Lennart Björneborn

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"

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/serendi… via @connecto

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)

"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/10.1177/27… ht @connecto

"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/10.1177/27… ht @connecto