Two potential directions for para-acad... http://markcarrigan.net/2013/06/30/two-potential-directions-for-para-academic-digital-scholarship/

Eric Pickles' department fined for £217m overdraft http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23095396

Foucault: What could be otherwise (2013) http://foucaultnews.com/2013/06/30/foucault-what-could-be-otherwise-2013/

First Trailer: J.D. Salinger Documentary http://bit.ly/12bMZSE

MIT Researchers Can See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi http://bit.ly/19HaaNt

The AHRC’s Collaborative Skills Development call http://bit.ly/18mxjTS

The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan? http://markcarrigan.net/2013/06/29/the-empty-posturing-of-zizek-and-lacan/

Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu 13.10 will ship XMir http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2013/06/lubuntu-1310-will-ship-xmir.html

D-Wave Large-Scale Quantum Chip Validated, Says USC Team http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CvaNElebNv8/story01.htm

Study in PLOS Medicine links NSAID diclofenac to increased risk of heart attack and stroke http://gu.com/p/3hxxg #rheum

PS if you're waiting for an email from me, it should be coming over the weekend

Ah, back in Blighty. Now have a very short period in which to overcome jetlag before next week's conferences!

In/Between Feminism and Foucault: Iraqi Women’s War Blogs and Intellectual Practices of the Self (2013) http://bit.ly/14d4rJG

Great day speaking at Harvard w @the_blochian. Huge thanks to @DavidRArmitage & @iceskatingbears. Deeply honored in such company #OLHtalk

Withnail & I quotations sustaining @the_blochian and I through a delayed Amtrak journey. "We're not from London" but we're "making time".

Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle http://bit.ly/149nKU2

Defending the open society: Foucault, Hayek, and the problem of biopolitical order (2013) http://bit.ly/12iu7o3

Just noticed the "dubious author" role in eprints. Assume this is for uncertain authorship conditions. Still aspire to achieve it.

*DARTH blog

I have a small piece up on the Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities ahead of our talk this week http://www.darthcrimson.org/open-access-and-the-humanities/

Excellent article by @brembs contesting journal rank now available for download - http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full

Thoughts on Translating Kant on Enlightenment (2013) http://bit.ly/12eQWZN

Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD http://bit.ly/1c5USNS

The Funambulist Pamphlets: Vol. 02_Foucault (2013) http://bit.ly/14PqSWa

Chinese gov. says serious polluters can face death penalty. Good to tackle but I oppose death penalty in all cases. http://bit.ly/1c6GOE4

It may be too little, too late, but Kickstarter have apologised and donated $25k to an anti-sexual violence org. http://kck.st/19arxpy

Love this: “She will be like everyone, putting on the things she sees the constructions she expects to find there” Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

Highlight of today, needing to urgently sign a form at distance. I've given them a GPGP cryptographic hash. Waiting for uni admin to implode

Mmm. Cool new OA policy book from British Academy. Officially launching soon, but have my copies!

Mmm. Wish I could be at the #oai8 session on HSS and OA this morning.

Sixth-former establishes feminist society. "we were subject to a torrent of degrading and explicitly sexual comments" http://bit.ly/1463gdc

Spellcheck in LibreOffice just gave me "quackery" for "Kerouac". Draw your own conclusions.

Researchers Crack iOS Mobile Hotspot Passwords In Less Than a Minute http://bit.ly/1bWOtoi

A critique of Foucault’s definitions of governmentality (2013) http://bit.ly/13TQi3L

Millions At Risk From Critical Vulnerabilities From WordPress Plugins http://bit.ly/10359IE

Nice interview piece with @jharvell on "Open access: the view from the library" http://bit.ly/1bVXm1j #oai8

I've got a chapter in there and, yes, I would have gone for a more liberal licence given the choice, but this is a good start anyway.

