Milena PopovaInterview
Activist, PhD researcher (consent in fan fiction)
Adapted from Milena Popova's interview on Uses This, published 6 October 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I do a fair amount of work on the go, so my Samsung Galaxy tablet, and especially my phone (currently Samsung Galaxy S8) are super-important to me.
I have a daylight lamp to get me through the interminable UK winter nights without losing the will to breathe and a HandShoe mouse to help me deal with occasional bouts of RSI.
Communication
When it comes to my more collaborative projects, Slack is probably one of my main tools for working with people across continents and timezones.
Productivity
Notes
I wouldn't recommend using any of these for actually producing a finished 80,000-word thesis though, so as I put the final touches on mine I'm about to embark on the journey of re-learning LaTeX, which is a typesetting mark-up language that produces gorgeous documents.
Coding & Development
Media
I use the Linux Mint sound recorder for the recording, and Audacity for audio editing.
Other
Both my PCs run Linux Mint - I've been a big fan of Free Software since the late 90s.
Reference management is another key part of academic work, and I use Mendeley for that.
Importantly, it has a desktop app for Linux and a mobile app for Android, so I can read and manage papers on the go.