"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…

Now in print! It was a great experience contributing a chapter to this book, thanks to the editors: Samantha Copeland, Wendy Ross, and Martin Sand! Serendipity Science link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Serendipity Society

More evidence that allocating innovation grants randomly yields greater diversity thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promising… Serendipity Society Teo Firpo

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

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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 Serendipity Society The Sciku Project Christian Busch

"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 Serendipity Society

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

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

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

"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" Serendipity Society

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

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 Serendipity Society The Sciku Project — #aboriginal #art: Sonya Edney, pin.it/4kldvlR

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

"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… Serendipity Society

We'd be delighted to have you join our Academy of Management Annual Meeting research panel on serendipity, featuring Henry Mintzberg, Saras Sarasvathy, Woody Powell, Wendy Smith, Matthew Grimes, Christina Fang, and Scott Anthony ! We'll discuss the role of serendipity in

Delighted to have been asked to give a seminar to Serendipity Society last evening (for me, early for them!) on 'PhDs, creativity, serendipity, and the iron cage of the future'. If anyone has stamina, here's the video - #5 on the list. theserendipitysociety.org/s-projects-sid… #PhD #AcademicTwitter

"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… Serendipity Society

[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… 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/… Serendipity Society