Thanks to Jacqueline Bartram who drew these great cartoons as I was talking at a Hull event last yearabout academic blogging. Why should academics blog about their research?
It provides a home for things you reluctantly cut from your publications:

It allows you to get early feedback on ideas and try them out for the first time in public:

It allows you to exchange early thoughts with others working on the issues that concern you:

It allows you to share your struggles with others who are going through the same thing:

