Sexist nonsense advertising from Ford promoted in my timeline. "Wrecked your car because you were looking at pretty ladies? We can help." https://x.com/forduk/status/854699139845603329

Poet Matt Martin awarded the Stuart Hall PhD Scholarship at Birkbeck http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/poet-matt-martin-awarded-the-stuart-hall-phd-scholarship-at-birkbeck

Someone should also work on correlations between grumpy reader reports and headaches in peer reviewers. Willing to contribute data.

Does it involve writing off the 36k of debt they imposed on students last time? https://x.com/timeshighered/status/858350936393109505

I know how to have a wild Saturday and it mostly consists of 40 minutes in an MRI scanner and a two-hour round trip to hospital.

There may be work on this. But I haven't seen it. It gets less attention than "Green OA takes 17 minutes of academic time per deposit" 5/x

What about just how long it takes to navigate the frankly awful login systems of publishers only to be told there is no access. 4/x

What about "I had to travel from Lincoln to the British Library to check a reference while on a lecturer salary"? 3/x

I haven't yet seen one that does this for subscriptions. That is, if I can get access, how long does it take me to get a copy? 2/x

There are those interesting economic analyses of the cost of green open access that factor in researcher time for deposit. 1/x

Those classic security SNAFUs from https://www.troyhunt.com/reckon-youve-seen-some-stupid-security-things-here-hold-my-beer/

Return of the KLF: ‘They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here’ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/27/return-of-the-klf-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Will Self claims that "Žižek has become the darling of what’s left of the left in British academia". Hmm. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/courage-of-hopelessness-slavoj-zizek-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

It's almost like some kind of "union" between these countries makes them stronger and better able to negotiate. https://x.com/Independent/status/857892845411340288

Should be a category in the retrospective time allocation survey for time spent logging info for the retrospective time allocation survey.

Gorka – Is the #FakeTerrorismExpert’s Ph.D fake? http://reynolds.web.unc.edu/gorka/

Be it enacted: The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/be-it-enacted-the-higher-education-and-research-act-2017/

Today is our research away day.

HERB returns to parliament for final act - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/04/26/herb-returns-to-parliament-for-final-act/

The other reason I didn't buy Cursed Child tickets is that we've totally blown our budget this month on vets' bills for our sick guinea pig.

I did look at getting Cursed Child tickets today, I confess. But then I was number 35,741 in the queue (not even joking) and gave up.

Dystopia Now http://zpr.io/PwYgn

Isn't it funny how the people who most loudly proclaim their patriotism have done little themselves of which to be proud? Happy St George's

1-2% of people are born intersex, about the same proportion of people with red hair. https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/apr/23/intersex-and-proud-hanne-gaby-odiele-the-model-finally-celebrating-her-body?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

One of our lovely little guinea pigs was diagnosed with kidney failure today. We're ridiculously fond of her and somewhat heartbroken.

107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due To Peer Review Fraud - Springer just blindly emailing suggested reviewers #fail http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tBiT7JED_Is/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud

Gor bless ya, Mr Pynchon, Gor bless ya! http://zpr.io/PDB2h

Arkansas executions bring Sister Helen Prejean’s death penalty fight to the fore https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/21/arkansas-executions-sister-helen-prejean-death-penalty-advocacy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Postone on power, structure and agency http://zpr.io/PDeSH

The HE Bill: The Final Ditch http://zpr.io/PDdgx

Bogus Colleges 7: The replies http://zpr.io/PDdga

This man was killed yesterday. The judge in his case was sleeping with the prosecution, literally. His state-appointed lawyer arrived drunk. https://x.com/radleybalko/status/855173335503835139

The sales model as crowdfunding after you've done the work.

