#scholarly

[todayontumblr]

Monday, July 17.

light academia.

It's like dark academia, but lighter. And like all good things, it has its roots right here on Tumblr. Like its darker counterpart, #light academia appreciates the finer things in life, indeed the scholarly things: procrastination, LGBTQIA+ literature, calligraphy, castles, lots of lists, vintage watches, Oxford shoes, the classics, debates, coffee 24/7, Greek mythology, thrifting clothes and books, studying in cafes, play the piano, museums, classic Greek and Gothic architecture... we could go on. We like making lists, after all.

Only this is an academic aesthetic with no time for the tragedy, existentialism, death, and desperation that marks its darker counterpart. This is Enid Sinclair to Wednesday Addams. The key differences are rather wonderfully defined right here as ...wearing light linen sundresses in foreign countries, eating picnics and pastries in the afternoon sun while reading poetry and laughing with your friends, the burning passion and excitement when you finally make a breakthrough in your research, falling asleep in your lover's arms sunkissed and happy… everything is beautiful and hopeful and no one dies. 

For others, it may be encapsulated in a single, yet profound, question.

#today on tumblr #light acamedia #light acadamia aesthetic #light academism #light academia #dark acamedia #dark acadamia aesthetic #aestheitcs #aesthetic #scholarly academia #cafes #scholarly #art #poetry #poems #writblr

[opia-tarot]

Hey everyone. This is a fun lil post to start off since my hiatus. Missed you all🖤

Opia’s Astro meme series

🫡Virgo placements after asking people for advice. Honestly I’m guilty of this

😨Capricorn mars and their unsolicited advice

💅Venus-Pluto and 8h placements shooting their shot

🤭trying to get an Aries mercury to agree

✨Neptune-north node getting their 100th 222 of the day

😡when a mercury square mars likes you

😭Mars-moon difficult aspects trying to keep it together when they have to repeat themselves.

🪄Neptune-mercury manifesting their crush

👑Leo Venus slogan

😳Cancer rising eyes

🔮venus-neptune when you reject their astral realm proposal

👽Uranus-ascendant when they find a conspiracy to fixate on

🫶Saturn-Pluto breaking generational curses

😶Uranus 5h and parenthood

⚙️Aquarius mercury and mercury trine Uranus daily affirmation

🫵Mars 4h this is your reminder

🫦Mars square pluto in bed

💁‍♀️Libra placement lifestyle

🥸Scorpio placements when they like someone

👩‍💻uranus-mercury when capitalism or aliens are mentioned

😎most sane Venus opposite Pluto reaction

💃Pluto 3h bedroom concert

😚Mercury-Pluto and mercury square mars eloquently roasting anyone and anything

🙄Mars square ascendant loving physical touch

😵‍💫cancer mars on a first date

😐Saturn 9h being open minded ahaha

🫵feedback is appreciated🫵

#opia’s astro memes #astrology #serious astrology #getyourtextbooksout #scholarly

[akonoadham]

#black history #black excellence #scholarly #medical school #black woman #black kids #black girl magic #blackgirlmagic #black education #american education #education #history #american history #alena analeigh wicker #Alena analeigh #educated black women #young queen

[dndcreaturesinfo]

Scholarly Slime by CM46

#cm46 #scholarly #slime #ooze #CR6 #mages #spellcasting

[hotdogsfordinner]

Scholarly hunk

#asian hunk #hot asian men #hunkoftheday #asianmuscle #muscular #handsome #hottie #asian #woof #hot shirtless asian #scholarly #hunk

[honeyedlashton]

I’ve been MIA cause I’ve been writing (fr I promise this time). I’m comin at you with a long one. I’ve dedicated my whole summer to it!!

#and then another after that #and then another after THAT one #so get prepared #scholarly #lashton fic

[scenetherapy]

#dark academia #dark academism #dark academia aesthetic #academia aesthetic #aesthetics #scholarly #academic #bookish

[divinationdrawings]

Is Eostre a real goddess?

And is she the origin of the celebration we call Easter?

I have been doing research and would like to provide some interesting sources. The overall impression I have gotten in my research is that scholars think there is some evidence for her existence, but that evidence is shaky and inconclusive, nothing to rest strong conclusions upon. The evidence for there being any sort of spring celebration around this time predating Christianity is much stronger than that which points to Eostre in particular.

There is much discourse about the exact interpretation of a man named Bede (who has given an important account). I highly recommend more research into the Matronae.

This scholarly article criticizes said Bede and speaks of other's opinions on him https://www.academia.edu/download/34384689/CusackEostre.pdf

This scholarly article offers interesting discourse on the etymology and history of this entire debate, such as connecting Eostre to Dawn and the "East." Sorry there's a paywall on this one but quotes can be found on wiki and other places that cite it.

