January 2015
On open-access books and “double dipping” http://meve.io/1BJednh
Uber: marketing precarity as freedom in the name of profit. http://meve.io/1Hyr1Tj
Germany will show some kind of meaningless, actionless, credit-hungry solidarity with Greece, apparently. http://meve.io/1BEKyZH
An Unnatural History of London, Feb 18th http://zpr.io/73bk
Jisc Monitor specification released http://meve.io/1BEA0K5
BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom http://zpr.io/73Ap
Michel Foucault: Political Thought http://zpr.io/73N3
On open-access books and “double dipping”
In a hybrid open-access environment, “double dipping” refers to cases where a publisher sells their services to an author (author-pays open access) while simultaneously selling the end product to libraries (a subscription). Typically, in the journal world, this happens when an open-access article…
Discussion board for Mark Z. Danielewski's THE FAMILIAR, Volume 1 - https://thefamiliar.wordpress.com/
Several blog posts I want to write (one on books and double dipping in particular) but no time, so instead I'll moan about that!
When Facebook goes down it takes big chunks of the internet with it - https://theconversation.com/when-facebook-goes-down-it-takes-big-chunks-of-the-internet-with-it-36873
Surgeons ask NHS England to rethink policy of publishing patients’ death rates - http://gu.com/p/45cd3
Grant letter: HEFCE’s regulatory powers beefed up http://zpr.io/7wWM
Record highs for university applications http://zpr.io/7wWE
AFAICS HEFCE cut by £81m. BIS estimate £1.1bn gain in tuition fees so writes of increased funding to universities. http://meve.io/1zG5RPC
Teaching and research: A zero-sum game? http://zpr.io/7way
Postdoc in the History of Sexuality (2015) http://zpr.io/7waA
Who should we trust? http://zpr.io/7DQN
A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a text message requesting feedback. http://meve.io/1BzNaKW
By extension: pre-pay to guarantee a certain classification! Refund if you don't get a 2:1. Perhaps insurance companies will step up.
Pass everyone? Hold staff responsible for lost income on dropouts? Totally commoditize education & only value the result?
UWS to refund fees of students who fail. I can't even count the number of unintended consequences of this. http://meve.io/1z6FvEA
On scholarly monographs and the sciences by @stevenhill http://stevenhill.org.uk/on-scholarly-monographs-and-the-sciences/
Digital Humanities Ph.D. funding at @birkbeck_arts http://meve.io/1uE4glV
The history of university representation http://zpr.io/7DZZ
Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. II of II) http://zpr.io/7DZp
Prehistories of the Digital Humanities http://zpr.io/7DZz
Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351
Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record http://zpr.io/78LC
Blown away by the North American response to our OLH membership call already. Wow.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction [CRSF] 2015 http://zpr.io/79K5
Reading List: 8 books on remembering the Holocaust http://zpr.io/79KL
ICYMI: LYRASIS Becomes Exclusive North American Membership Partner for @openlibhums
http://meve.io/1CcYcbZ < big news!
Is it weird that I want to go one of these fake conferences to see what happens at them? http://zpr.io/79HR
An Encyclopedia Anyone (except feminists) Can Edit http://www.markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous.html
The search continues
University Signs Slavic Languages Professor to Five Year, $52 Million Contract http://www.everythreeweekly.com/university-signs-slavic-languages-professor-to-five-year-52-million-contract/
Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law http://zpr.io/7beF
Some Afterthoughts on Academic Blogging http://zpr.io/7be3
‘When will the job market return to normal?’ - https://headofdepartmentblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/when-will-the-job-market-return-to-normal/
Book Review: Kant’s Politics in Context by Reidar Maliks http://zpr.io/7KSE
David Cameron sees tax cuts worth £7bn as a ‘reward for sacrifice’ http://gu.com/p/457bp < astonishing - it's the weak he's sacrificing
Foucault references in mainstream film (2015) http://zpr.io/7KTz
Why We Still Can't Really Put Anything In the Public Domain - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/n8ojQ7Ijhi0/story01.htm
2"59'. Great stuff.
Working my way through some writing this morning. Discovered some new heavy dub that's now powering it: http://meve.io/1B8A4BB
Astonishing article on The Knowledge. via @VickyLebeau http://meve.io/1z8daiX
The Case for “Intelligent, Bloggy Bookchat By Scholars”: How’s It Looking? http://zpr.io/7y4p
Keucheyan gives the best, although least specific, definition of neoliberalism: the restoration of the profit rate by all means necessary.
