Data: it is every where (Part 3(b): the #UCUStrike bonus extra)

After two weeks back at work, we are back on strike for a week, as university staff get angrier and angrier, and senior management retire into their bunkers and pretend to each other that the problem will go away. So, I have time to revisit my previous post on how our pay has changed overContinue reading Data: it is every where (Part 3(b): the #UCUStrike bonus extra)

Data: it is everywhere (Part 3: the #UCUStrike edition)

Well, we are on strike again (see previous posts passim ad nauseam: here, here, and here, among others). The current wave of strikes are in two parts: the ongoing dispute over our pension scheme (affecting the pre-1992 universities) and a dispute over pay and working conditions (affecting all UK universities). The pensions dispute is extremelyContinue reading Data: it is everywhere (Part 3: the #UCUStrike edition)

Data: it is everywhere (part 2)

A few months ago a family heirloom was passed on to me to take care of: a mercury barometer. , originally the property of my great grandfather, Dr William Hobson Mills of Jesus College, Cambridge. Getting it home was a bit of a nail-biting experience. You can not lie the things horizontally or the mercuryContinue reading Data: it is everywhere (part 2)

A classic lump, or what is left of it

Moel Hiraddug is a small limestone hill in eastern North Wales, better known as “that hill near Dyserth with the huge quarry in it.”  Although the geology is different, Moel Hiraddug resembles Traprain Law in having had a substantial fraction of itself removed by quarrying.  It is easily visible from various major roads around Rhuddlan,Continue reading A classic lump, or what is left of it