... and I seem to have just had my first academic publication accepted!

Fantastic film and Elia Suleiman himself answered my q!

Right; off to Barbican now for some Palestinian-film related joy!

♻ @two_mississippi: Thomas Pynchon's prose is like being smashed in the face by a beautiful hammer. #Pynchon

♻ @jon_fugler: http://bit.ly/df8BvA mint <-- I'll second that!

China Miéville: can't help feeling that The City and The City owes a bit to Pynchon's Vheissu and Shambala though. http://is.gd/bOG7i

I endorse this Slumdog Millionaire view, which was exactly my reaction: http://is.gd/bOFiZ

♻ @timeshighered: A letter's come in saying that uni staff shouldn't vote: "Why should we endorse our own extinction?" - thoughts? #voteHE

Just written a forthcoming piece for the Sussex Doctoral School blog.

Looking forward to attempting a Lucid Lynx (10.4) upgrade on my (K)Ubuntu boxes this weekend... or should I just go for a clean install?

♻ @philosophybites: 'Wittgenstein' to be screened in Paradise http://tinyurl.com/3954hag

♻ @SamHowroyd Congratulations on the @ContinuumPhilos prize! Lucky so-and-so!

Elia Sulemian's The TIme That Remains at the Barbican TONIGHT!

♻ @LeftfieldTour: Back in the studio today,my only company being the studio cat. She's got no respect for equipment..sitting on my lap top

Laptop battery dying (you will probably be pleased to hear!)

Games, Virtual Worlds, Social Networks #enres

Artists as those who drive technological innovation. #enres

Use of Second Life #enres

Collaboration with a national institute can greatly simplify the public engagement process #enres

Vanessa Toulmin says: contract, contract, contract! #enres

♻ @postdocal: Blown away by Vanessa Toulmin's research, impact strategy and brilliant presentation style #enres

♻ @Flygirltwo: Vanessa Toulmin's site: http://www.showzam.co.uk/ Visually very attractive. #enres

Vanessa Toumlin will be presenting at Duckie! #enres

T-Shirts etc. can be sold at events #enres

(so it doesn't look like an academic project) #enres

Employ a decent designer for your projects! #enres

Vanessa Toulmin; fantastic speaker. #enres

Funding proposals should put forward "Additional Outputs". ie. Podcasts (8 podcasts downloaded 10,000 times). #enres

Measure impact through audience use of public transport, money spent by people who travel to the location; economic... IMPACT! #enres

Web 2.0 trolling confirmed by Vanessa Toulmin! #enres

Do you think anyone would like a documentary on the novels of Thomas Pynchon? #enres

...audiences and partners #enres

Same research "repackaged" to different audiences #enres

HEIF seems fantastic; will certainly follow up on this. #enres

Resources required: Contractual support; HEIF funding (hardly anybody knows of this it seems!); faculty support; Marketing #enres

Get a contract that *protects your research*; especially when dealing with corporate partners. #enres

♻ @Flygirltwo: Vanessa Toulmin is one of the AHRC assessors 4 the impact of new grants & greatly enjoys the dissemination process. #enres

3 audiences: academic, public, commercial, specialist. #enres

Does science public engagement go beyond justifying itself? ie. educating the public to a level where they stop querying? #enres

Online presence of Wellcome collection; blog, podcast, much more! Just launched. #enres

Danger, especially in science panels, of a male-biased gender imbalance. #enres

Apologies to regular followers for conference-spam.

Wellcome collection always bring in humanities perspective #enres

Wellcome collection extremely keen on different perspectives. On how to avoid positioning self as "talking down" expert. #enres

Jenny Jopson from the excellent Wellcome collection takes the podium. #enres

"I'm a scientist" humanises scientists and brings scientists out of the lab. Despite cynical pop references. #enres

"I'm a scientist get me out of here". Cynical pop references. #enres

UCL Bentham project uses similar "Galaxy Zoo" public-sourcing. Is this exploitative? #enres

♻ @Flygirltwo: @alicebell On differences between periods in public understanding of science. Dialogic relationship still tough #enres

"Galaxy Zoo" gets amateur astronomers involved in research #enres

♻ @caffeinebomb: Getting all PoMo - imagining public engagement using the media about the media. #enres

♻ @mattlingard: Will Cameron say 'Last week in Rochdale I met a former Labour bigot...' http://is.gd/bMMae #leadersdebate #ge2010

According to the video, "everyone has a right to have an input into science"; is it a matter of dis-trust, though, or disinterest? #enres

How do YouTube videos encourage the bi-directionality that we want from "engagement" vs. "communication"; comments are mostly trolls! #enres

♻ @ContinuumPhilos: Nietzsche wishes you 'good teeth' & 'a good stomach' in the final batch of poem extracts: http://bit.ly/afJoF5

♻ @alicebell: @scottkeir wait for my talk... I'll bring the trauma #enres

Public Engagement can be looked down upon as trivial and has learning curve. #enres

♻ @alicebell: Ha! @DavidGauntlett: "what does the "E" in REF stand for again?". Room of academics (in unison) "EXCELLENCE!" #enres

Benefits of non-journal publication are, primarily, network-related; fruitful connections! #enres

public engagement != "impact" in RAE/REF terms. But leads to opportunities FOR impact. #enres

Engagement vs. Communication. Supposed to be a dialogue. #enres

Public engagement more widespread in science, as opposed to humanities. #enres

Average of 5 (!) readers per academic journal article. #enres

Disproportionate expenditure on research, compared to communicating that research #enres

ConnectionFactory; an online network for public engagement in Media (+ arts) #enres

difficulties of running workshops on public engagement and tech: preaching to the converted #enres

#enres about to kick off!

