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Joe Wass

@joewass.bsky.social

Scholarly infrastructure, folk tunes, bees. Personal account. pardalotus.tech - scholarly metadata code folktunefinder.com - tunes blog.afandian.com - personal blog bagpipesociety.org.uk - the good kind

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

There are few better feelings in this world than holding a clump of bees.

Holding a branch with a swarm of bees on it

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Mike Ratcliffe @mike-rat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

May Morning was lovely today in Oxford. It was also lovely not to be responsible for worrying whether any students might have some strange notions about health & safety and jump off a high bridge into a shallow river.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 05/03/2025

Won’t be using the word “loaned” until Easter; I’m giving up synonyms for Lent

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A new Harmonium Part 2: Deconstruction I bought a century-old, mute harmonium. Can I get it to make a sound? What is all that black dust? And what would Queen Victoria say? blog.afandian.com/post/2026/02...

Parts of a harmonium laid out. Keyboard, springs, etc.

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A new harmonium: Springs blog.afandian.com/post/2026/01... First proper blog post in a long while. The first step toward building a new instrument. Or fixing up an old one. Maybe even both...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Sometimes when you stare into the abyss of geologic time, the abyss stares back. The Ordovician trilobite Calyptaulax from the OMNH collections. Like modern insects, trilobites had compound eyes with many lenses. The lenses are made of calcite, which also makes up the exoskeleton. #TrilobiteTuesday

An isolated trilobite head featuring large, compound eyes with numerous dome-shaped lenses

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Jeroen Bosman @jeroenbosman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. docs.google.com/presentation...

(Animated) visualisation of generation and flows 9 types of (meta) data (full text, abstract, license,affiliations, funding, references, PR status, deposits, retractions) across 9 'actors' in the system (manuscript. publishers, crossref, search engine (e.g. crossref), search engine(e.g. openalex), ORCID, CRIS, repository, (search engine, e.g. openaire)

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gbilder @gbilder.com · 08/06/2025

I realise that saying "Atkinson was the author of HyperCard" is probably like saying "Torvalds is the author of Subsurface." But HyperCard changed the way I think, and I still miss it. #HyperCard

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Bees and chickens at @oxfordcityfarm.bsky.social . No better way to spend a sunny lunch break.

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

How long is a DOI? Does UTF-8 make a difference? Is it important? This year #DataCite made their public data file available, which means we can compare #DataCite and @crossref.bsky.social 's DOIs. (It's about 18 - 25 characters) pardalotus.tech/posts/2024-1... #scholcomm #identifiers #doi

Graph of DOI length against frequency. Peaking at 18 and 25.

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you work with research outputs and metadata, DOIs are everywhere. For programmers working with scholarly metadata, there are a few things about DOIs to be aware of. Here are some "Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs". pardalotus.tech/posts/2024-1... #scholcomm #openinfrastructure

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Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs | Pardalotus

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Joe Wass @joewass.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hello Bluesky. I'm also fosstodon.org/@joewass

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22 Posts, 139 Following, 87 Followers · Scholarly metadata and infrastructure, and folk tunes. That probably says more about me than it does about you, though maybe not much.

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