Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

Colour me unsurprised: “Several said that they actively didn’t respond to emails, or acted in an exaggerated disorganised manner. This meant they were assigned fewer tasks, but were also less frequently asked, and thus got away without doing service.”

https://kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/women-end-doing-academic-housework

Over the past few years I've been involved in various initiatives with the goal of making research information more available and more usable.

Over the past few months we've been working to bring these together with the goal of making a step change towards openness of research information.

https://barcelona-declaration.org/

Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

BIC to Thema – after the conversion

For over a decade, we have been using the BIC classification code, which was used by many – mostly UK based – publishers. However, the BIC classification was deprecated in February 2024, and is succeeded by the Thema classification.

Now, the classification has been updated in the #OAPEN #Library and the Directory of #OpenAccess #Books (DOAB)

https://oapen.hypotheses.org/976

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