Recordings from the Birkbeck "Feminist Emergency" conference are now up http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2017/06/feminist-emergency-international-conference/

My colleague @GraceHalden and Dr Gutierrez-Santos win BETA awards 2017 — Birkbeck, University of London - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/drs-halden-and-gutierrez-santos-win-beta-awards-2017

Why don’t they like us? A terrible two months for universities in the news - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/why-dont-they-like-us-a-terrible-two-months-for-universities-in-the-news/

At the Crime Writers in Conversation event in Alfriston with Lesley Thomson, Elly Griffiths and @JulietEve

A Saturday morning's music jam: pH < 7 https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/ph-7

Insurance companies employ Michael Gove's mathematical logic: they are always experiencing more calls than usual.

Graduate anger mounts over ‘nightmare’ Student Loans Company - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/29/graduates-anger-nightmare-student-loans-company-complaints?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

My wife insisted I get a hobby that isn't work. So, bought myself some music gear & have first bass line recorded!

The Making and the Marketing of the Philosophische Fragmente (Part II) - https://persistentenlightenment.com/2017/07/27/the-making-and-the-marketing-of-the-philosophische-fragmente-part-ii/

Making the Co-operative University conference - http://josswinn.org/2017/07/27/making-the-co-operative-university-conference/

Job: Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Chicago - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/v769lv6MFIE/

National Debt & Existing Student Loans - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/07/27/national-debt-existing-student-loans/

A truly remarkable article on the US Department of Energy. I know that sounds dull but I really recommend reading - http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

Heidi pig on the 303

Fees frees from government control - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/07/25/fees-frees-from-government-control/

This is just so frustrating. So many rightsholders just haven't thought about licensing in the digital age.

Handling a third-party image inquiry where the rightsholder wants us to estimate views for an OA article & will only license for 10 years.

TEF – is it here to stay or a flash in the pan? - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/registrarism-what-is-the-likely-shelf-life-of-tef/

Two new poetry articles by my colleague Steve Willey and my PhD student @floatingstones http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2017.1297159 & http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2017.1297168

Wow. Stared longingly at @drclaireocall's BRILLIANT looking book but couldn't afford it. Bloomsbury sent me a copy!

Kicking off the "3 month summer holiday" that we're claimed to have with 8 hours of back-to-back meetings.

Yes, we know this well at Birkbeck alongside our colleagues at the OU https://x.com/Phil_Baty/status/889216344729817089

This is a truly terrible article https://x.com/GdnHigherEd/status/889175781041205248

More on INK - https://www.adamhyde.net/inky-thinky/

Yeah, so student loans are progressive and all etc. but don't leave the country without telling your parole officer https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/22/student-loans-company-punishing-graduates-additional-rate-rise

Robust adversarial images that fool neural networks https://blog.openai.com/robust-adversarial-inputs/

Decoding the Enigma with Recurrent Neural Networks https://greydanus.github.io/2017/01/07/enigma-rnn/

Headlines from the DfE 2016/17 accounts - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/07/20/headlines-from-the-dfe-201617-accounts/

INK 1.0 - https://www.adamhyde.net/ink-doc/

Jo Johnson defends HE funding system in pre-summer speech - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/jo-johnson-defends-he-funding-system-in-pre-summer-speech/

Waste and ‘Everyday Environmentalism’ in Modern Britain, new at @openlibhums https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.128/

British gas homecare line hold message is recommending how I should handle frozen pipes. In July.

Damn. Just left a bag on the train nearly causing a security scare. Head in the clouds.

.@DSweeneyHEFCE on implementing non-portability of outputs for the next REF http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2017/07/20/the-portability-or-non-portability-of-research/

It's almost as though the claimed "e" in LEO measured a heap of other stuff besides "education"... https://x.com/JMorganTHE/status/887939114737303553

Are student loan repayments really progressive? http://wonkhe.com/blogs/analysis-mid-life-crisis-loan-repayment-progressive/

How much do you really understand about the peer review process? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/how-much-do-you-really-understand-about-peer-review-process

Beyond Public and Private: A Framework for Co-operative Higher Education https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.195

Lovely surprise in my pigeonhole from @terrainsvagues at @MLACommons! I will show off my MLA Commons platypus with pride!

