January 13, 2026
I missed this piece, from Inside Higher Ed in October: Campus, on online two-year college backed by Sam Altman and Shaquille O’Neal, has acquired AI learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount. Campus will integrated Sizzle AI’s interactive, AI-generated...
December 16, 2025
An incredible interactive visual map from the Open Book Futures team, on the OA Books landscape: This is the result of a visual mapping exercise conducted with the stakeholders contributing to the Open Book Futures project, held on Oct 10, 2023 in The Hague and...
December 10, 2025
I want to share a short commentary I just published, on “The Modal Mode of Thinking about Scholarly Publishing,” as part of the Journal of Electronic Publishing’s 30th anniversary special issue (edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema). Here’s the abstract from...
December 4, 2025
Speaking of ‘publish or perish’: Kelly-Ann Allen, writing in Nature earlier this year (paywalled, alas): In my view, we could make academic life more rewarding by systematically scoring the underappreciated behaviours and conduct that researchers value. The product...
November 19, 2025
Vladimir Moskovkin, writing for LeidenMadtrics, posted a delightful essay on the origins of the “publish or perish” phrase. His sleuthing traced the expression back to at least the late nineteenth century, in an attribution (undated) to Swiss historian Jacob...