Impending release of important book, "Debating Open Access" by the British Academy. Will be at http://bit.ly/10wHfrs under CC-BY-NC-ND

"There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly." - Israel Zangwill. 1891. http://bit.ly/16I7Il7

Humanities and Social Sciences Are Central to National Goals, Report Argues http://bit.ly/101WztA

OK, even I'm going to draw the line at subjecting my stream to an article on Foucault's influence on accounting.

Amazing work by @adam42smith -- just this afternoon he's updated the Zotero Talis translator so reading lists can be harvested into Zotero.

Port Magazine interviews Paul Thomas Anderson http://bit.ly/129yTjl

Speaking with @the_blochian at Harvard on "Open Access and the Humanities", June 27, 2-4 pm, Thompson Rm, Barker Ctr! http://bit.ly/16EHgsy

New Directory of Open Access Journals selection criteria http://bit.ly/16dnL9x

Massive congratulations to @lizgloyn on her 3-year lectureship post at @royalholloway! http://bit.ly/16db3I1

Foucault, The Mesh of Power (2012) http://bit.ly/11ka7Bv

Using Foucault in education research (2012) http://foucaultnews.com/2013/06/17/using-foucault-in-education-research-2013/

(That last tweet via my entire timeline)

Ha ha! Proposing MOOAs: Massive Open Online Administration, a plan to cut duplicated administration in institutions http://bit.ly/17RdHHc

Happy #bloomsday all!

On travels off up to Lincoln for a few days. Hoping to avoid getting drenched on walk to our away day tomorrow.

Foucault, Magritte and negative theology beyond representation (2013) http://bit.ly/ZTpyzA

I continue to misspell Ia[i]n Banks.

Ian (M.) Banks on life, the universe and writing "made up space shit" http://bit.ly/10kf6Uq

Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) http://bit.ly/1adAUmv

Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault (2013) http://bit.ly/12spRE5

Don't normally do #FF, but... some great people who've improved my week @davidrarmitage @kfitz @petersuber

Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences http://bit.ly/1a827Xz

"Increasing the amount that students would be forced to pay back would make loans more attractive to buyers" http://bit.ly/19wdfPe < brazen

The #eular2013 tag might be of interest to people on #rheum -- medical rheumatology conference.

The best presents are Bartleby presents. @melvillehouse

Great piece by @mgmcquillan: "[Gove] is motivated by theology" http://bit.ly/ZL6SC5

Foucault's History of Sexuality - an updated table http://bit.ly/11B0jzJ

Ever the romantic type, on my wife's significant birthday I am on a tocilizumab drip. Great NHS staff speeding things along to get me home!

Sense About Science running a workshop on peer review at Sussex on the the 5th July http://bit.ly/14WS2XT

Man of Steel: why Hollywood needs a break from superhero movies http://gu.com/p/3gfya

London Beckett Seminar: June 2013 http://bit.ly/11tjdYe

Gather @Stew, @rmounce and @Protohedgehog are going. Any DH type people up for it? @ernestopriego, @melissaterras? http://bit.ly/ZHou1F

This Hack4Ac event looks brilliant. Although, given my schedule, it's sadistic, will try to make at least some of it http://bit.ly/ZHou1F

registrants must have archival provisions. Also, the function of an ISBN isn't to resolve, so that's a dud analogy. http://bit.ly/11637br

of an article on the web than registering an ISBN number keeps a book in print". Unless I'm mistaken, CrossRef terms specify that...

Let me quibble on a minor point in Egan's article. "DOIs can be registered by anyone and having one no more guarantees the availability...

Disability in Postmodern American Literature (NeMLA, April 3-6, 2014) http://bit.ly/ZGuIiu

Bloomsbury Revelations: Reissue Series http://bit.ly/1boSx0c

The role of universities in social mobility http://bit.ly/19XbGIF

Remembering seeing Iain Banks with @GreatDismal last year or so at the @britishlibrary with @MsTick68. A great shame he's gone.

Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas.

