Aileen Fyfe
@aileenfyfe.bsky.social
Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
September 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
Proof that #bsky isn't (yet, for me) performing the role that the #birdsite once did... Far more people have visited our University report into legacies of empire (legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk ) from #LinkedIn than from here.
August 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Proof that #bsky isn't (yet, for me) performing the role that the #birdsite once did... Far more people have visited our University report into legacies of empire (legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk ) from #LinkedIn than from here.
Important info for parents with children nearing university-age: even with a part-time job, parental financial support will be needed (because government-provided loans/grants just aren't enough to provide a realistic income for students in any part of the UK). Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Important info for parents with children nearing university-age: even with a part-time job, parental financial support will be needed (because government-provided loans/grants just aren't enough to provide a realistic income for students in any part of the UK). Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social
There had been criticisms of refereeing from c1900 on, but there's clearly something about reviewer exhaustion by the 1950s. It was happening in the UK as well as the US, see p.499 of our book for a biochemist's feelings about refereeing for the Royal Society's journals doi.org/10.14324/111...
December 9, 2024 at 3:38 PM
There had been criticisms of refereeing from c1900 on, but there's clearly something about reviewer exhaustion by the 1950s. It was happening in the UK as well as the US, see p.499 of our book for a biochemist's feelings about refereeing for the Royal Society's journals doi.org/10.14324/111...
For #histsci friends: I'm saddened to discover that children's book Laika the Canine Cosmonaut is 'the most obscure' of the hundreds of books I've read from #KindleUnlimited10 (During lockdown home-schooling, it was a valuable resource for a project. I guess no one else did that project...)
September 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM
For #histsci friends: I'm saddened to discover that children's book Laika the Canine Cosmonaut is 'the most obscure' of the hundreds of books I've read from #KindleUnlimited10 (During lockdown home-schooling, it was a valuable resource for a project. I guess no one else did that project...)
To celebrate International Women's Day, and throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, the School of History at St Andrews will be sharing the stories of some of our historic women historians. First up is Caroline Doris Ketelbey, who was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History in 1935.
March 8, 2024 at 12:53 PM
To celebrate International Women's Day, and throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, the School of History at St Andrews will be sharing the stories of some of our historic women historians. First up is Caroline Doris Ketelbey, who was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History in 1935.