ORCID iDThe T&F buyout of F1000 neutralizes the Plan S threat infrastructures
I am tempted to think that Taylor & Francis’s acquisition of F1000 should be critiqued on grounds of yet more gross for-profit consolidation in the schol...
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Accelerating Synology RAID 6 (SHR-2) reshapes
Urgh. I had a RAID 6 reshape on my NAS that was projected to take 28 days to complete, I kid you not. It was stuck at an abysmal 4MB/s transfer rate. Here’s ...
My 2019 in review
This was, in many ways, a pretty bad year for me. My health has, to be frank, been appalling once more. It has necessitated treatment with cyclophosphamide i...
The new REF individual circumstances setup: the good and the bad
I am quoted in today’s Research Fortnight on the new REF staff/individual circumstances under the heading ‘REF staff circumstances rules criticised’. The quo...
An irony of the 'hierarchy of journals'
It is often assumed that researchers submit their work to the highest prestige titles and, when rejected, move down the ‘hierarchy’ to titles with less strin...
The second OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: Natural language generation and authorial labour
Some time around 2016 I was invited by Kasia Boddy and David Winters to contribute to a special issue of Critical Quarterly that they were putting together. ...
The first OA liberated article from my Leverhulme Prize: The Critique of Metamodernism
One of the earliest articles that I wrote during the final year of my Ph.D. was for the journal C21, published by Gylphi. The article is quite hard to track ...