Today is International Tea Day, and I’m celebrating with a nice big mug of my favourite brew before tackling the day’s work – genuinely the most refreshing and reviving moment of the [ read more ]

Sunday 12 May is National Limerick Day – and what better way to celebrate than to get creative and generate something silly and joyful to share with the world! Just remember … [ read more ]

With all the technology at our disposal, why is it still difficult to get authors’ names right in journal articles? How is it that any name that doesn’t quite fit the basic [ read more ]

Tuesday 23 April is World Book and Copyright Day – a UNESCO-recognised event that also celebrates Strasbourg as the World Book Capital of 2024. The world would be infinitely poorer without the [ read more ]

Tim Vines and Ben Kaube kicked off a sparky debate with their post in The Scholarly Kitchen this week, which considers the argument for ‘honest signalling’ as a way of judging the [ read more ]

Warnings from history reverberate through time – the New England Journal of Medicine is currently running a series of special articles examining the biases and injustices that the journal has historically helped [ read more ]