ORCID iDHow much optimism?
I am due up for vaccination in the very near future. This is good news. But it’s tempered.
Recent Posts
On the costs of scholarly communications and the discourse of 'fairness'
A discourse of ‘fairness’ has emerged in open-access circles in recent years. It has come from a sense that big, for-profit publishers have not played ‘fairl...
Attempted realistic observations on 2021
There was some research earlier this year that I thought was apt for the pandemic, showing that realism is key to being happy, not optimism or pessimism.
Reading Peer Review is published today!
On the same day as I submitted my next book manuscript, I am pleased to be able to say that Reading Peer Review, my 7th academic book, has been published by ...
I have submitted the Warez book
I have, today, submitted the manuscript of my book, currently titled Warez: The Economic Aesthetics and Alternative Reality Games of the Topsite Scene to the...
Resolutions, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Parts of Academia
I usually start my New Year’s resolutions on the 28th or 29th December. I do this because I don’t like the season of excess; I come out of it feeling unfit, ...
An anecdote on editing
My Ph.D. supervisors were not particularly hands on. This was not slacking on their part – it suited me just fine and they could see that I had the thesis pr...