Emma Nicol

emmanicol@mastodon.scot

<p>Lecturer  @strathcis  University of Strathclyde. Human Computer Interaction. Information Behaviour. Own opinions. RT!=endorsement.</p>

Posts

Post #4489730
My research career has been er... eclectic. I have published in a fairly wide variety of computer and information science subdomains. Today I noticed one of my papers published in one subdomain, cited in a rather different one (where I&#39;ve also published). This is reassuring for reasons that I can&#39;t quite articulate.
Post #4489729
Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxg76rgdp7o Now do the Lords Spiritual. It cannot be right that 26 seats (3.1%) are reserved for individuals drawn from only one of the four countries of the UK.
Post #4489728
Shit pun of the day: looking at the data vis on my pedometer app, the term &quot;Steppy Graph&quot; springs to mind.
Post #4489727
The (surely prescient) title of John Christopher/Sam Youd&#39;s novel &quot;The Death of Grass&quot; has long terrified me. At the moment though, The Death of Curiosity is what&#39;s truly keeping me awake at night.
Post #4489726
So it turns out that there&#39;s an academic task that&#39;s even less fun than marking. Still, everything in moderation.
Post #4489725
Vivid dream that no-one turned up for my lectures so I decided to show IP Man instead. Security had to be called.
Post #4489724
20+ years spent in research adjacent to (and occasionally in) information retrieval and to this day I cannot read the phrase bag-of-words without thinking of Paul Calf&#39;s phrase of choice.
Post #4489723
ILS @ Strathclyde is celebrating 80 yrs of continuous education in Library and Information Science by researching the impact of ILS alumni in professional practice. If you studied Library and Information Science at Strathclyde, or at a predecessor org e.g. Glasgow College of Commerce please consider completing the survey and sharing it with those who may be eligible: https://strathsci.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3PHmUPVtXRakZsW This CILIPS-funded research will help provide advocacy material fo...
Post #772147
Is there currently a more sinister word in the English language than &quot;tool&quot;? It would be a great title for a horror novel or film. THE TOOL.