{"id":757,"date":"2025-06-27T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/?p=757"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:25:05","slug":"staff-picks-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/2025\/06\/staff-picks-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks &#8211; June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Albert, Saul; vom Lehn, Dirk (2022). Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions. Loughborough University. Journal contribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/21518139\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/21518139<\/a> [A study of novice learners, rather than experts, and how people sort of muddle through things, communicating with gestures, nonsense words, and it was sort of a celebration of ordinariness. Strangely affecting.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarke, Benjamin; Tomlinson, Katherine; Karunakaran, Amitha; Candan, Ahranee; Slatter, Janet; Slatter, Tom; et al. (2024). The effectiveness of chalk as a friction modifier for finger pad contact with rocks of varying roughness. Loughborough University. Journal contribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/26335153\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/26335153<\/a> [<em>As a rock climber, it was a pleasant surprise to come across such a research paper, and I was curious to read what the research outcomes were. Interesting read for anyone who likes to hug and haul themselves up and across rocks.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forrester, Derek Michael (2016). Media files for &#8220;Arrays of coupled chemical oscillators&#8221;, article published in Scientific Reports in 2015. Loughborough University. Dataset. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17028\/rd.lboro.2060739\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17028\/rd.lboro.2060739<\/a> [<em>The candles are rather hypnotic!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee-Smith, Matthew; Wilson, Garrath (2025). A sofa in a canal. Loughborough University. Online resource. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17028\/rd.lboro.29064128\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17028\/rd.lboro.29064128<\/a> [<em>Just great!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loughborough University; Appleton, Katie (2023). Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) &#8211; Loughborough University. Loughborough University. Collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/c.6455233\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/c.6455233<\/a> [<em>This collection comprises of research material aligned to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) topics, and produced by Loughborough University academics, researchers and doctoral students<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert, Saul; vom Lehn, Dirk (2022). Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions. Loughborough University. Journal contribution. https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2134\/21518139 [A study of novice learners, rather than experts, and how people sort of muddle through things, communicating with gestures, nonsense words, and it was sort of a celebration of ordinariness. Strangely affecting.] Clarke, Benjamin; Tomlinson, Katherine; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"769","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}