My eprints CV generator now allows you to exclude certain venues from any section https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/eprintsToCV. Sample output is here: https://eve.gd/c-v/

DUP deputy leader: I'd rather stay in EU than back Theresa May deal
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/30/dup-deputy-leader-id-rather-stay-in-eu-than-back-theresa-may-deal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Industry Nicknames
https://xkcd.com/2130/

Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.417

I love Poorly Drawn Lines http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/time-of-my-life/

This is out today! I have a remix on it alongside some very fine others. Please do have a listen and pass it on! https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-long-champs-opsimath-eremite/4080306-02/

“You've had 15 years to sort this out, no one did anything for 14-and-a-half of those" https://x.com/AileenFyfe/status/1111550486430343168

OfS releases 1.52GB CSV file. That's going to crash any spreadsheet software. Haha! https://t.co/JAiyRMSpOv

Totally up and down day in which I got loads done early on but then also felt truly terrible at various points this afternoon thanks to medication. Committed some crimes against music with an electric guitar this evening to compensate.

Come work at @BirkbeckUoL as senior access officer for asylum seekers and refugees, on our brilliant Compass Project. https://x.com/CMcDonald367/status/1111396974484430848

This is out tomorrow! My remix has a totally excessive 2+ minute bass guitar solo on it. https://x.com/thelongchamps/status/1105255630233845766

A reminder of next week's event at Loughborough London, The Mediated Text: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/school-of-the-arts-english-and-drama/upcoming-eventssymposiums/the-mediated-text. I hope to be well enough to present some of our preliminary work on the PLOS ONE review database.

Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution - The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanists-Fear-Not-the/245987

Bold reporting from the BBC

Did postgraduate loans make any difference? (Spoiler: yes)
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/did-postgraduate-loans-make-a-difference/

"Elsevier looking into how “unorthodox” paper featuring ancient astronauts was published" https://retractionwatch.com/2019/03/27/elsevier-looking-into-how-unorthodox-paper-featuring-ancient-astronauts-was-published/

Postdoctoral Scholar of the Medical Humanities, with an Emphasis on Literary and Cultural Studies 2019-2020 (JPF01482) - UCSB
https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01482

This week we came up against the most bureaucratically complex supplier arrangement for OLH yet. Org wants us to provide a government-signed document proving we DON'T have criminal records. Err, our government can barely function at the moment and do NOT provide this service!

We do hit this kind of challenge often and it takes LOADS of labour time to resolve. People who think it's easy to get customer arrangements in place for open access publishing when coordinating internationally have no idea, often, of the requirements/admin overhead.

"Kill's"

Rescindment of visiting fellowship | statement from Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/rescindment-of-visiting-fellowship-statement-from-vice-chancellor-professor-stephen-j-toope

While there are some hugely regressive elements of the EU Copyright Directive, this is a major boon for re-use of historic artworks in scholarship... And open access to that work. That said, is an unintended consequence to disincentivize digitization? https://x.com/arthistorynews/status/1110527887684390912

Mocked by drunks and barred by bouncers: my night clubbing in a wheelchair
https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2019/mar/26/mocked-by-drunks-and-barred-by-bouncers-my-night-clubbing-in-a-wheelchair?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

William Barr Reads “Moby-Dick,” Finds No Evidence of Whales https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/william-barr-reads-moby-dick-finds-no-evidence-of-whales

Learned societies with publishing operations who are worried about Plan S: this might be of interest. Implementing a consortial funding model for open access publishing with @OyaRieger, @JohnWillinsky and me. https://oaspa.org/implementing-a-consortial-funding-model-for-open-access-publishing/

"This Government will not revoke Article 50. We will honour the result of the 2016 referendum and work with Parliament to deliver a deal that ensures we leave the European Union." https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

Reading work about utopian and dystopian fiction about climate change while sitting in the garden in a t-shirt in March and feeling warm feels both utopian and dystopian.