MT @whitneytrettien: I don't know what's happening to this page I just downloaded from EEBO. http://meve.io/15FQ0Ua < House of Leaves
Angry Twitter is bad for your health http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwjM_sgSA
Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy (2015) http://zpr.io/7AeY
Discourses of Attachment and Overwork in the Economy of Academic Labour http://meve.io/1EBTBOG cites @Nadine_Muller cc @HallyMk1
If you didn't fancy being Associate Dean of Eureka Moments, you could have been "Director of WOW" http://meve.io/1BkNMnI
Alternative provider expansion – 1st figures for 2013/14 published http://meve.io/1BkFJqY by @amcgettigan
Will anti-CD4 Treatment Lead to a Rheumatoid Arthritis Cure? http://meve.io/1JhiQbE
If you'd like a job title that basically reads "I have totally lost all of my self respect", then here's your gig. http://meve.io/1Jhg0n3
Unbelievable.
“I did kick out at the left side of her face as trained to do. ... I do remember hitting harder because it had no effect.”
Policeman cleared after kicking mother tending to child in hospital. "Hhe had contemplated using a baton or CS gas" http://meve.io/1yBMS6r
Quantum Computing Without Qubits http://zpr.io/7AtX
Barrett Brown, Formerly of Anonymous, Sentenced To 63 Months http://zpr.io/7AtN
A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century Demography http://zpr.io/7hwH
In case you missed it earlier: the HEFCE #OA monographs report is out. Here are some of my thoughts: http://meve.io/15v6zS7 #humanities
Request for Proposals for participation in the 2015 Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute http://meve.io/1t0YYp0
The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections http://meve.io/15v6zS7
The HEFCE report on Open Access Monographs: some reflections
The environment surrounding open access to monographs was significantly advanced today by the release of a report commissioned by the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) that translates the government's higher…
Classic strategy of condescension. Make a gesture that looks like goodwill from which you massively profit.
I'm sceptical that The Sun removed Page 3 solely due to social pressure. They've replaced it with a full-page Sainsbury ad. Massive revenue.
James Patterson's newest book will self-destruct after 24 hours http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwx7u0gSA < making the economics work by reintroducing scarcity
In the future, all history textbooks will be called Wolf Hall spoilers.
Digital Preservation Issues in the Humanities - storify by @melissaterras https://storify.com/melissaterras/digital-preservation-issues-in-the-humanities?awesm=sfy.co_f0BwB&utm_content=storify-pingback&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaign=&utm_source=direct-sfy.co
HEFCE Open Access Monographs Report. Chilcot Report. Hint: only one will be out tomorrow.
Reading Razmig Keucheyan's /The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today/ on my train journey home today. So far it's fantastic.
Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education: 2015 special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies http://zpr.io/7MVm
Just had the loveliest email saying that my book is on someone's course. Never underestimate how happy such an email can make the recipient!
DOIs "are not magic technology; the 'persistence' is the result of a social contract" -- @gbilder
Excellent post by @gbilder on the international outage of the DOI HTTP resolver system yesterday http://meve.io/1CfQXOW
Todd May reviews Wrong Doing, Truth Telling http://zpr.io/7MDa
Method in the web archive for the arts and humanities: a conference report http://zpr.io/7MDY
The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uzwBqsPHTEg/story01.htm
Some things about the acceleration of higher education which I would like to understand more than I do http://zpr.io/7M8F
Being called to account: tax considerations for UK-based collectively-funded open access publishers http://meve.io/1yFQYfP
Guardian could barely be less subtle in their use of the phrase "green surge". #ohwell
Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day http://zpr.io/7ESx
Oh dear. Looks like CrossRef's link resolver has died. That's a pretty central point of ScholComms infrastructure.
(I didn't choose the title on that piece, which is reblogged from a previous post... If I thought it could be done "easily", well...)
