O n Friday 23 March 2018 at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT/3pm GMT/4pm CET for an @openlibhums #EmpowOA twitter chat hosted by yours truly on the issues of humanities editing and publishing as academic labour.

I am happy to announce that today we published ‘The Power of Sharing‘, a comic resulting from the collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics, and LaGrúa Estudio (1). You can view the comic, download it, cite it, comment and share it from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5993392 Concept and story by Francisco De La Mora &

I was interviewed by the Open Library of Humanities for their Open Insights series today, part of their EmpowOA programme.

On Mark Fisher, Audre Lorde and the importance of taking the time to focus on reading, on listening, on reflelcting, on writing and sharing as an act of self-preservation.

Current Higher Education policy: what would have George Orwell thought?

A personal reflection on the social ‘value’ of Higher Education in the UK.

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has been kindly nominated for a Digital Humanities Award 2017 in the Public Engagement category. If you like what we do, please vote for us.

Summaries of Twitter numerical data captured from archiving #respbib18 and #ResponsibleMetrics.

In two days it will be a year since the inauguration of Twitter user ID 25073877. I share some insights from 2,587 tweets posted between 18/01/2018 08:49 AM EST (GMT -5) and 18/01/2017 06:53 AM EST (GMT-5).

Call for Papers for the Graphic Medicine 2018 conference in Vermont, via Ian Williams.

D eadline for submission of extended abstracts for full papers and other presentations is being extended to 31 January 2018.