If you have used open data in your teaching practice we would like to hear from you. It’s only three questions.

Where I attempt to extend some Tweets into a longer piece. I grew up in a house full of books. The more books we had access to the more books we knew we did not have. We were very privileged to have that kind of scarcity. My parents’ material wealth was their personal library, and their inheritance was a love for reading and a love for books (and other published, printed stuff). One book leads to other books;

A new episode of Mutatis Mutandis… issue #5: and the other the same distance south

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.