Monthly Archives: March 2016

ICYMI No. 3: Academic publishing on the radio

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Stephen

This is rather self-serving, even by my standards, but I made a plan with these “In Case You Missed It” posts and I’m sticking to it. I have been on the radio a couple of times in the past month … Continue reading →

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Review: Heart of the Original

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Stephen

Steve Aylett’s short book on originality, creativity and individuality may conform externally to the rectilinear format of most other books but is otherwise highly elliptical. I found it maddening. Heart of the Original – Alan Moore loved it.  It has … Continue reading →

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Review: The Many Worlds of Albie Bright

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Stephen

After publishing my round-up of the books I’d read in 2015, the author Christopher Edge got in touch via twitter to offer a review copy of his new book, The Many Worlds of Albie Bright. It’s a short novel for … Continue reading →

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ICYMI No. 2: Time for positive action on negative results

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Stephen

Today I had a short opinion piece in Chemical and Engineering News on publishing negative results, a topic that I covered about this time last year in the Guardian on the occasion of the publication my lab’s first paper on an … Continue reading →

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Meeting David Attenborough at the Royal Institution

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Stephen

On Wednesday of this past week I found myself in the presence of royalty and felt quite giddy. It happened at a Royal Institution shindig to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first televised broadcast of their world-famous Christmas lectures. … Continue reading →

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