Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile by … Continue reading →
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Impact Round-Up 1st February: Privacy and open data, publication bias, and the mechanization of scholarship.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. 1. Are Blogs Inherently Un-Professional? asks Stephen Saideman in response to the International Studies Association’s proposal to bar editorial members from … Continue reading →
Impact Round-Up 25th January: Anonymity, metadata, and tacit knowledge vs reproducible results.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. 1. The role of anonymity in the blogosphere and in science took centre stage this week when a … Continue reading →
Impact Round-Up 11th January: Social science fiction, systematic reviews, and #MLA14
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. 1. The Modern Languages Association conference is in full swing this weekend. The #MLA14 Twitter hashtag has been very active … Continue reading →
Impact Round-Up 21st December: Interdisciplinary collaboration, the econoblogosphere and obstacles to open access.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Novelty Squared: A Challenge of Modern Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration by Joshua Bloom, Astrophysics professor at UC Berkeley. One of the … Continue reading →
Impact Round-Up 7th December: Academic blogging under threat, statistical literacy, and sexism in science communication.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Earlier this week Chris Tyler and colleagues from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (who have recently … Continue reading →