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It’s going to be a little while before regular blogging resumes here – I’m aiming to get back up to speed in the next 10 days or so – but, in the meantime, the special edition of the JME<\/em> devoted to The Paper Of Which We Do Not Speak is now out and available here<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0Some of the papers are open access; others aren’t.<\/p>\n

For better or worse, part of being unable to do much blogging at the moment is that I’m not going to be around much to mod any comments that come in – as I’m sure they will – over the next few days. \u00a0Don’t go thinking you’re being blocked: it’s much more likely that I’m marking essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s going to be a little while before regular blogging resumes here – I’m aiming to get back up to speed in the next 10 days or so – but, in the meantime, the special edition of the JME devoted to The Paper Of Which We Do Not Speak is now out and available here. […]<\/p>\n

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