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Crest ablaze, beak obscured, eye gleaming with a fixed, unblinking stare: the Guianan cock-of-the-rock.
https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/guianan-cock-rock-bird.htm
@deevybee It is an interesting process. A few years ago CNRS had officially signed DORA but its application forms for promotion asked for statistics like numbers of papers published in the last 5 years and so on.
And even if people don't count, they still argue about A+ vs A vs B vs C rankings, including in HCÉRES evaluation processes (this is reinforced by the requirement to appear "objective").
This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!
How far can you understand it?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_
To Trains
Another special roundel. This one is at the top of the escalators at St John's Wood London Underground station. I love the reflection on the ceiling.
"The leadership of the Royal Society is now also in breach of its own code of conduct."
— @StephenCurry writing at https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/02/11/year-of-inaction-royal-society-hollowed-out-musk/
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