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Jun 4, 2026

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The Devaluation of Writing

We had already spent decades building a world organised around writing more and more, faster and faster, until abundance itself began to change what writing was worth.

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May 29, 2026

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The On-lightenment

It is the experience of sensing that we know things in a light shaped by the structural conditions of our chronically online lives.

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Dark Academia: Picturesque, But Terrifying

Apr 16, 2026

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Dark Academia: Picturesque, But Terrifying

Far from exposing an intellectual life that merely dresses, speaks, and performs itself through pretension and exclusivity, the text has, in many ways, come to romanticise it.

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Apr 9, 2026

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Pop-Sci Gives Us The Ick

We need to stop treating publics as passive consumers of science

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Mar 19, 2026

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10 min read

On Private Scholarship

This observation should not be misunderstood as an argument against government support for academic research.

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Mar 5, 2026

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13 min read

On The Academic Ivory Tower

"I'm not at all afraid of the term 'ivory tower'".

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Feb 19, 2026

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A Scholarly Love Letter

Tick tock tick tock, we were moving on a timeline. The hands on the clock for seduction, I was told, had to be turned to the time of production.

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Anti-University: Scholarship Before, Within, and Beyond The University

Feb 5, 2026

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Anti-University: Scholarship Before, Within, and Beyond The University

Private universities now receive government funding, public universities prize industry partnerships, and liberal arts colleges emphasise the development of graduates capable of contributing to a nation's economic prosperity and security.

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On Publishing At Least One Paper This Year

Jan 8, 2026

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On Publishing At Least One Paper This Year

After all, has not our understanding of the pinnacle of academic excellence become entirely about getting single-authored journal articles in ‘top-tier’ journals?

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Dec 18, 2025

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The Year of The Scholar

Indulging in a future in which the practices of scholarship had been fostered under a different culture and a different set of conditions, his fiction playfully – yet definitively – set forth the kind of scholarly future we are setting ourselves up to work towards.

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Nov 20, 2025

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14 min read

Scholars Pay Themselves

Rather than waiting around for university employment to permit them to be scholars, relying on universities as middlemen who decide how much their scholarship is worth, scholars can directly turn their expertise and skills into livelihood.

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Oct 23, 2025

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11 min read

Destruction of Knowledge

We need to publish special issues, and we need to ensure that these special issues get submissions

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Sep 11, 2025

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14 min read

On Making Research Pay For Itself

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).

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Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism

Aug 28, 2025

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Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism

“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.”

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Aug 14, 2025

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14 min read

On Successful Scholarship

“The job of the scholar is to contribute to society, and if they are not doing so, they are not successful.” And here, we will agree but with one vital amendment.

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Jul 31, 2025

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Doughnut Shaped Scholarship

And yet, this framing of quality science has rarely been taken up in earnest, particularly in how science is evaluated or valued in broader society. The dominant understanding of “quality” science – especially in public and policy discourse – is

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Jul 17, 2025

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17 min read

On Scholar-Led Knowledge Creation

I wonder, will you be content to donate your labor to subsidize the salary of a Revenue Acceleration Manager?

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On Not Leaving Academia, But Standing Outside It

Jul 3, 2025

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On Not Leaving Academia, But Standing Outside It

They are a mode of academic conversation – a practice of exchanging ideas and reflections – but they enjoy the benefit of being unbounded by the constraints of the academic journal article.

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On The Inability to Let Go of The Scholar

Jun 19, 2025

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On The Inability to Let Go of The Scholar

For was it not academia that had given me the space-time to pursue my scholarly becoming? Academia had given me the opportunity to make this transformation happen.

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Jun 5, 2025

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12 min read

On Breaking Up With Academia

One that once claimed to ‘pursue and venerate knowledge and learning as a manifestation of faith in what it means to be a human being.’

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May 22, 2025

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17 min read

The Tech-bro-ification of Research

And with them, what cultural and ideological imports are we quietly welcoming into how we conduct our research, how we produce knowledge, and how we relate to knowledge itself?

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May 4, 2025

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23 min read

The Tyranny Of Written Knowledge

With the ever-growing emphasis on communicating knowledge through written publications, we are increasingly experiencing a transactional relationship with knowledge: one that prioritises storage, circulation, and standardisation.

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Apr 20, 2025

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13 min read

The Scholar Manifesto

We produce and discard knowledge like the way clothes get produced, consumed, and discarded in fast fashion.

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Apr 6, 2025

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10 min read

The Value of Useless Knowledge

And trusting that curiosity will lead somewhere meaningful.

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Mar 30, 2025

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11 min read

Science Has Left Earth

The sciences have taken their cue from the art of making and fabricating, but they no...

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The Devaluation of Writing

The On-lightenment

Dark Academia: Picturesque, But Terrifying

Pop-Sci Gives Us The Ick

On Private Scholarship

On The Academic Ivory Tower

A Scholarly Love Letter

Anti-University: Scholarship Before, Within, and Beyond The University

On Publishing At Least One Paper This Year

The Year of The Scholar

Scholars Pay Themselves

Destruction of Knowledge

On Making Research Pay For Itself

Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism

On Successful Scholarship

Doughnut Shaped Scholarship

On Scholar-Led Knowledge Creation

On Not Leaving Academia, But Standing Outside It

On The Inability to Let Go of The Scholar

On Breaking Up With Academia

The Tech-bro-ification of Research

The Tyranny Of Written Knowledge

The Scholar Manifesto

The Value of Useless Knowledge

Science Has Left Earth

The Scholarly Letter

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