Discussions will rage over the benefits and drawbacks of face-to-face and online conferences, but one way to deal with it is to offer …
This claim is common in Wikipedia discussions; most recently, I read it in an article by Andy Tattersall on the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but is it true of Wikipedia? You don’t have to look far to …
Bayard’s book created something of a stir in literary circles when it was published, in 2007. I approached this book because it touches on some fundamental aspects of how …
A fascinating webinar by MyScienceWork examined this question, and certainly provided some answers, some directly, and others by implication. The webinar is available on YouTube, but if you are in a hurry, I can tell …
In December 2021, eLife received additional funding specifically for preprints.
…The new funding will allow eLife to advance its vision for a system of curation around preprints that replaces journal titles as the primary trust indicator of a paper’s perceived quality and
Some years ago, I read the wonderfully titled How to talk about books you haven’t read (Pierre Bayard, 2007) (and yet, I actually read it from start to finish). Actually, Bayard’s book isn’t quite about the kind of non-reading I had …
Blinkist really has something. Forget the awful title, and the attempt to present the service as the internet equivalent of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends: as you can see from the advert above, reading makes you a better …
I usually find the Impact of Science blog at the LSE site interesting and well informed: an easily readable summary of academic research. A post today, however, struck me as highly questionable: Is doing a PhD bad …
This book is no atlas; the term “atlas” suggests a neutral presentation. Instead, Kate Crawford’s book is a virulent critique of all AI. A better title would be “How computing forms part of the power structure of the modern world”:
…AI takes the central position
Anyone interested in search and discovery is spoilt for choice at present. First, the excellent Haystack conference on open-source search, and now the wonderful BCS Information Retrieval …