Mastodawn

Owen May 27, 2023

Wren Wallis May 23, 2023

I have no idea what's happening anymore, but the farmer presenting about compost just asked whether the kids think bones are compostable, and instead of answering, all 19 kids started chanting, "BONES BONES BONES! BONES BONES BONES!" and dancing.

Owen May 23, 2023

Imogen Wegman May 23, 2023

Yesterday, while feeling somewhat braindead, I started a public Zotero library of digitised historic map collections.

It's mostly Australian at the moment, and mostly the stuff I am always sending my family history students to, plus a few other places I use regularly for my own research, but I have grand intentions of adding to it over time – I keep a 'resources' folder in my own Zotero after all.

Feel free to shout your thoughts and additions at me here!

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5068384/map_collections_online/items/9GJ29ZGC/library

#zotero #histodons #history #cartography #hgis #maps #archives #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

Owen May 21, 2023

Fanny Burney died a year after the solar cell was invented. I worked this out a few days ago and keep having to go back and check because it seems so implausible.
#history #FannyBurney #solar

COW ➡️ PAT (Cowdenbeath to Patricroft)
BIG ➡️ BEN (Billingshurst to Bentham)
BAD ➡️ ASS (Banstead to Alness)

Owen May 21, 2023

Stuart

May 21, 2023

Train stations in the UK each have 3 letter codes. For instance Kings Cross is KGX and Leeds is LDS. What's the best journey you can do in 3 letter codes?

HIP ➡️ HOP (Highams Park to Hope, Derbyshire)
SKI ➡️ SEA (Skipton to Seaham)
BUY ➡️ HAT (Burley Park to Hatfield)
EGG ➡️ HEN (Eggesford to Hendon)
TIP ➡️ TOP (Tipton to Topsham)
TOO ➡️ HOT (Tooting to Henley-on-Thames)
TAT ➡️ TOO (Tattenham Corner to Tooting)

Owen May 20, 2023

Sheepnik May 20, 2023

Owen May 10, 2023

blinry May 9, 2023

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Every Author as First Author

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

arXiv.org

Owen May 5, 2023

Local pigeon takes advantage of thunderstorm with driving hail to… clean its armpits?
#birds #pigeons #WoodPigeon #thunderstorm #hailstorm #hygiene