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Nov 6, 2025
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11 min read
These scholars took pleasure in their work, finding joy and beauty in the act of scholarship. As the months passed, Richard became ever more infatuated with them.
The Digest
Oct 30, 2025
7 min read
Luxury conferences in the Swiss Alps, featuring cocktail parties and high profile speakers, like the secretary general of the UN, still continue today.
Essay
Oct 23, 2025
We need to publish special issues, and we need to ensure that these special issues get submissions
Oct 16, 2025
5 min read
We have more facts than ever and we are continually adding to the stock. But what we do with them after we get them depends on our imagination.
Oct 9, 2025
9 min read
You need to be able to show outcomes, by that I mean papers, that come from the research you do. My advice is to focus on building upon previous work that has been done.
Oct 2, 2025
It is difficult to deny that today we are increasingly driven by interested knowledge; it is the more sensible way to account for why knowledge is pursued and valued.
Open Notebook
Sep 25, 2025
You could set up a Foundation, with an annual endowment of thirty million dollars. Research workers in need of fund could apply for grants, if they could make out a convincing case.
Sep 18, 2025
Three weeks ago, COPE published new guidance for how to handle retractions of published articles - highlighting just how pressing the problem is becoming.
Sep 11, 2025
14 min read
Governments award money (take), research is produced (make), which - unless a patent facilitates private ownership for a short time - becomes part of the scientific commons (waste).
Sep 6, 2025
However, what is piratical about such open notebooks is that they trial alternative modes of knowledge sharing that resist the enclosures of copyright and proprietary temporality, and that trouble the very idea of knowledge as a finished, ownable product.
Aug 28, 2025
10 min read
“All over the country, meanwhile, students were and still are being upbraided, reprimanded, given F’s on papers, flunked in courses, and expelled from universities for doing this plagiarism thing, this indefinable thing.”
Aug 21, 2025
4 min read
In discussing the extent to which science has met our curiosity about the university, we must remember that different minds are curious about different things.
