Category: Other
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King’s London, bogus science, author mills, and predatory publishers
About this post: This is a weekly roundup of blog posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in December 2015.
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Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2
About this post: This is a post advertising an academic conference about the Psychology of Language Learning, which took place in 2016. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for academic purposes only. You can read more about the conference at the website of the International Association for the Psychology of…
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Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education
[Archive] Information about the “Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” conference that took place in Rhodes, Greece in May 2015.
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What’s hot in science; academic blogging; and a paper by Maggie Simpson
In case you’re looking for inspiration for your next research project, in this week’s collection of noteworthy articles, I provide a list of the hottest fields in science. There are also some thoughts on how to discuss one’s blog to potentially sceptical peers, a story on linguistic discrimination and a narrative about the difficulties involved in correcting…
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Call for Papers: 22nd International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
[ARCHIVED POST] Information about the 22nd International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Thessaloniki, 2015)
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Dependent and independent variables, using SPSS, and minding one’s manners
This post will teach you three things: how to tell dependent and independent variables apart; how to calculate correlations; and how not to piss me off.
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Open access and other stories
About this post: This is a summary of posts, news stories and other content about Open Access publishing, as well as other aspects of Higher Education), which appeared online in the first week of December 2014. There were several interesting stories this week on Open Access publishing. Open Access (OA) is a publication model that…
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“Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
Curt Rice, the head of the Board for Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin), recently published an interesting article in his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor. This is reproduced, with the author’s kind permission, below. Quality control in research: the mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor Research must be…
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Your search terms, revealed
There was a time, not too long ago, when Google would share the search terms (or ‘keywords’) that led readers to this blog. Google now encrypts this data, which means that I can no longer know what brought most of you here, but I can still get some clues from the search terms shared by other…