So pleased about this! https://x.com/openlibhums/status/671394168879599616

Hefce is a crucial buffer against ministers’ meddling with universities http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/30/hefce-buffer-ministers-universities-higher-education-funding-council-for-england?CMP=share_btn_tw

Pp. 29-30 of HE Green Paper show that stuff on fee "incentives" is about de-funding. All stick with little carrot for existing institutions.

Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act http://zpr.io/NSTA

Thanks so much for all the kinds words and retweets today. Great to see such enthusiasm!

Spending Review 2015: Loans, RAB and the discount rate http://zpr.io/N3D3

#sconul15 might find this interesting this morning! https://about.openlibhums.org/2015/11/27/four-subscription-journals-to-flip-to-fee-free-gold-oa-with-the-olh-in-january-2016/

A reminder about this ace upcoming conference at which I'm speaking. Closing keynote: my colleague Marina Warner http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ReadingWorld

Giving closing keynote at SCONUL winter meeting tmrw. Theme is "disruptive innovation". Ug. I'll be asking: who will disrupt the disruptors?

Birkbeck Postgraduate Research Scholarships — School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding/school-of-arts-anniversary-scholarships

Big OLH announcements tomorrow and Monday...

why are we not boycotting http://zpr.io/ffiw? http://zpr.io/NDTQ

Osborne's student loan overhaul 'betrays a generation' http://gu.com/p/4eh4n

Spending Review 2015: Key points for universities - Wonkhe - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/policy-watch-spending-review/

Sea view in Aberystwyth

Birkbeck has. https://x.com/KUnlatched/statuses/669492266743013376

Today, I will mostly be on a train to Aberystwyth.

PLOS ONE: Pigeons as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141357

Funding: Digital Humanities Summer Institute http://zpr.io/NbyQ

Opportunity: Digital Methods Initiative, Winter School 2016 http://zpr.io/NbyW

Quite an incredible day for OLH behind the scenes. #cryptic I know, but more soon. Now off to celebrate @the_blochian's book launch.

Live: GuildHE Annual Conference http://zpr.io/NuM5

Arts & Humanities mentioned 5 times in the Nurse Review - http://simon-tanner.blogspot.com/2015/11/arts-humanities-mentioned-5-times-in.html < worrying, but AHSS under "science" budget I believe...

"Nurse & the green paper reinforce artificial separation between teaching & research" - key point from @jameswilsdon http://wonkhe.com/blogs/nurses-watery-prescription-for-research/

Talks this week in Amsterdam, Aberystwyth and London. We'll also announce the result of the first @openlibhums Library Board vote.

Mix for a Sunday eve that some friends may enjoy: https://soundcloud.com/44100hzsocialclub/44100hz-sc-009-future-bones (loving track around 10:30) @ernestopriego @qui_oui @jon_fugler

Speaking in Amsterdam tomorrow. Got the new Foucault and Neoliberalism volume lined up for the journey...

Don't forget the @ReadingWorld15 conference on dynamics of canon formation; 3rd December, London. Please do RT! http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ReadingWorld

Many of the questions aren't answerable before metrics and process have been decided, which is deferred as a detail in the GP.

The more I read the Green Paper, the more I see it's just a range of desired behaviours with virtually no details of the implementation.

42 references to employers in the HE Green Paper. 2 mentions of part-time students.

Great. https://x.com/brandontlocke/status/668466399174504452

PASSWORD. @airplanereading @ibogost @HouseOfNaqvi

notes on metricide http://zpr.io/NMjk

It appears to be snowing...

Learned today: there's evidence that the target of Dickens's educational satire in Hard Times was Birkbeck Schools http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/11640/

Very pleased to have been appointed to the UK's English Association Higher Education Committee for a five-year term.

Britain's public finances show worst October deficit since 2009 http://gu.com/p/4ecj9 < working well this strategy.

You’ve been asked to have your say on the NHS. You just don’t know about it http://gu.com/p/4ebk3

CFP: Poetics of the Algorithm http://zpr.io/NaJM

Nurse Review stops short of recommending radical change http://zpr.io/NaJE

True. https://x.com/willashon/statuses/667343335191912449

Have had 2 bad @british_airways trans-at flights this week. 1st: no working light or screen. Now stuck on tarmac for 2 hrs for engine prob.

BOS ✈ LHR

Yes, this! Nurse under pressure to merge against his better judgement? https://x.com/higherbaker/statuses/667297938356310016

Nurse review treads the difficulty political ground: it's, err, not a merger but looks quite a lot like one.

And no remedy in sight under new gov https://x.com/Wonkhe/statuses/667290794127036416

Very pleased to have been able to help in a small way in #opencon org committee. Pic by Slobodan Radicev CC BY.

