Very pleased to have supported this Hand 2 Mouth theatre project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hand2mouth/time-a-fair-hustler-help-hand2mouth-build-a-time-m/comments?ref=email

Friday-night opener: Duncan Gray - The Weak Nuclear Force (Rich Lane remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RgshK48yRw @ernestopriego @qui_oui

Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory http://www.ligo.org/

Among best parts of holiday: cuppa w/ Norna Robertson & hearing about gravitational wave detectors in lay terms http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/17/15/201

Report from the Birkbeck Action Writing Conference by @AlexJohnWill - http://www.alexander-williamson.com/blog/2015/7/31/report-from-the-birkbeck-action-writing-conference

UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past http://zpr.io/s89F

Resource: Annotags — a Decentralized Textual Annotation Protocol http://zpr.io/s893

.NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters http://zpr.io/s9br

Google will now require explicit consent for tracking European users http://zpr.io/s9bS

In defence of the Research Excellence Framework (to ensure publicly funded research) by @jameswilsdon http://gu.com/p/4b2mx

German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive http://zpr.io/sb5y

Georgia sues man for posting annotated state laws online http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwxL6uoCI

Dimensions of quality research http://zpr.io/syVb

In solidarity with students: so what more might academics do? http://zpr.io/sykQ

Swiss Researchers Describe a Faster, More Secure Tor http://zpr.io/sykW

Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call http://zpr.io/smem

Exoplanet Names 2 http://zpr.io/smhY

Foucault and Human Rights: Seeking the Renewal of Human Rights Education http://zpr.io/smhs

"Metadata" cc @dkernohan

I mean, this doesn't even make any sense from the logic that it's about marketisation. Deny "consumers" price knowledge.

I am sure that nobody will ever be deterred from going to university by knowing that they may have to pay an arbitrary amount to do so.

Basic logic there: students should pay £6k more so the government can pay £1.5k or so less.

Government confirms preference for retrospective price hike on undergraduate study http://zpr.io/sMEi

New account @OpenAccessHSS will provide info on developments in OA for HSS. (I'm a co-curator.)

To those designing the next user interface for journal/editorial management: if it isn't basically Trello, I don't want to hear about it.

Given this situation, why not make the thesis of the future into something we actually use and value? Find a different proxy for hiring.

You must revise your thesis into a book because we don't have time to read people's thesis work & there are lots of good theses.

Because we made you produce an object in the first place that is insufficient as a proxy for hiring as it's unconstrained by market scarcity

Seen the Palgrave advice for ECRs on publishing. I have a different response to first question: "Why do I need to revise my thesis?"

Formalized Epistemes: Foucault’s Incomplete Order of History (2015) http://zpr.io/sE9W

Bug Exposes OpenSSH Servers To Brute-Force Password Guessing Attacks http://zpr.io/sxVm

The Perpetual Financial Crisis of UK Higher Education http://zpr.io/sxuY

Just realised how good my eyesight is as I know the bottom line of the chart is KZOH and I'm not even in the opticians yet.

"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about north-american-dubstep."

Announcement: NeDIMAH launches NeMO http://zpr.io/sX4d

Author EL Doctorow dies in New York aged 84 http://gu.com/p/4apma

Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat http://zpr.io/sXUq

LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland http://zpr.io/sXUG

. @Retr0 made a great tool to visualise @benmeg and @lawsonstu's data on UK university journal subscriptions http://shiny.retr0.me/journal_costs/

"Unfortunately we are not permitted to scan the following item as it has been excluded from our CLA scanning licence".

the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble http://zpr.io/sNZP

Birmingham academics on course to strike over grant income demands https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/birmingham-academics-course-strike-over-grant-income-demands

Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 http://zpr.io/sNRV

Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization Inside the Factory of the Future (2014) http://zpr.io/sNRv

The language of mourning in sculpture http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/events/2015/07/20/the-language-of-mourning/

Public Key http://zpr.io/sYqE

The future of universities is more political than ever http://zpr.io/sYqx

The new other Victorians: the success (and failure) of queer theory in nineteenth-century British studies (2014) http://zpr.io/sYqX

Peer review: not as old as you might think https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/peer-review-not-old-you-might-think < great contextualising piece. See also A. Johns on piracy & modernity.

Spent ages trying to work out why a CSS general sibling selector was so aggressive. Tamed it with div.main h1 ~ p:first-of-type.

In-app game purchases bring games ever closer to societal reality. Those that have money needn't have talent.

UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term http://zpr.io/sjeM

Student loan sale – no reference in the 2014/15 accounts http://zpr.io/sjkw

"This is a blatant attempt by the government to distract from its refusal to invest properly in emergency care" http://web2.bma.org.uk/pressrel.nsf/wall/04ED6F506732F75980257E840015BCEC?OpenDocument

freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking http://zpr.io/sju6

It's Friday night. It's 7pm. The music is on. You know what this means. Yes, it's time to populate my institutional repository record.

This is utterly ridiculous. High court quashes regulations allowing people to lawfully copy CDs for personal use - http://gu.com/p/4an2c

Announcements: MITH partners on $1.25 Million Mellon Grant http://zpr.io/szQ3

Update on earlier tweet about @hypothes_is and Javascript blockers. No way around it, it seems. Bookmarklets run in remote page context.

BIS Accounts for 2014/15 shed new light on student loans http://zpr.io/szi5

A repost of @AlexJohnWill's piece on the DeLillo conference on the @birkbeck_eh CCL website: http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/conference-report-don-delillo-in-the-twenty-first-century/

Jürgen Habermas on Germany and Greece http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/16/merkel-gambling-away-germanys-reputation-over-greece-says-habermas

I tend to have JS blocked by default, but when I want to annotate I have to re-enable for that site. @hypothes_is

It's a shame that @hypothes_is bookmarklet runs in the Javascript context of the remote page (probably necessary for same-origin stuff).

Other thing about proposed TEF: only institutions that feel they can realistically charge more than current cap benefit?

Very much looking forward to attending the workshop on cooperative governance for higher education tomorrow with @josswinn and others.

Unbelievable. In week when Impact Factor discredited by major metrics review, Thomson Reuters boss plugs it in Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/basilmoftah/2015/07/15/publish-or-perish-finding-the-best-venue-for-your-research/

"You have rated 100 applications." *collapses*

May be of interest to some ScholComms startups, although I prefer the not-for-profit model... https://x.com/jillemery/status/621307208463052800

Can this gulf be bridged? http://zpr.io/sGWt

Foucault: from libertine to neoliberal (2015) http://zpr.io/sGTi

Job: Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations, Harvard University http://zpr.io/sGT5

"The moment, played out on Tuesday to the sound of The Final Countdown by the 1980s glam metal band Europe" #PlutoFly http://gu.com/p/4ajyq

New Default: Mozilla Temporarily Disables Flash In Firefox http://zpr.io/sRW3

Algorithmic approaches to "Where's Wally [Waldo]?" http://blog.wolfram.com/2015/02/27/find-waldo-faster/

A Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices http://zpr.io/sRKb

Agree w/ @PaulJump that in this climate we'd lose lots w/out REF https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/blog/news-blog-ref-worth-quarter-billion-pounds. But it also does this: https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/ref-results-lead-wolverhampton-plan-job-cuts

. @djbduncan has a great blog on literary indexes. This entry on /The Enormous Crocodile/ is especially amusing https://indexhistory.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/story-club-indexing-the-enormous-crocodile/

Axonometric drawings of Tube stations http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every-underground-station-ab/

Beginning a hardcore session rating OpenCon applications...

Workers ‘should save for their own sick pay’ according to our government. Is falling ill is a choice or something? http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4495978.ece

Report on lifting of student numbers cap http://www.wonkhe.com/blogs/report-are-we-ready-for-the-end-of-student-number-controls/

"Crisis of the humanities" inheres neither in staffing nor enrollment but in dwindling of critique by debt with which we are now complicit.

Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Nzc0VOLobsw/snoopers-charter-could-mean-trouble-for-uk-users-of-encryption-capable-apps

Massive part of the forthcoming HEF (Hand-drier Excellence Framework).

French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML http://zpr.io/jQ6R

BIS still has to find £450million of savings for 2015-16 http://zpr.io/jQ6H

OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug http://zpr.io/jWv4

Component DOIs Revisited http://zpr.io/jWaZ

. @MeeraSabaratnam asks about blinding REF process. I foresee procedural difficulties. Big papers/books known. #hefcemetrics

Many people have asked for examples of good use of metrics. Responses demonstrate it's far easier to show the damaging ones. #hefcemetrics

Talking about input/output at #hefcemetrics. As core driver of metrics is allocation of scarce resources, seems valid to ask.

How to measure a scientist - some more lighthearted commentary for #hefcemetrics - http://errantscience.com/blog/2015/07/08/how-to-measure-a-scientist/

Brilliant answer to #hefcemetrics q there. Institutions bang on about researcher autonomy and then cede it all to university rankings.

Strikes me, as ever at such events, that we have a very low turnout from humanities disciplines. Important that we speak. #hefcemetrics

Elsevier rep has referred to their offering as a "basket" multiple times now... #hefcemetrics

First mention of the dreaded TEF at #hefcemetrics

Worth saying that the thing in arts & hums of asking "who published it?" as proxy for quality is an unformalised metric system #hefcemetrics

. @MeeraSabaratnam says key problem of metrics to-date is supply-driven economy. Ooh, new shiny metric toy etc. #hefcemetrics

David Sweeney says asking questions of those selling metrics & league tables is important. Asks if @Phil_Baty is in the room! #hefcemetrics

Recommendation 13 of #HEFCEmetrics is interesting. DOIs for all REF items. This requires investment in digital preservation architecture.

Solidarity with @RMTLondon even though I'm not relishing my alternative journey

Metrics cannot replace peer review in the next REF http://zpr.io/jBWe

HEFCE report on metrics published today http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/Year/2015/metrictide/Title,104463,en.html

July 2015 Budget – first thoughts http://zpr.io/jBN2

Maintenance loans & the abolition of grants – what the government has announced http://zpr.io/jBNr

Lower repayment threshold & discount rates http://zpr.io/jBNS

Means-testing of Student Maintenance support http://zpr.io/jBNC

Anyway, service now restored.

Tedious denial of service attack mounted against @openlibhums website this morning. So boring having to block IPs.

Just seen an advert for the "9TH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN
PAIN FEDERATION". Some kind of fiscal austerity body?

Job at Birkbeck/RADA! Associate Lecturer A: MA Text and Performance http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATW582/associate-lecturer-a-ma-text-and-performance/

'Severe Bug' To Be Patched In OpenSSL http://zpr.io/jvuj

. @lcale2 et al. are crowdsourcing questions for 19C Digital Archive Interview with @Lost_Visions, 8 July. Do tweet her your questions!

All current news coverage about Greece/Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknnvlcLsYI via @jennifermjones

Today Birkbeck remembers 7/7 and Benedetta Ciacca, who was studying at the College but never heard of her success http://www.benedetta-ciaccia.com/

Anonymity of peer review reports ‘definitely’ enables egregious behavior - https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/anonymity-of-peer-review-reports-definitely-enables-egregious-behavior/

Job for a poet with us! Lecturer A/B in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATW752/lecturer-a-b-in-creative-and-critical-writing/

A piece on @theWinnower recounting some of the discussion at our inflammatorily-titled AAUP session https://thewinnower.com/papers/1468-when-publishers-aren-t-getting-it-done

Thanks so much to everyone for the congratulations re the grant today! It's only the start, though. Onwards! - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-awarded-741-000-grant-for-new-humanities-open-access-model-of-publishing

Very pleased to announce that Birkbeck has been awarded a three-year grant to build @openlibhums to scale! http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-awarded-741-000-grant-for-new-humanities-open-access-model-of-publishing

Varoufakis: "a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants [for my] absence". http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/06/minister-no-more/

Live results of Greek referendum http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jul/05/live-results-greek-referendum

Really interesting looking session organized by @NMenon05 on "Digital Publishing and Comparative Literature" https://icla2016.univie.ac.at/group-sections/

Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment http://zpr.io/jih9

Important new paper on the under-representation of women in philosophy http://zpr.io/j5mh

Andrew Rowcroft of @LincolnEnglish now up at #AW15 on contingency vs orthodoxy in Robinson's Mars trilogy.

If you're not at #DH2015, the Utopian Studies thing, or @CHARNOCKRUTH's Joni-fest, the next best place is Action Writing event at Birkbeck!

“Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan” - https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/dutch-universities-start-their-elsevier-boycott-plan/

North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses http://zpr.io/jLZr

An international perspective on statutory damages http://zpr.io/jLZS

Drastic measures #2

Drastic measures #1

Oxbridge to be stripped of special funding feeding the tutorial system https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/oxbridge-to-be-stripped-of-special-funding-feeding-the-tutorial-system

Most important question about everything in a piece of writing: why is the reader being told this? @lizmsage

Sticking to a specific kind of editing is important since eyes "see" in different ways (proofing vs copyedit vs edit) says @lizmsage

Now into the afternoon session on editing academic work with @lizmsage!

Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code http://zpr.io/j2hh

That tricky first book: trends from the job market http://zpr.io/j2hm

Peer review just compared to TripAdvisor. Amazing.

. @the_blochian leading today's workshop on peer review. "TIME"!

Need some kind of government appraisal system. Maybe an "excellence framework" or something. A GEF.

Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/may/29/christine-lagarde-pays-no-tax?CMP=share_btn_fb

May struggle to stand up for an hour in this heat, let alone give a talk.

Today at Birkbeck I'll be running the Academic Publishing in the Digital Age workshop! http://www.chase.ac.uk/events/2015/7/1/academic-publishing-in-the-digital-age