Ostara, Eostre, and Easter are real to those celebrating it for religious reasons, and in the end I think we are all just excited Spring is here for one reason or another. I am making no claims only sharing links and art. Happy (egg) hunting!

#eostre #easter #ostara #spring equinox #scholarly #eos #dawn #goddess of spring

[navigatorwrongway]

The genre of paleodocumentary – documentaries focusing on extinct ancient life – reemerged with Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet in 2023. It draws heavily on traditional nature documentaries, tying together disparate segments with a common theme, and echoing the prestige of productions like Planet Earth, The Hunt, and The Blue Planet with renowned presenter Sir David Attenborough. This pedigree situates Prehistoric Planet as successor to the last landmark paleodocumentary series, the BBC’s wildly successful Walking With Dinosaurs. Released in 1999, the series set a standard that has scarcely been met since. Two and a half decades later, Prehistoric Planet might represent a renaissance, apart from one glaring flaw that undermines the project’s educational value.

Where most wildlife documentaries utilize on-location filming and stock footage, paleomedia by nature cannot rely on actual footage. Instead, a combination of practical effect modeling and computer-generated imagery (CGI) is used to depict extinct creatures. As this is prohibitively expensive, material often gets reused long past its expiration date. One clip from Walking With Dinosaurs has featured in at least three ‘talking head’ style documentaries, as recently as 2016.

Cross-pollination between documentaries is common in other respects. Many of Prehistoric Planet’s segments are extrapolated from documentary footage of modern animals, and as such are largely speculative in their presented behavior and physical appearance (neither of which fossilize well). While its visual material is a new breath of life for the genre, the copycat elements and influence of extant wildlife are such that the onscreen byline, ‘Planet Earth, 66 million years ago,’ might more accurately be, ‘Planet Earth, 66 million years ago.’

This may actually be beneficial; although derivative, the format is familiar and effectively demonstrates extinct creatures’ probable complexity and versatility. Documentaries are designed for accessibility — they speak to a layman’s understanding, encourage development of a deeper interest, and double as entertainment — even as they counter misinformation stemming from other forms of entertainment. Alongside the equivalent Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor-the-movie-monster dominates the public consciousness, having featured as a primary plot element in no fewer than six massively popular entertainment productions. Prehistoric Planet aims to correct resulting misconceptions, drawing a distinction between Velociraptor, animal, and Velociraptor, movie monster, in the familiar format of a nature documentary.

Considering that the goal of any documentary is to distill dense, difficult-to-digest information into the need-to-know, science communicators shoulder an important responsibility, because they serve as an educational touchstone. Jaques Cousteau was the educational touchstone for oceanography just as Carl Sagan was the touchstone for an entire era of astrophysics and Stephen Hawking the touchstone for theoretical physics. For seventy years, David Attenborough has been the touchstone for wildlife and ecology.

Those who take up that role are obligated to present their data with care. Data may be disproven or incomplete, but to encapsulate 25 years of paleontological advancement, given those limitations you need to get the science right — and in one critical respect, Prehistoric Planet drops the ball.

The final episode of Prehistoric Planet’s second season features Pectinodon and Styginetta. Attenborough’s narration states that every year, “Styginetta, a primitive relative of modern ducks, stop here on their travels. And they’re not alone; dinosaurs are here, too.” The implication that Styginetta are not dinosaurs in their own right misrepresents the science, and might have been amended with the addition of a single word: "other dinosaurs are here, too." If the writers, editors, researchers, producers, and fact checkers uniformly didn’t catch this, Attenborough should have; he has (and is) the authority, having been a titan of wildlife presentation since before the advent of color television. He should have changed the script.

This neglect of the scientific consensus is disconcerting, the equivalent of the next Planet Earth including a line in reference to ‘whales, and other fish…’ Not all dinosaurs were wiped out by the asteroid impact; modern-day birds, it has been established, are the dinosaurs that survived. Alongside the extinct dinosaurs, Prehistoric Planet features their contemporaries, the flying pterosaurs and marine reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, which were wiped out and have no surviving lineages. Lacking living examples to draw upon, Prehistoric Planet embraces speculative potential to present these extinct creatures as interesting — but educational media cannot sacrifice accuracy for entertainment. Styginetta are recognizable as birds, having the expected beaks, feathers, and flight-capable wings. Notably, Pictinodon are also feathered, and yet this correlation is never directly addressed – another missed opportunity. Both look photorealistic, move energetically, and read as alive in a way that has only been made possible in recent years, thanks in part to advances in CGI revolutionized by the production of Jurassic Park.

