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Senior Research Data Steward at UCL's Advanced Research Computing department @ucl-arc.bsky.social, sometime clinical trial conduct methodologist, palaeopathologist, archaeologist, & food historian | #DataSharing #OpenScience #HealthcareSystemsData
Or even "sea" slug..... 🙄
Who doesn't want a tiny wool see slug?!?! 🤩 🧪
QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released!
The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]
In case you recently haven't tried to access historic newspapers at newspaperarchive.com, I'll save you the trouble: don't. 🗃️
They soooo need to make this kit! #BookHistory #History #Printing #Lego
Or both!
The Guardian has posted a piece on human remains, and as an osteologist I want to add some thoughts. First off I agree that the legacy of colonialism is a problem, and that there are issues surrounding certain collections.
But
The numbers in that piece are massively inflated for two reasons
It's a poorly written article: I just think it does a disservice to the issue. Which is a shame because a lot of people have put a lot of work into repatriation over the last few decades.
This was what didn't make sense to me... The numbers all through the article, and the accompanying explainer article look very wrong, and I was wondering whether in some cases it's individual bones.
I'm guessing you don't know how copyright law works then......
Ha, that would have been quite a day trip!
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/v...
Says: "Penge was a wooded district, over which the tenants of Battersea Manor had common of pasture".
My understanding is that Penge was a detached hamlet in the Manor of Battersea.
Hope it goes well!
Our new exhibition The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond is now open!
Co-curated by Karen Attar (SHL) and @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social (IES, SAS) the display celebrates the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s first printing press!
Me too. I now have a massive soft spot for anyone who gets their degree from there. I don't particularly miss teaching in the evening but I do miss the students
I used to teach certificate courses for Birkbeck: lots of mature students, some of whom had left school with no qualifications at all, and they were amazing! Really wanted to be there, really engaged, thoughtful and hard working. And they produced great work.
To be fair the salary is given when you click the link to apply
Did you include the time you spent completing the form (and the time you'll probably have to spend chasing it)?
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
'IFS’ education spending report, published in January, estimates that under current policy the taxpayer will bear just 3 per cent of the total cost of financing higher education for this cohort [Plan 2 loans] – down from 9 per cent before the budget freezes.' 1/5
When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.
Love how all the tips in the replies for "improving" this situation are just things people could just do themselves without involving middle-machine at all and get better outcomes. Every single use-case, like this one, that I think begrudgingly *might* be plausible turns out not to be
Oh thank goodness
Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️
What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?
(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?
Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!
La Reine Margot (during a-levels and we had just been studying the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, but it's quite punchy for a school viewing....!) Otherwise Schindler's List... Can't really remember anything else...
"Clearly the levels of funding in these institutions is not what it is in other countries and it has not been keeping up with inflation. Over the last 20 years, it is down 40% in real terms."
Interview with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social interim CEO Jeremy Silver
www.thetimes.com/article/d6f2...
Join us on March 1 at 4pm UTC for our next Data Craft Circle, gathering folx working on analog data experiences! Our theme for March is "Memory," inspired by an attendee's question at our last event. RSVP for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/data-craft...