Due to carefully-worded grant funding, HORG continues to narrow its scientific focus on the study and classification of occlupanids. This page illuminates various occlupanid-related projects of cultural significance from outside persons and organizations. In addition, we list here concurrant research on other microsyntherids, and publications concerning synthetic taxonomies. All at no cost to ourselves!
Foundation for Occlupanology Research and Communication
The Foundation for Occlupanology Research and Communication is a community of occlupanologists from every corner of the world, both casual and professional.
The BreadTag Project
Nottingham, Shani. The Bread-Tag Project An ongoing collection project of occlupanids and their use in art and culture from across the world.
Cultural Occlupanology
Stewart, Dr. Tony. Beadtag Sagas Ongoing collection of works with occlupanids as an everpresent thematic element.
Taylor, Beth. Breadtag World 2011. An art installation made with thousands of occlupanids fused to form our solar system.
Research in Synthetic Taxonomy
Collier, Brian D. The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects. An exhaustive and comprehensive taxonomy of every conceivable sort of minute overlooked entities.
Lu, Bailey Z. The Northeastern Syntherid Research Group, A growing research site specializing in the taxonomy of class Tunifilida (“Twisty Ties”) and other syntherids.
Montague, Julian. The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification. Abrams, 2006 A field guide to wayward shopping carts.
Sawada, Yoshihisa. 醤油鯛. Asutora, 2012. A taxonomy and field guide to plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers.
Winfry, Amy. Traffic Cone Preservation Society A field guide of traffic cones.
Further Reading in Historical Synthetic Taxonomy
Camin, Joseph H., Sokal, Robert R. The Classification & Evolution of Caminalcules. 1983. A fictive collection of creatures designed as a tool for understanding phylogenetics.
Stümpke, Harold. The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades. Natural History Press, 1967. The famous work authoritatively detailing a heretofore unknown branch of mammalia found only in the Hi-yi-yi Archipelago.
If you have dedicated your life to the study of small inanimate things, and wish to have your work mentioned here, please submit your findings to occlupanid @ horg dot com.