January 2017
A true sponsor would be buying out all the others and saving us from their ads is my thought. Or maybe wish.
Isn't it odd how TV dramas claim to be sponsored by one particular company before showing many more adverts in every break?
Preservable emulations http://zpr.io/PNBCF
Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet http://zpr.io/PNVR9
Academics Mull Boycott of U.S. Conferences as a Way of Fighting Travel Ban http://zpr.io/PNSBN
Program: 17th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle (2017) http://zpr.io/PNSBt
My thanks to all out on protests this evening. I am afraid I am not well enough to attend in person but most grateful for your efforts.
Trials examine immune drug's potential to treat different forms of vasculitis - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/315548.php
Brass Eye at 20: still Chris Morris at his hysterical, gobsmacking best https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/30/brass-eye-at-20-still-chris-morris-at-his-hysterical-gobsmacking-best
"Downing Street insists Trump travel ban won't affect UK dual nationals" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/30/downing-street-insists-trump-travel-ban-wont-affect-uk-dual-nationals <not OK to trade on our privilege like this
An interview with @amcgettigan at Real Media – part 1 - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/01/30/interview-with-real-media-part-1/
Two syllabi: Digital Humanities and Data Science in the Humanities. http://zpr.io/PNaRM
Sadly emailing all my future US hosts warning that I cannot consent to entering the country under such federal immigration policies. https://x.com/GlobalHigherEd/status/825742569946628096
An attempt to spread interesting good things on a dark day. CFP from Birkbeck Centre for Technology & Publishing: http://www.ctp.bbk.ac.uk/2017/01/29/cfp-no-way-out-theatre-as-a-mediatised-practice/
Open Cultural Data: Discussing Digitisation: a summary of our @birkbeck_arts event: http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/events/2017/01/27/open-cultural-data-discussing-digitisation/
Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years http://zpr.io/Padmj
Conservative Peers mock Government’s stance on international students - https://moremeansbetter.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/conservative-peers-mock-governments-stance-on-international-students/
Joseph Brooker on Eimear McBride in conversation with Jacqueline Rose - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/01/27/joseph-brooker-on-eimear-mcbride-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-rose/
My @birkbeck_eh colleague @deldridgewriter's play _Beginning_ will get its world premiere at the Dorfman theatre! http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/bryan-cranston-west-end-debut-national-season_42736.html
Editors’ Choice: Bridging the Gap Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Digital Newspaper Archives - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/NYO2e0Z2o3M/
Speaking at this National Conference of University Professors event. PhD students can apply for funding to attend https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-excellence-publishing-open-access-data-copyright-impact-tickets-31261962371
Brexit bill: Theresa May publishes Article 50 legislation in preparation for MPs' vote http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-bill-theresa-may-publishes-article-50-legislation-parliament-vote-commons-mps-eu-european-a7547111.html
Eimar McBride supremely articulate and intelligent this evening. She was fantastic. Great evening at @BirkbeckNews.
trying to write when you’re triaging http://zpr.io/PYvVG
Rick Whitt on Digital Preservation http://zpr.io/PY5FH
Woke up, glanced at my clock. Saw it was quarter to the hour and started to get up. Shame it was 5.45 not 6.45am. #doh
The Programming Historian calls for digital history argumentation http://zpr.io/PYb5n
Tonight at Birkbeck: my colleague Prof Jacqueline Rose in conversation with Baileys Prize-winning author Eimear McBride.
Job: Spatial Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow http://zpr.io/PYTNg
The opposite to facts isn't really fiction, no matter how good the soundbite. Fiction is sometimes more truthful than malicious falsehood.
Understanding changes to universities’ financial reporting http://zpr.io/PYY8t
Job: Florida State University, Digital Scholarship Technologist http://zpr.io/PYY8n
Open in Practice: Inspirations, Strategies and Methods for Open Research at Uni of Reading, 30th March 2017 http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/open-research/open-in-practice-inspirations-strategies-and-methods-for-open-research/
Apparently, Supreme Court means Supreme Court.
Reading, Privacy, and Scholarly Networks http://zpr.io/Ps8Kb
Think tank garbage on student loans by @amcgettigan - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/01/23/think-tank-garbage/
A friend once asked: "is it called Trident because one of the submarines is much longer than the other two?"
