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I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had be...
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Hacking the full site editor in WordPress
Today, I have been battling a frustrating bug. In the latest versions of Chrome and Edge, users cannot highlight text in Full Site Editor or Post/Page Editor...
Work in progress: 'Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open'
This morning, having been re-reading and thinking extensively about Moore, Samuel, ‘A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations between Openness and Access to R...
Open Journals Collective: Making Open Access a Reality at Scale
tl;dr: cancel your big deals and transitional agreements (they’re not working) and invest in a set of hundreds of non-APC, OA titles offered by Open Journals...
A few critical notes on Elly Griffith's The Frozen People
This week, I took some time out to read Elly Griffith’s most recent book, The Frozen People. I thought this sounded quite an interesting genre-fusing novel, ...
A critical bibliography about LibGen, the pirate site that Meta used for AI training
Yesterday, academic social media went into overdrive as many intellectuals discovered LibGen (“Library Genesis”) for the first time, thanks to an article and...
A successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature from 2019
I am making a concerted effort to make grant applications that I have written openly available. We are far too secretive about these, because we don’t like t...