And now, I bow out to jetlag. See you tomorrow #CongreSSH!

I'd also like TripAdvisor to add another review category: UDP latency on hotel wifi to @martin_eve's server and VPN. #thanks

Just read that people were making this comparison in a Guardian article about the SR thing.

I don't know enough about the Silk Road trial, but isn't a comparison with Aaron Schwartz too much? AS acted for no personal financial gain.

After a much delayed landing due to thunderstorms, I have landed in Ottawa for #CongreSSH! I'm exhausted!

Diversity in moral and political philosophy journals http://zpr.io/ZLTr

A distinction without a difference http://zpr.io/Zk8B

. @CharlotteRock @klsmith4906 a difference that I suspect they fear might pertain to discoverability and aggregation...

. @CharlotteRock @klsmith4906 advanced metadata profiles on repositories will also make this easier.

Quite enjoying this new effort from the forthcoming Richard Thompson album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhiTO6tC-lM

Spare Rib now available online http://zpr.io/Zkp5

Laughing at submission system with: "Please enter a message explaining your funding situation". Will, "I'm in the humanities", do?

HEA recommends GPA for UK institutions http://zpr.io/Z2sx

Academic Publishing in the Digital Age workshop for arts and humanities doctoral candidates at @birkbeck_arts http://www.chase.ac.uk/events/2015/7/1/academic-publishing-in-the-digital-age

Wearing my Stewart Lee-inspired birthday t-shirt courtesy of my brother.

If anybody knows or is an Italian academic copyeditor, could they drop me a line please?

Also saw The Merchant of Venice at the Globe today. No stand-out performances but it was an extremely good production.

Had the pleasure of seeing her present an early version of this several years ago at Sussex.

Julia Jordan's paper on the Autostereogrammatical in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon is available open access in /Critique/ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.2014.897932

Sat next to a student on the tube whom I taught at Sussex. One of those great moments where he said nice things & I heard of his progress.

Amazon Decides To Start Paying Tax In the UK http://zpr.io/Z8zG

Reviewer: "it is somewhat ironic that the book is not open access!"
Me: The book is open access, you just have not looked.

Microsoft faces claims it threatened MPs with job cuts in constituencies http://gu.com/p/495h7

"Bank staff accidentally email details to the Guardian including PR notes on how to deny its existence". Slow hand clap.

Mark Knopfler in fine form last night at the O2, albeit with some strange set-list choices. Felt very heavy on Privateering...

Lights, camera, @actionwriting!

CFP: Mnemosyne: Deadline: Nov 1st, 2015 https://www.openlibhums.org/2015/05/19/cfp-mnemosyne-deadline-nov-1st-2015/

Job: Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at New York Public Library http://zpr.io/ZKQh

Positive topline results announced from Phase 3 studies with sarilumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis http://zpr.io/ZKQm

Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned http://zpr.io/ZKQM

Student demands for democratic control over universities http://zpr.io/ZKQE

Had a great evening discussing historical fictions this evening with @DrMagennis and Joe Brooker at Waterstones.

Ouch. @ulcc outage seems to have knocked lots of universities' Moodle sites offline.

Just read Broekman et al.'s /Open Education/. Didn't think defence of "disruption" best strategic move but some powerful critique within.

My word. Just seen that Lynx is attempting to re-brand the sponge as the Manwasher™. Sorry, women, no washing for you.

Finally understanding the RAB charge http://zpr.io/ZykN

So, today I spoke about library collaboration and the barriers to working together. Tomorrow, it's historical fictions with @DrMagennis!

Global Coalition Denounces Elsevier’s Sharing Policy - http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/10336

'Logjam' Vulnerability Threatens Encrypted Connections http://zpr.io/ZASP

Thomas Pynchon on whether publishers can pre-determine what will sell: "superstition rules the publishing business" http://thomaspynchon.com/thomas-pynchon-1973-letter-to-bruce-allen-and-the-marketing-of-gravitys-rainbow/

Global Conflict Alluvium Issue http://zpr.io/ZhHr

The terrifying words: "Hi, I'm one of the student doctors on the ward. Do you mind if I cannulate you?"

$5.3tn subsidy to fossil-fuel industry in 2015 is greater than total health spending of all the world’s governments. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf

Also, @ajrbyers is great and brings me joy seeing aforementioned journal prototypes!

Today, I did loads of tedious charity admin stuff on OLH. But it's so worth it when libraries sign up and I see the journal prototypes!

Book Review: Deconstructing Brad Pitt http://zpr.io/ZxcS

Then, on Thursday, I'll be doing a panel on historical fictions with @DrMagennis and Joe Brooker https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/historical-fictions-tickets-16599474475?aff=erellivorg

Today, see @the_blochian on Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures (which I sadly can't attend) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmental-futures-oil-ecology-petrocultures-tickets-16595336097

It's Arts Week at @birkbeck_arts! Do join us for some great, free events. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/about-us/events/arts-week

In fact, Selenium WebDriver is about the best thing I've discovered in a while. Couple it with pyvirtualdisplay & get total automation.