Theresa May knew about Trident failure before renewal vote https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/theresa-may-knew-about-trident-failure-before-renewal-vote?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix
Tonight at London South Bank University: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/promo/book_week.htm
In case you missed it, our article on why "excellence" is not excellent is now published http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.105
Bill introduced to Congress to remove the United States from the UN - https://www.congress.gov/
UKIP on HE today is less nostalgic but still dangerous http://zpr.io/Psxyk
"The University of Edinburgh [will] not [..] participate in the forthcoming Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)" http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/students/2017/teaching-excellence-framework
Solidarity with #WomensMarch. At home not feeling so good here.
Top Security Researchers Ask The Guardian To Retract Its WhatsApp Backdoor Report http://zpr.io/PjqTr
“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.105
Our peer-reviewed article on why "excellence" is such a problematic concept for university research is now out! https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.105
C21 Series: The Aesthetics Of Metadata In Contemporary Fiction. A talk I'll be giving in Brighton in March... http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/c21/events/events-calendar2/c21-series-aesthetics-of-metadata-in-contemporary-fiction
I'll be speaking on Monday about "Creating the Future of Academic Publishing: Strengthening the Research Ecosystem" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-the-future-of-academic-publishing-tickets-29375836919
"Inauguration Day" by @ernestopriego https://epriego.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/inauguration-day/
QM biologist not only gives terrible advice but is also deeply ignorant re the humanities - afraid we have this too https://x.com/china_hanson/status/822094103190130688
Compulsory schools sponsorship must not distract from effective widening access efforts http://zpr.io/PZdpJ
Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lKGTDGBzpVc/neuroscience-cant-explain-how-a-microprocessor-works
Reading and its Objects http://zpr.io/PZJvp
Job: Digital Scholarship Fellow, Penn State http://zpr.io/PZJv7
Editors’ Choice: Ensuring the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/HhPk9tTMR2o/
Ouch. British universities employ no black academics in top roles, figures show. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/19/british-universities-employ-no-black-academics-in-top-roles-figures-show
The long tail of non-English science http://zpr.io/PZywZ
Female Shark Learns To Reproduce Without Males After Years Alone http://zpr.io/PZywz
Joe Orton: 50 Years On http://zpr.io/PZywq
"The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely" http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts
On responses and rebuttals in the discipline of English literature
There is an article, published in a "top" journal in my field, that makes a series of claims with which I substantially disagree. In fact, I think the piece, which will probably go on to be widely cited and used, is flawed. I feel, in some ways, that it merits a response article that critiques it…
We Live In Interesting Times – Which Of Us Will Be Writing The Novel? - http://ahua.ac.uk/we-live-in-interesting-times-which-of-us-will-be-writing-the-novel/
Challenges Of The Latin American Open Access Publishing Model - https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/challenges-of-the-latin-american-open-access-publishing-model/
Courage and integrity in UK academia http://zpr.io/PpQC7
Kathryn Hume - Novelty, Pattern, and Force in Richard Powers’s Orfeo http://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.202
Today's talk is at UWE Library. Going way out West. http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/17961/
Announcement: The Journal of Historical Network Research http://zpr.io/PphPq
Editors’ Choice: A Visualization of Influence in the History of Philosophy - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/PZdtN2feyN8/
Imagining Tomorrow's University: Rethinking scholarship, education, and institutions for an open, networked era https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4558237.v1
Manager and deputy appointed to lead development of second Research Excellence Framework http://zpr.io/PpaKt
Career Development Fellows (3 posts) at Birkbeck http://jobs.bbk.ac.uk/fe/tpl_birkbeckcollege01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=62982,3483792359&key=109179339&c=98996182342315&pagestamp=secehisboccgnqexww
HEFCE to invest £10.7 million per year for university museums, galleries and collections - http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2017/Name,112699,en.html
Joseph Brooker on Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line at the British Library - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/01/17/joseph-brooker-on-maps-and-the-20th-century-drawing-the-line-at-the-british-library/
Boy, it really is going to be fun being the example of how national economies crash when they leave successful international arrangements.
. @OpenBookPublish are seeking a database and web developer http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/37/1/vacancies
‘Society Must Be Defended’ (2017) - https://foucaultnews.com/2017/01/17/society-must-be-defended-2017/
Text re-use in Instagram posts selling human remains http://zpr.io/PzWL7
Electronic Dreams: a review http://zpr.io/PzBGV
Symbolic economy trumped by material economy.