Institute for Fiscal Studies claims Tories are planning the biggest spending cuts since WWII; LD + Lab also huge cuts http://is.gd/bLiEn

♻ @AJCann: Nice critical review of bibliometrics in academia. Authors say "enough!" http://bit.ly/ax8A2W (via http://ff.im/jvT8J)

♻ @StokeyLitFest Under Milk Wood... In Mime http://bit.ly/aASyG0

Blog: http://post.ly/dkgK OUSU Freedom of Information requests

Looking forward to public engagement workshop at Westminster this Thursday. Places still open: http://is.gd/bJJmG #enres

♻ @AJCann: I'm liking GanttProject - http://www.ganttproject.biz/ (via http://ff.im/jsYQg)

♻ @MTuckerNo10: RT @mattpyle: @MTuckerNo10 http://twitpic.com/1io4ws <--- when is he visiting Scunthorpe? #ge10

Fantastic! Identified the probable archive source for one of Pynchon's early passages!

♻ @GdnPolitics: David Cameron held his first campaign press conference today. We sent Marina Hyde http://is.gd/bIqiI

It's great where Pynchon research leads you; currently on the American Civil War, then to Anarcho-Capitalism.

♻ @liannedemello: Childish but worthy of a giggle - best Election picture so far? http://ow.ly/i/1g5M

Shame: http://is.gd/bInd8

♻ @liannedemello: I'm on page 12/13 of today's Guardian. No, really!

Some of my WebAppSec research from the weekend. CSS History bug allows any site to determine your Facebook friends: http://is.gd/bI9Y0

Outrageous sentencing of atheist for minor misdemeanour http://is.gd/bGsIT

♻ @philosophybites: Where UK political parties stand on free speech http://bit.ly/ak7Z04 by @mePadraigReidy

Looking forward to an early start for the Effective Researcher Workshop tomorrow at Sussex.

The differences between the major parties are slim against the fascism of the BNP. I've given £25 to stop them. Will you? http://is.gd/bES7o

Interesting piece with hard numerical data on the erasure of women in contemporary society: http://is.gd/bEHp7

I think, terminology-wise, she is distinctly a DJ, rather than an MC, but: yes!

It seems from that every Britain using twitter will be voting LibDem; certainly not a bad thing! #leadersdebate

I don't know what they've done, but the internet at the BL is ultra speedy today (relatively!)

♻ @timeshighered: @libdems re. REF: http://bit.ly/d2ARy7 p3.2 "such considerations should not be used to decide whether projects are funded"

Utterly paranoid about the work I just submitted to supervision being sub-par.

Just confirmed I will be running a workshop on installing/using Open Journal Systems (OJS) at Sussex late Summer term; details to follow.

Lib Dems also want to remove “narrow impact factors” in funding decisions; thank goodness for that!

♻ @timeshighered: UK Lib Dems: ringfence science budget, abolish Hefce, phase out tuition fees: http://bit.ly/bY79tf

A scary story that has darkened my day; http://is.gd/brgWx

♻ @timeshighered: Lib Dems take lead in THE pre-election poll. Register your vote for mid-campaign update: http://bit.ly/ag7Ecv #ukelection

I have now at least started the annual research review. Tedious document!

Anybody familiar with connectionfactory.org.uk? Worth joining? Bit late but: #dr10

♻ @GdnPolitics: Three former Labour MPs granted legal aid for expenses trials http://bit.ly/djA6em || They're putting it on expenses!

Ask political leaders what they are going to do about the hideously antiquated second chamber: http://is.gd/bpITR

Interview with Vince Cable http://is.gd/bmBiv

I was doubtful, but my report to http://www.ic3.gov is being investigated by a nice policeman in Texas. He has given me the guy's real name!

I'm attending Public Engagement for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers -- http://publicengagement.eventbrite.com

♻ @philosophybites: The moral seriousness of Wikileaks. Will UK Dig. Econ. Bill block this site? http://tinyurl.com/yflc27t

♻ @philosophybites: Why UK's Digital Economy Bill deserved much more discussion and how it will disillusion geek voters http://bit.ly/byfCfd

I choose not to recognise the UK's Digital Economy Bill #whatdebill #debill http://whatdebill.org

John Hemming makes good point re. banning of Wikileaks in current provisions of #DEB

Lib Dem 17% ... and rising?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/07/digital-economy-bill-internet #DEB

Blog: http://post.ly/YZ7T Upcoming performance: Lucy and Martha, Tea Time

mkfs.ext4 -k -O extent -L "TERA" /dev/sdb1. Here we go!

The rootkit master, Joanna Rutkowska, unleashes Qubes OS; a desktop isolation Linux-derivative. http://qubes-os.org/Home.html

♻ @philosophybites: the value of scholarship in the Humanities and the absurdity of the UK's REF 'impact' analysis http://bit.ly/dsWWbX

Blog: http://post.ly/XgVT Applying for AHRC BGP Doctoral Grants

Blog: http://post.ly/XV5t Using tech to help with structure

More on VC's pay: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/01/university-vice-chancellors-pay

Enjoyable, yet predictable, interview with Chris Morris in today's Times.

Ubuntu 10.10 announced as the Maverick Meerkat. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2005