Does Clarivate understand what citations are for?
Clarivate's new 'Nexus' product is integrity-washing.
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I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra
Did you mean..?
Search engines based on embedding vector queries are fundamentally at odds with the goal of enabling multiple ontological mappings across information and cultural works.
How to make a custom template for the Remarkable 2
A step by step guide to adding a custom template to a reMarkable tablet in 2025
How to migrate your Forgejo site
Forgejo is a self-hosted git repository web app. This is a guide to migrating your install to a new server.
The gulf of America
Reflections on how to build counter-power and distributed library infrastructure against corporate and US hegemony.
You should get a blog
Why you should get a blog and how to start, with hosting and software options.
So you want to study Library and Information Science in Australia?
Tips for studying Library and Information Science in Australia - which course to choose, how to make the most of being a student, and how to prepare for your LIS career.
The fantastic futures of Slow AI and vibes-based search
In October I attended the Fantastic Futures conference in Canberra. Fantastic Futures is organised by AI4LAM , and brings together people from archives, libraries and museums to talk about how they are, or could be, using machine learning and other "AI" tools in their work. When I arrived – indeed even when I booked to attend – I was feeling pretty jaded with AI. It has, of course, been the…
Aligning open education programs with academic reward and recognition
Open Education Practice (OEP) programs often wrestle with a key dilemma: how do we attract academic project participation in an institutional environment that doesn’t reward open educational practices (OEP)? Steven Chang and I have written a chapter in a new open book outlining how we think this might be overcome.