The 2018 Comics Grid year in review.

I share the 2018 Top 100 research outputs with ‘comics’ as a keyword according to Altmetric.

Are so-called ‘alternative’ or ‘article-level’ metrics documenting attention to outputs from publishers, access types, funders, insitutitons and countries traditionally invisible via traditional citation metrics? I share some data resulting from text analysis I conducted on some of the metadata included in the complete Altmetric 2018 raw dataset.

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier, a scholarly publisher and data analytics provider, has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe. You are invited to consider signing it too.

A look into the user_lang code in the #DH2018 archive I collected.

On, “no, really, where are you from?” as a microaggression.

Sharing the podcast in memoriam Manrico Montero.

On Mark Fisher, Audre Lorde and the importance of taking the time to focus on reading, on listening, on reflelcting, on writing and sharing as an act of self-preservation.

Current Higher Education policy: what would have George Orwell thought?