Obstacles to innovation in digital publishing can be overcome by opening up legal channels for experimentation http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/01/20/experimentation-martin-eve/
"Odious Political Party X isn't happy about photo Y. Better not RT, eh?" [subtext: Y is fake & you'll look foolish for RTing]
“A Web of Rights”: Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital http://meve.io/1Bxw5Ut
The Contemporary Small Press: A Symposium and Book Fair, February 20 http://zpr.io/7Esr
"A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
This event will debate how and in what ways the web has complicated, enhanced, and changed the rights of citizens for better or for worse. The ongoing fallout from the Snowden revelations has both sharpened awareness of how our rights are changing and highlighted a culture of indifference towards…
Being called to account: tax considerations for UK-based collectively-funded open access publishers
That's a pretty specific title, I suspect, but as I am learning with the Open Library of Humanities, we're in uncharted territory, a place where the specifics matter. This post should not be considered legal or accounting advice. I'm not qualified to give it. I post this as a series of matters that…
Green Party 2015 higher education policies http://zpr.io/7X3e
Drop in academic jobs for AHRC-funded PhDs in 2012-2013 to just 32%. http://meve.io/1Eihgn8 [$] via @DrOwenClayton
"Who do you get to say I am?" by @CameronNeylon. On disciplinarity, identity and open communication. http://meve.io/1Eig1nQ
Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives? http://meve.io/14XE7aQ
Yet more good news for Celtic Romanticist Travel Scholars http://zpr.io/7Xj7
Wonder if that's the beginning of some kind of move on the academic scene/acad dot edu. Also has "thesis" option.
Wow. I've just noticed that Facebook has a "life event" option, "published a book or paper". That's new to me!
Britons abroad receive more benefits from EU than EU migrants receive in benefits from Britain says @guardian report http://meve.io/1yC7cot
Half global wealth held by the 1% http://gu.com/p/45xyk < sure the "Billionaires and politicians" at Davos have strong incentive to change
Foucauldian methodologies for considering emerging archives?
Some notes and early (very abstract) draft thoughts on whether Foucauldian genealogies, as redefined by Colin Koopman, can help us to address the problems of the archive in contemporary fiction studies. In Pynchon and Philosophy, I needed to give a succinct outline of the usual approach towards…
Academy schools stockpile £2.5bn of education funding http://gu.com/p/45xtt
Ceci n'est pas une lampe.
Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) reviews Open Access and the Humanities http://meve.io/1BmMgUA
Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) reviews Open Access and the Humanities
At the end of 2013 and 2014 I wrote blog posts on Occam’s Corner (over at the Guardian) to list and briefly review the books I read in each of those years. I am trying to develop this practice into a good habit because it spurs me to read; and I hope it might also serve to flag up titles of…
Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Commited a Serious Crime http://zpr.io/7a82
Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects http://zpr.io/7aXq
Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator http://zpr.io/7aUf
Other Uber ideas: Uber Prison (spare basements); Uber Denistry (where enthusiasm trumps experience); Uber Airlines (how hard can it be?)
Foucault and Iran (and Ernst Bloch) – an August 1979 interview newly available in French http://zpr.io/7TWU
Also great to meet @ambrouk in person!
Had a great day at #HEFCEmetrics (although I don't want to hear the word "metrics" again for a long time). Thanks @elebelfiore @jameswilsdon
But definitely agree that QR funding cut is huge threat #HEFCEmetrics
I disagree somewhat with @geoffcrossick on change in ScholComms having to come wholly from within disciplines #HEFCEmetrics
Welch: early exposure of ideas; regular mini peer review #HEFCEmetrics
Welch says high quality in arts & hums will focus on: fewer pubs at higher qual; targeting outlets w/ peer review #HEFCEmetrics
"We already use metrics" - Evelyn Welch #HEFCEmetrics
Delgado put metrics in contrast to peer review there. Is it? Is REF subpanel peer review? (breadth of expertise etc) #HEFCEmetrics
Much non-HESA data was presented narratively notes Delgado. Data cannot speak for themselves. #HEFCEmetrics
Maria Delgado now talking about data richness of REF. Data/evidence seems to cause less anxiety than metrics among academics. #HEFCEmetrics
Jonathan Adams asserts that impact of Arts and Humanities cannot neatly be divided between extra and intra -academic contexts #HEFCEmetrics
“@effjayem @arrroberts @martin_eve Turn it into a competition with rules and of course participants will game it.” #HEFCEmetrics
Managing the student loan book (again) http://zpr.io/7YYJ
Neoliberal Dogma? Revisiting Foucault on Social Security, Healthcare, and Autonomy (Pt. I of II) http://zpr.io/7YYi
Is the post-REF spin on a multi-dimensional dataset, "gaming"? #HEFCEmetrics
Define "gaming" of metrics. Are the efforts universities put into getting good scores in last, non-metric REF, gaming? #HEFCEmetrics
Conversely if 20 people view it and then go change the world as a result, then the hits figure is irrelevant #HEFCEmetrics
Is number of hits "impact"? I'd say it's evidence of dissemination. If 6m people watch a video but don't act - no impact #HEFCEmetrics
. @mikethelwall argues that metrics for quality are perhaps not possible but can be for impact of Hums work #HEFCEMetrics
I'm speaking today at the HEFCE Independent Review of Metrics for Humanities workshop. Some of the stuff I'll say: http://meve.io/158DZ8K
Metrics in the Arts and Humanities http://meve.io/158DZ8K
CFP: Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2015) http://zpr.io/7s6Z
(Will try to blog what I say.)
