Duncan Yellowlees, PhD, (@dyellowlees.bsky.social), who presents himself as a researcher trainer, posted the following on BlueSky: “Practical tips for maintaining an engaged audience that sooo many academics fail at: – vary what they are listening to/focusing on – make sure data is connected to context – talk to them not at them – give the […]
El Dr. Duncan Yellowlees (@dyellowlees.bsky.social), que se presenta como entrenador (?) de investigadores, publicó el siguiente post en BlueSky: «Consejos prácticos para mantener al público interesado, en lo que taaaantos académicos fallan: – variar lo que está escuchando / en lo que se está centrando – asegurarse de que los datos estén conectados al contexto […]
This is a report of the ‘Vision and Support Session’, an open discussion held last week, on 30 July, within the Science Fiction Research Association conference, “Trans People are (in) the Future: Queer and Trans Futurity in Science Fiction” (University of Rochester, New York), a conference which lasted until yesterday, August 3rd. The organizer of […]
La entrada de hoy resume la ‘Vision and Support Session’, una conversación abierta celebrada la semana pasada, el 30 de julio, dentro del congreso de la Science Fiction Rsearch Association, “Trans People are (in) the Future: Queer and Trans Futurity in Science Fiction” (University of Rochester, Nueva York), congreso que duró hasta ayer, 3 de […]
Today I’m reading an article by, I quote, “Mary Curnock Cook CBE, who chairs the Dyson Institute and is a Trustee at HEPI, and Bess Brennan, Chief of University Partnerships with Cadmus, which is running a series of collaborative events with UK university leaders about the challenges and opportunities of generative AI in higher education.” […]
Hoy leo un artículo firmado por, cito, “Mary Curnock Cook CBE, quien preside el Instituto Dyson y es fideicomisaria de HEPI, y Bess Brennan, Jefa de Asociaciones Universitarias con Cadmus, que está llevando a cabo una serie de eventos de colaboración con líderes universitarios del Reino Unido sobre los retos y oportunidades de la IA […]
You might think that Victorian novels are so long because of their serialization in weekly or monthly instalments, sold either as part of periodical publications or independently. However, this business practice, introduced by Charles Dickens’s publisher, Chapman, with the serialization of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 instalments between March 1836 and November […]
Se podría pensar que las novelas victorianas son tan largas debido a su serialización en entregas semanales o mensuales, vendidas como parte de publicaciones periódicas o de forma independiente. Sin embargo, esta práctica comercial, introducida por el editor de Charles Dickens, Chapman, con la serialización de The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 entregas […]
In this summer of very long books, I have re-read with great pleasure Benito Pérez Galdós’s masterpiece Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887), a novel certainly far superior to Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina, but still not hailed as the universal classic it should be. Blame for this a certain prejudice against Spanish literature and […]
En este verano de libros larguísimos, he releído con mucho gusto la obra maestra de Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887), una novela ciertamente muy superior a Anna Karenina de Tolstoi, pero todavía no reconocida como un clásico universal, tal como debería. Galdós, admirador de Dickens, está posiblemente más […]