Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

When I moved to this tiny city in Aotearoa #NewZealand friends suggested it'd be a bit quiet

In 3 months I've met

Sarcastic librarians
Traditional weavers
Drag queens
Poets
Actors
Knitting witches
Hoards of wonderful lesbians
Quince Nappers and
Junior Bug scientists

It has not been quiet🤣

Things spotted on Easter Market Day in a small city in Aotearoa #NewZealand.

A woman in her twenties buying a plain baguette from an artisanal bakery stall, sniffing it, grinning and biting off a big chunk. Walks off chewing with obvious happiness.

A 70ish man inspecting floral cushions at a stall: Those cushions are a bit extra aren't they?
Teenager: Grandad! You can't say that. You don't even know what it means!
Grandfather: (deadpan, while studying cushion): That's a bit extra of you to say isn't it?

A man at a magnetic copper jewellery stall telling another man that the minute he put on his copper bracelet, he could feel tingling in his feet.
The other man whistling and nodding slowly saying that the universe is a mysterious place.

A tiny floof of a white dog desperately trying to convince its humans that it really deserved one of the petit fours they'd just purchased by means of some of the most intense staring and mind control ever seen. No noise, just staring. Intense, intense staring. Cake achieved.

A couple walking to their car, beaming, eating from two boxes of fresh figs. I asked them where they'd gotten them and they immediately gave me one, saying they'd gotten the second for free. Everyone walked off feeling great about themselves. (I'm so full of figs)

A woman enthusiastically greeting another, asking how she is. The other giving her a big hug and announcing that her macadamia tree is going to fruit this year. Excitement all round.

#travel

Current status: babysitting the computer while it is converting #BIC #classifications to #Thema. #OpenAccess #OAPEN Library #DOAB

A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just-make-it-stop-when-will-we-say-that.html
#research #nullresults #laterality #handedness #publicationbias

and from @schuyler :

302 Sorry That Moved But Would You Like A Spot Of Tea Before You Go

503 Sorry It’s Definitely My Fault Again

HTTP Status Codes as reported by software that is only allowed to apologise (from conversation with @schuyler):

401 I’m so sorry, I seem to have forgotten your name

402 I hate to beg but the council tax bill is exorbitant

410 all things must pass, but I apologise for imposing such cruel finality on our otherwise charming conversation

200 Sorry for not having more to say here

Update. It's not just the @sorbonne_univ_ .
https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/french-ministry-of-higher-education-and-research-partners-with-openalex-to-develop-a-fully-open-bibliographic-tool/

"As part of this partnership with @OpenAlex, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research is committed to working closely with OpenAlex. In addition to making a financial contribution to the operation of OpenAlex, which is seen as a crucial open science infrastructure, France will play a key role in helping to improve OpenAlex’s general data, and to enrich data related to French research in particular, and beyond."

The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit will be redesigned and enriched with new, research-based content this year! Please help us redesign the Toolkit by sharing your user experience with us. The survey will take less than 5 minutes and it is open until Thursday, February 29. We look forward to your feedback!

#OAbooksToolkit #OAbooks

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I love #Mastodon so much. Last night I posted an #introduction on a whim, just to say hello.

I expected to be ignored just like I have been so many times on #twitter (refuse to call the #birdsite "X", ugh).

I woke up to numerous #boost notifications and new followers. Wow.

A place to actually connect.

How wonderful.

Happy to meet you all, I am Jessa!

🇺🇦 The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine hosted the kick-off meeting of #OpenScience for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) project: https://lpnu.ua/en/news/ministry-education-and-science-ukraine-hosted-kick-meeting-open4ua-project and in Ukrainian https://lpnu.ua/news/v-ministerstvi-osvity-i-nauky-ukrainy-vidbulas-startova-zustrich-proiektu-open4ua
EIFL is happy and honoured to be a partner https://www.eifl.net/eifl-in-action/open-science-ukrainian-higher-education-system-open4ua-project advancing research assessment reform and fostering national and institutional open science policy developments