#dotAstro FTW
[This is week 4 of the challenge. woohoo.] Today I only have ~15 min. This week, I happen to be in Chicago for dotAstronomy 6. This might be odd since I’m not an astronomer (nowhere near in fact). It …
View ArticleLaTeX Something Something Darkside
[This is week 3 of the challenge. Ok, I’m stretching “every week” a bit here. I blame somebody’s first cold or alternatively Turkeys. Also, I cheated; this took longer than 30mins.] Darth Vader/Stewie:...
View ArticleJust when I thought I was out
I recently pondered whether I should stop reading the few remaining mathoverflow and math.stackexchange feeds I keep in my feed reader (remember that archaic technology? I still use it heavily). Ever...
View ArticleHow to publish all my research notes?
Last August, I finally finished my report for the DFG regarding my wonderful two years at Michigan. Part of this was to revisit all my old notes and publications. This has reminded me of something I’ve...
View ArticleName 5 top journals you read…
The AMS is currently running a survey (I think it’s members only? But if you got an invite, make sure to take the time). It has asked me the following question Please list the top 5 journals that you...
View ArticleI don’t always use LaTeX, but when I do…
Since I haven’t published anything in almost two months, let me jot down one thought that has come to mind frequently over the past few months. If you use LaTeX … Well, first of all, are you sure you...
View ArticlePublishers should invest in browser development (a comment at the scholarly...
In the tradition of posting stuff I write elsewhere, here’s a comment I just posted at the scholarly kitchen. It’s not really about the article. On a slightly different note. Despite many investments...
View ArticleWhy academic societies should start fully fledged social networks
The Joint Math Meetings 2013 ended with the AMS’s 125th Anniversary banquet. One of the things mentioned there was that the AMS is working on some form of online communities. That’s great, but doesn’t...
View ArticleJMM 2013
Early this morning, I drove down to San Diego to be at the Joint Math Meetings 2013 for the very first time. (Well, last year, I mostly sneaked in to meet friends and didn’t even register — or got to …
View ArticleThe Forum of Mathematics, blessing or curse?
When the Forum of Mathematics was announced on Tim Gowers’s blog I mentioned this on twitter and I got a couple of replies asking what my thoughts on it were. Well, this post has been stuck in my...
View ArticleA virtual Kaffehaus on g+
So that went well. Two weeks ago I tried to do something that I always wanted to do and that Sam had done a couple of times with a more specific focus. That is, use google+ hangouts to simply meet …
View Articleself-publishing, the academic community and LaTeX fanboyism — a comment at...
Yet another one of those “Peter babbled too long on somebody else blog”-posts. This time at Keith Devlin’s MAA column/blog Devlin’s Angle A few comments. About your reply to Corey’s comment. “That...
View ArticleHas it really been a year?
This is a joined post with Sam — go comment at his place! Almost exactly a year ago, the two of us (Sam and Peter) sat down to talk about what we could do together to help …
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate, the complete version
This is a double-post of sorts. The reasons is that it took me a very long time to write this (in fact, the first draft is marked April 18). In the process, quite a number of versions were stored by …
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #11 a democratization of the communities
And now the conclusion. Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams. Some...
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #10 from come-to-me to the...
I got two more, just two more… Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams. …
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #9 propagating the Shelah Model
3, 2, 1… Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams. Some are...
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #8 a cultural change of doing research...
On and on and on… Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams. Some are …
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #7 an affordable open access model
Here we go again… Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams. Some are...
View Article11 dreams for the publishing debate — #6 publishing in smaller increments
One more, one more, one more… Each new post will start from the top, so scroll down a little if you’ve read the previous one — but also check out the first post for some motivation. These are dreams....
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