When eight-year-old Emma Glenfield wanted to know more about why magpies swoop at people, her teacher (Luke Carr) encouraged her to gather data and analyse it.
She noted that the birds seemed to target tall balding men, and created an online survey with the help of her mum. The survey went viral, with over 30,000 respondents.
The results, as shown in a brilliant Lego graph, demonstrated that the birds do target balding men more frequently (with less than 1% margin of error, thanks to the large sample size).
"According to magpie expert Darryl Jones, professor emeritus at Griffith University, it's the first time anyone has ever examined the link between magpie swooping and appearance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520
The ABC article includes more details, along with this excellent Lego graph (and other great pictures).
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2024 application period begins Wednesday 13 March 2024: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-hackathon-2024-dhh24 Meanwhile, check this year's logo! #DHH24
And we are LIVE!! Shiny new website for our Symposium series, Who Owns Black Data? First one, March 28–29 in Baltimore. What do you think? Who owns Black cultural and historical data? We're literally taking your answers. Read The Prelude & be a part of the conversation. wobd.blackbeyonddata.org
Single best professional experience of my life! #PeMento: Peer Mentoring for Mid-career Library Workers is now open for Cohort 2023 sign-ups! Want to know more? Check out https://pemento.org/ and sign-up. Happy to talk about my experience!
ChatGPT is six months old today - it was released to the public on November 30th last year
The May 2023 issue of #ReviewsInDH is here! Jennifer Guiliano & I offer you a sneak peak behind-the-scenes at Reviews and bring you four fantastic projects that creatively engage public audiences through digital humanities, from our open submission process. #DigitalHumanities #AcademicMastodon https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v4-n5
Scholarship applications for #FSCI23 are open! FSCI has set aside 100 complementary seats to ensure costs are not a barrier to participation. Applications are due June 5th https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-JR5Hm5Tn-uiiZrUZIUJ_tItzDAQAfCvWmZ03q7T7uY29dg/formResponse
I'll have a blog entry about it soon, but before then, you get to hear about it first: A full transfer of the USC Cinema sound effects library, which includes the work of Sunset Editorial and their hundreds of sound effects.
You can browse the collection here:
TOMORROW (5/16)at 4:30 p.m., join @princetoncitp and @ruha9’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab for “Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair” with @climateincolour, @grace_akese, @alieemmanuel, @fixitclinic. @kenia_hale will moderate: https://citp.princeton.edu/event/tech-in-conversation-critical-technology-ecologies-and-the-future-of-repair/
My article, "Origins of the U.S. Genre-Fiction System, 1890–1956" is now out in Book History.
Published version here:
https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2023.0006
Open-access preprint:
https://andrewgoldstone.com/research/bh2023ms.pdf
If you want to know what's so special about 1956, you'll have to read the essay, or at least the blog post:
“The Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永樂大典), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world.” Via @Researchbuzz
https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-completes-digitization-of-yongle-encyclopedia--largest-reference-work-of-pre-mod/s/cd1b7136-376b-43c2-a1d0-25f738c1ad7f?loclr=ealn
happy belated #caturday from some snoozy boys. hope you’re having a relaxing day.
#CatsofMastodon #FluffyCats #MaineCoon #AmericanBobtail #BubblegumNose
I'm starting to collect examples of something like hyperlinking in books - creative, print-based designs for linking one section to another. please send your favs, esp. the most detailed and/or wildest examples! #othernetworks
The House of Commons has released a thoughtful, critical report on UK research quality
The recommendations to government are excellent, both practical and progressive
Highlights:
Make all research open access
Require data and code accompany all publications
Move peer-review and publication acceptance before data collection
Specifically fund replications
Remove “originality” from REF, instead require transparency
Impose a 3-year minimum term for all postdocs
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmsctech/101/summary.html
