November 2013

(Just to note that that "why I couldn't go OA story" isn't my story. Well, it is my story, but I didn't write that incarnation of it.)

Giving lectures tomorrow on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Different lectures. The Kane one is quite trippy.

Be it sex or drug policy, they want the evidence to fit their presupposed norms, their "common sense" (a concept opposed to truth).

Whenever politicians reject expert scientific advice it exposes their supposed "evidence-based" policies as regressive moral entrenchment.

Theresa May wants to make terror /suspects/ stateless. There are rulings elsewhere allowing indefinite detention of stateless persons.

Had a great day at Royal Holloway with @BobEaglestone and others discussing AHRC Peer Review Council from an ECR perspective.

On the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death, I've just remembered that my father-in-law once owned a 1st ed of the Darwin-Wallace paper.

In fact, it often feels to me as though the rhetoric is: if they're so wasteful of patients' time, there must also be financial waste.

I often hear disconnected talk re the NHS from those waiting on wards. Think waits are appalling, note "cuts", rarely suggest more funding.

About to head off to HEFCE OA books panel. Good range of voices invited; I d/w on't agree with all of them but that's part of it: #consensus

Follow @dragosr for progress in identifying some scary new malware that seems to jump air gaps via ultrasonic audio & mic receivers.