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Scholarly Communication December 24, 2021

Making "Nature"

The History of a Scientific Journal

Melinda Baldwin

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Melinda Baldwin about her book Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal (U Chicago Press, 2015). Melinda is AIP Endowed Professor in History of Natural Sciences at …
Scholarly Communication December 2, 2021

On Revision

The Only Writing That Counts

William Germano

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of William Germano, Professor of English at Cooper Union, New York, We talk about his new book On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (U Chicago Press, 2021), about …
Scholarly Communication November 19, 2021

Joining the Conversation

A Guide and Handbook for Writers With 2020 APA Update

Mike Palmquist and Barbara Wallraff

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Mike Palmquist, Professor of English (with a focus on rhetoric and composition) and also University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. We have a conversation. Mike Palmquist …
Scholarly Communication November 8, 2021

Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis

From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data

Bradley Alger

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Bradley Alger, Professor Emeritus of Physiology at University of Maryland School of Medicine and author of Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big …
Scholarly Communication October 27, 2021

A Conversation with Aliyah Kovner

Science Writer and Science Podcaster

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Aliyah Kovner, science writer and also host of the podcast A Day in the Half-Life. We talk about who science communication reaches: peers, other experts …
Scholarly Communication October 26, 2021

How to Write a Scientific Paper

An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students

Jari Saramäki

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Jari Saramäki, author of How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students (2018) and professor of computational science at Aalto University, Finland …
Scholarly Communication October 21, 2021

Editing Scholarly Writing

A Discussion with Avi Staiman of "Academic Language Experts"

Avi Staiman

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Avi Staiman, who is CEO, founder, and director of Academic Language Experts. We talk about how complex and how simple editing is. Avi Staiman …
Scholarly Communication October 20, 2021

Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications

Centre for Academic English, Imperial College London

Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern, teachers of STEMM communication at the Centre for Academic English, Imperial College London. We talk about what's so special about …
Scholarly Communication October 14, 2021

An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"

Focus on the Scholarly Journal (no. 1)

Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz, Editors-in-Chief of Soil Biology and Biochemistry. We talk about the people who all scientists are, and we demonstrate why all …
Scholarly Communication October 11, 2021

Teaching College Students to Communicate

A Discussion with Elena Cotos

Elena Cotos

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Elena Cotos, Director of the Center for Communication Excellence at the Graduate College (Iowa State University) and also Associate Professor in the English Department (Iowa …
Scholarly Communication September 28, 2021

The Amateur Hour

A History of College Teaching in America

Jonathan Zimmerman

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College …
Scholarly Communication September 22, 2021

Writing Science

How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded

Joshua Schimel

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Joshua Schimel, Professor of soil ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and …
Scholarly Communication August 5, 2021

The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge

Peter B. Kaufman

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Peter Kaufman, Program Manager in Strategic Initiatives and Resource Development at MIT Open Learning and author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge …
Scholarly Communication August 4, 2021

The Scientific Journal

Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Alex Csiszar

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Alex Csiszar, professor in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University and author of The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in …
Scholarly Communication July 19, 2021

The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

Terry McGlynn

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Terry McGlynn, author of The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching (U Chicago Press, 2020). McGlynn is also a professor of biology at California State University Dominguez …
Scholarly Communication July 5, 2021

The Teaching Archive

A New History for Literary Study

Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Rachel Sagner Buurma (associate professor of English literature at Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (associate professor of English at the University of North Florida). We …
Scholarly Communication June 21, 2021

Get Real

49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education

William G. Tierney

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of William Tierney, University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. We talk about his …
Scholarly Communication June 15, 2021

The Ethics of Persuasion

Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies

Brooke Rollins

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Brooke Rollins, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University. We talk about lots of Greeks and about one Frenchman and (if you write) also about …
Scholarly Communication June 8, 2021

Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing

Iain McGee

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Iain McGee (PhD, Cardiff University) a PhD student in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (UK), and an EAP teacher …
Scholarly Communication June 1, 2021

Reading Peer Review

Martin Paul Eve et al.

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Cameron Neylon (Curtin University), Daniel Paul O'Donnell (University of Lethbridge), Samuel Moore (Coventry University), Robert Gadie (University of …
Scholarly Communication May 31, 2021

Reassembling Scholarly Communications

Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access

Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, editors of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (published open access by MIT in …
Scholarly Communication May 18, 2021

Second Language Writing

Ken Hyland

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Ken Hyland, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. We talked about his book Second Language Writing (Cambridge UP, 2019), the …
Scholarly Communication May 7, 2021

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, audio books, distribution chains …
Scholarly Communication April 29, 2021

Air & Light & Time & Space

How Successful Academics Write

Helen Sword

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to Helen Sword about Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard UP, 2017). We talk about what not enough people talk about when the subject …