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📚 Fifteen years of my personal BibTeX database!

Fifteen years ago, I started keeping my own BibTeX database — just a plain text file edited manually, line by line.
Later I switched to JabRef, and everything became much smoother!

Over the years, the database has grown to almost 2,000 entries — and it’s no longer just a list of references, but a snapshot of the knowledge I’ve interacted with.
Because I always fill in the Abstract field, full-text search now lets me literally “remember everything.”

Among all my long-term “personal productivity” projects, this one has turned out to be the most valuable.

#KnowledgeManagement #OpenScience #BibTeX #JabRef #PersonalKnowledgeBase #LaTeX #ResearchTools #DigitalResearch #DataScience #AcademicLife #Linux

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia

🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊

👉 Full story on our website:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/joana-dias-pereira-rui-henriques-antonio-sergio-prize/

@histodons

#Histodons #ResearchAwards #AcademicLife #Mutualism #Colonialism #SocialEconomy #SocialHistory #AwardWinningBooks #OpenAccess #Mutualismo #Colonialismo #HistóriaSocial