language is the default. People who speak other languages are seen as different, as outsiders.

Laura Bailey, Language: ‘untranslatable’ words tell us more about English speakers than other cultures (via allthingslinguistic)

#study related

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You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.

#self care #not study related #something to remember #I've done this a couple of times #it actually helps

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10th feb 2018. morning studies ft. ancient cultures notes & coffee☕️

listening to ; bad boy — red velvet 💌

#study aesthetic

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#things to remember

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08.11.2018; planning day, trying to get on the rythm of my new timetables. my mornings are shorter, but it’s so refreshing to be able to do things after work, i can even study!

also, today i have another date with the french library guy, so i guess that even if i’m not studying tonight that kind of counts as language practise hahaha i just hope i’m not too dead after my shift.

#study aesthetic

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We can’t afford to ignore diversity in linguistic research: Kensy’s wager

There are many reasons that I find the work I do with Tibetan varieties spoken in Nepal to be interesting and rewarding. One of those reasons is that I think it’s important that our understanding of language isn’t just limited to understanding particular languages. My work on phonetics with Suzy Styles meant that we showed a failure of a famous psycholinguistic experiment that is usually considered to be very predicable, while my more recently published work on gesture in the same community showed patterns of use that are similar to people from very different places, which suggests something bigger about how human’s draw on gesture when they speak.

At the International Gesture Society conference in the middle of the year Kensy Cooperrider gave a talk that really neatly articulated what’s at stake when we decide whether we want to invest so much of our research energy on a small number of languages like English, or take the chance to include a broader range of languages into the research process. I’m delighted he’s written his line of argumentation up as a blog post.

Kensy argues this all comes down to a wager as to whether we believe in the importance of diversity, and what happens if we’re right or not. The only thing we can do to make the best outcome of the wager is to ensure we including different populations in research. Some of you may recognise this as a riff on Pascal’s Wager, about deciding if it’s worth believing in God.

Kensy sets out his wager:

Now back to our real concern: whether we in the behavioral sciences are better off betting on “much diversity” or on “not much diversity.” As in Pascal’s wager, either bet is fine if it proves correct. And if we wager on “much diversity” and turn out to be wrong, this is not such a bad thing. We could have stayed down the hall, working with the WEIRD model organisms close to hand, but instead we ventured out. We had a few field misadventures to tell our friends about and more than a few enriching life experiences. And, in fact, we contributed to the project of providing evidence for human universality rather than simply taking it on faith. 

But if we wager on “not much diversity” and turn out to be wrong, the outcome is not so benign. We stayed in the lab; we learned some interesting things about WEIRDos, NAUs, and SAE speakers. But we also likely came up with some erroneous explanations for the phenomena we’re interested in. In particular, we may have settled on accounts that downplay the critical role of cultural practices and ecological circumstances in shaping human behavior. What is especially unfortunate about this misplaced bet is that the diversity we didn’t bother to study is vanishing fast. Future generations of researchers may not have the chance to bet again, to replay the tape and take diversity seriously the second time around. The price of wagering on “not much diversity,” in other words, may be eternal ignorance.

Kensy Cooperrider. 2018. Wagering on diversity. http://kensycooperrider.com/blog/wagering-on-diversity October 22 2018.

#study related #linguistic studies

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Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

#study related

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I haven’t been on Tumblr for so long and I’m seeing everyone talk about problems & struggles they are facing and how they are just trying so hard to do their best. Which just reminded me of what my Nana used to say. At the end of the day what everyone is trying to do is their best.

Their best might look a little different from your best.

But they’re trying. We’re all trying.

I think it’s important to keep it in minds.

#positive vibes

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[ 29 . 07 . 2019 ]

Hi! This is another small notebook I made for studying biochemistry at the start of last school year.  I use this notebook to first study my notes and then I write questions about everything that appears on the notes.

My favourite methods for studying subjects like biology or history are spaced repetition and active recall. Here is how to use it:

Write down questions that cover everything you need to learn from your notes (or textbook).

Test yourself on those questions, without looking at your notes. At the end, you can check all your answers, as if you were the professor.

Try to answer the questions you got wrong after a short pause, until you're able to answer every question correctly.

Repeat 3 days later, 1 week later, 2 weeks later, 1 month later. Spacing study sessions like this will make the information stick in your long-term memory, so you don't forget what you learn.

I know it can be hard starting to study for a test a couple months before it. You can surely adapt this method to your schedule and maybe you want to do 3 or 4 repetitions instead of 5. I hope this method helps you boost your performance in exams if you decide to give it a try!

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#study aesthetic

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Super Croc, gigantic crocodile from Cretaceous period

Paleontologist Paul Serrano and his team were searching near Gadoufaoua, Niger in Africa. During the search, the team came across huge pieces of fossilised bones, and recognised them as the bones from an extinct crocodile species. It was so large that it wound up as the first animal nicknamed a “Supercroc”.