The reason this works is because the only thing that gets a researcher promoted more quickly than "top" journal publication is grant income. https://x.com/brianmathews/status/821054006365712385
That said, on Wednesday I'll be speaking at UWE. Hope to see some of you there!
Feeling less-than-brilliant, health-wise, today. Taking it a little easy.
Martin Eve on Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/01/16/martin-eve-on-nice-fish-at-the-harold-pinter-theatre/
Why universities (and nearly everyone else) are rubbish at predicting the future http://zpr.io/PziTA
Thinking more about EU law and UK copyright exemptions
I have previously written, having had conversations with Erik Ketzan (although any misunderstandings in the final things I'm writing here are mine, not his), about a problem with the synthesis between the UK copyright exemption for research and EU Directive 2001/29/EC. The problem is that while UK…
Wait. There's a new series of Endeavour?! How did I miss this? Perils of not watching any TV live...
Russia in American Literature http://zpr.io/PzSJw
'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H7pTJpkM4nY/superbug-resistant-to-26-antibiotics-kills-a-patient-in-nevada
Better alternative title: Godot on Ice.
Just about to see Mark Rylance in Nice Fish. Or "Mark Rylance goes Fishing" as I've been calling it, to my wife's disdain.
Beyond the Black Box - Digital Scholarship workshops. I'm doing regex. - http://www.digital.hss.ed.ac.uk/blackbox/
Not quite sure what this lot are doing in Gordon Square!
False claims of copyright and STM http://onsnetwork.org/chartgerink/2017/01/13/false-claims-of-copyright-and-stm/
Gives some respect for the difficulties policymakers face in the risks of unintended consequences with every small tweak.
It almost needs a decision tree for many of the answers. "If non-portability, see point A. If portable, see point B".
For instance, answering the question on 0.2 contracts or on total number of outputs can depend on whether non-portability is implemented.
What strikes me now is how hard it is to respond to multiple changes at the same time.
We did some work today responding to the REF consultation. I'm updating some of my personal responses on my blog as I think further about it
Resurrecting a Low Pass Filter (well, kind of) http://zpr.io/P7Wpz
First Contact http://zpr.io/P7Wpq
On the HE and Research Bill as a terrain of alienation by @HallyMk1 - http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/01/12/on-the-he-and-research-bill-as-a-terrain-of-alienation/
Jo Johnson's dodgy evidence dissected by @amcgettigan https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/01/12/jo-johnsons-evidence-and-arguments/
Trump's hotel chain is called Putin on the Ritz, right?
NHS: 20 hospitals declare black alert as patient safety no longer assured. Deluded gov says there's "no crisis". https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/11/nhs-crisis-20-hospitals-declare-black-alert-as-patient-safety-no-longer-assured?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix
“Like the Learned Pig”: Virginia Woolf’s First Index https://indexhistory.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/like-the-learned-pig-virginia-woolfs-first-index/
Oh yes! A new @thelongchamps record out this month! https://soundcloud.com/ticitaci/sets/tici-taci-037-the-long-champs
Responses to four questions posed for the UUK OA monograph working group by @rupertgatti - https://rupertgatti.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/first-blog-post/
Springer appear to be threatening to sue a researcher for open access fees after he inadvertently ticked the box... https://plus.google.com/+Beno%C3%AEtKloeckner/posts/5HiBUJnX4c9
Cardiology appointment this morning followed by keynote for the CHASE consortium at Goldsmiths this afternoon! http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/17909/
'She only makes tea': worst excuses for not paying UK minimum wage revealed - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/11/uk-minimum-wage-ad-campaign-hmrc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix
Foucault: The Birth of Power (2017) http://zpr.io/P7Cpb
Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers. Requests comments by Jan 31st https://labs.jstor.org/download/ReimaginingtheMonographWhitePaper-DRAFT+FOR+COMMENT-2016-12-12.pdf
Reverse DOI lookups with Crossref http://zpr.io/P7DCr
PLOS are looking for a new CEO http://zpr.io/P7DCC
First Lords amendment goes to vote, government loses. @amcgettigan on the #HEBill https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/01/10/first-lords-amendment-goes-to-vote-government-loses/
Not content: Lords give the Bill a very rocky first day http://zpr.io/P7ypB
A Guide to Collecting the Works of Thomas Pynchon - http://thomaspynchon.com/collecting-thomas-pynchon/
A Note on the Early History of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (Part I) - https://persistentenlightenment.com/2017/01/09/the-making-and-the-marketing-of-the-philosophische-fragmente-a-note-on-the-early-history-of-the-dialectic-of-enlightenment/
Err @guardian this article is appallingly inaccurate. Bill is not defeated. Nothing about stopping for profits. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/09/peers-defeat-higher-education-and-research-bill-universities
About this blog in 2017 http://zpr.io/P7YaP
Emotional support animal.
