I’m not going to insist on being called a Christian. Do I consider myself to be a Christian? Yes. Absolutely and unequivocally yes. But, I understand that my rejection of formal Trinitarian dogma is a nonstarter for many. That’s ok. Everyone has a right to make such determinations. This post (which will probably end up being quite long) is not a plea to be recognized as Christian, but rather an explanation of what I as a Latter-day Saint do believe about Jesus Christ. Jesus is Jehovah. He is the God of the Old Testament and the Redeemer of the New. It was He who covenanted with Abraham, and He is indeed the very God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He spoke to Moses through the burning bush and gave him the Ten Commandments. He led the children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry ground. He is the creator of the heavens and the earth and all things that in them are. He descended to earth in the meridian of time, was born of the Virgin Mary in a manger, and at the age of thirty began His public ministry. He called apostles, ordained them to the priesthood, and taught the truths of eternity to all who would listen. He established His church, healed the sick, raised the dead, restored sight to the blind, instituted the sacrament of the Lord’s supper and, when the time had come, endured the unbearable weight and agony of all our sins, pains, and weaknesses in the Garden of Gethsemane, a burden so heavy that even He, God, the greatest of all, trembled because of pain and bled from every pore. He was betrayed with a kiss, mocked, and put through a sham trial at the behest of a mob. He was denied, and made to endure it alone. He was beaten, whipped, and scorned, made to carry a cross to calvary’s hill. Large nails were driven into His hands, wrists, and feet, and a crown of thorns was placed on His head. He suffered on the cross, pleading to His Father to forgive even those who were in the very act of torturing and killing Him. Hours later, He gave up the ghost, declaring “It is finished”. He descended to the spirit world, preaching to the prisoners there while His body lay in a tomb. On the third day He rose from the grave, being the first fruits of them that slept and assuring us all of a glorious resurrection and a knowledge that death will not lay claim on our physical bodies forever. He showed Himself to his disciples, ensuring they knew that He was not a spirit, but rather that He had been resurrected with a perfected, glorified body of flesh and bone. He gave commands to His disciples before He ascended to heaven, exhorting them to preach the gospel to every creature, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. He initiated the restoration of His church through Joseph Smith, Jr., appearing first to the boy prophet in 1820, and later revealing The Book of Mormon, a sacred record of scripture that, with the Bible, testifies plainly that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. In the time since, He has led and guided this The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jesus is an high priest of good things to come, the Great King Immanuel who sits on the right hand of His Father, crowned forever with eternal glory and all power, might, and dominion, having finished His preparations unto the children of men and offering them redemption through the shedding of His own blood. He is the light and the life of the world, and salvation comes in and through His atoning blood and in no other way. He is my prophet, my priest, my king and my God. That is who Jesus of Nazareth is to me.

It is not a perception. “Old academic notions” are actually based on the historical reality of the development of disciplines, including the emergence of science from the broader category of philosophy, through a web of decision making. You cannot simply disregard that reality.

creator chimes in x.com/KevinBoyack/status/190…

As one of the creators of this map, I chuckled at most of the comments. For those interested in how it was created, see doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…. It was created in 2005 using dominant (but not all) journal-journal citation relationships between fields.

Interesting discussion. Nothing wrong with some deep thinking. In the temple there is language directed at men, with slightly different wording for women, which will be interesting for you to pay attention to. Don’t pay attention to the detractors. Keep the faith!

@MishaTeplitskiy @KevinBoyack @IsmaelRafols @lutzbornmann this literature is kinda a bit disconnected to quant. studied of science but it should't. Alex and @karlrohe have much to say on citational networks.

Woah. Fight brewing...

One day after publishing Frontiers' list of predatory journals, we received a threat from the publisher: "Your domain name or the content on your website may be infringing on a trademark and/or violating local laws or regulations. It is important that you respond at the earliest"

An interesting blog post about many concerning aspects of peer review process at Frontiers leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/r…

Un galego con filiación extranjera?? qué raro! Y si en lugar de ránkings tratáramos de entender mejor las dinámicas de la fuerza de trabajo académica global, sus perfiles, sus tipologías, su movilidad, o sus dificultades?... No serviría esto mejor a la ciencia y a la sociedad?

9 expertos españoles en Library & Information Science entre el 2% más citado en la 4a edición del Ranking de Stanford Ortega, J L Campanario, J M de Moya, F Bordons, M Pinto, M Aguillo, I F Delgado López-Cózar, E Torres-Salinas, D Ruiz-Castillo, J elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.…

The 10/50 rule of productivity exposed! The upper 10% of highly productive academics in 11 European countries studied (N = 17,211) provide on average almost half of all academic knowledge production my research shows. Just verifying on a global dataset! link.springer.com/article/10…