Looking forward to tomorrow's @HEFCE Independent Metrics Review workshop on Hums & Social Sciences. Hope to see some of you there!
"ongoing campaigns of top-loading acquisitions of smaller publishers by large conglomerates that span hums & sciences" OA & Hums, p. 35.
Springer and Macmillan to merge, including Palgrave. http://meve.io/1C3RtQ3
Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. (2015) http://zpr.io/7jg9
How Amazon Convinces You That It Has the Lowest Prices on Everything http://zpr.io/7jgb
Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
Tomorrow I will be speaking at the HEFCE Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities workshop, commissioned by the independent review panel. Here are some notes on what I am planning to say. These are just brief notes for a ten-minute talk. They're not…
Hinchingbrooke - why did England's privatised hospital deal really collapse? http://meve.io/1yjBmLI
David Mitchell to publish new novel Slade House this autumn http://gu.com/p/44pyt
OA and the Humanities just hit top 1% by 30-day views on Academia dot edu! http://meve.io/1zbM8Xg http://meve.io/1zbM9dH
Oh dear. There's a party running for the UK election on an "anti-feminist" platform. Grim. http://meve.io/1AesTaC
As per #Force2015 Twitter conversation yesterday, I agree with some of Harnad's first paragraph here. http://meve.io/1C5Asm4
Announcement: Debates in the Digital Humanities – A book series from the University of Minnesota Press http://zpr.io/7ptr
Foucault’s archaeology: science and transformation (2014) http://zpr.io/7ptS
UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them http://zpr.io/7z6f
Announcement: Stanford University Press Awarded $1.2 Million for the Publishing of Interactive Scholarly Works http://zpr.io/7zGd
Reinventing universities in the media http://zpr.io/7zGJ
An interesting set of interviews with David Shetzline, including stuff on Thomas Pynchon http://meve.io/1wV19H3
#Force2015 looks ace from live-tweets. Sadly, missing it as I have hospital procedure today that, trust me, you don't want livetweeted.
Liberalism without humanism: Michel Foucault and the free-market creed, 1976–1979 http://zpr.io/7GTW
A man named Doom helped create the first atomic bomb and we spoke to him http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw_pmZ8Bo
Book Review: British Pirates and Society 1680-1730 by Margarette Lincoln http://zpr.io/7fkH
I suppose it will be fun. ;)
Less than a month now until the exciting David Foster Wallace colloqium at @birkbeck_arts! http://meve.io/1y7MQl6
What will post-democracy look like? http://zpr.io/7f6q
Foucault and neoliberalism http://zpr.io/7fPx
What the codex does well is balancing sequential and random access, clearly key to academic reading/usage.
OpenSSL Patches Eight New Vulnerabilities http://zpr.io/7RxP
OK, now that's an academic conference! Industrielle Volksmusik for the Twenty-First Century at Aston. On Kraftwerk! http://meve.io/1IyAKnU
Raymond Williams Now. 30 May 2015 http://zpr.io/7Hwb
MAC-limited DHCP network. Want to connect router to that net & for it to run own DHCP for internal wireless clients (NAT) Any router advice?
