“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force — nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness […]
Last summer I had the privilege of interviewing arXiv founder Paul Ginsparg extensively during two lovely days at Cornell. We are currently in the last stages of using this material to write what […]
Gracias a varias solicitudes en los últimos días y a la relevancia del tema, ahora que está fresco, decidí hacer una versión en Español de mi último post. La semana […]
Just last week, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via his official webpage the enactment of reforms to several federal law frameworks concerning science, technology and education that will allegedly […]
Image by Eton Fudge Shophttp://www.windsorgo.com/eton-fudge-shop/ In my field of research, sociology of science, I get to talk to a lot of academics from very diverse areas. Mostly, I interview people […]
It was a few months ago that I first came across Neil Gaiman's Make Good Art commencement speech which he delivered at the Philadelphia University for the Arts in 2012. Gaiman […]
Illustration of a scholar from The arte or crafte to lyve well and to dye well, printed 1505, now on display in the South Quire Aisle, St George’s Chapel, Windsor […]
This will be – if I am consistent about it – the blog for my three-year British Academy Post Doctoral Fellowship research programme on Open Access based at the Cardiff University […]