Lennart Björneborn

»Connecto ergo sum«; I connect therefore I am • Researching how #serendipity connects people & ideas across physical/digital spaces • And I do like #haiku :-)

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

”#serendipity plays an integral role in how we discover, explore, & learn in all fields of life.”
Revisiting ’Three key affordances for serendipity: Toward a framework connecting environmental & personal factors in serendipitous encounters’
Full preprint: https://t.co/HdPLyzVd6x

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

"In praise of #serendipity" — very inspiring article in @TheLancet by @ProfKneebone/ @Serendipity_Prg: https://t.co/pFzGKsM8cz
— "Making oneself open to unanticipated insights is a mindset that can be cultivated."
— via @ChrisSerendip cc @Ser_Soc @ieSanda @AnnelienSmets

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

New image for my #haiku (2013) about libraries, museums & other urban spaces as »flowrooms of #serendipity & #creativity« for inspiring connections between people, information & culture 🍀— cc @Ser_Soc @theScikuProject
— #aboriginal #art: Sonya Edney, https://t.co/38KSFydwul

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

all life within life
life within life within life
in life after life

— #haiku inspired by the Danish thinker #Martinus (1890-1981): https://t.co/5nqrFb9W18
#cosmology #pantheism #life cc @CatBake

[Luna @YourMoonliness]

a tiny flower
even in its smallness
the world

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

// the sun still shining / the ice still melting today / the birds still flying //

#haiku #haiga #micropoetry
#myphoto #Copenhagen — cc @CatBake @HawkheadJohn

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Today, we are witnessing hate spreading at alarming speed.

Online, it has moved from the margins to the mainstream.

No society is immune to intolerance. Bigotry against one group is bigotry against all.

We must resolve to stand up against the forces of hate & division.

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

Since 2012, I've written 500+ #haiku on Twitter/X as a reflection tool in my research on #serendipity. Now, they get new layout :–) #artsinformedresearch #sciku
— See also: https://t.co/1u2aquDgRv
— cc @Ser_Soc @TheScikuProject @ChrisSerendip

[Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl]

“It's poetry's uselessness that excites me.” Kay Ryan

#poetryfika

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

See this thread with inspiring drawings by @Merlin_Draws for @CPerfSci "The #Serendipity Programme — Sharing the gifts of cross-discipline thinking"
— Thanks to @gquaggiotto for posting about the programme: https://t.co/BuXejokDMQ
— cc @ser_soc @ChrisSerendip @jennahartel

[Centre for Performance Science @CPerfSci]

During our recent @RCMLondon @imperialcollege Serendipity Project meeting, our Medical Artist in Residence @Merlin_Draws created a series of extraordinary drawings capturing the essence of the discussion.

1/11: "Learning across disciplines, generosity of expertise"

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

Nice to see a university research center offering a Serendipity program to its researchers https://t.co/HQqA9Mzs5f @ser_soc @CPerfSci

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

As a reflection/resonance tool in my research on #serendipity, I have since 2012 posted over 520 #haiku/ #sciku on Twitter about the topic (cf. https://t.co/1u2aquDgRv)
Now, this haiku from 2014 found a new illustration 😊🍀
— cc @ser_soc @thescikuproject @jennahartel

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."
—Mark Weiser, 1991, ’The computer for the 21st century’; his seminal piece on ”ubiquitous computing” https://t.co/qmaZqziMmh

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

In 'Three key affordances for serendipity', I write more about #serendipity as a "control clash" when something inside our control (curiosity & interests) resonates & collaborates with something outside our control (= essence of "chance"): https://t.co/HdPLyzVd6x — cc @ser_soc

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

I think #serendipity is a combination between something that happens AND something we do; — When something INSIDE our own control (curiosity & interests) resonates and collaborates with something OUTSIDE our own control (the very essence of what we call "chance" ;–)
— cc @ser_soc

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

I think #serendipity is a combination between something that happens AND something we do; — When something INSIDE our own control (curiosity & interests) resonates and collaborates with something OUTSIDE our own control (the very essence of what we call "chance" ;–)
— cc @ser_soc

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

But is serendipity something that happens to people, or is it rather something people do? Proceedings of @EinsteinForum workshop https://t.co/VN1CaTlbt3 via @connecto

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

Recent workshop by @EinsteinForum discussing #serendipity
— Brilliant video-recorded presentations + program PDF w/ abstracts: https://t.co/BEQY9OVt5f
— Great range of speakers: @SamdotC, @anabelquanhaase, @davoli_silvia, @albrechtschmidt, Schaad, Scholte
— cc @Ser_Soc

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

…
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
…
— T.S. Eliot, 1942, Four Quartets: https://t.co/XwIHOMOqDI

Poetic essence of serendipity :–)
#serendipity #poetry cc @Ser_Soc

Photo: @GilenLinn

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

Clever way to measure "#serendipity effect"; when we find conference presentations interesting enough – even if we had not planned to hear them – that after the conference, we cite them: https://t.co/aTFPoVb26m
— cc @Ser_Soc HT @MishaTeplitskiy @ChrisSerendip

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

Is going to conference presentations worth it?🤔

Yes! It increases citing of
1. Papers you are interested in by 52% (direct effect)
2. Other papers in same session by 51% (serendipity effect)

v2 of paper with @park_soya @ProfNeilT @karger: https://t.co/ijZYBvigWk

(1/4)

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

I think #serendipity happens through "critical #curiosity that opens the space of possibility by exploiting the instability of the present" (@PerryZurn & @DaniSBassett 2023) — see previous tweets in this thread — cc @ser_soc @anneliensmets @gquaggiotto
https://t.co/MPkDSzV1p8

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

"There is a kind of critical curiosity that opens the space of possibility by exploiting the instability of the present, second guessing its current contours and exploring how else the world might be constructed or understood" https://t.co/LFaHAneUoy ht @connecto

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

Great paper by @PerryZurn & @DaniSBassett on #curiosity & networks of #possibility: https://t.co/VW24CPvtYC cc @ser_soc
I see #serendipity in their take on "#novelty bias". Happy for their ref to my #adjacentpossible entry 🙃: https://t.co/0YF50jvy3K

[Lennart Björneborn @connecto]

Brilliant quote via @gquaggiotto from @PerryZurn & @DaniSBassett — see my previous tweet in this thread — #curiosity #possibility
https://t.co/MPkDSzV1p8

[giulio quaggiotto @gquaggiotto]

"There is a kind of critical curiosity that opens the space of possibility by exploiting the instability of the present, second guessing its current contours and exploring how else the world might be constructed or understood" https://t.co/LFaHAneUoy ht @connecto