My closing keynote at #Crossref15 in 40 mins. Livestream link here: http://www.crossref.org/annualmeeting/agenda.html. All new material on books and OA.

Very cool CrossRef labs project: watch live DOI events on Wikipedia http://wikipedia.labs.crossref.org #Crossref15

Wikipedia 5th largest referrer to DOI resolver notes @gbilder. This is important. #Crossref15

HE Green Paper and related stuff http://zpr.io/NYTf

10,000-15,000 new DOIs registered every day. This is a complex map, notes @jenniferlin15. #crossref15

Bad luck @juancommander trying to follow this talk about Ig Nobel prizes. #crossref15

Have just realised that I have approximately zero paper-aeroplane making skills. #CrossRef15

Comment from HEFCE on my @Wonkhe piece: they are investigating heavier use of metrics on instruction from BIS http://wonkhe.com/blogs/bis-metrics-and-non-selective-qr-allocation/

Pleased to see that @rOpenSci is also using reveal.js for his presentation! #Crossref15

Now @juretriglav up talking about @CokoFoundation at #Crossref15. Modernize and democratize knowledge creation.

But what about reviewer time wasted by this process? Must be countless hours. #Crossref15

Publisher talking about doing plagiarism checks at the point of revisions, because that's where they're sure it will go ahead #Crossref15

Job: DH Developer, Carnegie Mellon University http://zpr.io/NZ5L

But does this change social perception of DOIs? Most researchers have no idea what these things are & just see many URIs. #crossref15

Talking about display guidelines for DOIs. doi:10.etc vs. http://doi.org/10.etc. Changes use paradigm/pattern. #crossref15

Lots of talk about "best practice". Sceptical of this discourse; what does it mean? If it's "best" then can it be contested? #crossref15

Today at #CrossRef annual meeting I'm talking about the "metadata deposit experience" for small publishers.

Not even process of "review" should override that, let alone e- vs. non-e. Of course, I do encourage them to read the scholarly lit!

When my students cite non-peer-reviewed items but do amazing work w/ them they can have credit. It's thought/research that matters not form.

Good to see critical thinking well and truly alive in the marking process. https://x.com/ellenscollins/status/666596736979349504

US meetings famously start early, but when jetlagged I end up going "full hobbit". (Two breakfasts b/c I'm hungry around 4am!)

Literature/Film Quarterly to go open access - https://www.salisbury.edu/lfq/open_access.html

an accelerated academy reading list http://zpr.io/NR8q

But now I'm going to sleep ready to travel to Boston tomorrow for #crossref2015

Not to mention countless other good people! #opencon

Had a great few days at #opencon - very pleased to have helped in small ways. And to have met @mbeisen!

Towards a manifesto for tactical DH infrastructure http://zpr.io/NHhY

The benefits of basic research http://zpr.io/NHxF

Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon http://zpr.io/NHXd

. @lawsonstu just did an ace presentation on his paper modelling ScholComm financial flows. Preprint: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2690570 #opencon

Although IPFS looks to be in alpha...

From what I'm seeing, IPFS might be a better solution for live (not dark) archive #opencon https://x.com/IPFSbot/status/665835879873822720

While we're on projects: I'm still interested in establishing a BitTorrent-based digital preservation system for OA articles & data #opencon

.@iaravps calls for "fellowship of metrics". Lord-of-the-Rings ver of @jameswilsdon's responsible metrics? http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/Year/2015/metrictide/Title,104463,en.html #opencon

But producing versions for different audiences & seeing how they propagate (& encouraging this for societal good) may be worthwhile #opencon

Altmetrics can be a good idea alongside stratification of research outputs. Some basic res. will never score well with AMs. #opencon

So, who knew that blogging about policy can get your noticed and make a real difference?

To answer Sweeney's Q: I want a world where everyone can read our work & the university is better integrated with society. #opencon

Sweeney for "impact" (measurable behavioural change) not "impact factor". #opencon

David Sweeney talking now about the problem of defining "excellence" #opencon @CameronNeylon

Beall also wrote a piece comparing "some open-access platforms" (like Scielo) to a "favela" http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/07/30/is-scielo-a-publication-favela/ #opencon

Problem of "predatory" pubs is real, but Beall says OA about "denying freedom of the press to corporations" http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/525 #opencon

Yes, excellent! Now @gbilder up at #opencon!

Earliest retraction yet found! Thanks! https://x.com/jeroenbosman/statuses/665552612649885696

When did the option of a scientific retraction as a practice of professional academic publishing become available? #opencon

Thanks to "slippery rails" and all trains cancelled, I'm now running very late for my #OpenCon flight :(

Seems I am destined to always have a hideous sore throat at #opencon. Doh!

