BROKEN VEIL II Episode 7 Step inside the circle. #brokenveil Patreon.com/brokenveil

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The Stranger Women In Love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Appropriate #totp

@unfortunatalie.bsky.social just finally finished Absolution and then saw this… harpercollins.co.uk/products/abd...

BROKEN VEIL II EPISODE 3 OUT NOW Exclusively on Patreon Patreon.com/brokenveil #brokenveil

This week on Scholarly Futures, @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social ponders on the future for foundational research and whether we're at the risk of losing the fundamentals as grants and funding shift to 'fashionable' areas. #openresearch #funding #openscience scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/what-gets-...

Lion. I will be taking no questions at this time.

Happy Perfect Date Day, everyone

Another plug for our latest article by @jontreadway.bsky.social about the different emerging versions of metascience, and whether any of them care about academic publishing any longer

Standard Broken Veil episode progression today: 😀🤔😐😬😱 So good, so affecting. Headphones absolutely critical.

BROKEN VEIL II Episode 2 OUT NOW Patreon.com/brokenveil #BrokenVeil

Terry Pratchett took offence at a question I asked at a signing and called me a ‘so-called reader’

Simon Jones messaged me to say how much he enjoyed my podcast tribute to Douglas Adams, and that the man himself would have enjoyed it.

@jontreadway.bsky.social ponders on the rise of metascience in todays post and if big data even cares about publishers any more scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/the-changi...

Listen to this, listen to this, pay them money and listen to this (You can get the first series free, but apparently people need to stay alive to make art, so you can say 'Thank you for that, please continue to live' by paying for the next one)

Unsurprisingly, this is excellent. Excited to see it unfurl over the coming weeks. Well worth supporting the patreon to hear it.

NEW SERIES STARTS TOMORROW #BrokenVeil Patreon.com/brokenveil

I love this analogy.

It's (Good) Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press.

BROKEN VEIL II New series starts APRIL 15th EXCLUSIVELY for subscribers to the Broken Veil channel on Patreon. Patreon.com/brokenveil

Ringworld aged 9

So what was everyone's book they read way too young?

A personal update from one of the @scholarlyfutures.bsky.social team

📚🎶 Når musikk møter kunnskap… Ved Musikkbiblioteket på UiT Norges arktiske universitet søker vi en spesialbibliotekar/rådgiver. 🎻 Vil du jobbe med noter, studenter, forskning og samlingsutvikling i Tromsø? Tips noen – eller søk selv! #UiT #bibliotek #musikk 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

V excited about the pace at which this project is growing both in terms of sponsors and in terms of progress already being made. Ping me [email protected] if your org needs to know what to do next in terms of zero-click search, answer-engine optimization, gen-AI optimization

The new Green MP seems very likeable and I am all for more people from normal backgrounds becoming MPs. But… her party has bad policy ideas premised on a destructive ideology.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

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First year wassailing in Streatham was fantastic, very welcoming and friendly. Great fun. Some inventive blessings offered by my youngest too. Might get to Barnes in a few weeks too.

the moment before you tell Inigo Montoya you’re not left-handed either #TheTraitors

Finally got round to this and it was a fun and creepy little listen.

Proper lol at this

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My latest, exploring the singular inability of the British state to deal with a gigantic pile of waste illegally dumped in the heart of Oxfordshire - and other piles like it. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/rubbish-mo...

Some cracking gifts in this years' auction

Important link to a @jama.com collaborative meta-analysis should you need to know more about the effects of #SGLT2i on kidney, CV, mortality and hospitalization outcomes in patients with and without diabetes, and at low levels of albuminuria: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Some reflections for @scholarlyfutures.bsky.social at the end of an intense but always rewarding week in the North of Norway at the #Munin2025 conference. scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/dispatches...

So good to be back in Tromsø for #Munin2025 Always a diverse and inspiring occasion, and this is no exception. Fantastic keynote this morning from @tweissgerber.bsky.social on Open Methods, talking to us about this we all know from very fresh perspectives. Lots to digest from other sessions.

My second article for @scholarlyfutures.bsky.social - looking at the concept of a China cycle and what implications it might have for research and scholarly publishing. scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/is-the-chi...

We’re making more Broken Veil, thanks to our supporters. And the BV channel is going to be full of all sorts of related goodness, including our new Discomfort Blanket series on weird media. Support the channel and get the goodness here: patreon.com/BrokenVeil

Always excellent but looks especially excellent this year.

To round off the week, we bring this quick update on research security, since our post on Tuesday. Written by @roobina.bsky.social about an announcement from the @ec.europa.eu and a report by @scienceeurope.org open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

This year's Munin has 150 registered participants: site.uit.no/muninconf/mc.... Is your name not on the list? Today is the last chance to register: site.uit.no/muninconf/re.... #openscience #openresearch #scholcomm

And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...

This week, @roobina.bsky.social takes a look at research security and how it could create tensions with open science and open data: 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”

Steve, I want you to consider what you have done here

What might it mean to publish research with no human in the loop? @jontreadway.bsky.social post investigates four possible avenues and explores which seem more likely: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...