New blog post about what I got up to this summer: occamstypewriter.org/erikacule/20...

There’s a volunteer camping area so you could camp with other volunteers (the team I’m on also arrive a day early), although this doesn’t help if you want to camp near friends who are not volunteering who arrive later. For help pitching tent ask someone nearby for help, it’s a common situation.

Photo of a white plastic pen with a click top and “Be Grateful” on it in large blue letters

We found this pen with a vaguely threatening aura in the back of a drawer. Neither of us can remember where it came from. There’s no logo or other text anywhere on it. My friend has a similar one that says “Be Kind” and also doesn’t remember where she got it

Oh Rachel, lots of love to you and the whole household 💕 Such a much loved cat ❤️

Is Jesus the first Undercover Boss

Many of you will know about my little side hustle - an unassuming science/lit/culture magazine I launched in 2005. Do give its new presence here - @lablit.bsky.social - a follow!

Black and white cat (Coco)

Midday prayer is here for you. And Coco wants to say hello! buff.ly/3Pt2V3v

>> A good tip was to try to make incremental progress each (working) day - even if it is just tidying up a paragraph or sorting out some subheadings. Keep going. I agree with others: either a completed thesis, or perfect thesis.

Sorry you’re having a TOUGH year. As for what kept me going, I had a mantra for the entire period of my PhD studies that the only way I knew I wasn’t going to quit was that I hadn’t quit yet. Eventually lo and behold I was awarded the thing. >>

Oh wow! It does look great. You might enjoy the ink-and-string approach too, which to my mind gives a related effect.

It looks like ink-and-string. Is that how it’s done?

I have also done this. I am an erstwhile statistician and I once saw a Tweet along the lines of “what if we trained an LLM on the Bible” - one of the few sentences that provokes in either context.

Photograph of my black computer keyboard and monitor on a pale wood desktop. In the gap under the monitor you can see the hindquarters of two black and white cats who are sitting facing each other behind the monitor

Just walked into my office and found a meeting in progress that I wasn't invited to

Reducing Strategy Surrogation: The Effects of Performance Measurement System Flexibility and Environmental Dynamism ABSTRACT. Prior research shows that individuals exhibit a propensity to surrogate performance measures for their underlying strategy, resulting in suboptim

Let's see if this works on BlueSky… Could someone provide me with the PDF of this article? #icanhazpdf publications.aaahq.org/accounting-r...

If you’re feeling ambitious, schedule them at the same time across the two festivals and do a live linkup on a video call ✝️ (I will be @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social and am up for a meetup) #CofEPeeps

“It’s a church, not a bin” and twenty-six other learnings.

Walking with God in 2024

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Happy New Year John 👋🏼

And that’s 2024. Year two unwrapped:

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Oh my gosh Steph how inspiring 💕

Lots of love 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

For the morning crowd:

A blog post about sport and faith; strength, and God.

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A long read about powerlifting and God.

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Academic favour pls!
Does anyone not currently being screwed by the British Library's ongoing inability to supply certain electronic resource have access to a PDF of 'The Multitemporal Contemporary: Colson Whitehead's Presents' by Daniel Grausam in Literature and the Global Gontemporary

I read this as “if you don’t X” (as in former Twitter) and thought “odd choice of way to go against the grain”.

A blog post about articulating one’s faith. How do you do it and does it have to be awkward? occamstypewriter.org/erikacule/20...

postcards and book

A reminder that people in the UK can pre-order a signed copy of "Hey, There's Science In This" before March 27. Everyone else (incl UK peeps with ebook preorders) can order a postcard. Both are at this link, and I'll sign them during the livestream. www.buymeacoffee.com/mixture/extras

Art-making and Jesus: my latest blog post.

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A copy of "Hey, There's Science In This" shown with a cat in the background. The cat is asleep.

I wrote a book! "Hey, There's Science In This" is a collection of science essays that started out as science blog posts over the years. It's available for pre-order now (more shops rolling out soon) and will be published March 28. Please buy my book :) #scicomm evaamsen.com/HTSIT/

On redundancy and the opportunity it brings occamstypewriter.org/rpg/2024/02/...

What do you do when God comes for your LinkedIn? | Blogging by Candlelight 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

“A Christian without a job feels like the oxymoron I am.”

On ambivalence, trust in the Lord, and how the communities around us, shape us.

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