I think the hybrid non-portability option for #REF2021 is sensible - Schrodingers Credit at both institutions.

If you're going to quibble about staff and what research active means, then you can reduce burden by, err, not quibbling.

So, basic principle of staff selection for REF2 seems to be: submit all research-active staff. One output minimum.

Job: Director for Strategic Initiatives, MIT Press - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/XoedH-tVFwA/

Hope someone can live tweet this, as I'm likely in transit... https://x.com/DSweeneyHEFCE/status/887328831404744704

Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges - https://mellon.org/resources/shared-experiences-blog/correspondence-archives-age-email/

Chief Executive’s pay: a provocation - https://moremeansbetter.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/chief-executives-pay-a-provocation/

Martin Eve on Contemporary Slo-Mo Electro – Birkbeck, Department of English & Humanities blog - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2017/07/17/martin-eve-on-contemporary-slo-mo-electro/

Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y_dKtkVclp8/facebooks-ai-keeps-inventing-languages-that-humans-cant-understand

Pleased that DH has a female lead. But WoC still very much passed over. Ppl tweeting past examples: Janeway, Buffy, Ripley. Hardly diverse.

Spent the day celebrating my grandmother's 96th birthday, watching the men's Wimbledon final, and enjoying the Dr Who reveal.

Thousands sign up to clean sewage because they didn't read the small print https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/14/wifi-terms-and-conditions-thousands-sign-up-clean-sewage-did-not-read-small-print?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Just noticed that Felski refers to Ricoeur's "1952 book Freud and Philosophy" (Limits, p. 31)... Errr, 1965 for 1st ed in French?

Bwahaha https://x.com/theipaper/status/885619946625146880

Targeting "broken" metabolism in immune cells reduces inflammatory disease - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/318439.php

Fiscal Illusions of student debt - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/07/13/fiscal-illuions/

We're probably due for another discussion of Stanley Fish https://tedunderwood.com/2017/07/13/were-probably-due-for-another-discussion-of-stanley-fish/

This only makes explicit exactly what happens anyway through hiring and promotion panels in UK https://x.com/Protohedgehog/status/885400156467847168

Exciting new research project I am leading! @BirkbeckNews to investigate peer review process thanks to @MellonFdn http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-to-investigate-the-peer-review-process-in-new-research-project

College productivity shot at @BirkbeckNews today due to Master's Summer Party!

Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable? - http://blog.dshr.org/2017/07/is-decentralized-storage-sustainable.html

Announcement: Zotero 5.0 Release - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/xjDgzWRUBMU/

Assumes readers are able and interpellates them into that position while marking people with disabilities as an other "them".

Awful "us" and "them" framing on this. "A quarter of us 'avoid conversations with disabled people'". http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40565656/a-quarter-of-us-avoid-conversations-with-disabled-people

Also note that REF panel chair appointment document refers to REF 2021, confirming speculation from technical consultation.

REF 2021 Main Panel D: Arts and humanities to be chaired by Professor Dinah Birch CBE http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2017/Name,114700,en.html

We've all been there, right?

Got to that point of boredom doing admin where I am replying to emails while playing along to my background music on a plastic kazoo.

Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/n-32Ab8ai-Y/bruce-perens-warns-grsecurity-breaches-the-linux-kernels-gpl-license

So, someone just both wrecked and massively improved BABY DRIVER for me at the same time. https://youtu.be/EFgdhZGLJrY

Spoiler: some good finds. Also did some correlation work against the OEC to test a hypothesis about historical style & C21 frequency.

Uses a range of computational techniques to appraise etymological mimetic accuracy of twenty-first-century rendition of 19c language.

Finishing touches to manuscript of The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas complete.