In the post-Jurassic Park era, it is impossible to consider early paleomedia (e.g., the work of Ray Harryhousen) as plausible. Clunky stop motion using puppets or clay, charming as it is, cannot be mistaken for reality. A photorealistic degree of visual acuity is possible with CGI, but this development predicates an ethical responsibility to avoid blurring the lines of truth. Even though (one hopes) nobody actually believes there was a camera running 66 million years ago, the viewer’s brain still buys it and processes it as visual input.

There is an obligation to communicate when something is speculative; an ethical responsibility to not misrepresent known science. And while conflating the speculative with the factual is an endemic problem within the genre, most paleomedia simply does not have the reach and influence of Prehistoric Planet. When a production has the backing of both Apple Inc. and the BBC, and is being played on repeat on every showroom test screen at Best Buy (as was recently the case) it has weight behind it. The farther the reach, the more critical it is to get it right.

One only needs to look at Jurassic Park's impact on the public perception of dinosaurs to corroborate this. ‘Velociraptors’ in those films are nominally based on Deinonychus and Utahraptor — but because the name Velociraptor appealed more, in accordance with the ‘rule of cool’ it was taken from the turkey-sized creature in the fossil record and reconfigured as a reptilian grizzly bear.

Misrepresented data is thus embedded in the social mythos, becoming exponentially more difficult to correct as time goes on. Prehistoric Planet is many people’s first introduction to non-avian dinosaurs (et al.) as anything other than movie monsters. In fact, multiple segments throughout both seasons are in direct dialogue with Jurassic Park; there is no reason Velociraptor specifically should be as heavily featured as it is, except to counteract Jurassic Park’s pervasive misrepresentation. That Prehistoric Planet excludes birds from the category of dinosaurs will inevitably set back the entire genre. Just as Prehistoric Planet attempts to redress Velociraptor, the next production to cover this ground will be forced to redress Prehistoric Planet.

In an age of scientific illiteracy, the documentary is one of the most accessible formats for communicating the basic information necessary to understand the world around us. Those involved in the production of educational material have a responsibility to their audience and to their topic, and for all its many strengths, Prehistoric Planet fails to deliver.

#was talking about my critical essay assignment w folks on here so I might as well post it for easy access lol #yall know i LOVE prehistoric planet #the assignment was to take smth we love to task for somethign it failed to do and uhhhhhh yeah birds Are dinosaurs #prehistoric planet #mar talks #mar does human things #ngl the working title is It’s a Bird! It’s Plain! It’s an Egregious Omission! but im thinking i may change that to something a lil more #uhhhhhhhh #scholarly #before i turn it in for a grade lmao

[academicresearch]

Here are ways to write a thesis for a research paper

You will need to write a thesis statement that is appropriate for the type of paper you are writing. Here is how to write the different kinds of thesis statements:

Argumentative Thesis Statement:

The argumentative thesis statement identifies your topic, position, and reasons for taking that position. you can use it when you are Making a claim. You can use a thesis Generator tool to create an argumentative thesis.

Analytical Thesis Statement:

Your analytical thesis should describe the topic of your paper, what you analyzed, and what conclusions you reached as a result of your analysis. It should be used when you are Analyzing an Issue.

Expository Thesis Statement:

You should formulate a thesis statement for your expository paper that states the topic of the paper and summarizes the key points of the paper. Best works when Explaining a Topic

Here is a checklist you can follow to make your thesis easy and on point:

A typical thesis may take anywhere from 2 to 3 months depending on your research area and time availability.

It would be good to start early and to keep writing short reports of every experiment you do or every discovery you make.

Keep your research work organized to avoid remembering what to write for each experiment.

Make several backups of your thesis data. Keep an up-to-date backup in some cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive ).

Give proper citations wherever necessary. If you are taking a figure or picture from someone else's work, cite them. Whether consciously or unconsciously, avoid plagiarism.

The thesis statement should appear somewhere in the first paragraphs of the paper, usually as the final sentence of the introduction.

Read through each chapter for grammatical errors once you have written all the chapters.

Whether academically or not, give credit to those who helped you. It is the best way to show your appreciation. In your acknowledgment, include a few sentences.

For your reference you can also go through this article Thesis Writer to help you learn to write in academic contexts.

#research #assignment #textbooks #organization #programs #statistics #publishing #publication #blogs #scholarly #writing #writers of tumblr #academic writing #academic papers #university #study #essay #education

[nakamwrra]

06.10.22 🕰️📜🍁 romanticize my october

Been a couple of quiet weeks but is all over now, my Masters finally started this week, am looking forward to see how it will be.

