Heel weinig eigenlijk. Mastodon een beetje meer, en dan nog.
03.03.2026 17:50
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Heel weinig eigenlijk. Mastodon een beetje meer, en dan nog.
'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...'
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
The key is to do both: chat over a good beer or glass of wine. Tipsiness and the help of a classically trained latinist. That is the secret of NeoLatin.
There goes the self-image of every Neo-Latinist: “to be able to do what I do, you need to be a classicist and on top of that be able to do early modern stuff”.
Starting to get a tad concerned about the number of UK universities that are apparently completely oblivious to the post-2029 REF open access mandate for chapters and monographs. Like, if you'd rather NOT to pay R&P deals for those too, maybe now is the time to start funding diamond open access?
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
I want my articles to be written by a professional calligrapher on handcrafted paper with gold ink. If my university or funder refuse to pay for this, they are infringing my academic freedom.
Wow, it's truly going to be a global conference! 🌐
In person ticket sales end on 8 Feb, online deadline is 18 Feb 📆
Get your ticket NOW - when they're gone, they're GONE ⌛
Currently finishing Motion’s biography of Larkin. Today is not a good day to read about people whose work you admire.
Only now realised who this is. He was/is not my responsibility, but the fact that he was the academic host of my postdoc at H made me his at some point in time I guess.
“If they would start including publishing costs when they negotiate with publishers about reading costs, they could even get a good deal.” Funny nobody ever thought about doing such read&publish deals before, which could be so transformative.
Stuck on repeat myself with people in charge who promise academics they will drive down the cost of OA by making the library pay.
New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.
I am a 3%’er (and was lucky enough to tell the tale), but we’re sadly not talking about wealth in this case
vrtnws.be/p.E19naj44E
We’re excited to announce the launch of Philosophical Logic at the Open Library of Humanities.
This follows another mass editorial resignation at Springer Nature (open letter linked in the announcement).
Read more:
“You spent 98% of your browser time on the re-authentification page” (which btw I understand - IT people protecting institutions from cyber attacks are amongst the unsung heroes of our age)
13th? ‘My little brown book’ by Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The fact that S says my listening age is 85 is completely unrelated.
Only if it is not too much bother. But I’m interested. Let me know what it would cost you to send, and I’ll wire the money (which might postBrexit in itself be a thing that makes either of us decide this is too complicated/expensive to pursue).
Is this how parents feel when their child becomes a teenager? A glance at a decade of Artes. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Registrationq for Bibliotech Hackaton 2026 now (yes NOW) open! bib.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
247! + just added the checklist to my slidedeck of the course I give each term for our doctoral students about scholcomm in HSS. Very handy, and in this context extra handy to have the distinction between career phases & potential impact on career advancement.
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Sorry to miss the conference and celebrations of 1y Katina, not so sorry to miss the singing. But am still spending some time in the company of Liz while waiting for the train home after a long day of teaching and meetings.
Second defence: this is only an issue in the UK. Everyone coming from outside of the UK has made the same mistake, as none of us knew you also had to activate the plug.
And - besides the point - it is not even one of Doyle’s ones. This obsession with Moriarty and - don’t get me started - Adler is one of adaptors and people who only watch adaptations, not of people who actually read him.
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-fanfiction-can-help-reimagine-scholarly-publishing
"Journal articles are the lifeblood of living scholarship."
...errr, I beg to differ.
The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
