Recently I spotted this conference slide shared on Twitter . A slide with no visuals, just a wide screen of four paragraphs of text. I tho...

I have two new things to read (if you’re so inclined). First, I have a summary of my last month’s “Publisher bans & DORA” roundtable on...

I became a card-carrying member of an AFLW team in season 1. I was finally pleased to see a women’s footy game in person – and a championshi...

Steve Harnad has done much for open access. So I was surprised by a new article , in which he wrote: In the old pre-digital days of S&S...

 Today, I was the moderator for the “Publisher bans & DORA” roundtable! Everything worked as it was supposed to, and we kept the discuss...

I’ve been expecting new bills in the US that re-introduce “intelligent design” into schools. Reason? The Kennedy v. Bremeton School District...

Everyone grumbles about paying for a single scientific article. But you used to not be able to do that. Articles were bundled in journals, a...

I have been blogging about conference posters for fourteen years . Many people have told me that my blog helped them win a poster award. Tod...

The Texas senate passed Senate Bill 18 a couple of days ago. If approved, the law would eliminate tenure in Texas public universities start...

Texas, where I used to work, is considering legislation that would end tenure in its universities. Needless to say, I think this is a horrib...

I’d been occasionally checking the West Virginia bill tracker for the progress of the “intelligent design” bill (Senate Bill 619) that made...

The anniversary week for DORA is still some weeks away, but I just realized that people who learn about it now might want to get updates a...

Look, I am not one for conspiracy theories.  But if I was a major academic publisher, and I saw a lot of business going to new, upstart publ...

Many people have noted that grad students are in a weird dual state. Sometimes that are treated as employees. Sometimes they are treated as ...

At least when Twitter tanked when it was a new service, you got an amusing, cute marine mammal to look at. Now you just get a cryptic error ...

 Okay,I blame Doc Becca for linking to abbrevia.me . It generates descriptions of how people use Twitter. Doctorzen’s tweets cover a wide ra...

Well, hell. The pro “intelligent design” bill in West Virginia passed the Senate Education Committee. The bill has now gone to the House Edu...

Policy analyst Bryan Kelley is reporting on a bill in West Virginia – Senate Bill 619 – that would legalize the teaching of intelligent de...

In the novel Passion Play , author Sean Stewart has a rant about Sherlock Holmes.  It’s one of Doyle’s famous scenes where Holmes says, with...

Today may be the day that signals the end of Twitter for me. I initially had a good day on Twitter. I live-tweeted a great presentation . I ...