Annual log contents – click on year to download PDF
2001 The scientific method, Karl Popper; 2001 roundup.
2002 Scientific skulduggery; annexation of scholarly credit; citations; Gaia; 2002 roundup.
2003 Reviews: The Lunar Men, The Dinosaur Hunters; intellectual property.
2004 Hubris and planetary exploration; job prospects; Indian Ocean tsunami.
2006 Anonymous referees; intellectual property
2008 Plagiarism.
2010 Academic sabotage; Multi-author publication and actual contribution.
2011 Geological time; Anthropocene.
2012 Research misconduct; geological time; value of publishing – impact factors and citations.
2013 Geoscience education; field work, Open University; creationism; geology and ancient cultures.
2014 Field work; geological education; Lunar Mission 1.
2015 Bicentenary of William Smith’s map; Anthropocene; research misconduct, continental drift centenary; Open University; decline of ground-breaking publications; Thomas Kuhn.
2016 Impact factors; feminism in geosciences; definition of species challenged; defend Hans Thybo; Open University; Sci-Hub.
2017 Review of Cataclysms; field studies – importance; Open University.
2019 Failures of MOOCs (massive open online courses); worrying about death by meteorite.
2022 to 2025 Neo-colonial-economic bias in Palaeontology; Francis, I. et al. The Lake District: Landscape and Geology ; fracking, Come-uppance for UK government advocates; corruption, amber trade, Myanmar military dictatorship; music based on earthquake waves; Higham, A. The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins review Hominin fossils taken into space, self-publicity ; W. Jason Morgan obituary, plate tectonics; ‘Anthropocene Epoch, rejected by International Commission on Stratigraphy; Drake Equation questioned; Stonehenge, provenance of megaliths, geochemistry, blue stones, Altar Stone; British highway potholes, a possible remedy; signs of life from an exoplanet, curb your enthusiasm; Earth’s oldest crust in Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada, commercial exploitation, indigenous Innuits’ angered at despoliation of their homeland and heritage.
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