Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying http://zpr.io/xG5Y

Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died - http://m.slashdot.org/story/304655

Amy Fry on library collections http://zpr.io/xGU8

Number of full-time modern language (and lit.) academic jobs advertised in the US at all-time low (over 4 decades) http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/heres-the-modern-language-associations-latest-jobs-report

Thank you! cc @mollyhardy @_MattShaw @generalising https://x.com/pabinkley/status/682206578443988994

Can anyone recommend any reading on the role of faux redaction (names, places) in the 19th C novel? I know Barth's reading... @svejky

Foucault Studies Number 20: December 2015: Civil Society http://zpr.io/xRLh

My Open Access and the Humanities makes it into a Guardian "books of the year" list! http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2015/dec/29/books-of-the-year-2015-a-scientists-reading-list

Annotation progress from Hypothes.is http://zpr.io/xgQr

It's fine accessing index.php via SSL, just not index.php/url (which is how OJS structures its URLs)

Any one have any idea why, in an OJS setup, index.php/url works fine on non-HTTPS apache but not when I enable SSL? Vhosts are identical.

I reviewed Warren Montag's /Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War/ for Foucault Studies. OA: http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/4946/5372

Fantastic new EP forthcoming on Play Pal Records on 28/12 https://soundcloud.com/playpalmusic/alda-ilime

New issue of Foucault Studies is also out today :P http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/issue/view/596/showToc

Merry Christmas to all celebrating!

text-analyzing Brazilian music http://zpr.io/XkPs

Taking the "thinking" out of "think tank". Apparently if you decry autonomous killer drones, you're a "luddite". http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/24/elon-musk-nominated-for-luddite-of-the-year-prize-over-artificial-intelligence-fears

Kicking off my Xmas by catching up with Tici Taci's recent output. Greatly enjoying James Rod's Joysked Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXSiJqjsr-o

Five of the largest banks in the UK paid no corporation tax in 2014, despite making billions of pounds in profits http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35166460

"To get your 'Christmas name' put the word Christmas into your name, just before your surname, 'Eve'."

Signposting the Scholarly Web http://zpr.io/XrEj

If you're interested in digital preservation, you should follow @keepersregistry

Submitted an article manuscript for review yesterday with its DATA. Rare in my discipline to even have "data", let alone to publish.

13th Century Higher Education Policies http://zpr.io/XSwn

Google is testing a way for users to log in without a password http://zpr.io/XCcY

92 year-old frail widow faces deportation from UK http://gu.com/p/4e4fv < bad case but heartlessness of our immigration system is systemic

GPL enforcement is a social good http://zpr.io/Xwns

That Sentimental Feeling http://zpr.io/X8GN

Swedish Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' (elements of) Quantum Cryptography - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cqQ-GMLIaWE/swedish-researchers-break-unbreakable-quantum-cryptography

REF review to appraise "more effectively uses data and metrics while retaining the benefits of peer review" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-excellence-framework-review-terms-of-reference

Winter @slugrave mix out! Track at 10'50" a treat. https://www.mixcloud.com/Slugrave/slugrave-winter-2015/ @ernestopriego @qui_oui

Current status.

Notes from the ‘Business Models’ workshop for Co-operative Higher Education http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/blog/2015/12/18/notes-from-the-business-models-workshop-for-co-operative-higher-education/

Subconsciously whistling and humming songs from Muppet Christmas Carol.

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices (2016) http://zpr.io/Xhdb

Any advice on how to visualise textual variants and re-orderings where I have made a correlation table between versions? @Ted_Underwood

The new Ghostbusters have arrived in their first official photo http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw697woic

The First English Table of Contents? http://zpr.io/Xhxj

Official BIS review announcement, including steering group: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-review-to-improve-university-research-funding

Here's what Lord Stern has said previously about the REF: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/letters/its-our-duty-to-assess-the-costs-of-the-ref/2017479.article

And it's the damn media who come up with these trite versions of the papers in the first place!

For example: rephrase "why do woodpeckers not get headaches?" to "how can a musculoskeletal system withstand massive repetitive shock?"