Self-cultivation these days:

🀄️ did my daily chinese practice on Duolingo

🍁 regarding my botanical collection i have to say a few words: i am a constant changing person (some might say i am inconsistent, but i am viewing my ever-changing habits as a journey to improve) and since lately i’ve been trying to incorporate more minimalism in my life, i realized that this botanical collection is a waste of time for me and resources. Therefore i will be giving up on this. It’s ok on giving up stuff if it makes rooms for something else.

📖 finally finished reading Letters from a Stoic- Seneca, and man…did i struggled with this one, almost the same as i struggled with Marcus Aurelius, and is such a shame because i love the stoics but their writing…

🎍 counted as 10 minutes daily zen practice by burning incense sticks and enjoying the silence

My journey of self-cultivation is definitely under construction, until i find the right habits for me, i will keep adding or quitting, which is ok. After all, is not about the destination, but about the journey, so is important for me to find joy, authenticity and consistency in building them.

#academia #bookblr #academia aesthetic #studyblr #book #dark academia #antique academia #classic literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #scholarly

[evanescentapocrypha]

The Runaway Scholar 18x24 Oil on Panel

A character illustration of my main character in my novel. This is my last time designing her. I satisfied with this one.

Video of me painting this: https://youtu.be/YUpKpV6-Tx8

#gothic horror #dark fantasy #characterdesign #characterillustration #characterart #gothichorror #oilpainting #storm #figurativeart #illustration #bookillustration #scholarly #darkacademia #darkart #classicalrealism

[worstpunk]

For those interested in free online databases or transcription, 18thconnect.org is free to use and anyone can make an account to edit/correct the terrible ai transcriptions from the scans

Correcting the transcriptions makes each document way easier to search on the database. Plus, I may just be an insufferable academic nerd, but its actually pretty fun to translate the ye olde curvy letters!

Now you too can go forth and contribute to improving a free online databases!

#transcription #ai #database #academia #academic #18th century #scholarly #call me op #psa

[terribleturtle12]

#best memes #dankest memes #funny post #funny memes #funny #fresh memes #lol memes #hilarious #this is so funy #scholarly #scholastic #book fare #goose bumps #reading memes #childhood #memories

[take-note-of-this]

Yahweh and Asherah in the Hebrew Bible

Yahweh and Asherah in the Hebrew Bible

The Death of Jezebel, by Gustave Doré, 1866. From wikipedia.org The Hebrew Bible uniformly recognizes the unique deity of the Lord, the God of Israel who identifies himself to Moses as “I AM” transliterated as Yahweh. Only he is the God of the heavens and the earth, the creator of all things, the sole Lord of the heavenly hosts who sits on his throne ruling over the divine council. In contrast…

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#academic #ANE #Asherim #Asheroth #Athirat #Baal #Canaanite religion #Comparative religion #fertility #goddess #paganism #Patrick Quinn #scholarly #Take Note Of This #TNOT #Ugarit #YHWH

[flannelepicurean]

Was discussing the "Daffy Duck meets the Joker" comics with my partner, who also loves comics and is A Scholar, and will wax philosophical about them with me.

We went on an absolute trip about it, the nature of the "comedy" they both represent, and the very real and stringent rules the 'Toons follow. (Like, literally, from a writing standpoint. E.g., the coyote is never harmed by the roadrunner directly, but always by a failure of his own making, because that's The Bit, and it's literally not a Wile E. Coyote cartoon if that rule gets broken.)

It's the Roger Rabbit principle of not being able to slip out of the handcuffs until the magic moment when it would be funny. And like... for all his malice and mischief and murderous glee, the Joker is not playing in the same chaotic sandbox.

Yes, he might be able to exploit some of the rules. He might be able to get one over on Daffy.

But Bugs Bunny would mop the floor with him.

Bugs is a fuckin' trickster god. Do not cite the deep magic to him. He was there when it was written, and he casually pulled down a chart from slightly off-screen to show the authors a diagram of how they shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

We nodded over this, and then mused that, OMG, Bugs and Harley would be SUCH an interesting team, though. And I got frothing at the mouth excited because she is bonkers bizzonkers, but SO SMART and has so much planning potential, "And she has a PhD, for fuck's sake! Seriously, he'd be like, 'What's up, Doc?' and she'd be like, 'OMG, FINALLY!!!' and straight cold clock Mista J. with that giant mallet and be like, 'I GOT ME A NEW MAN, NOW! SO LONG, SUCKERS!' And boom."

The possibilities terrify me in the most delightful way.

#ideas #musings #scholarly #comics #fandom #looney toons #batman #crossover #daffy duck #the joker #bugs bunny #harley quinn #the possibilities #cartoon rules #cartoons #writing rules #fanfic concept #fanfic idea #what's up doc?