French paleontologists had found similar bones including skull fragments some 30 years before Serrano’s team. They named the creature Sarcosuchus imperator (flesh crocodile emperor), but before the expedition by Serrano’s team in 1997 little was known about this ancient predator.

Keep reading

#science

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Realistic self care tips for broke students

Go out in the sun (but don’t forget to sunscreen your face) — Feeling the sun hitting your skin not only will make you feel more awake, but it is also essencial for your body to process vitamin D, and as a bonus the sun can make you feel less shitty.

Drink plenty of watter (even if that makes you need to go pee every hour or so) — try to drink watter instead of soda or store bought juice, and I know this one is repetitive but save some money to buy a reusable bottle as it will: 1. Save you a lot of money long term, since you won’t have to buy watter; 2. Uncounsiously make you drink more watter.

Ditch the post-noon caffeine (no matter how tired you are) — I am 99% sure it will help you sleep. Also: save money to buy a kettle and brew your own coffee. It will save you tons of money if your a starbucks fan.

If you drink, drink responsably (and please, take that water bottle, fill it up and drink all of it before you go to sleep. You will thank me in the morning) — if you go out to drink, make sure someone you trust is also going. Never drink alone. No matter how much you want to get wasted try to remember what happened the last time you did it. Eat something before you go out, alcohol kicks in stronger in an empty stomach.

Talk to people (even if it is just you family or roomate) — talking to people about things that aren’t school related will help you stay sane and focused. Try to make new friends and meet new people, it can be fun.

Walk whenever you can (even if you are just walking circles around your bedroom) — Excercise. Dopamine. Feeling less shitty. The sun is shining. Your body will thank you.

Once a month, turn off you gadgets (please don’t kill me) — just turn off everything and enjoy an unpluged day. You will feel much better after it.

#self care

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Tenses and Aspects in Russian

Your random grammar lesson for today: 

In Russian, imperfective verbs can be in the past, present, and future tense. 

- Я улыбалась. I smiled./ I were smiling  - Я улыбаюсь. I smile/ I am smiling.  - Я буду улыбаться. I will smile / I will be smiling

Perfective verbs can be only in the past tense or future tense. If a verb is perfective, it can not be in the present tense. 

- Я улыбнулась. I smiled (once, in one specific occasion);  - Я улыбнусь. I’ll smile  (once, in one specific occasion). 

#russian studies

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A semi out dated image of me taking notes for an online and planning out projects. Working towards getting a TESOL and will be applying for the JET program soon.

#study aesthetic #?

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hi so if you haven’t seen my recent, I’m making an online student magazine and I need people to help work on it!

I’m looking for people to help with art, writing, editing, basic design, etc.

if interested, please fill out the form below.

#study related #I'll be helping with design and possibly art

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how to: motivate yourself

create a vision board

a vision board is a collage of pictures and quotes of your dreams, goals, and things that make you happy

the purpose of it is to bring everything on it to life

it should focus on how you want to feel

these visualizations serve as a motivation to achieve said dreams and goals

here’s a helpful wikihow article on how to make one: x

set up a reward system

this one is pretty self-explanatory

remember to reward yourself for reaching small goals, as well

aced your last test? great, it’s time to celebrate!

finished your homework? go eat that chocolate in the fridge!

most often, we don’t see the results of our hard work as soon as we’d like, so you just have to give them to yourself

surround yourself with positivity

may it be inspiring tumblr posts or a supportive group of friends, it’s so important to be around people who are rooting for you!

try to distance yourself from people who want to see you fail, or who don’t believe in you

if that’s not possible, try to see them as an extra motivator: do the thing they think you’re not capable of! prove them wrong!

start small

break big goals down to smaller ones that are doable

so instead of a 4.0 GPA, start with „studying every day for the next 7 days“

if you have a list of tasks, start with the smallest one

the little confidence boost you get after finishing one of your tasks is extremely helpful

it gets the ball rolling and suggests that you can actually tackle your to-do list

find like-minded people

the studyblr community is perfect for this

it’s full of supportive, ambitious and positive people who are always ready to help

share your achievements and failures with them

having a great support group to lean on in times of stress is super important

keep track of your progress

whether through the usage of a bullet journal or a blog, it’s helpful to have the ability to actually see what and how you’re doing

also, bullet journals are extremely fun to make and help you be organized in general

bullet journal tutorials: x x x 

don’t compare yourself to others

one of the biggest motivation killers is comparison

i know it’s hard to stay motivated when you feel like everyone around you is doing better than you

still, it’s crucial to try and compare yourself only to your past self

try to improve a little, to put a little more effort into something

there will always be someone who has achieved more, it will only put you down

so just try to give your best, because that’s all one can do

#study motivation #need to get back to the groove

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#self care