A Visit to Down House

06/05/201406/05/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Some notes after a visit to Charles Darwin's Down House in Kent.

On Being “Productive”

05/05/201405/05/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

In average, how many hours per day would you say you are being "productive", in the sense of "generative; creative", in the field of your professional expertise?

A #HASTAC2014 Conference Tweets Archive

28/04/201428/04/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Like last year, I attempted to archive the tweets tagged with the HASTAC annual conference's official hashtag (this year #HASTAC2014). I have shared the resulting dataset on figshare.

#scholarAfrica: Hello, Nairobi

10/03/201411/03/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

I am in Nairobi for the Promoting Discoverability of African Scholarship workshop organised by the OpenUCT Initiative in collaboration with the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

#MLA14: A First Look (Parts I-IV)

24/01/2014 ~ Ernesto Priego

Where I link to the four posts of the series where I have been sharing some results of our look at the tweets we gathered from the #MLA14 backchannel.

At HASTAC: #OpenAccess Is Not Just for Christmas

10/12/201310/12/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

A post inspired by "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science", an opinion piece at the Guardian by Professor Randy Sheckman, 2013 Nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine.

Twitter for Engagement with Research. A Survey.

03/12/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

We've been conducting a quick (really!) survey on using Twitter for engagement with research.

Blogging at City: New Term, New Academic Year…

30/09/201330/09/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

I have set up a blog at City blogs. It's at http://blogs.city.ac.uk/epriego/. There I will keep track of my academic and extra-curricular activities and I will also use it to share ideas and references relevant to the courses I lead or participate in at City University London.

72nd World Science Fiction Convention: Diversity in Speculative Fiction: Digital Comics Panel (Call for Papers)

18/09/201318/09/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

Yesterday I posted on the Comics Grid blog a call for papers for a digital comics panel to take place within the Academic Programme of Loncon 3, 72nd World Science Fiction Convention.

At HASTAC: Towards Fairer Access and Citation of Versions of Record: On the the UK Parliament BIS Committee’s Open Access Recommendations

11/09/201311/09/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

On my blog at HASTAC, I shared a post with some quick thoughts on the the UK Parliament BIS Committee's Open Access Recommendations.

At HASTAC: On DH, Transparency and Belonging

10/09/201310/09/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

On Digital Humanities, Transparency and Collaboration.

Using Scalar for an Open Look-in-Progress into Arts and Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships in the UK

07/08/201308/08/2013 ~ Ernesto Priego

I have started using Scalar for a new open work-in-progress. I am looking at some public data about Arts and Humanities postdoctoral fellowships in the United Kingdom.