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On (not) using AI detectors
31 August 2026
Too much publishing...
23 March 2026
Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help
16 January 2026
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
26 December 2025
On citations, AI, and 'not reading'
22 December 2025
My 2025 end-of-year reading and writing roundup
16 December 2025
A successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature from 2019
20 March 2025
My academic year in review
13 December 2024
Preservation as a Memento Mori and Matter of Ethics
29 February 2024
A year of looking in on academia
13 December 2023
My 2023 year in review
11 December 2023
My 2022 year in review
4 December 2022
The UK's department for health and preprints
12 October 2022
The politics of peer review and preprints in the real world
10 October 2022
Open peer review and its rhythms
30 August 2022
Moving On: My Infrastructural Turn
26 August 2022
Did you know that you can deposit the version of record of Bloomsbury Academic book chapters in your institutional repository?
14 January 2022
Input-Output
3 January 2022
Last year I spent 506 hours answering emails. How I hope to do less of it this year.
1 January 2022
On PhD vivas and being a supervisor
11 December 2021
My 2021 year in review
9 December 2021
Citing Pirate Artifacts
20 November 2021
Why 'Lower Tier' Journals Might Contain Better Work
8 September 2021
Paper Thin: moving on to Chapter Four and seven propositions
4 September 2021
A Bibliography on "The Interesting"/"I'm Interested In"
20 August 2021
Thinking about UK Ph.D. examinations
3 July 2021
Birkbeck: The Oldest University English Department in the World? (and a new Oscar Wilde lecture at Birkbeck)
28 June 2021
Reading Peer Review is published today!
3 January 2021
Resolutions, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Parts of Academia
29 December 2020
An anecdote on editing
29 December 2020
Some reflections on the professionalization of my disciplines
28 December 2020
My 2020 year in review
16 December 2020
On the ethics of studying pirate cultures
13 November 2020
Retractions against racial discrimination
3 September 2020
Rapid-response grants and disciplinary boundaries
21 August 2020
Some reflections on the politics of open peer review
7 August 2020
On academic journals as clubs
21 May 2020
The Edited Collection and its Discontents
22 April 2020
Academic books I'm writing
29 March 2020
Writing a data management plan
11 February 2020
My 2019 in review
14 December 2019
An irony of the 'hierarchy of journals'
11 December 2019
I have won the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize
14 October 2019
When infrastructural support clashes with DORA and good research assessment practices
4 September 2019
Instrumental reading
24 May 2019
Thoughts on academic prestige and institutional solvency
23 May 2019
The supervisory frustrations of AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships
24 April 2019
How long does it take to examine a PhD thesis?
18 April 2019
My 2018 in review
14 December 2018
Who does the work of implementing DORA?
3 March 2018
My 2017 academic year in review
15 December 2017
On ECRs, long-form-outputs, and the non-portability of outputs for REF
21 July 2017
Mediating forms and free thinking (or "on selecting journals")
13 July 2017
Judging the painting (research) without the frame (the journal)
16 February 2017
On responses and rebuttals in the discipline of English literature
19 January 2017
My 2016 academic year in review
16 December 2016
More on my experience with Open Book Publishers
18 October 2016
Now accepting proposals to 'New Horizons in Contemporary Writing' series
6 October 2016
Of LaTeX and labour
14 September 2016
Why Open Book Publishers for my next book?
26 August 2016
Accreditation and research-assessment practices (on DORA and the Tickell review)
15 February 2016
Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
12 February 2016
Ph.D. criterion: to 'merit publication'
22 January 2016
The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking
11 January 2016
My 2015 academic year in review
17 December 2015
It is no use trying to replace the Impact Factor
17 November 2015
Academia.edu’s peer-review experiments
26 October 2015
Fix some of your writing tics with a bit of technology
7 August 2015
The link between teaching, tuition fees and research publication economics
28 June 2015
It is never a good time to start a new journal
12 April 2015
Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
15 January 2015
My 2014 round-up
16 December 2014
The tension between dissemination and measurement
1 December 2014
Universities, DH, “the crowd”, and labour that looks like a game
12 November 2014
Define: impact
6 September 2014
My short additional response to the HEFCE metrics consultation
19 June 2014
Ann Wordsworth, Critical Theory, Faculty Contingency and the University in Ruins
4 June 2014
What do we mean by the "standing" and "reach" of research?
17 April 2014
What's it like to publish in SAGE Open?
12 February 2014
Dear Publisher (#2)
15 January 2014
My 2013 academic year in review
29 December 2013
Dear "top journal": 1 year and 4 months to review is too long
20 December 2013
Three reasons why I think journal prestige is a broken system
16 November 2013
What's "open" got to do with it?
3 October 2013
Publication: "Gatekeepers in a digital wasteland", The Author
18 September 2013
Is what I do "digital humanities"?
10 September 2013
What is it like to publish in the journal 'Neo-Victorian Studies'?
1 September 2013
Using git in my writing workflow
18 August 2013
Joining the UK National Monographs Strategy Expert Panel
21 July 2013
Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats?
