As part of ongoing research in collaboration with my colleague Domenico Fiormonte on academic publishing and ‘monopolies of knowledge’ we have been looking at the available data on the amount of money universities spend on journal subscriptions.

A quick note on #dhdiversity. What is it that defines us a scholars?

“The BBC’s Great Debate” was broadcasted live in the UK by between 20:00 and 22:00 BST. I collected some of the Tweets tagged with #BBCDebate using a Google Spreadsheet. I have shared a dataset and share some insights from the data here.

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov’s former office at Harvard University’s Comparative Zoology department.

I have now shared a spreadsheet containing an archive of 1,005 @StrongerIn Tweets publicly published by the queried account between12/06/2016 13:34:35 and 21/06/2016 13:11:34 BST.

As the date to vote in person approaches, I collected and shared a dataset of tweets published by the official Leave campaign Twitter account, @vote_leave, between 12/06/2016 09:06:22 – 21/06/2016 09:29:29 BST. The dataset contains 1,100 tweets.

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics is a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and myself for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media (About) is an international and bilingual conference organized by the ACME Comics Research Group and hosted by the University of Liège (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016. Programme.

[Revised]. If there is content overload, whose responsibility is it to filter, and is filtering, as we have traditionally defined it, still really possible under the current infrastructures?

Poetics of the Algorithm Wednesday 15 June Conference opening event: WREKshop by Olivier Deprez &

I talked to ScienceOpen’s jon Tennant about open access publishing.