Kelly Christensen

@katkel.bsky.social

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Research Software Engineer w/ musicology PhD. Currently data architect with the LostMa ERC 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (knights’ tales in Medieval Europe). Mostly Digital Humanities stuff, computational musicology, and football (Red Devils)

[Disputed] depiction of King Harold in the Bayeux tapestry, supposedly struck through the eye with an arrow
Homer Simpson meme. First pane: “The hottest night ever recorded in France, 22/23 June, 2026.” Second pane: “The hottest night so far.”
Poster for the Fête de la Bretagne in the 15th arrondissement of Paris
New York Times article on “biblical eating.” Title: Eating Healthy? No, They’re Eating Biblically Photo: bowl of food, ex. beetroot humus and sprouts, with each item labeled
Sign for Apple repairs featuring the silhouette of a pear (instead of an apple) missing a bite.
Grotesque (mostly a face, with evidence of lion’s or dog’s feet on both sides of the head) on display at the Palais des papes in Avignon
Garnacho sitting on the advertising boards, in his customary celebration, after scoring against Wrexham in the FA Cup
Street art in Versailles of a king holding his head. The art style is a tiled mosaic (pixels) like Invader’s art around Paris.
Screenshot of Fantasy English Premier League squad selection from the app. Ekitike earned 13 points but he’s on the bench
Plate of square brownies
Selfie at the end of the race, by the banana stand
Bombarde
A snail moving across wet red pavement the morning after an evening rain.
A statute of a mother and child, titled “Maternidad,” by the artist Fernando Botero. Her neck is craned back, which angles her gaze toward an airplane that happens to be approaching its descent to the Lisbon airport
Close-up of 18th century porcelain in the Museu de Lisboa depicting a fish market on the banks of Lisbon.
Vini Vidi Clichy
Twitter post from Pope Leo XIV, 15 June 2025: In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, don’t exist.
The “How much could it cost” meme, with the line: “How much time could it cost? 1 hour?”
Closeup photo of a branch of a cherry blossom tree in Parc de Sceaux, showing some buds with fully bloomed pink flower pedals and other buds still closed or partially opened.
Photo of some flowers in a park
Vinicius Jr, Mbappé, and Brahim celebrating.
Banner at Etihad stadium of Rodri kissing the Ballon d’Or trophy beside the words “STOP CRYING YOUR HEART OUT”
Rodri kissing the Ballon d’Or trophy after winning it in 2024.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia app’s Places page, showing a map of northern Paris with green dots representing articles’ geolocation information. One dot has been selected/clicked, which has opened a preview box of an article about the Stade de France.
Screen shot of the home page of the LostMa website, showing a full-screen header image (illustration in a manuscript about King Arthur’s knights) and the name of the project superimposed.
It is autumn in the woods. The trees are barren and the ground is blanketed in dried leaves. A Corgi is standing on the leaves, wearing a neon orange and yellow reflective vest.
Photo d’une place dans la train avec des papiers, une Thermos, et une tasse de thé.
Affiche d’une journée d’étude le 22 novembre à Lyon. Titre : Pratiques orchestrales et sonorités (1750-1850). Arrière-plan : Dessin de Berlioz (?) à la direction d’un orchestre avec des canons.
Screen shot showing an internal server error fetching the notification page.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that takes into account the instrumentation of operas composed between 1800 and 1840 for the Opéra-Comique in Paris. The data given to the PCA is a sparse dataset for each opera, in which is calculated the percentage of numbers for which each instrument is required, i.e. violin 100%, horn 84%, etc. The PCA reduces these many dimensions (instruments' proportions) into 2 variables: PCA1 and PCA2. Plotting the operas' PCA1 and PCA2 values along x- and y-axes, and coloring them according to their year of composition (which is not a factor in the PCA analysis), the results show a correlation between time and instrumentation. Operas composed between 1800 and 1825 are clustered to the left of the graph and those composed between 1825 and 1840 are even more tightly clustered along a linear vector to the right of the graph. Significant outliers (experimentations) are more common around 1830.
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It’s a baguette 🥖 Not much else to say
Decorations above a fireplace in the Louis XII wing of the royal Blois castle. Lowest row, painted stone carving m: Louis XII’s initial, Louis XII’s porcupine symbol, and Anne of Brittany’s initial. Upper row, painted stone carving: blue ribbon with sculpted and painted golden cord interwoven with fleur de lis and ermine symbols.
Fan zone in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, specifically the viewing area with seats, a big screen, and some shade
Williams scoring the first goal in the Euros final.
Still image from past livestream showing a table, on which there’s a picture of Liz Truss to the left and a head of lettuce with fake eyes to the right. On the screen is the question: “Day one: Can Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?”
Kalvin Phillips, with possession, tries to clear the ball out of his side’s penalty box. Anthony Gordon plants his foot in front of Phillips, and when Phillips inevitably swings, his leg hits Gordon’s (because, of course). Gordon then goes down and cries penalty.
“Is this a butterfly” meme, showing Meta (Facebook’s parent company) gesturing to “man-in-the-middle attack” and asking, “Is this market research?”
Timeline of UM’s LSA R&E requirement, cited in a Michigan Daily article, https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/how-do-umich-classes-qualify-for-the-race-ethnicity-requirement/
A sign denoting the name of a stop, Roffiaen (19th-century Belgian painter), on one of the tram lines in Brussels, Belgium
Screenshot of a computer terminal showing the results of a “grep” command that finds lines in a bunch of text files that have the word “musiqu” (music)
Meme showing a guy (diplomé TNAH) holding the hand of his girlfriend (XSLT) but turning around and checking out another girl (Python), which his girlfriend notices disapprovingly.
4 roasted pumpkins halves on parchment paper and a shallow circular pan.
Bellevue beach in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Kickoff times: London at 11am, Sydney at 8pm, New York at 6am, Paris at 12pm, Bangkok at 5pm, Singapore at 6pm
Papers piled on the floor in rows