Wait, is SAGE, the major academic publisher, encouraging authors to increase citations to their articles by adding them to as many Wikipedia articles as possible?
Classic issue with Neil McLaughlin taking the correct position on a complicated issues. I think faculty should be strongly encouraged to teach their books. And they should donate any royalties that stem from that practice to charity.
Beautiful little images/icons that use as a font for inserting onto your website. Super nice!
The award holder will carry out research on the history of the preservation of tattooed skin focusing on c. 300 dry-prepared specimens housed in the medical collections of the Science Museum London. These objects are for the most part French and date from 1850 - 1920. The research should investigate the material and formal aspects of the specimens and discuss them along comparable collections and within the framework of scholarly and scientific nineteenth-century debates on tattooing.
I could this blog post as my reading list for the next sevreal months.
Andrew Gelman likes this article more than the Wikipedia article on the subject.
"The model aimed to rationalize several puzzles observed in the industry, such as why Red Hat, a high-quality firm, contributes significantly more to Linux than any other firm and why a market with mandatory sharing can actually produce higher-quality products than a proprietary market."
New publishing imprint from a major publisher to use only CC works available for free on the Internet at the time of publication. Hal Abelson is on the advisory board.
The content of the paper is "Get me off your fucking mailing list" and has many awesome figures.
Nice database of places that are hosting multidisciplinary academic conversations.
"The fact is, nobody wants to hear about your dissertation."
Sounds like this is going to be a great column by the (great herself) Eszter Hargittai.
Check out the Reducing Inequality post which were recently featured on Crooked Timber. Recommended reading.
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