Steve Byford

Human being with many questions and a cat. Also scholarly communication, publishing and open access. Views all my own.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia.

Let me jog your memory

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@pickover The square root symbol means “the positive square root of” (see https://t.co/yinTphkcc4), so the answer is 9, i.e. (c).

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@pickover Oh yes! I used them at school in the early 70s, but not quite as complicated as the one shown. At home, we also had an Otis King cylindrical slide rule - in effect a curled up version of a very long slide rule that gave much better accuracy.

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@kayabay @pickover I had that exact same calculator in the 70s, tho’ I can’t remember the exact years. Also had to learn how to use a slide rule in early years at secondary school (high school in US parlance), before they were made obsolete by calculators.

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

Just finished reading “How to be a Liberal” by @IanDunt. Compellingly good read. What next, I wonder?

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@SianHarris8 Shame. Hope you get a glimpse somehow…

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@SianHarris8 Yes, had that down as something to look out for from Glasgow (weather permitting). Sadly I’ve had to cancel attendance at #uksg2024 owing to illness. Hope it goes well!

[Jisc @Jisc]

We're pleased to announce that @WeAreTandF, one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals, is now piloting providing full-text journal articles to the Jisc Publications Router service. Read more -> https://t.co/AlXtaVlGT7

#OpenAccess

[Anna Hughes (not posting here anymore) @anna_r_hughes]

@PPPublishing @BiochemSoc is now supplying full-text articles to @Jisc Publications Router for onward distribution to UK repositories

#OA #OpenAccess #JiscPubRouter

https://t.co/A9CEeDV5C6

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

If you'd like this petition to have more impact, then sign here.

I didn't start the petition, merely amplifying it, as the gaslighting of voters by this govt about the post Brexit economy is truly obscene

https://t.co/jkWEwar3Jc

Then please RT RT RT

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics.

Retweet if you love Italian food OR if you love Fibonacci numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 ...). They're named after Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c. 1175 – c. 1250), who introduced Europe to the sequence. Source: https://t.co/xQ6VWdJzQR

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

950,000 views

The British people back the Governments (Illegal Migration) bill” says @SuellaBraverman

Help RT this to a million if you think she’s wrong

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@SoVeryBritish Is this the queue for the […]

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

Happy to see Company of Biologists go live on #JiscPubRouter #OpenAccess #OA. See also here https://t.co/WIdyhh2MC9

[The Company of Biologists @Co_Biologists]

Delighted to announce that we are now providing full-text #OpenAccess articles for distribution to UK institutional repositories via @Jisc's Publications Router service. See the announcement at
https://t.co/d2q57HL3yC

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

7 times the Met came to Boris Johnson’s rescue on Partygate

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@pickover If x = 0.9999…, then 10x = 9.9999… . Therefore 10x - x = 9x = 9, so x = 1 exactly.

[Steve Byford @issueblessyou]

@CrossrefOrg @rachaellammey Congratulations, Rachael: wonderful news!

[Rupert Hawksley @ruhawksley]

'When you peer past the daily scandals, you find an executive that is entirely empty, a kind of legislative black hole' – @IanDunt on terrific form https://t.co/U2mRTxT5LU

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

At night, I occasionally dream of briefly unplugging light-ridden cities such as New York, enticing all to look up & embrace the splendor of a Starry Sky.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Great speech by John Kerr in House of Lords.

The UK is not a popular destination for refugees. We’re way down the list.

The dangerous sea route is the only refugee route now our govt have shut safe routes.

The facts do not support govt case for cruelty.