The Scottish Comics Unconference Meet-Up was a success. Find out how many #comicsunconf15 Tweets there were and how many of us tweeted using the hashtag.

A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis.

A ndy Byers and I are going to Birmingham today to participate in the #dataspring Sandpit Workshop from Jisc. Research Data Spring is Jisc’s collaborative initiative for UK research: In case you are interested we have written about our idea here. The sandpit workshop runs for two days; Andy and I will be there today (Thursday) and Andy will stay for tomorrow too (I teach on Fridays). Looking forward to what comes up.

Our idea submitted to Jisc’s Research Data Spring was successful in passing to the next stage. Today I´ll participate in a workshop in London to present the idea.

I couldn’t post last Thursday, but here’s a belated Mutatis Mutandis #3…

It’s Thursday evening so it’s time for another issue of Mutatis Mutandis..!

T he HEFCE metrics workshop: metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the arts and humanities took place on Friday 16 January 2015, 1030 to 1630 GMT at the Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick, UK. I have uploaded a dataset of 821 Tweets tagged with #HEFCEmetrics (case not sensitive): Priego, Ernesto (2015): A #HEFCEmetrics Twitter Archive (Friday 16 January 2015, Warwick). figshare.

We have uploaded to figshare a dataset including data from Tweets publicly published with #mla15 during the days of the conference.

Mutatis Mutandis #1: A Queer Thing.

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.

On Charlie Hebdo. A mash-up of two Op-Ed drafts I wrote on Wednesday January 7 2015 by request of one major American newspaper and one up-and-coming UK online journalism platform.