»Connecto ergo sum«; I connect therefore I am • Researching how #serendipity connects people & ideas across physical/digital spaces • And I do like #haiku :-)
University of Copenhagen
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”#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: academia.edu/34930860/Three_…
"In praise of #serendipity" — very inspiring article in @TheLancet by @ProfKneebone/ @Serendipity_Prg: doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(2…
— "Making oneself open to unanticipated insights is a mindset that can be cultivated."
— via @ChrisSerendip cc @Ser_Soc @ieSanda @AnnelienSmets
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, pin.it/4kldvlR
all life within life
life within life within life
in life after life
— #haiku inspired by the Danish thinker #Martinus (1890-1981): martinus.dk/en/a-new-world-p…
#cosmology #pantheism #life cc @CatBake
// the sun still shining / the ice still melting today / the birds still flying //
#haiku #haiga #micropoetry
#myphoto #Copenhagen — cc @CatBake @HawkheadJohn
Lennart Björneborn retweeted
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.
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: theserendipitysociety.wordpr…
— cc @Ser_Soc @TheScikuProject @ChrisSerendip
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: xitter.cf/gquaggiotto/status/168…
— cc @ser_soc @ChrisSerendip @jennahartel
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"
Lennart Björneborn retweeted
Nice to see a university research center offering a Serendipity program to its researchers performancescience.ac.uk/ser… @ser_soc @CPerfSci
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. theserendipitysociety.wordpr…)
Now, this haiku from 2014 found a new illustration 😊🍀
— cc @ser_soc @thescikuproject @jennahartel
Lennart Björneborn retweeted
"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” lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/p…
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"): academia.edu/34930860/Three_… — cc @ser_soc
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
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
But is serendipity something that happens to people, or is it rather something people do? Proceedings of @EinsteinForum workshop einsteinforum.de/tagung/sere… via @connecto
Recent workshop by @EinsteinForum discussing #serendipity
— Brilliant video-recorded presentations + program PDF w/ abstracts: einsteinforum.de/tagung/sere…
— Great range of speakers: @SamdotC, @anabelquanhaase, @davoli_silvia, @albrechtschmidt, Schaad, Scholte
— cc @Ser_Soc
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Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
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— T.S. Eliot, 1942, Four Quartets: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Four_Q…
Poetic essence of serendipity :–)
#serendipity #poetry cc @Ser_Soc
Photo: @GilenLinn
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: xitter.cf/mishateplitskiy/status…
— cc @Ser_Soc HT @MishaTeplitskiy @ChrisSerendip
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: arxiv.org/abs/2209.01175
(1/4)
Great paper by @PerryZurn & @DaniSBassett on #curiosity & networks of #possibility: doi.org/10.1177/275386992311… cc @ser_soc
I see #serendipity in their take on "#novelty bias". Happy for their ref to my #adjacentpossible entry 🙃: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98…
Brilliant quote via @gquaggiotto from @PerryZurn & @DaniSBassett — see my previous tweet in this thread — #curiosity #possibility
xitter.cf/gquaggiotto/status/165…
"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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… ht @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
xitter.cf/gquaggiotto/status/165…
"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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… ht @connecto