Monthly Archives: August 2013

Altmetrics in Nature Again

Here‘s a nice overview for folks learning about altmetrics for the first time.

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A hell of an engineer

I give my first (brief) impressions of teaching at Georgia Tech here. You must at least go watch the video. I promise it’s worth less than 2 minutes of your time.

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The Demise of Barnes & Noble

An interesting article, at

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Interdisciplinarity and Neoliberalism

Is interdisciplinarity a neoliberal plot? Are interdisciplinarians simply neoliberal tools? There’s a danger of that happening (for that matter, there are instances that we can point to that qualify already). By bypassing disciplinary standards for quality, or even acceptable theoretical … Continue reading

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