‘Ten Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure’

Vanessa Proudman, in a post for ScholarLed: The scholarly communication community needs to call for an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned — one that speaks to our open and academic values. It must be open; not closed off by vendors creating a...

‘Privacy hurdles thwart Facebook democracy research’

From a story in Nature on the SSRC's mostly stalled Facebook research program: But issues with the data quickly emerged: Facebook has been able to share some information with researchers, but providing them with more sensitive and detailed data without compromising...

Martin Eve wins Leverhulme Prize

From Martin Eve's exciting announcement that he's won the Leverhulme Trust Prize in Literary Studies: I still need to work out the best way to use the prize fund to give me more time to do research work, but I have a number of research projects that I will bring to...