Richard Ashdowne

@OxfordCity all pear tree card readers failed again

A breathtakingly talentless American 'musical' contribution to the Olympics closing ceremony. Unbelievable.

@JACTGreek Back stage ...

A wonderful production of Sophocles's Electra last night -- Huge thanks to the cast and crew, under the direction of tutor Polly Caffrey, with Tutor Alex Carroll; an original score was composed by tutor Clive Letchford, with one part by student Alex Winnifrith

Are you a researcher at a UK-based university? Language Acts and Worldmaking, based at King’s College London, is looking for researchers to complete their survey for a British Academy-funded project on the role language skills play in academic research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/kings/ba-pro…

Your words are the seeds, we just shake the branches 🌱 Happy #ALCSDay to all writers!

@clairehez3 Congratulations!

@Stagecoach_Ox 2110 s3 from Oxford to Chipping Norton driver seems to have got lost. He's just turned down the road to Combe and Charlbury.

The Ruffian has LANDED. This week's is about academic historians who are destroying their own discipline. ian-leslie.com/p/the-end-of-h…

.@Stagecoach_Ox Second time this week that the 2110 s3 from Oxford has failed to show up, without any explanation or apology. Care to offer either?

@OxfordCity no payment machines accepting card transactions at pear tree park and ride at present

@Sue_Ryder It would help if on your furniture donation page (sueryder.org/support-us/sho…) you made it clear at the outset that you require photographs of everything.

The answer is in the question! bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

@brunellus @OED It appears so, thankfully.

@brunellus @OED Do existing hyperlinks to old site entries redirect, I wonder?

Someone at the @OED has decided that the entries were too complex for their readers (!) so now all the etymologies, pronunciations, spellings and nearby entries are buried in separate tabs (or, if you turn off the tabs, below the definitions). #progress public.oed.com/new-oed-websit…

Many of those right at the top of Government designing and imposing lockdown policies had clearly made a judgement on their own level of risk, acting accordingly - why couldn't we?

@CressidaRyan Depends on wording of contract, I think.

Awkward disagreement having with someone. Do people get extra bank holidays like today as an extra day of annual leave, or counted within their normal leave allowance thus giving them fewer to spend on chosen days off? (Larger question of bank hols / annual leave aside).

@Stagecoach_Ox can you rethink which stops on Magdalen Road are used by the S3 and S5? They always seem to be competing for the same spot and the S3 regularly loses and runs late.

Taking advantage of the fine weather (at last!) for a brief sortie to Halfpenny Green

🧵(1/8) This new report from @HEPI_news adds to the growing bank of evidence demonstrating the enormous value of education and training in the humanities: hepi.ac.uk/2023/03/30/hum…