Cratons are anomalously-strong regions of the continents that have largely resisted tectonic forces for billions of years. How such strong zones could be forged in a hot, low-viscosity, low stress, early-Earth has been a long-standing puzzle for geologists. Adam Beall, Katie Cooper and Louis Moresi have recently proposed that cratons were made by the catastrophic switching on of plate tectonics.

I am very happy to announce that today we published ‘The Power of Sharing’, a comic resulting from the collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics, and LaGrúa Estudio.

I was interviewed by the Open Library of Humanities for their Open Insights series today, part of their EmpowOA programme.

We have published Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case as a pre-print on figshare.

Parables of Care, a comic that adapts dementia care stories from the Care’N’Share app, is out now.

New peer reviewed, open access article, published on 13 August 2017: Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers? at TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.

Modelling the relative time-scales of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and delamination, using Underworld Why model sub-continental gravitational instabilities? Within the plate tectonics framework, continents are generally considered to have a much lower density than the asthenosphere below and therefore avoid the kind of recycling that the oceanic crust and lithosphere undergoes.

I’ve just published a translation of an interview with the slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez at Nieman Storyboard (Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University).

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.

Yesterday the editorial my colleague Nicolas Pillai and I co-wrote was published on The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.