ORCID iDThe problem for REF 2029
The Research Excellence Framework is the UK system for rewarding unhypothecated research funding from the government to universities. It gives a block of fun...
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Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics
When training PhD students and other postgraduates, we often have a section on publication. It covers the basic background process, the rudiments of peer rev...
Betting against the future
I am tired of medical decisions with a trade-off. On a regular basis I am presented with decisions that have deferred negative consequences in order to fix s...
On Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Things Most People Don't Know About It
I have suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for almost twenty years now, which is almost half my life. If I had known back at the start of my diagnosis wh...
Rusting Away (or: packing the entire Crossref database into a SQLite file)
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working to pack the entire Crossref database into a distributable SQLite file. While this sounds somewhat insane – the resu...
A year of looking in on academia
As many of you know, I took secondment from my academic role this year to work on research and development at Crossref. A variety of factors inspired this, n...
My 2023 year in review
2023 continued to pose the all-important question: just how many health disasters can I endure? This year, I started haemodialysis as my kidneys entered the ...