“common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it”

Foucault/Wittgenstein. Subjectivité et politique. http://bit.ly/ZCgC1p

German man locked up (actually: sectioned to psychiatric unit) over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth http://gu.com/p/3c6t6

Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (2013) http://foucaultnews.com/2013/06/09/althusser-and-his-contemporaries-philosophys-perpetual-war-2013/ < can't wait to read this

Really not getting on with Lynne Tillman's /This is Not It/. Am I missing something? Seems crass and overly self-aware.

Oh, sorry, I mean John Cummings! #wmuk

Too much interesting stuff on what "Wikimedians in Residence" actually do from Andy Mabbett. Encouraging open practices for GLAMs #wmuk

Odd Type Writers http://bit.ly/17xlOZl

WikiTrust - a measure of page trust. Stability, collaboration and feedback tools. @sjgknight #wmuk

Interestingly, though, I don't agree re PDFs. Despite digital savvy, I'm still fairly paper-centric. Or at least hard edged. #wmuk

Hehe. @sjgknight would like to ban PDFs. #wmuk

Paradata and metadata, for instance on transclusion stats, integrated in MediaWiki #wmuk

Wikimedia is well suited to reuse, adaptation, remixing and redistribution for OERs says @sjgknight #wmuk

Now up at #wmuk us @sjgknight who will be speaking on OER and Learning Analytics with MediaWiki.

Writing today about differentiations between literary & academic conditions of production and intersections of market-defined "democracies".

Heading over to #WMUK shortly to speak about "Opening Up Humanities Sources". Hoping I can dodge the EDL protests :/

Vodafone paid no corporation tax in Britain last year. Again. http://bit.ly/13l5Hbq

New York: It's Time to Take Action for Open Access http://bit.ly/13LnkSs

Must say that the Critical Pedagogies conference in September (with @HallyMk1 among others) looks great. http://bit.ly/ZV0gU8

Where should we expect social change in non-ideal theory? (2013) http://bit.ly/ZxeW9t

Looking forward to speaking at WikiConference UK 2013 tomorrow on open access, the humanities and @openlibhums.

CrossRef seem to be CCing in arbitrary people to my resolution reports...

How To Fake Your Way Through Hegel http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/how-to-fake-your-way-through-hegel/

IMF admits: we failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece http://gu.com/p/3gc7g

Widow's memoir of David Foster Wallace gathers acclaim http://gu.com/p/3gbyp

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice; August 15, 2013 http://bit.ly/ZP2c0q

Tender Buttons at 100: Stein's Transatlantic Modernism (NeMLA 2014, Apri 3-6) http://bit.ly/11hVRob

Calvino’s Contexts: The Influences On and The Influences Of Italo Calvino (NeMLA Apr. 2014) http://bit.ly/11hVTfV

“@jasonHoyt RT @GaviaLib: New post: CHORUS: hoping for re-enclosure http://dlvr.it/3TFfSq”

I did not know this. "Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning" (especially in children) http://slate.me/10OpKRw

1. Create nebulous uni ranking system 2. Write "news" items about own rankings 3. Profit from free content of academic outrage via page hits

Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind http://gu.com/p/3gapn

Huge congratulations to @lizith on passing her PhD viva!

Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 http://bit.ly/13CCBEY

IV for Three http://bit.ly/ZKoJLC @PynchonInPublic #pynchon2013

Bret Easton Ellis talks to Matthew Specktor http://bit.ly/18Mk4ff

Publication: ‘The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish’ in Zombies in the Academy (Bristol: Intellect, 2013) http://bit.ly/15tK7nw

Fantastic cafe and book shop combined in Lincoln: @bookstopcafe. Great for local authors who want to get their work out.

Les boîtes à outils des études postcoloniales (2013) http://bit.ly/15q3Lkl

Invocations of Modernism: Q&A with Will Self http://bit.ly/11JGvyE

97 Things You Didn’t Know About William S. Burroughs http://bit.ly/1aLJmqi

Some notes on austerity, higher education and the crisis of *human capital* http://bit.ly/11JGvif

For Sale: Samuel Beckett's Murphy Manuscripts http://bit.ly/11JGtqL