Martin Eve on The White Devil at the Wanamaker Playhouse http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/04/21/martin-eve-on-the-white-devil-at-the-wanamaker-playhouse/

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/

Excellent-sounding forthcoming release from Tici Taci! https://soundcloud.com/ticitaci/inaktiv-entertain-us-clip?in=ticitaci/sets/tici-taci-039-inaktiv-zepp-ep

Upcoming Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image event on "Urban Change" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-change-current-research-in-film-television-and-media-studies-tickets-33888045055

ICYMI, the OLH has entered a partnership with Liverpool University Press to flip a subscription journal OA. No APCs. https://about.openlibhums.org/2017/04/20/olh-and-liverpool-university-press-join-to-flip-subscription-journal-open-access/

Publication citation rules: where a text is available online we indicate this but do not include the link. #helpful

Some details of the LUP-OLH deal: will apply from 2018 when Quaker Studies will be taken off price catalogue (i.e. direct offsetting)

This morning I have read every interview ever given by Jennifer Egan and now my head hurts.

Our big news: OLH & Liverpool University Press to move subscription journal to open access with no author charges! https://about.openlibhums.org/2017/04/20/olh-and-liverpool-university-press-join-to-flip-subscription-journal-open-access/

For HE in Northern Ireland, the only certainty is uncertainty http://zpr.io/PD8UL

This is how I feel about the Lib Dems. https://x.com/adventuresofrob/status/854791775613046784

Performance information and data-driven academic anxiety http://zpr.io/PDu68

"A Number 10 source says the prime minister won't be changing her position on the TV debates". See also: "I will not be calling an election"

I personally think this would be a very good idea. https://x.com/GdnPolitics/status/854606636383584257

Ubuntu To Use Wayland by Default http://zpr.io/PDX4F

Oh, what rigour. His webpage lists academic publications. He looks legit. We've never actually read the work, but...

How do they pick reviewers? "His university webpage reveals him to be a legitimate scholar with a fairly long and solid publication record".

Top history journal apologizes for assigning review of book on inequality to someone viewed as a white supremacist - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/18/history-journal-apologizes-assigning-review-book-urban-education-and-inequality#.WPX3mFu4Dup.facebook

The Many Mergers of English Higher Education http://zpr.io/PDXbh

Job: Coordinator for Digital Archives and Records at University of Delaware http://zpr.io/PDXbm

General Election announcement casts uncertainty on future of HE Bill http://zpr.io/PDNu4

The Lib Dems were a party of government less than two years ago. It's as if nobody remembers what they did. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/the-lib-dems-fight-back-wont-save-you

Supreme court blocks Arkansas from flurry of executions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/17/arkansas-death-penalty-bruce-ward-don-davis-executions

Opening of UN files on Holocaust will 'rewrite chapters of history' - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/apr/18/opening-un-holocaust-files-archive-war-crimes-commission?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

INAKTIV (Uj Pa Gaz / Via Tirana) live session https://soundcloud.com/radioblog-2/eyeblog-uj-pa-gaz-via-tirana-live-session

Devoted my Easter weekend to playing with neural networks for natural language and image generation. Some impressive stuff.

Difference and Repetition: Academic Labour after RSI http://zpr.io/PD7W5

Yet for those who can't afford them, those references are often as absolutely inaccessible as a dead link.

An epistemology in which references that can be checked by those who can afford them are OK but absolutely inaccessible references are not.

Love when people say that we shouldn't cite web resources because they can become inaccessible but it's fine to cite books that cost >$200.

Software Citation Principles http://zpr.io/PDqTE

Has anyone done a poll on whether HE journalists are working today?

An Easter mix of things that I'm listening to: Egg Hunt. https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/egg-hunt @ernestopriego @qui_oui @jon_fugler @CarinaWestling

April 16, 2017. The journal-trained neural network became self-aware: "they provide the fraud of the epistemological practices of knowledge"

Arkansas executions: health giant sues state as federal judge issues injunction - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/15/arkansas-executions-mckesson-sues-lethal-injection?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Another faux-bibliographic gem from the journal-trained neural net, which I might dub "Silicon Zizek": "The Sublime Object of Cruising"

Today my achievements have been somewhat limited to eating my own body weight in chocolate and thinking about machine-generated prose.

Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail http://zpr.io/PD6sh

“A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault - https://markcarrigan.net/2017/04/15/a-new-kind-of-intellectual-pierre-bourdieus-tribute-to-michel-foucault/

"In the early twentieth century, these recognitions are contingent."

