Starstruck in Oxford
I had a much better day in the library in Oxford yesterday. I was able to get to the photocopier most of the time. I also found that Erin Nell has co-authored an article in the Archaeological Computing Newsletter so I’ve photocopied that to read.
Highlight of the day was seeing Barry Cunliffe in the library. I still get starstruck meeting prominent archaeologists. I had the urge to point at him and yell “YOU’RE BARRY CUNLIFFE!” at him, but decided not to as he probably already knows.
Also found a new source of joy in the Borders as I went for a coffee. Null Hypothesis, the Journal of Unlikely Science. It’s hard not to love a journal that includes a paper “How to write Science” whose abstract reads:
We (meaning I) present observations on the scientific publishing process which (meaning that) are important and timely in that unless I have more published papers soon, I will never get another job. These observations are consistent with the theory that it is difficult to do good science, write good scientific papers, and have enough publications to get future jobs.
There’s also a caption competition. The best I can think of for this month’s is a variant on the old Groucho Marx line: “Either this is Jurassic, or my watch has stopped.”
Americans have the Annals of Improbable Research.
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