I looked at a dataset of all the Tweets from DJT’s account timestamped between 04/11/2016 14:56 and 13/02/2017 22:30 (Washington DC time) in order to get an idea of the change in follower numbers (user_followers_count) in that period of time.

A quick word count of DJT’s Tweets since inauguration day unitl 06/02/2017 07:07:55 AM Eastern Time.

Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form is a new interdisciplinary network and seminar series promoting the academic study of comics at Oxford. On Thursday 17 February 2017 they will host an event on Mexican Comics.

As long as the real, pragmatic obstactles to accessing and reusing academic research are not experienced by more academics, it seems to me like Open Access has a long, long road ahead.

A critical reconsideration of uses of the ‘Virtual Learning Environment’.

Later today the world will witness Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new President of the United States of America.

On Friday 20th January 2017, I will present within the Seminar Series at the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London. The title of my talk is “Graphic Medicine: Using Comics as a Mental Health Information Resource”. The seminar will be held in AG08, College Building, from 1pm – 2pm.

Inspired by Altmetric’s annual Top 100 list I used the Altmetric Explorer to search for the top articles with keyword ‘comics’ mentioned in the past 1 year. I shared the dataset on figshare.

We will be organising knowledge exchange workshops between HCID researchers, mental health professionals, comics scholars and comics artists, focusing on the reuse and adaptation into comics of the dementia care best practice data collected the Care’N’Share project.

The Altmetric Top 100 2016 was published yesterday. I share some thoughts about what the data tells us.

So ‘post-truth’ is the OED’s international word of the year….