Someone sent me this today. 😅

Wordle 1,557 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fun game!

Dreamlike, folktale prose that’s genuinely beautiful at the sentence level. But I struggled to keep track of small moments, which made the ending less meaningful than it was meant to be. #read2025

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I saw this at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. I call it Powers of Two :) #mtbos

One of the earliest books on writing in the social sciences, but updated and useful to other disciplines. The parts about unpretentious writing and ‘throat clearing’ were particularly helpful. #read2025

The best way for a photo to catch my attention is if it looks like data. Fig. 1. Bar plot displaying amount of storage per filing cabinet.

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

International Equal Pay Day, marked on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. Achieving equal pay is an important milestone for human rights and gender equality.

I'm really pleased that one of the projects I've been working on over the last year is now public: https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/christian.perfect/accessibility-checklist-for-events/index.html I and two colleagues at Newcastle, Elaine Lopez and Jennifer Deane, have put together a set of […]

@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social Renewing our pilgrimage north in Queensland and we are re-appreciating the Casso-wary signage at Etty Bay.

Longer hours. But why? #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc

A quick pivot on dinner tonight and OMG this was good. https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/food-and-drink/article/recipe-baked-satay-chicken-recipetin-eats

How to immeasurably improve your LinkedIn experience. @effinbirds.com was made for that place.

The illusion is that if you just worked a bit harder you could get everything done. But the reality often is that you can't do it all. Sometimes you have to say NO.

Number one on the list for the next time I’m in London. 😍

This is so well done.

Camp dog surveying her kingdom.

Weekend vibes. No internet. No people. Perfect.

Just put it in a bowl, people.

This is basically the takeaway for my qualitative methods class today: All data must be interpreted. And all data are qualitative unless and until they're interpreted quantitatively.

Good morning Port Lincoln. A beautiful morning for a walk.

When your dog knows exactly what the rules are.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

An important local story I don’t recall reading in fiction before—the exodus of ‘Old Lutherans’ from Prussia in the 1830s to the colony of South Australia. An interesting choice in the middle of the book, and I wanted to spend more time with the villagers, but ultimately a beautiful read. #read2025

@nhoskee.bsky.social New approx equal statement just dropped: 50 ≈ 194

I approve of this choice. I would have also accepted 3,4,2,1 and any other permutation of 1,2,3,4.

I haven’t called the roll for a good ten years or more.

The most wonderful gift, from the crew at MOD. museum. Left over from the Broken Exhibition feature ‘What if we all stuck together?’, I’m sure I can find an appropriate use for the Einstein hat tile stickers.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

feel like slim and fat chance should be a different amount of chance

Wordle 1,538 2/6* ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A surprisingly informative guess.

The Path

Before and after.

Wordle 1,534 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fun game!

I feel like we’re all going to be very disappointed in the morning.

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Second Winter has arrived! 11.2°C currently, but the BoM says it feels like 1.4... and I'm not inclined to argue with them!

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

I have this trick when I get edited: I make a copy of the file, and then—without looking—I hit "accept all." Then I read it. I just read the thing I wrote, with "yes!" to all edits. Then I go back to the other file and look at the edits one-by-one. It's game-changing to see it without the red.

This is hardly an original thought, but having flown to Melbourne, then Sydney, then Melbourne fairly close apart, I am reminded that the airport experiences are chalk and cheese. (Edited 4:37 pm via @skeetsapp.com)

This Friday is Wear it Purple Day! 💜 By wearing purple we demonstrate to LGBTQIA+ young people that they are celebrated and respected. Check out this guide for ideas to get your school involved in the day. 👉 bit.ly/41hh1Lz

A beautiful way to start the working week, with a walk along the River Murray.

We are advertising a Level D/E position in Pure Maths at University of Adelaide (for non-Oz-initiated: E=full Prof, D=one step down). https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/517088/associate-professor-professor-de-pure-mathematics

Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

I didn’t realise the transition was so long ago.

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