Things that annoy me about that Times article: the examples of "pointless" research are all just straw men.

Times article announcing REF review by Lord Stern http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article4642025.ece?shareToken=315c649383f1982bfc4aa3819d5c914b

I find this habit of announcing policy through paywalled media a little odd for the "most transparent government ever".

Can't see any official announcement from BIS but The Times reports that REF review will be led by Lord Stern.

the idiocy of defensive elites http://zpr.io/XMiW

Star Wars spoiler: Freytag Triangle.

Talk on Emulation at CNI http://zpr.io/XMyq

BIS has blocked my request to know what was discussed with the Minister under Section 43. I can guess though. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meetings_between_bis_officialsmi?nocache=incoming-745563#incoming-745563

Meanwhile, in week of Green Paper (& while a gov tender was out for a metrics DB), Minister for HE met with Elsevier https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meetings_between_bis_officialsmi?nocache=incoming-745563#incoming-745563

If this piece is accurately sourced, then it's good news for UK HE. Worst ravages of Green Paper lessened. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/higher-education-bill-doubt-nervous-tories-consider-other-options-green-paper

Over 1000 households per week https://x.com/Shelter/statuses/676658199320125441

Lunch http://zpr.io/Xawn

T.S. Eliot predicts the 2015 @LRBbookshop poetry prizes FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2015/12/christmas-poetry-picks-2015

UK pushing for limits on air pollution to be relaxed, documents reveal - http://gu.com/p/4f38h < day after Paris, this. Our "leaders".

Editing and refining is a much harder part, in my view. Raw expression of new ideas and structuring a fresh piece has a thrill to it.

In fact, I think I like the blank page of a new project best of all. Wrote 3k not bad words in a very short time out of pure excitement.

At that exciting juncture where previous manuscript is with critical friends and feel I can kick-start the next project.

I love writing at weekends (I do a little every day before OLH work too) but just started a new project on the Aesthetics of Metadata.

Paris Climate Deal Adopted http://zpr.io/Xs2c

Biopower: Foucault and Beyond (2015) http://zpr.io/XjYR

Brilliant stuff on universities and FOI by @generalising - http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2015/freedom-of-information-why-universities-are-and-should-remain-subject/

Bassel Khartabil: fears for man who brought open internet to the Arab world http://gu.com/p/4f2v8

Huge 10th anniversary 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long 19th C on @openlibhums! http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk

Peter Capaldi surprises young Whovian fan in hospital, stays in character the whole time - http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-12-10/peter-capaldi-surprises-young-doctor-who-fan-in-hospital-stays-in-character-the-whole-time

Not lamentable, but patchy http://zpr.io/Xpuh

Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. http://zpr.io/Xpum

Off for my final overseas travel of the year: a day trip to The Hague and back (not recommended).

In case you missed it earlier - 150 institutions now support the OLH! https://x.com/openlibhums/statuses/674900136347181056

I mean, that's not extraordinary to me, but it is extraordinary for the government that wants it to work like that to say it.

Paragraph 6 on page 58 of the HE Green Paper is extraordinary. As a paraphrase: HE never can work as a market free from gov. intervention.

Hey @dropbox - why don't you open source Mailbox as you're shuttering it so that others can continue it?

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 jeopardises the relationship of trust between educators and students - https://educatorsnotinformants.wordpress.com/

Yes! https://x.com/openlibhums/status/674900136347181056

Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/21/uber-disability-laws-don-t-apply-to-us.html < does it think there's any law that does?

With arguments divers and figures presented

Twas prov’n that TEF was a Perverse Incentive

- http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/epic/

Wednesday night almost-the-holidays jam: https://soundcloud.com/elfulminador/utopyk-el-fulminador-neubauten-zink-coming-soon-on-fulmen-records @qui_oui @ernestopriego @jon_fugler

"Every child must learn to code!"

"Kids learning to code may be a sign of criminality."

