| Latest book (The Wretched Atom) | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wretched-atom-9780197526903?cc=us&lang=en& |
| website | https://jacobdarwinhamblin.com/ |
The Wretched Atom is the "cover interview" this week at rorotoko, an interview site for authors of recent books. If you're curious about what the book is really all about, this is a great place to start. http://rorotoko.com/interview/20230215_hamblin_jacob_on_book_wretched_atom_americas_global_gamble/
17 November 2022 Dear Colleagues, OSU’s librarians, together with colleagues from the University of Oregon and Portland State University, have been working for several months to negotiate their respective contracts with Elsevier, one of the world’s most profitable scholarly information providers. I’m writing to provide an update on the status of those negotiations. Upon the recommendation of the negotiations team, OSU is suspending negotiations for the remainder of this year. This means that as of January 1, 2023, OSU will no longer have immediate subscription access to Elsevier journals.
An wry takedown on peer review. I've found readers' reports on book manuscripts to be mostly helpful. That's not been the case with journal articles. I published my first genuine peer reviewed article in 1979 (Isis) and my next in 2020 (Earth's Future).
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?ref=the-browser
It’s less than a week until the official pub date of Wonder Foods, and I wanted to say something about the title...
I’m pretty stoked about it because I think it captures pretty well the main stakes of the book. ‘Wonder foods’ are, of course, foods that promise to be more than ‘mere foods’ – to nourish better, more efficiently, more naturally, than other foods. They are, so to speak, ‘foods with benefits’ (which was at one point the working title of the book but was not to be…).
Steve Pyne
Lisa Haushofer