5 July 2013
Publication: 'Before the law: open access, quality control and the future of peer review'
1 July 2013
The Future of Peer Review
15 March 2013
Conference Paper: "The Future of Peer Review", University of Sussex, 14th March 2013, 12-2pm
7 March 2013
Moving on from Sussex and joining the University of Lincoln
30 November 2012
On ORCID, accreditation structures and altmetrics
14 November 2012
Reviewing with Kindness
10 November 2012
On Academic Blogging
1 November 2012
On the Impurity of the Humanities and Critical University Studies
22 September 2012
The Viva
11 September 2012
By the time you read this, I will be...
10 September 2012
Keeping up with Research (in response to @PlashingVole)
5 September 2012
The Final Week
4 September 2012
On Blog Inequality in Scholarly Research
7 August 2012
More unpaid academic positions and apparent "culture of entitlement"
2 August 2012
Mythbusting: "A Proposed List — 60 Things Journal Publishers Do"
24 July 2012
Post-Submission Weirdness
20 July 2012
The undervalued book collection and peer review
19 July 2012
Signing over copyright vs. licensing your journal articles
5 July 2012
Submitted my Ph.D! (in memory of my grandfather, John Gray [10/02/1920 - 14/06/2012])
28 June 2012
Sussex-Southampton Initiative: SuShI. An interdisciplinary fusion.
21 May 2012
The Ontological Problems of Contemporary Fiction Studies are Actually its Ontological Prerequsites
13 May 2012
Excursions Journal Vol 3: Launch Party
5 May 2012
My day as a Higher Ed researcher
2 April 2012
Finishing a UK Ph.D. within 3 years
24 March 2012
Wikipedia Stats Visualized
18 March 2012
Doctoral Thesis Editing: Cutting Words
8 March 2012
Copyright and academia, particularly for Ph.Ds
22 February 2012
Wordpress for Academics
9 February 2012
Doing a Ph.D using only free, open source software
6 February 2012
First draft of my Ph.D is done!
27 January 2012
Protecting Your Assets: Backing up your Academic Work
23 January 2012
2012: Year of the PhD Completion / Guardian Higher Education Top 10 posts of 2011
30 December 2011
Forthcoming workshops: academic websites & protecting your assets!
28 November 2011
Guest post on Google Scholar Citations
18 November 2011
A dissenting voice on #AcBoWriMo
2 November 2011
Adorno, Benjamin and Wittgenstein (!): knowledge is not property
30 September 2011
Academia, EdTech, Blogging and Twitter: Enough with the Meta, Already?
27 September 2011
Is it worth presenting at postgraduate conferences?
6 September 2011
Immanent critique of closed access publication
2 September 2011
Guest post at PhD2Published
31 August 2011
Postgraduate Publishing
19 August 2011
Conference Paper: "Autosubversive Practices in Academic Publishing", UKSG, 2012-03-26
4 August 2011
Britain or America for the PhD in English? Part 2
2 August 2011
I have nothing to do with this "dissertation writing service"
21 July 2011
Britain or America for the PhD in English?
8 July 2011
Angry Young Academics: The "Directors' Cut"
22 June 2011
Excursions, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Virus (2011)
21 June 2011
Upcoming Workshop: Inbox zero and tech-task lists: getting things done
14 June 2011
Academic Businesss Cards
27 May 2011
Using Twitter for Research
23 May 2011
Guarding your academic ideas
18 May 2011
Guardian Q&A Summary: Life After a PhD
28 April 2011
Live Q&A: Life after a PhD [Friday 15th April 2011, 13.00-16.00]
14 April 2011
Publication: 'Review of Joe Moran, Interdisciplinarity 2nd edition', Rupkatha, 3, 1 (April 2011)
13 April 2011
How not to apply to give a conference paper
13 April 2011
Speaking plainly
8 April 2011
Exactly half-way through my PhD timetable
3 April 2011
Upcoming workshop: "Using Twitter for Research"
25 March 2011
Getting Published in Academia
11 March 2011
On #PhDchat: Call for Collaboration/History, Overview, Themes and Response
2 February 2011
A Statistical History of UK Pynchon Doctorates
28 January 2011
What has social media ever done for me?
26 January 2011
The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish
18 January 2011
Sussex Research Hive Seminars
11 January 2011
Using Producteev to manage overbearing Inboxes
15 December 2010
Converting Zotero Documents to Mendeley
8 December 2010
Researchers, Libraries and Publishers: What does the future hold?
1 December 2010
A few notes on some of Jacques Derrida's writings
2 November 2010
Problematic indexing in Paul Rabinow's edited Foucault volume, "Ethics"
1 November 2010
Plagiarism by Semiotext(e) translations?
22 July 2010
Applying for AHRC BGP Doctoral Grants
4 April 2010
Using tech to help with structure
3 April 2010
Undergraduates in the British Library reading rooms
22 March 2010
British Library usage made clear
16 March 2010
Humanities Map
15 March 2010