It's also fabricated a terrifying footnote: "Slavoj Žižek, Live Fiction, trans. Rushdie and Jean-Luc Nancy (London: Bohestock Press, 1994)"

"The series of temporal inventions of the object is intelligible only afterwards"

"The world was right to have to introduce its choice: that meaning was a palimpsestuous scholarship, the literary moment"

I'm training a character-based recurrent neural network on a full set of literary-studies journal articles. Some great outputs.

Joe Orton: 50 Years On http://zpr.io/PDU8B

Courts grant stays to remaining seven men set to die in Arkansas executions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/bruce-ward-arkansas-execution-stay-death-penalty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

I mean, obviously, I'd prefer OA but hey.

When you buy a CD from Amazon you get a digital version. Couldn't academic book publishers do the same? Would greatly help my research.

Researchers Develop Master Fingerprints That Can Break Into Smartphones http://zpr.io/P842v

Making staff selection work in REF 2021 http://zpr.io/P85LN

Announcing Current Research in Digital History http://zpr.io/P8STf

Identifiers: A Double-Edged Sword http://zpr.io/P8C9u

Of course, the other reason you can have a long wait for your appointment is that they have lost your folder. #fail

I think it's because they have lifelong non-terminal conditions so an accruing patient body without commensurate resource increases.

Rheumatology clinics consistently have the worst waiting times of any I attend.

Funding confirmed for the second phase of the Degree Apprenticeship Development Fund http://zpr.io/P8Ctw

LSE RB Feature Essay: Populism and the Limits of Neoliberalism by William Davies http://zpr.io/P8FQ5

Interest rates & How Not to Write About Student Loans < more important stuff from @amcgettigan https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/04/12/interest-rates-how-not-to-write-about-student-loans/

My brilliant PhD candidate, @floatingstones, has had her beautiful book on Hansjörg Mayer published!

Disabling SSL validation in binary apps http://zpr.io/P8wM2

Announcement: Mellon Grant Supports Open Access to Humanities Texts http://zpr.io/P8wMr

The Orphans of Scholarship http://zpr.io/P8beP

Police break up 'fully-fledged' Tube train rave with MC and sound system on Bakerloo line < underground music scene http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-break-up-fullyfledged-tube-train-rave-with-mc-and-sound-system-on-bakerloo-line-a3512766.html

If you'd like to come talk about contemporary American fiction and politics with me, do sign up here! http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/he-doesnt-talk-politics-anymore-the-role-of-politics-in-contemporary-us-fiction-tickets-33212353042

The schedule for our open series of events at @birkbeck_arts is now live! http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/about-us/events/arts-week

Research Access for the 21st Century http://zpr.io/P8MuZ

SO pleased that @filmstudiesff appointed to a Chair at my fantastic university, @BirkbeckNews! Higher Education for all is what we do.

Access, ethics and piracy by @lawsonstu http://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.333/

Birkbeck holds fees at home levels for European Union students http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-holds-fees-at-home-levels-for-european-union-students

Go Stuart! https://x.com/AlisonMcNab/status/851366214647545856

BUT: the trains from Brighton are TRULY APPALLING. Really diabolically bad.

I just bumped into a rather shattered looking @chriskeene at Brighton station. Congratulations, Chris, on finishing the marathon!

What are the next steps for open access? http://zpr.io/P8fDa

Researcher Privacy http://zpr.io/P8H5K

She is also the only person in the department, so far as I know, to have a Dire Straits song written about her.

My colleague, Professor Marina Warner, elected first female President of the Royal Society of Literature - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/professor-marina-warner-elected-first-female-president-of-the-royal-society-of-literature

social co-operatives and the democratisation of higher education http://zpr.io/P8gXa

Job: Communications Specialist at Texas Digital Library http://zpr.io/P8gXT

Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers < this classy outfit strikes again https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/uber-said-to-use-sophisticated-software-to-defraud-drivers-passengers/

Ok, a bit mean. There are some virtues in open citation data. But mostly I'm looking forward to more performance management.

