I had to scroll so far down #academicsky before I found this 🤣

Honestly stick with Excel. 90% of apps and other nonsense can be replaced with Excel. (Although I’m a Google Sheets person myself)

Did you manage to persuade them?

I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky

The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England. (Just outside Manchester's gay village.) It is a bronze sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Alan is sitting on bench. The memorial is covered in flowers, as it is his birthday today.

Happy Birthday Alan Turing

The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.

Congratulations!

Alan Turing’s statue in Manchester surrounded by lots of bunches of flowers and some pots of flowers. Most are on the bench and some are on the floor.

This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️

Okay, but isn’t that the opposite of your original post? If 6 out of 10 wish they’d known, and 6 out of 10 wish they’d started, then surely there is nobody left (ignoring rounding) who knew it was important but didn’t read to their kids? Like, that’s amazing result!

That’s interesting. So 0 of of 10 parents knew it was important but didn’t do it (lack of time, illness, that sort of thing)?

Hang on- the image has a different fact to the post - which is correct?

As per post

Vegan Jamie dodger doughnut

Pizza on a table

Pizza!

Motorways are long

Just weeks in front of a shed

This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

"One inch in from the bottom and left-hand side of the daguerreotype can be seen the two figures who remained in the same place long enough to be recorded. Daguerre’s image was presented as part of a triptych to King Ludwig I and was displayed from 20 October 1839 at the Arts Association in Munich. The daguerreotype in this book is, obviously, a copy. But a copy is all that it is possible to see of that first photograph of humanity: the original was destroyed when being cleaned at the Munich Fotomuseum around 1974. Only an empty wooden frame with the description remains as a record of the original." From Gardner, John, and David Stewart. “Introduction.” Chapter. In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s, edited by John Gardner and David Stewart, 1–16. Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Cleaning is dangerous!

Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: “I spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple”
Me, an hour later: “what is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_
#academicsky

In the sense that I do an external persons research in exchange for money. Not that someone pays me to do my own.

Normally happens the other way around for me.

It's backed-up by research!

"samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky

doi.org/10.1177/1948...

“vim $(!!)” makes me feel like a genius

That’s super-useful if only because people already doing it at Royal Holloway means I can’t get in trouble for it (so not true)

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola 'so scared' by Israel-Gaza war Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is

Pep Guardiola delivered these comments while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Manchester yesterday.

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Anyone in #academicsky successfully put snippets of lectures onto something like TikTok?

my three year old just invited us onto his podcast

be like my three year old: invite me onto your podcast

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world.

They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should introduce a new:use of colons in formal writing for this purpose.

You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI

#academicsky

“Now this is an Avengers level threat@

Today I keep having to write “masters-level” and “3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:

I have brought the access cards for three different universities to the university I work at, which is the fourth one.