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LAST CHANCE TO SEE (for now): talks and events from the @BSHSNews History of Science Festival #HistSciFest are online for the rest of today at bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/prog….
Here is a slightly random thread of things I attended and enjoyed...
Here is a slightly random thread of things I attended and enjoyed...
(The intention – to be confirmed – is to make all the videos available again long-term on a different platform, if participants agree... but we need to take them off the current system now, as it's costing the Society a lot and mainly designed for live events) #HistSciFest
I'll start with the session which generated the biggest buzz from attendees: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/prog…, featuring five PhD students on their experiences and plans, with a particular focus on the opportunities and challenges of decolonising academia. #HistSciFest
bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/prog…, featuring five PhD students on their experiences and plans, with a particular focus on the opportunities and challenges of decolonising academia. #HistSciFest
I've been catching up with some #HistSciFest sessions I couldn't see live, and reflecting on what it means to take a conference online. In my day job I might be planning an online festival later this year, so it was brilliant to see a success story. A few thoughts...
If the conference had taken place in Aberystwyth I wouldn't have been able to go, even if the pandemic hadn't happened. Childcare would have made it very difficult and my day job is 'academic related'. That means that extensive academic conference attendance is not expected.
The same is true for many other museum staff, archivists, librarians and other professionals whose work relates to or supports history of science research. There are lots of ways to be a historian of science. It was a pleasure to see a number of collections colleagues dipping in.
Elizabeth Smith of the @MyDearDarwin project is presenting some fascinating (if you're me) history of #DigitalHumanities at #HistSciFest crowdcast.io/e/darwin-corre…. Including the fun and games to be had marking up a letter if it's the 1980s and you've only got ASCII... #histtech #dh
This started out on an IBM 370. Everything – platform, markup specification, editing software – has been fully replaced at least twice, but the core data's proved pretty robust. (I'm thinking this talk may be of interest to @The_Maintainers and other @SIGCIS folk.)
"Few editors had the patience to learn regular expressions..." xkcd.com/208/
#HistSciFest Now this... I repeat, now *this*... is note-taking. Wow.
Status: comparing the original slide images to @bachwards's quickfire graphical appreciations, burbling awestruck at the majesty of human creative engagement.
(Session recordings at crowdcast.io/e/lightning-ta… and – starting an hour in – crowdcast.io/e/electrifying…) #HistSciFest
(Session recordings at crowdcast.io/e/lightning-ta… and – starting an hour in – crowdcast.io/e/electrifying…) #HistSciFest
#HistSciFest Note that ALL of the Crowdcast sessions are recorded and available afterwards at the links on the Festival website!
Mine, for instance: crowdcast.io/e/tour-of-the-… (which I will now have to watch back with teeth clenched through the bits that went wrong)
Mine, for instance: crowdcast.io/e/tour-of-the-… (which I will now have to watch back with teeth clenched through the bits that went wrong)
The recording also includes the live chat (keep trying to scrolling back and it'll slowly bring in earlier posts), in which several people have kindly provided links, clarifications, and personal recollections...
Thanks in particular to @bhgross144, who not only joined the chat but provided this really nice livetweet thread:
#HistSciFest Fascinating talk from Sibusiso Biyela @AstroSibs right now (I think you can still join: bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/prog…)
The question "Why doesn't our language have a word for dinosaur?" felt like it ought to be an article in itself. Turns out it is:
bbc.com/future/article…
The question "Why doesn't our language have a word for dinosaur?" felt like it ought to be an article in itself. Turns out it is:
bbc.com/future/article…
#HistSciFest Realising he would need to coin his own term for "dinosaur" in isiZulu, Biyela settled on "isilwane sasemandulo", approximately "ancient animal".
Notes that "dinosaur" (= "terrible lizard") is a *very* long way from what current science sees a dinosaur as being...
Notes that "dinosaur" (= "terrible lizard") is a *very* long way from what current science sees a dinosaur as being...
(Stray thought: one outcome of the mutability of language is that current English has a potential get-out here:
"Look, it's not a reptile. It's warm-blooded, feathery, rather like a chicken..."
"Exactly. And a chicken, you will accept, is a *terrible* lizard.")
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"Look, it's not a reptile. It's warm-blooded, feathery, rather like a chicken..."
"Exactly. And a chicken, you will accept, is a *terrible* lizard.")
#HistSciFest
