Monthly Archives: March 2020

Students enrolled in my course BIAN 2133/6133 (Human Reproductive Strategies) in Semester 2 of 2019 at The Australian National University wrote short topical articles about the evolution of human reproductive strategies and published them on a class Wiki site.

I’m very proud of them for doing this project. I hope you find the fruits of their labour useful and interesting!

Here’s a list of articles about the evolution of human mating:

Here’s a list of articles about the evolution of human parenting:

If you’re looking for my profile on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, you won’t find it. That’s because I’ve deleted my accounts.

There are two reasons for my decision.

First, these sites are for-profit. They capitalize on the labor of academics. I find this especially abhorrent given that one of them hides behind a .edu web address. With what university are they affiliated? I believe that all scientific work should be freely available. I make my work available on my own website, where possible. I’d like to publish solely in open-access journals, but that can be expensive, especially when one has no grant to cover publishing charges. Whatever is the case, I don’t want to continue supporting websites that make money off my work without giving something back.

Others have made a better case for why this is a good reason to cancel your accounts, so I will let you read what they’ve said instead of trying to paraphrase. See, for example, “The Day I Removed my Publications from Academia & Research Gate“.

Second, I find it burdensome to keep my profiles updated. And, see my first reason for canceling: I don’t want these companies to profit off my work without sharing that profit with me.

Farewell. Adieu. Selamat tinggal.

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• You can see my articles and book chapters on my Publications page.
• My Open Science Framework profile has many resources from various research projects I’ve worked on.
• My ORCID profile outlines my academic qualifications.