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.

Je suis Charlie.

H ere an attempt to visualise what I was up to in 2014 publishing, research and teaching engagement wise. I have focused first on how many blog posts I published on this blog per month, how many blog posts I edited and/or authored for the Comics Grid blog, how many outputs I shared on figshare and finally a general numeralia of some main categories of my 2014 activity.

An 2014 annual report for my blog courtesy of WordPress.com.

A Christmas Day poem. Unedited.

I have uploaded a new dataset to figshare: The Twelve Days of REF- A #REF2014 Archive

The results from the REF 2014 were announced in the first minute of the 18th of december 2014. Here I share a quick first look at a sample corpus of texts from Tweets publicly tagged with #REF2014.

I will participate in a one-day workshop hosted by the University of Warwick, as part of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment. Friday 16th January 2015, Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick. Registration required.