Today's lesson: if you want to perform complex web tasks in an automated fashion in Python, just go straight to Selenium and bypass Scrapy.

From control to contempt http://zpr.io/ZN2w

CfP: The Politics of Data (Science) http://zpr.io/ZNXu

CFP: The Abolition of the University: Deadline: Nov 1st, 2015 https://www.openlibhums.org/2015/05/14/cfp-the-abolition-of-the-university-deadline-nov-1st-2015/

More on reclaiming the role of women in the canon http://zpr.io/ZTrA

“@qikipedia When excited, Guinea pigs perform little hops and leaps called 'popcorning'. ” < can confirm

'Venom' Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters http://zpr.io/ZYi4

Many thanks to all involved colleagues on these; I'm usually just a tech. cog/facilitator!

2 journals on which I work have issues out today! Alluvium on Drones http://www.alluvium-journal.org/ and 19 on the Crimean War http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk

Robert Darnton closes the book http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/robert-darnton-closes-the-book/?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Priorities for the new BIS team http://zpr.io/ZsYc

Profile: Jo Johnson and Sajid Javid http://zpr.io/ZsYe

The new BIS team takes shape http://zpr.io/Zsjh

Mind the Sustainability Gap: a short guide to university finances http://zpr.io/Zsgs

Should We Retire the Term “Predatory Publishing”? - http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/05/11/should-we-retire-the-term-predatory-publishing/

Research Fellow in Co-operative Higher Education http://zpr.io/ZpML

Brilliant news! https://x.com/openlibhums/status/597679893590204416

"Teaching REF" stuff is nonsense for humanities anyway... There's no state funding. Meaningless certification.

The best book I've read in recent days on the abused word, "neoliberalism", is @davies_will's /The Limits of Neoliberalism/. @CameronNeylon

Proof-of-Concept Linux Rootkit Leverages GPUs For Stealth http://zpr.io/Zqva

The piece of writing that has most resonated with me about the UK election is this by @PlashingVole http://plashingvole.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/you-know-nothing-john-snow.html?m=1

UK friends, please do ask your librarians to join the OLH for a fairer way to open access in the humanities. https://x.com/openlibhums/status/596615710144647168

I just gave a one-off donation to @artsemergency on top of my monthly contributions. Seemed the best I could do today http://www.arts-emergency.org/donate-2/

Foucault and the Politics of Rights (2015) http://zpr.io/ZfJn

Historical Fictions http://zpr.io/ZRvt

SHERPA/REF consultation report https://thecrcblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/research-consulting-sherpa-ref-consultation-report-public.pdf [pdf]

Simon Pettet reads at Birkbeck http://zpr.io/ZRe6

Workshop: Future for the Annotation of Digital Objects (12-13 May, 2015) http://zpr.io/ZRua

Job: Head of Digital Preservation – New York Public Library http://zpr.io/ZHc3

1997: "No serious scholar would /EVER/ use the internet for serious scholarship". #nedimah2015

Two-pronged notion of DH: computational approaches to humanities and humanistic approaches to technology. #nedimah2015

It never occurred to @brettbobley that people would identify as "digital humanists"! #nedimah2015

Ten-year old document, "Our Cultural Commonwealth", has lots of talk of open access for humanities, notes @brettbobley #nedimah2015

Problem for @brettbobley: can we fund tool development? Example: studying papyrus is hums. But is building software to do it? #nedimah2015

"Our Cultural Commonwealth", a milestone and crucial project led by @unsworth ,now almost a decade old. #nedimah2015

First NEH computational humanities conference in 1967. Some of it still the same hang-ups on tenure, says @brettbobley! #nedimah2015

Now up at #nedimah2015 is @brettbobley, talking about the history of DH in the NEH.

A global view of the discipline: English studies and the QS international league tables http://zpr.io/ZHZP

"The thick smell of humanity, err, humidity" #nedimah2015

Interesting comments at #nedimah2015 on letting researchers photograph own material to create personal archive. @britishlibrary now allows.

Alessio Assonitis talks about the way in which their digital archive re-focused attention on material archive, not replacing it #nedimah2015

Book Review: The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet http://zpr.io/ZHH5

Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (2015) http://zpr.io/ZHHL

Looking forward to the Beyond Digital Humanities event today, although I'm sure there are humanities extinction jokes ahead. #nedimah

No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive http://zpr.io/ZtVt

New Chemical Brothers track today, "Go". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2RPDZkY88

Stepping back from sharing http://zpr.io/Z6Wn

£11.5k fees? Time to come back down to earth http://zpr.io/Z6WP

Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power http://zpr.io/ZPVK

CfP: The Politics of Data (Science) http://zpr.io/ZP5M

How to Install Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu http://zpr.io/ZPgv

Some settling in.

The Treasury View of Higher education 1 – human capital theory http://zpr.io/ZUJk