Just had an email for a webinar on "accommodating emotional support animals on campus". May now write to my dean about guinea pig demands.
Are you nice? Are you organised? Would you like to work as a research manager in the fab @birkbeck_arts? Apply here: http://bit.ly/2ia67SH
Free Rein? The question of academic freedom http://zpr.io/P7f88
Why part-time study should be a priority in the HE Bill http://zpr.io/P7f89
Using convolutional neural networks to geolocate photos. Google now knows where a pic was taken just from the image. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/
Team Chat http://zpr.io/PqJ4A
Star Wars Storage Media http://zpr.io/PqiVj
Obama cites data from Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/obama-cites-data-from-institute-for-criminal-policy-research-at-birkbeck
Next Wednesday is my first talk of 2017, keynoting the CHASE Digital Humanities Winter School. Hope to see some of you there!
My responses to the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework
Here are my draft responses to the parts of the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework that attracted my interested. These are my individual thoughts, not those of any institution that I represent. They are also not my final submission.
A catalogue of failures from private providers of higher education. Against private provider revisionism - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/01/05/against-private-provider-revisionism/
Court: Fan-Funded Star Trek Film is Not ‘Fair Use’ - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/l1wGso33ALo/
Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? An empirical analysis. https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerous-for-celebrities-79d79b9fae02#.xxbakxwbd
OLH end of year accounts. I'm going in. Wish me luck.
Book review. Accepted November 2014. Told would be published February 2016. January 2017: still not out.
"We're gonna clean up this town" https://x.com/jason_schmitt/status/816765028242178056
(Ultra-specific and maybe targeted) job: Senior Lecturer in English Literature (c. 1350-1510) and Digital Humanities http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWL275/senior-lecturer-in-english-literature-c-1350-1510-and-digital-humanities/
Today was great. OLH work, some fiction reading, some chapter writing, some College policy work, some grant writing, some editorial. Variety
Re-reading Angela Carter this eve: "in a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world".
Definitely seeing @caravanpalace when next in London. Can't believe I hadn't heard of them before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunKf61APmk
January OLH renewal letters: done! Hurrah!
But, so far, I've never got to the stage of needing that offsite, more cumbersome recovery process. However, the moral is: backup your work!
Then, I use CrashPlan on the most frequently used machine, so even if my own replication strategy totally fails, I should be able to recover
I have 3 client machines + 1 server syncing between themselves. If I make a mistake & push to server, can pull on 1 client + still recover.
Reminds me of historical backup catastrophes I have known™: laptop theft during Ph.D., for instance.
Just accidentally deleted nearly a month's worth of work from two of my three replicas. Spotted just in time! (Have further backup though.)
An event for "academic book week" in which I'll be having a discussion with @kreeve and John Holmwood. Jan 23rd. http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/promo/book_week.htm
Pirate Markets & Guerrilla Libraries - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/Nq30ClK_4SY/
Four implementation questions about open access and monographs
From January this year, I am a member of the Universities UK Open Access Monographs Working Group. The aims of the group, in preparation for the mandate for the anticipated Third Research Excellence Framework in the mid-2020s, are to monitor progress towards the practical implementation of open…
Incomplete reading list – 2016 http://zpr.io/Pqm7Q
Are there any sources for Berger's death? Very sad to hear this.
Friend's precis of Today prog: "Profit-making 'inevitable'. HE system 'wonderful' but 'change must come' so rich people can make more money"
Learned societies in the humanities, open access, and paying for disciplinary goods
As I've written before, Learned Societies are one of the biggest barriers to open access. They derive revenue from publishing that they then use to pay for disciplinary goods (scholarships, prizes, public engagement etc.) Fear of new economic models for scholarly communications sometimes, although…
HTML Typescript – redistributing labor http://zpr.io/PqaBi
Lords revolt over plans for ‘free-market’ universities https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/dec/31/lords-revolt-tory-plans-free-market-universities
The rivalrous parts of non-rivalrous digital forms
Peter Suber has asked, following a long chain of thinking about knowledge as a non-rivalrous form that is inscribed, historically, within rivalrous forms: