Tag: publishing
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A personal design system for scholarly output
Almost everything I produce starts as a markdown file and ends in a different format — a slide deck, a handout, a Word document, this website — and until September 2026 I designed each one from scratch. I've replaced that with a personal design system with one visual language, one identity, and a template for each format, all reading the same token file. This post explains what the system is, how the pieces fit together technically, and what's still unfinished.
GitHub
GitHub is a website that hosts git repositories online and adds the tools people need to work on them together, including issues for discussion, pull requests for proposing and reviewing changes, and automation that can publish a project as a website. It was built for software developers, but anything kept as text files can live there, including teaching materials and scholarship.
Research industrial complex
The research industrial complex describes the self-reinforcing system of incentives across universities, funding bodies, journals, and publishers that rewards publication volume and impact metrics over meaningful scientific progress. The term draws on Eisenhower's military-industrial complex to show how interconnected institutional interests can sustain a system that works against its own stated mission.
An open scholarship workflow: What academic publishing can learn from open source
Academic publishing treats scholarship as a finished, individually owned artefact. This post describes a writing and publishing workflow built on a different premise: that a scholarly corpus could work like an open source project — readable, contributable, forkable, and never permanently owned by anyone.
LaTeX
A typesetting system in which you write the structure of a document in plain text and the system lays it out — the standard for theses, mathematics and anything with hundreds of cross-references.
Open access licensing
Open licences, mostly Creative Commons, state in advance what others may do with a work — read it, share it, adapt it, build on it — so nobody has to ask. The Creative Commons licence on teaching materials decides whether a colleague can adapt a resource for their own programme or has to rebuild it from scratch.
Publishing with purpose: Using AI to enhance scientific discourse
The introduction of generative AI into scientific publishing presents both opportunities and risks for the research ecosystem. This essay argues that scientific journals must transform from metrics-driven repositories — prioritising publication volume over meaningful progress — into vibrant knowledge communities using AI to facilitate discourse. AI can support this by surfacing connections between research, making peer review more dialogic, and enabling multimodal knowledge translation. Meaningful change requires coordinated action across institutions, funding bodies, and journals willing to prioritise scientific progress over quantitative metrics. By reimagining journals as AI-supported communities rather than article-processing platforms, the research ecosystem can better serve scientific knowledge development and clinical outcomes.