Europe Releases its TTIP Proposals on Intellectual Property http://zpr.io/7HZt
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Daniel Zamora – A Reply: Was Foucault Speaking in His Own Voice? http://zpr.io/7HZg
Editors’ Choice: The Machines in the Valley Digital History Project http://zpr.io/7tSH
(Piece isn't against open licensing but contra informed consent and scary scale of their practice)
Dangers of Turnitin by @Jessifer: "free to use any ideas, concepts, techniques, know-how ... for any purpose" http://meve.io/1xVhL7v
Catching up on @openlibhums review assignments after the Winter break. Submit your work now! http://meve.io/1xVeh4O
debbie tucker green international symposium, 21 November 2015, University of Lincoln, UK http://zpr.io/7ttF
Risen From the Ashes: Speculative Fiction at the End of the World http://zpr.io/7tt3
Foucault and Neoliberalism AUFS Event: Thomas Nail – Michel Foucault, Accelerationist (2015) http://zpr.io/7gDj
Antibiotic breakthrough could turn the tables in battle against superbugs http://gu.com/p/44kzm
By trawling charity commission though I see many societies w/ £100k+ revenue from subscription publishing when many don't have access. 2/2
I've been told: we don't have an economic problem with journals in the humanities because they cost less than in STEM. 1/2
Which, now, are the elite UK humanities units? Or, some more thoughts on the REF http://zpr.io/7gPW
Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 17 http://zpr.io/76Vh
Jeb Bush runs for President & Europe's all like: "ya know, America, we nailed this being ruled by a single rich family thing a while back".
Really interesting force-directed network meta-analysis of "the" literary canon by @Mark_A_H & @markjamesmcgurl http://meve.io/14m7pzR
But also greatly enjoyed the construction of narrative through parody of academic discourse. Not so keen on all the typographical features.
Reminded me of the "horror" engendered in Lynch's /Lost Highway/ when spatial norms violated by the Mystery Man.
Put my transatlantic flights to good use to finally read Mark Z. Danielewski's /House of Leaves/.
Toyota Opens Patents On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology http://zpr.io/76ps
Foucault on Parrhesia – translation of a 1982 lecture forthcoming in Critical Inquiry http://zpr.io/76tm
“@labourpress Tory dossier says Labour will cancel cuts to the arts budget. We won't.” < bloody hell. You're supposed to be the alternative.
And now... off home again. Clicking the heels of my red shoes.
Really enjoyed our panel on ScholComms today. Thanks to all who came. Thanks to @cecymarden and others for organising! #s253 #aha2015
A reminder re our panel on digital innovation in publishing at #AHA2015. Starting at 8.30. Me, @kfitz, @lisarnorberg, @mkgold & @CecyMarden
The Foucault You Didn’t Know http://zpr.io/7USG
I'm glad that James Dyson is attacking Theresa May's awful policy on student immigration in the UK. His interest is purely economic, though.
Dear SwiftKey: a default prediction of "affair" after "I'm just having an" is going to cause problems. I wanted to say "excellent breakfast"
Foucault and Neoliberalism – the debate continues (on Progressive Geographies) http://zpr.io/qQij
Landed in NYC. Wanted to go straight to sleep at 4pm. Went to see Inherent Vice instead. @PynchonInPublic
A Marxist experience of Foucault,Antonio Negri http://zpr.io/qQEE
Interview with Sherryl Vint http://zpr.io/qQEa
Off to #AHA2015 now! Hope to see some friends there and looking forward to our Wellcome panel on ScholComms.
Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys http://zpr.io/qWWt
Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 http://zpr.io/qW3L
Google publishes Windows vulnerability despite no fix from Microsoft http://zpr.io/qWDW
My totally non-scientific survey shows that Google Scholar is pretty rubbish at tracking citations to books.
Book Review: Security in Cyberspace: Targeting Nations, Infrastructures, Individuals by Giampiero Giacomello http://zpr.io/qWp6
"Rail fares frozen again, says George Osborne" / "Rail fares in rise by an average of 2.2%" / "increase continues to outstrip wage growth"
Review of 'Informed agitation: library and information skills in social justice movements & beyond' by @moananddrone http://meve.io/1xCedDG
Worrying http://zpr.io/qBQ6
But also, check out Horse - Celebrate (Magimix) and any of their remixes of Pop Will Eat Itself's RSVP. @jon_fugler
Relistened to a load of old Fluke remixes this evening. Really superb stuff. New Order, Talk Talk & Human League among the best @jon_fugler
Another Liberty Canon: Foucault http://zpr.io/qBAg
2015 is go!
Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 http://zpr.io/qBjB
Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming http://zpr.io/qBPe