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I’ve been thinking about how libraries can become better at serving researchers and expert users, especially through their front …
5 min read Musings, Observing

John Unsworth spoke at the CLIR-DLF postdoctoral camp last week. I thought he presented some interesting ideas about the emerging …
8 min read Events, Musings

One of my major goals for the next few years is to work on a philosophical explanation or justification for the success wisdom of …
3 min read Potentialities

This space has been vacant for a long time. The past 4 years have been a wonderful and challenging experience in order to finish my PhD …
2 min read Potentialities

I’ve spent the last week at the University of Toronto attending the summer doctoral program hosted by the Oxford Internet …
2 min read Events

There is a disconnect between the philosophy of science as it is practiced by philosophers and the philosophy of science as it is …
4 min read Musings, Potentialities

A few hours ago I learned that Iain Banks, one of my favorite SF authors over the last twenty years, has been diagnosed with cancer. I …
2 min read Musings

Today’s feature in meaningless survey research is this new poll by the American Management Association on American workers …
1 min read Observing

I’m conflicted about Facebook. I would have been an eager supporter of a social network like Facebook ten years ago. I dreamed of …
3 min read Musings, Potentialities

I was thinking recently about the popularity of various sciences. Off the top of my head I believed that the social sciences were …
2 min read Potentialities