Monopolies are a feature of capitalism, but I (naively) never used to think they could be a feature of academia. I am active in several subfields, and in each there is a small number of large, successful, well-funded groups that seem to pollinate the entire national academic ecosystem and largely the international one, too. People…

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Phindustry has some great news over at Academic Infiltration!

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*tap-tap* Is this thing still on? Hi everyone, it is your friendly neighborhood blogger. Delinquent friendly neighborhood blogger. Very ashamed delinquent friendly neighborhood blogger. I’ve been MIA for several reasons. One is that fiction has taken up much of my creative bandwidth, but there has to be a way to accommodate both blogging and other…

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