(Though I wouldn't personally call Adonis intelligent)

Tuition fees in an age of unreason (with a great final paragraph) - https://headofdepartmentblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/tuition-fees-in-an-age-of-unreason/

"How is it possible that the Open Library of Humanities Works?" - @CameronNeylon writing re our non-classical model http://cameronneylon.net/blog/whats-the-return-or-how-is-it-possible-that-open-library-of-humanities-works/

He seems to think that putting fees back down to 1k will give the government has a great opportunity to underfund universities.

He seems to think that VCs being paid 5x a Prof salary is the reason why fees are set at 9k.

So before we all go cheering Adonis, the subtext of what he's saying is: we should abolish tuition fees so we can really hit universities.

I am at last arriving back from #ESF2017 in London. Only 160 minutes late thanks to train delays. #argh

For those who might be interested, here's the text and slideshow of my talk at #ESF2017 http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/19145/

Towards a University of the Common (on the Really Open University) http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.90 now out at @openlibhums #ESF2017

Editors’ Choice: Standard Practice – Libraries As Structuring Machines - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/1dkMCS-LdOM/

The Rise of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK - https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/the-rise-of-new-university-presses-and-academic-led-presses-in-the-uk/

Call for Applications: Urban Ruins - http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/call-for-applications-urban-ruins/

The BACLS contemporary lit panel at #ESF2017 up now!

Farewell room 5A 5 at the Claude Gibb building. I can't really say that I'll miss you.

A friend did a thing on Facebook that read: "your DJ name is DJ + your greatest fear". Mine was DJ Antibiotic Resistance.

Totally untreatable gonorrhoea 'superbug' spreading around world, WHO warns https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/07/untreatable-gonorrhoea-superbug-spreading-around-world-who-warns

I think this gives us all something to ponder at #ESF2017

IFS on tuition fees - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/07/05/ifs-on-tuition-fees/

Up and ready for day 2 of #ESF2017. First panel promises to be "provocative" and "interactive" :O

Btw Rose is @RoseHarrisB #ESF2017

Recent spike of interest in "post-truth". Term first used in 1980s to mean moment after truth is told (!!) #ESF2017

Multiple panellists have already turned to Orwell here. 9500% increase in recent sales of 1984 #ESF2017

Dr Rose Harris-Birtill now talking about the study of fiction in the age of alternative facts #ESF2017

Turns out there is a conference hashtag: #ESF2017

We are in a grand room called the "Council Chamber" which seems to have a throne and seats with voting apparatuses

At the first panel for the English: Shared Futures Conference. On advocacy and defending the discipline.

Armed with this t-shirt for the ECR publishing panel I'm on tomorrow at the English: Shared Futures Conference.

Three white blokes discussing the challenge of diversity... Hmm
https://x.com/jameswilsdon/status/882165324463951872

Caster Semenya could be forced to undertake hormone therapy for future Olympics. This is seriously dodgy. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/03/caster-semenya-could-be-forced-to-undertake-hormone-therapy-for-future-olympics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

It's been a while since I've done the journey to Sussex. Southern Trains, delayed by default, has reminded me why I don't miss it!

Off to University of Sussex today for a THATcamp with @j_w_baker

In fact, I seem to remember getting a rather curt and I thought blunt/rude response from the Royal Free at the time.

Clearly. I complained furiously to them at the time: Royal Free breached UK data law in 1.6m patient deal w/ Google https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/google-deepmind-16m-patient-royal-free-deal-data-protection-act

Errr. That's exactly what the current system does by underwriting loans? https://x.com/MirrorPolitics/status/881438443154403328

Paracetamol appears to have affects on empathy - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SzW80yl9GgQ/tylenol-may-kill-kindness

New toy

"We've heard enough from experts" https://x.com/Botanygeek/status/881445524200665088

I can barely work out what the petitions are for now without clicking. Seems to minimise spreading the word about the cause itself.

Interesting how petition sites have changed from "support this cause" to "stand with your friend" in social media sharing snippets.

Full Draft of Theory & Craft of Digital Preservation - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/trevorowensblog/~3/Se2CWTpX_yU/