"Government could ignore indicative Brexit votes by MPs, says Liam Fox". YES. IT COULD. LIKE THE DAMN REFERENDUM. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/25/government-could-ignore-indicative-brexit-votes-says-liam-fox

Res Pro playbook today on grade inflation: If you are good enough to pass your driving test, you pass—and it is still respected as a qualification. Nobody would say that the value of the driving licence is devalued in years when a higher proportion of people pass.

"from the grass roots" by @nowviskie
http://nowviskie.org/2019/from-the-grass-roots/

Do you like Peter Gabriel? Do you NOT like Peter Gabriel and want to hear me butcher one of his tracks? Do you like electronic music with 303s? If any of the above apply, you might enjoy this https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/sledgehammer-course-1?in=martin-eve/sets/course-corrections-acid-sledgehammer-rebuild-free-download @ernestopriego @jon_fugler @DrWestling @qui_oui

Art at the Frontier of Film Theory: @BirkbeckUoL's Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-at-the-frontier-of-film-theory-laura-mulvey-and-peter-wollen-tickets-57999998557

No Deal Brexit preparations: "“Are you assured you can maintain urgent cancer treatments until the next daily ‘sitrep’ submission is due?” Sources said this planning was likely to be too little, too late. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/secret-cabinet-office-document-reveals-chaotic-planning-for-no-deal-brexit

Two gratuitous music purchases arrived today. One of the original Tici Taci releases on vinyl and another Duncan Gray release that comes with a handwritten note from The Guv, Andrew Weatherall.

Book Review: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe: Going on to Ethics by Cora Diamond
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LseReviewOfBooks/~3/Qg-LphIUmZM/

The third issue of Brief Encounters, the CHASE Doctoral Consortium's open-access journal, has been published today http://briefencounters-journal.co.uk/BE/issue/view/5

Today's reading for me is Leslie Marlon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

Also enjoying Andy Buchan's edit of Captain Sensible's "Wot" this AM https://soundcloud.com/andy-buchan-0/say-wot-andy-buchan-captain-sensible-edit-alpaca-edits

This morning I am editing book chapters and listening to the Dogs & Vultures Compilation Vol. 2 https://dogsandvulturesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dogs-vultures-compilation-vol-2

So let me get this straight... We have an extension on Brexit until the 12th April if the vote that is held next Tuesday fails. Except we can't have a vote on Tuesday because it's been ruled out by the Speaker?

HESA institutional finance 2019 release
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/hesa-institutional-finance-2019-release-kfi-is-going-to-rock-you/

An Interview With the Plan S Implementation Committee's David Sweeney. “My question for those who say it’s too tight a time scale,” he said, “is how long do you want?” https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/03/research-england-an-interview-with-the-plan-s-implementation-committees-david-sweeney/

My 97-year-old Nan just signed The Petition.

Never do this. Ever. https://t.co/XU3UWFob3v

Now on to Frankenstein in Baghdad.

Oryx and Crake was the best novel I read this week (so far), but I was really not sold on the other two in the trilogy. Felt unnecessary to be honest.

Report: Current Research in Digital History 2019
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/JZgVXzwY4qg/

Yep, predictable response. https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1108708533019832323

Yes, it has. https://t.co/k91l4FTHRT

I mean, they already know that 16,141,241 people wanted to stay in the EU in the first place... https://x.com/martin_eve/status/1108644480234721280

It would probably need more than the 17,410,742 leave votes in the referendum to make any difference, but I signed this anyway. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

"‘Terrible’: Tory despair over leadership deepens but May ploughs on" says the Guardian. Wonder why she "ploughs on"? Maybe it's because the Tory party didn't vote to get rid of her when it had the chance.

REF 2021: Overview of arrangements
for submission and assessment of
interdisciplinary research https://www.ref.ac.uk/media/1114/idr-overview-document.pdf [PDF]

Interdisciplinary research and REF 2021 - Research England
https://re.ukri.org/blog/interdisciplinary-research-and-ref-2021/

Unprecedented drug shortage linked to Brexit, NHS bosses say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47646193

May to the public: "We asked you the question already and you gave us your answer."
Parliament to May: "You asked us the question already and we gave you your answer, twice."