Green Paper question 23 addresses this. My response here on why this is a very foolish move: https://www.martineve.com/2015/11/10/he-green-paper-response-to-question-23/ https://x.com/HEiKnow/status/674511705813176321

Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing http://zpr.io/XfF5

10th Anniversary Issue Launch of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century - big for 19 & OLH! - http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/10th-anniversary-issue-of-19-interdisciplinary-studies-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/

National Hosting with LOCKSS Technology http://zpr.io/XRZp

Kids on my train, probably about 10 years old, describe Twitter as "beast", claiming it's the "best place to get all the gossip".

David Cameron ordered to stop saying NHS spending is up http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9722661/David-Cameron-ordered-to-stop-saying-NHS-spending-is-up.html

This evening I'm back over to my alma mater @QMULsed to speak at the DH seminar. Penultimate talk of the year.

"Her recommendations include ensuring every NHS building provides free wi-fi." The true challenges the NHS faces... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35030664

Have a definitional gripe with Caroline Levine's /Forms/ so far... Is there anything that isn't a form by her reading?

Dropbox Is Shutting Down Mailbox and Carousel http://zpr.io/XnaM

I think we're one institution shy of 150 on OLH as of today...

Library Publishing Forum 2016: Call for Proposals http://zpr.io/XnfD

Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage http://zpr.io/Xnf9

Joyful! https://x.com/samillingworth/statuses/673787412548456448

Upon Leaving http://Academia.edu - http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/7123

Three muddles that will undermine the TEF http://zpr.io/XUeH

Critics line up to criticise role of graduate outcomes in TEF http://zpr.io/XURU

Just tracked down and fixed a very odd bug in meTypeset where the python regex engine was crashing. https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/meTypeset

Instability as a societal benefit.

My favourite line in Green Paper so far: "Prior to
2010, fluctuation in the sector was limited, the sector was very stable". Yes, indeed.

Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released http://zpr.io/NWYn

Getting festive at @birkbeck_arts!

Really exciting to hear about @helenrogers19c's Writing Lives project at #UEOGM15. Great project!

Really like the potential of @Tasha_Alden's Twitter database for English lit/lang academics! #UEOGM15

Love @Jane_S_Carroll's comment on the register of academic blogging: "a chat with footnotes"! #UEOGM15

BBC reprimanded over 'serious' lapses in Radio 4 show mocking climate science - http://gu.com/p/4ez2e

2x senior posts in Art History at Birkbeck! http://tinyurl.com/oap4pdx http://tinyurl.com/nm8j9e6

Rowback today by Johnson? Claims that teaching quality is "lamentable" replaced by "I’m not going to go that far". http://universityappg.co.uk/resources/speaker-meeting-presentations/speech-jo-johnson-mp-university-appg-24-november

Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta http://zpr.io/Nv6P

"Torture: Call for Participation". Not the best-worded academic conference announcement I've ever seen.

I wonder if even the impossible methodology of awareness of own limits is occidental history of critique, though. #readworld15

Listening to @A_B_Morgan and her Reading the World project at #readworld15. Lots of challenges around contextual self awareness.

Open Library of Humanities aims to ‘flip’ journals to open access | Times Higher Education (THE) - https://www.timeshighereducation.com/research-intelligence/open-library-humanities-aims-flip-journals-open-access

Question 14 of the Green Paper is the wrecker.

Can't wait to get home this evening so I can write more of my green paper response. #canwait

should also be using interoperable, open repos with metadata and an educational mission etc.

For the record, if you read the Chron article on academia . edu; I don't think people /should/ use it. I think if you do use it, you...

Bloomsbury C21 Conference 2016: Writing and Insecurity http://zpr.io/N559

"Normal" post-Green Paper blog service will resume at some point. But not for a bit.

LOL when people try to OA-splain me.

UCU tells MPs that job security is vital for teaching quality http://zpr.io/NLzy

#sconul15 https://x.com/no_reply/statuses/671492064207572992

Agree. Very difficult to answer green paper questions at present because actual measures seen as a mere "detail" https://x.com/CHavergalTHE/statuses/671629715732635649