I've been working recently on a paper that reflects my interests in taking ideas from thinking about the brain and seeing how useful they are in trying to make sense of the social realm. And in issues of academic and political organization that seem to me intriguingly related. The paper will appear in the near future in the Journal of Research Practice, and I'll put a link to it here when it does. In the meanwhile, here's a link to a pdf of the latest draft of the paper