Rod Page
@rdmpage.bsky.social
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
What a radical notion 😉, I defer to your expertise. Will be interesting to see if they respond.
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
What a radical notion 😉, I defer to your expertise. Will be interesting to see if they respond.
Given the age of Minion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minion_... perhaps full support for UTF-8 is missing? Curious as to how a web developer would be able to easily discover this issue with a font they had chosen.
Minion (typeface) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Given the age of Minion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minion_... perhaps full support for UTF-8 is missing? Curious as to how a web developer would be able to easily discover this issue with a font they had chosen.
Yes, I noticed that after I posted. The caption uses "Proxima Nova". I suspect "supporting full Unicode range" is rarely part of a website designer's brief.
January 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Yes, I noticed that after I posted. The caption uses "Proxima Nova". I suspect "supporting full Unicode range" is rarely part of a website designer's brief.
Do you mean that the ā looks too large? On my Mac it looks fine, but on my iPhone (screenshot below) it doesn’t look great. I wonder if this is an issue with the font (Minion Pro) used on the website? I think author of post would have no reason to expect mobile to mess up the ā.
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Do you mean that the ā looks too large? On my Mac it looks fine, but on my iPhone (screenshot below) it doesn’t look great. I wonder if this is an issue with the font (Minion Pro) used on the website? I think author of post would have no reason to expect mobile to mess up the ā.
Reposted by Rod Page
Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
January 8, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.
So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.
That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.