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T oday I’ll participate via Skype at the HEFCE Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities workshop, commissioned by the independent review panel. I share below some notes. For previous thoughts on metrics for research assessment, see my 23 June 2014 post.

W hat follows is my own mash-up of two Op-Ed drafts I wrote on Wednesday January 7th 2015 by simultaneous request of one major American newspaper and one up-and-coming UK online journalism platform. In the end the pieces were not published on the publications that solicited them.

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H ere an attempt to visualise what I was up to in 2014 publishing, research and teaching engagement wise. I have focused first on how many blog posts I published on this blog per month, how many blog posts I edited and/or authored for the Comics Grid blog, how many outputs I shared on figshare and finally a general numeralia of some main categories of my 2014 activity.

** ** A n 2014 annual report for this blog courtesy of WordPress.com. Click here to see the complete report. Here’s an excerpt: Click here to see the complete report .

It is a question of the sky. That moment in the morning when grey gives in to the brightness of blue and white and green and red, and the birds sing hosannah! allelujah! hail the coming of the light! Rejoicing is a question of letting yourself go. Accept the movement and the flowing of all things, from light to darkness, and after infinite periods of boredom, sadness or stress, back to light again; it is really a question of looking out.