My colleague @daraghcarville's new drama, #TheBay, starts on ITV tonight at 9pm! Good work!

Fake pathologist who examined air crash victims faces jail. "Such was the 58-year-old’s apparent professionalism that he had risen to become chair of the National Professional Association of Autopsy Assistants" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/fake-pathologist-examined-air-crash-victims-faces-jail?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/rod-liddle-disabled-people-hate-media-me?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Protecting the name of a University
https://moremeansbetter.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/protecting-the-name-of-a-university/

"Imagine having every interpretative claim having to satisfy someone hostile to that mode of interpretation"
https://superbon.net/2019/03/16/lets-fight-some-more-about-the-digital-humanities/

"University of Calgary Press celebrates its 100th open access publication" https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2019-02-22/story-rocking-p-ranch-brings-family-ranch-history-life

"Academics fight Birmingham’s plan to cut time for research. College of Arts and Law tells scholars to spend more time on grant applications as quality-related (QR/REF) funding dwindles" https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-fight-birminghams-plan-cut-time-research

'“Subscribe to Open” as a model for voting with our dollars' - a good model... But precisely what I described here? https://eve.gd/2018/01/21/how-learned-societies-could-flip-to-oa-using-a-consortial-model/
http://intheopen.net/2019/03/subscribe-to-open-as-a-model-for-voting-with-our-dollars/

After yesterday's Oryx and Crake session, today's reading is MaddAddam - in preparation for a PhD examination.

Today I'm reading something I should have read a long time ago. Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Well, that was pretty darned good.

Recorded a music mix to celebrate being home from hospital https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/martin-eves-slow-spring-march-mix @ernestopriego @qui_oui @jon_fugler @DrWestling @thelongchamps @franz_matthews

Relevant to other things underway https://t.co/GDF1Loavse

"(Digital) Ways of Looking". Some initial notes on what's said about me in “The Computational Case Against Computational Literary Studies” but also on the broader implications. https://eve.gd/2019/03/16/digital-ways-of-looking/

No regrets

(And more DH-specific tweeting re. the Da piece... Just for the record, I did get _quite a lot more_ out of retyping that novel than the one finding in that article: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30253. Just realised I could also probably get a blurb out of the mild critique.)

A replication crisis with which other disciplines are wrangling relentlessly. Huge costs in making arbitrary "data" ("stuff") objects permanently available and keeping software working over decadal timescales. https://x.com/alnthomas/status/1106616795534934016

Yes to this. It's a social, not technical, spend and paying people for their labour is how it should be. This weakens the other points in the piece. https://x.com/RuthAhnert/status/1106489442729107456

As opposed to the current strategy of the academy which has *really* showed them who's boss. https://x.com/HEontap/status/1106638816805355521

Ok, I need to get out of hospital now.

It does not get better

As I'm stuck in hospital, here's another software release: a total rewrite of my eprints -> CV generator. https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/eprintsToCV It can make you a webpage like this: https://eve.gd/c-v/ and a PDF like this: https://eve.gd/CaSSius-CV/CV.pdf all from an institutional repository.

A nice podcast from Ricardo Ruben that blasts off with one of my tracks https://www.facebook.com/brokastudio/photos/a.1963490810599243/2341761922772128/?type=3&theater

This is substantially cheering me up on the ward, mind you. Out tomorrow https://soundcloud.com/eskimorecordings/franz-matthews-local-suicide-tutan-jamon

Irony of ironies, I think I got an email from Nan Z Da when I had sepsis, in hospital, asking to see my data and all (which is coming out soon with the book). Her article has come out today... and guess where I am?

There is now a plan to get me out of hospital and back home, but it's going to take a few more days...

It's good that the latest vote in the House of Commons isn't legally binding because the referendum wasn't either.