It's good that there is open citation data now because this will mean that unrestricted crude metricization can proceed and finally we

PhD examining process did a good job here, then... https://x.com/BrunoLeipold/status/850040304975708160

Holland

Books Podcast: The Joy of Indexes http://zpr.io/P9QQd

"Bob Cratchitt, I know that Tiny Tim will die, but I'd rather we were poor masters than rich servants". #sadkermit - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/06/sir-michael-caine-reveals-voted-brexit-would-rather-poor-master/

Which children do The Sun think should starve? https://x.com/chris_coltrane/status/849967373520130048

Holland knows something about academia with "academic jobs transfer" advertised with image of person belly-flopping

How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Browser-Extension-Could/239714

Waste: A Symposium – Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion - http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/03/30/waste-a-symposium-%E2%80%93-papers-on-disposability-decay-and-depletion

And oh god I'm pretty sure that very drunk already stag party is going to be on my flight to Amsterdam...

Re-crafting Crafting Digital History http://zpr.io/P9cPn

The remainder of my week: tomorrow, Utrecht; Friday: Leiden. Speaking about recent developments at @openlibhums.

New suggested @openlibhums tagline from The Giant: the articles are not what they seem.

New at @openlibhums: Between Two Worlds: Twin Peaks and the Film/Television Divide - https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.89/

Roaming Autodidacts and the Neo-Reactionaries #OER17 http://zpr.io/P9i8G

Social co-operatives and the democratisation of higher education http://zpr.io/P9i8f

Resource: Introducing the Bibliography on Stylometry http://zpr.io/P9LD6

In our Google era, indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world (2017) http://zpr.io/P9L8Q

Martin Eve on Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? – Birkbeck, Department of English & Humanities blog - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/04/04/martin-eve-on-edward-albees-the-goat-or-who-is-sylvia/

. @the_blochian on Kim Stanley Robinson and Francis Spufford in conversation with Adam Roberts, 3 April 2017 - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/04/05/caroline-edwards-on-kim-stanley-robinson-and-francis-spufford-in-conversation-with-adam-roberts-3-april-2017/

'I've tried to insulate staff from the pain of education funding cuts but I won't be able to hide it anymore' - https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/ive-tried-insulate-staff-pain-education-funding-cuts-come-september

Conservatives and liberals united only by interest in dinosaurs, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/03/conservatives-and-liberals-united-only-by-interest-in-dinosaurs-study-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Research Excellence Framework 2021: applications invited for Main Panel Chairs http://zpr.io/P9bhN

I think I've done it. I've found the slowest train in the universe to Lincoln.

Financial health of the higher education sector: a variable picture http://zpr.io/P9KNv

Financial health of the higher education sector: 2015-16 financial results http://zpr.io/P9KN4

Funding for universities and colleges for 2017-18: Board decisions - http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/Year/2017/CL,062017/Title,113129,en.html

Some thoughts on the continuing practices of #ThanksForTyping - "thanks for copyediting" http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/open-research/2017/04/03/on-being-open-in-practice-giving-credit-where-it-is-due/

On Being Open In Practice: Giving Credit Where it is Due http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/open-research/2017/04/03/on-being-open-in-practice-giving-credit-where-it-is-due/

Today I'm speaking at the National Conference of University Professors about open access and OLH.

Deliverology in, out and around the university http://zpr.io/P9AFu

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices - https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almost-lost/

Less than one week after the triggering of Article 50 and war in Europe is being threatened. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/02/theresa-may-would-go-war-defend-sovereignty-gibraltar-says-michael/

Electronic Dreams: a review http://zpr.io/PzBGV

Now off to see Albee's The Goat then on to my favourite London pub. Determined to celebrate today, despite political grimness!

A year ago today I got out of hospital. Could barely walk to the end of my road. Yesterday, reached new heights in 50 min uphill cycle!

I don't normally post from the SK, but "The Art of the Beall" is pretty funny :P https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/01/the-art-of-the-beall/

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks - absolutely amazing stuff https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/