Bassel Khartabil may have been secretly sentenced to death - https://www.eff.org/document/igf-2015-flyer-bassel-khartabil #FreeBassel

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method - http://www.theonion.com/article/seek-funding-step-added-scientific-method-51837

Farewell to committed Pynchon reader & well-loved community member, Dave Monroe (1966-2015). We will miss your warmth & enthusiasm.

A brief note on FutureLearn finance http://zpr.io/NPfV

Thanks to all who listened to my talk. Not sure it was the most coherent I've ever given, but then I don't feel great today,

Livestream link for CUP talk I'm giving today (midday UK time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_DvMi6JAU

CFP: The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle (2016) http://zpr.io/aQBv

Tomorrow I'll be speaking on the Cambridge University Press live stream about the future of open access. Sunday, speaking at OpenCon.

Yeah, but calling them "early career researchers" when gov says we're too focused on research isn't very strategic. https://x.com/GdnHigherEd/statuses/664533126689886209

The HE Green paper & FOI - a hint of a silver lining? http://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-he-green-paper-foi-a-hint-of-a-silver-lining/ < no. Disagree strongly. See https://www.martineve.com/2015/11/10/he-green-paper-response-to-question-23/

When I taught at Sussex @SouthernRailUK train was late every week. Doing journey for first time in years & today a delay + cancellation.

Rheumatoid arthritis: Results from pivotal Phase 3 study of sarilumab announced http://zpr.io/aBVt

Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords http://zpr.io/aBVg

David Cameron hasn’t the faintest idea how deep his cuts go. This letter proves it http://gu.com/p/4e4kq

Not that I'm a fan of APCs. And there are other big problems with them.

Along other things, academic panic around APCs & BPCs is exposure to a previously hidden, systemic, but devalued inequality of access.

My point: these costs are already met by institutions. Just hidden from academics. https://x.com/samartha/statuses/664166473838026752

Up and off to Sussex nice and early today, reminding me of my first university teaching job there. Can't say I miss the journey.

Great evening on a panel with @monarchomach @sarahchurchwell @gregg_sh @LyndseyStonebri & @pipwillcox. Thanks to @jfwinters for organising!

Earth Xray http://zpr.io/aVxT

Follow-up to the Emulation Report http://zpr.io/aVxY

Of course, it's abolish it for existing. Wouldn't want people digging into those new providers, would we?

But we make existing institutions that do that accountable via FOI. So should we introduce FOI it new entities or abolish it for existing?

Don't you just love how the logic in the green paper goes: so, we're giving private entities access to public funds via the loan book.

Quite a rebuke to that Policy Exchange report http://wonkhe.com/blogs/universities-should-spend-their-cashable-reserves/ (see @amcgettigan comment) https://x.com/higherbaker/status/664041868636856320

A Dance in TEF Minor by @drnjwaddell https://drnjwaddell.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/a-dance-in-tef-minor/

Speaking at the IHR tonight, Sussex tomorrow, CUP on Thursday. Busy but enjoyable week!

An Introduction to the textreuse Package, with Suggested Applications http://zpr.io/avRV

Green Paper: the closer you look, the less you see http://zpr.io/acrZ

Delighted to have been able to contribute to this @booksprint alongside @lessig, @wilbanks and others http://costoffreedom.cc/ #freebassel

Google is giving away a big part of its machine learning software http://zpr.io/ach3

More fantastic analysis from @amcgettigan on TEF & fee increases. Basically: the green paper is really fuzzy. http://andrewmcgettigan.org/2015/11/09/tef-fee-increases/

The genius of the Green Paper http://zpr.io/aczw

Can't say how exciting it is writing up journal migration proposals (subscription -> OA) for our OLH library board. Feels wonderful.

After the furore re likes/faves @ftd318 & @parnopaeus have an article in @openlibhums on Twitter's modal affordances https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.21/

WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web http://zpr.io/aebK

Great University Gamble – a plug http://zpr.io/adKe

Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files http://zpr.io/adjy

the perverse statism of those seeking to create a market in higher education http://zpr.io/adjA

The Biopolitics of Gender (2015) http://zpr.io/aJdz

Just added conference location output support to eprintsCV3 https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/eprintsCV

Conference Report: Living, Thinking, Looking http://zpr.io/aJ8m

Just replaced the academia dot edu link on my blog navbar with my @MLACommons CORE deposit list.

Fully funded creative writing MA scholarship launched at Birkbeck http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/fully-funded-creative-writing-scholarship-launched-at-birkbeck

Enough of the Twitters this morning!

Remember, Remember the TEF of November http://zpr.io/aJjh

So what’s the point of establishing an Office for Students? #HEgreenpaper http://zpr.io/aiMw

10 things you might have missed about the Green Paper - Wonkhe - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/10-things-you-might-have-missed-about-the-green-paper/

The sector responds to the Green Paper flagging autonomy and access concerns http://zpr.io/a5xS

The TEF’s first assessment http://zpr.io/a5xC

Job: DPLA Engagement & Use Coordinator http://zpr.io/a5xF

The Green Paper: Nurse will see you now - Wonkhe - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-green-paper-nurse-will-see-you-now/

This seems to the model the UK government wants... https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/statuses/662433324154142720

Proposes next REF for 2021. But still changing the terms of engagement.

HE Green Paper released. Aims to "create a level playing field for private providers". https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/higher-education-green-paper-office-students-and-new-fee-regime-proposed

Never saw that coming. https://x.com/CAPittard/status/662347843978600448

Too much FUD in that article, but hey.

Wired covers the Lingua jump http://www.wired.com/2015/11/editors-of-the-journal-lingua-protest-quit-in-battle-for-open-access/

A correction to my post, which I will update as soon as I can get to a computer. Seems Elsevier bought North Holland in the 80s, not 90s.

Hearing about digital critical editions of the work of Aleksis Kivi now. TEI encoded of course.

China Miéville Double Book Launch at Birkbeck http://zpr.io/akTi

Evolving: An Update on Library Publishing at Penn State http://zpr.io/akT5

Also learned about practice of "nichesourcing". Looked it up here http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-33876-2_3 [paywalled]

At a workshop in Helsinki today. Hearing about the Finnish Terminology Bank, based on Semantic WikiMedia - https://semantic-mediawiki.org/

Love it when a press release goes: you just don't understand, poor things, here are some FACTS. Usually signals untrue drivel to follow.

Jeremy Hunt: I cannot negotiate on manifesto promise of 24-hour NHS http://gu.com/p/4dqcg < why not? Did on promise re no tax credit cuts.

Water Delivery http://zpr.io/ares

So, err, yeah. Just picking up my bags from the taxidermy reclaim conveyor at Helsinki.

Re last retweet: As Stewart Lee notes, you can prove anything with facts.

Clear that the sentiment data of "like" is more useful to profile users and sell than the ambiguity of star/fave.

call for contributions: the politics of data http://zpr.io/arpJ

Opportunity: Fully funded PhD Studentship, University of Kent http://zpr.io/arpi

Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1-Qf3u4WDHc/saying-wasted-on-facebook-can-affect-your-credit-score

Hypothes.is has groups! https://hypothes.is/blog/introducing-groups/

A quick reminder of the "Reading the World" conference. 3rd December, Senate House, London. http://ies.sas.ac.uk/ReadingWorld

Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies http://blog.dshr.org/2015/11/emulation-virtualization-as.html

Birkbeck William Matthews Public Lecture; 'Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies', by Elizabeth Robertson https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbeck-william-matthews-public-lecture-chaucer-and-wordsworths-vivid-daisies-elizabeth-robertson-tickets-18655728787

Excited to be soon putting four previously subscription journals to our first @openlibhums library board vote for flip to fee-free gold OA!

NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive http://zpr.io/aC9U

Giving a public lecture in Helsinki this Friday: The Humanities in the Digital Age: Access, Equality and Education http://www.finlit.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/tapahtumakalenteri/humanities-digital-age-access-equality-and-education#.Vhz2AL7ct2J

Our consortium grows, making flips like this possible. Get your institution to join today! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees https://x.com/openlibhums/status/661472487855755265

Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub http://zpr.io/abjx

Séminaire Foucault 2015-2016 - http://foucaultnews.com/2015/11/03/seminaire-foucault-2015-2016/

Lingua editors' resignations hits Slashdot. Their new journal Glossa coming to OLH & @ubiquitypress next year http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/11/02/1323258/all-editors-quit-top-linguistics-journal-to-protest-elseviers-pricing

http://Academia.edu has never yielded me work that I should read that I hadn't seen elsewhere. @MLACommons CORE has already done that.

Three reasons why the Teaching Excellence Framework won’t work http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/02/why-teaching-excellence-framework-tef-metrics-university-fees [depending on what you think it's /meant/ to do]

Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo http://zpr.io/aKWw

The Anti-Collaboration Alliance http://zpr.io/ayQG

Thoughts on the amateur aesthetic from @booksprint http://www.adamhyde.net/why-bad-design-is-good/

OK, who flipped the November switch?

Michel Foucault and the smart city (2015) http://zpr.io/ay2U