The latest FOSS Academic post is an early review of Zotero 8, the latest from @zotero . TL;DR version: I might just use this version to do a lot more 'synthetic' note taking, a practice I had been doing in Zettlr with Markdown files.
fossacademic.tech/2026/02/26/zotero-8-revi... […]
The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't […]
Latest FOSS Academic is I DID IT! I DID IT! I re-implemented my static blog generator in Python and moved it off #Github onto my own hosting!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/25/reimplemented.html
What's that? You want an archive and previews of posts? Done. Tags? Handled! Atom feed? […]
Latest FOSS Academic post is live!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/19/zotero-zettlr.html
It's a note about the relative strengths and weaknesses of using #Zettlr and #Zotero for note-taking and writing. Spoiler: I thought I would use Zotero less and less, but I find myself using it just as […]
The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html
In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at […]
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One of the events of this week (cough, JD Vance joining Bluesky, cough) reminded me of this thought experiment I wrote back in 2021: What if Trump joined Mastodon?
fossacademic.tech/2021/01/08/PraiseMastodo...
(Note I wrote this well before Truth Social -- it's interesting […]
The latest FOSS Academic post is short but very, very sweet, because it's the public reveal of the cover for my next book!
fossacademic.tech/2025/06/02/move-slowly-c...
Academic authors don't often get much input into the covers of their books, but for Move Slowly and Build […]
The latest FOSS Academic post is: "Copyediting: The Bane of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream."
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/04/06/copyediting.html
I talk the copyediting phase of writing a book. It's forced me again and again to use Microsoft Word. While this wasn't a big deal when I wrote […]
Latest FOSS Academic Post: My workflow, 2025 edition:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/workflow2025.html
In which I discuss chasing the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream, a world in which an academic can get all their work done using free and open source tools. And not just coding! I'm […]
The latest FOSS Academic post is "Standards War?":
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/05/standardsWar.html
In which I contrast the fact that @iftas is shutting down some of its services against the advent of "Free Our Feeds," and I speculate that maybe we're seeing an ATProto/ActivityPub […]
Latest FOSS Academic: Introducing the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/02/01/asmNet.html
This is a new hub for academic researchers who study alternative social media.
Pretty apropos for Global Switch Day!
#FOSSAcademic #AlternativeSocialMedia […]
Latest FOSS Academic!
fossacademic.tech/2025/01/10/moreThreadsBs...
In which I talk about my new monitoring of Threads's fediverse blocklist, the @cwebber and Bryan Newbold debate, and the trust and safety work of @thisismissem
#FOSSAcademic #ASMupdate #Threads #Bluesky #ActivityPub
Latest #FOSSAcademic post is about #Threads and the failure of global #contentModeration
fossacademic.tech/2024/12/13/t...
Want to comment? Reply via the fediverse bridge to this post: aoir.social/@rwg/1136477...
Latest FOSSAcademic is a note about using Marp for Markdown presentations along with BeautifulSoup to produce a presentation script, all with one file.
fossacademic.tech/2024/12/07/marpbeautiful...
I'm living the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream right now!
#FOSSAcademic
A short ASM update this week. Along with some colleagues @tstruett, @paufder, and @aram, I have a new publication out in the International Journal of Communication:
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/06/survive.html
The paper focuses on challenging facing this fediverse of ours.
#FOSSAcademic […]
My latest #FOSSAcademic post is live. This one focuses on #alternativeSocialMedia research, with some new articles about #Mastodon.
fossacademic.tech/2024/11/22/A...
Also, I am actively building a listserv for academics who study alternative social media (broadly conceived). See the post for more
The latest FOSS Academic post is live, in which I think I might be saying goodbye to my old friend, Firefox:
fossacademic.tech/2024/09/18/goodbyeFirefo...
#firefox #mozilla #FOSSAcademic
[replies to this will appear as comments on my blog, unless you set privacy to followers-only […]
The latest #FOSSAcademic post is "Zotero 7 Early Review":
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/08/13/Zotero-7.html
In which I offer an initial review of @zotero's newest version. The TL;DR version is that it has many attractive new design elements without getting in the way of established workflows […]
Latest #FOSSAcademic, in which I talk a bit more about #TaylorAndFrancis selling off academic work to #Microsoft, and I share a link to my #IETF presentation on #ActivityPub:
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/07/25/ASM-update.html
[Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog, unless […]
Great, I gotta work while everyone else at my #Microsoft campus gets the day off
#FOSSAcademic
Latest #FOSSAcademic post: On Threads's Blocklist
fossacademic.tech/2024/06/28/ThreadsBlocki...
In which I offer some quick analysis of #Meta #Threads new list of blocked servers.
There's so much more we can do to study what Threads is doing. Indeed, I will have a chapter on […]
Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Maven Ain't So Mavenly":
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/06/12/Maven.html
In which I argue that #Maven, a new social media site, is not only breaking norms of the #fediverse by #scraping without consent -- they're […]
