Serendipity Society

When we explore the social life of photographs we find that serendipity can be a large factor in people’s re-engagement with the context surrounding a photograph, a way to bring older photographs back to life blog.flickr.net/en/2025/02/26/… @ser_soc

[Abduction and serendipity] We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with surprise, and how those breakthroughs arise nature.com/articles/s4146… @ser_soc

"You can’t write a grant around research and say “In 5 years’ time I will serendipitously find X”. I never apply for grants. The whole notion of having to predict what you’re going to be doing 5 years hence just takes away innovation completely" thecommontable.eu/serendipity-an… @ser_soc

We'd be delighted to have you join our Academy of Management Annual Meeting research panel on serendipity, featuring @Mintzberg141, Saras Sarasvathy, Woody Powell, @profwendysmith, Matthew Grimes, Christina Fang, and @ScottDAnthony ! We'll discuss the role of serendipity in entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation – and the future research opportunities that lie ahead. In case you can't join us in person (Tuesday August 13th, 1:15pm, at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago Ballroom IX*), we'll capture some of the insights via social media as well – and please let us know your questions, ideas, and themes that you'd like us to reflect on. More information: bit.ly/aom2024serendi…. Thanks to @AOM_STR, @ENT_Div_AoM, and @AOM_TIM for supporting the event. We will also discuss a related Call for Papers for a Strategic Management Journal Special Issue on Serendipity, Chance, and Luck (bit.ly/smjserendipity). *** Please note that the room has been changed to Sheraton Hotel Chicago Ballroom IX ( the AoM PDF has outdated information) *** We are excited for yet another great discussion on this topic in Chicago, Madeleine & Christian

"A monumental blunder can eventually become the most profound knowledge of the time. Science is a fiction that always legitimises its story. Fiction is also a science that operates through innumerable trials and errors" lab.cccb.org/en/planetary-l… @ser_soc

Serendipity without physical proximity? Maybe, maybe not newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/6zkfifcs/r… @ser_soc

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

that's a talk on Serendipity and education - join us online this Wednesday!

"Experimental results can often be surprising, whether indicating something completely unexpected or by not aligning with theoretical expectation. In such cases, scientists found beauty in unexpected results that prompted them to try to interpret the results" @ser_soc

"The goal is to get students out of the mode of result-oriented work, to allow serendipity and chance" theserendipitysociety.org/s-projects-sid… @ser_soc

Upcoming Online Talk on erendipity and education! follow the link to register here: theserendipitysociety.org/s-projects-sid…

Edible art made from Japanese rice and seaweed – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

"Librarians’, archivists’, and museum curators’ principal modes of collating, archiving, and siloing routinely render the more-than-human invisible at worst, and hard-to-find at best" niche-canada.org/2023/11/21/the… Bumping into animals and plants in archives @ser_soc

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.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/hai… — cc @Ser_Soc @TheScikuProject @ChrisSerendip

🔍 Uncover the world of cognitive psychology with Wendy Ross, Senior Lecturer at @LondonMetUni and chair of @ser_soc! 🧠 Join us on Dec 13 as Wendy explores creativity, insight problem-solving, and more. 👉 Book your free place: kingston.ac.uk/events/item/42…

More evidence that allocating innovation grants randomly yields greater diversity thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promising… @ser_soc @TeoFirpo

"The surface area of luck increases if you get more shots on goal, you're well-positioned, you have a long time horizon, you have access to a network of successful people, ..." A Tiny Thought from the @faranmstreet weekly newsletter fs.blog/brain-food/sep…

"They found it by chance, after a colony of mosquitoes in one experiment did not develop the malaria parasite" bbc.com/news/health-66… @ser_soc

Nice to see a university research center offering a Serendipity program to its researchers performancescience.ac.uk/serendipity @ser_soc @CPerfSci