Needs a PhD. An active and ongoing research profile. Can teach, subject to enrolments. Admin responsibilities. Shouldn't this be a tenure-track Prof role? https://x.com/PrincetonCDH/status/1105861476659675136

An OBR update on student loan accounting changes
https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2019/03/13/an-obr-update-on-student-loan-accounting-changes/

A mixed morning... Had an article accepted just now, which was good news. The bad news is that I am now in neurophysiology, my least favourite diagnostic department, awaiting the doctor with the electric shock needles...

Neurophysiology feels like some throwback to a darker medical time. "I'm afraid we're going to have to test this by sending a load of electric shocks through your nerves." Worse when you know what's coming, too.

Fortunately, no new problems found.

Office for Students subscription fees rise again
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/office-for-students-subscription-fees-2019-20/

Imagine writing an article about a book that you think references a Borges story in which the protagonist "knows of two editions of the novel" but you don't know that there are two editions of the novel about which you are writing. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717895

Grumpedy grumpedy grump https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.82 Grumpedy grumpedy grump https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30253

... and here's a version of that "music releases" code that will do you "books you've written" from eprints instead: https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/bookPull sample output: https://eve.gd/books/

Norwegian research institutions have decided not to renew their agreement with Elsevier https://amp.mynewsdesk.com/no/unit/pressreleases/norwegian-research-institutions-have-decided-not-to-renew-their-agreement-with-elsevier-2846284

If you make music and want to generate a nice looking page of your outputs from MusicBrainz data, like this: https://eve.gd/music/ -- I've just released the code that I use to generate mine https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/musicBrainzPull

Really, really proud to have a remix on this EP from one of my favourite producers @thelongchamps! Went a bit off the wall on a rebuild and Warren then jammed out a dead good bluesey guitar solo... Some other great mixes on there! https://soundcloud.com/the-long-champs/sets/opsimath-eremite-ep-tici-taci

Pleased to say that I'll be keynoting the Fordham University and Birkbeck, UoL International Symposium on Digital Scholarship on the 3rd-5th June. More details forthcoming soon... (Apologies, first tweet got the date wrong.)

I love the @ResFortnight 8am playbook

@ResFortnight "If you believe the tabloid rhetoric, there is a free speech crisis in UK universities and the blame lies squarely at the feet of snowflake students who are incapable of confronting opinions that differ from their own."

@ResFortnight "If you believe a Court of Appeal ruling, details of which were published on 8 March, there is indeed a free speech crisis in UK universities. However, it relates not to over-sensitive undergraduates but to the guidance on implementing...

@ResFortnight the Prevent duty given to universities by the government."

Opportunity to reset: Labour's lifelong learning commission - by the Master of @BirkbeckUoL, David Latchman
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/opportunity-to-reset-labours-lifelong-learning-commission/

A beginner's guide to academic workload modelling | Wonkhe | Long read
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-beginners-guide-to-academic-workload-modelling/

Today's 5am pulsed-on-steroids discovery: you can mount block device filesystems in Ubuntu and probably other distros via terminal without sudo/root using udisksctl mount -b /dev/blockdevice

It is good & right that the NHS feeds all inpatients. I did a count though & noted that my meals today came with just 2 portions of vegetables. Even if I chose all the veg available, it still wouldn't be the recommended 5. This doesn't seem ideal for recovery.

Because I can, I get myself fruit and salads from the shop... But surely there should be a way to give better nutrition to sick people who often can't help themselves in this way?

A very sad day. I am stuck in hospital still not feeling great and our lovely Mr Pig had total irreversible kidney failure and had to be put down.

Precisely this https://t.co/PPxITRam8Q

Today's reading is Richard Powers's Orfeo

The hospital pigeons are not what they seem.

Which edition of Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic did Alan Sheridan actually translate? | Progressive Geographies
https://progressivegeographies.com/2019/02/11/which-edition-of-foucaults-birth-of-the-clinic-did-alan-sheridan-actually-translate/

"Same Plan S Non-Compliance" https://t.co/ci9Mb2kdBX

Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QRdrdB5TKkg/woman-wins-10000-for-reading-fine-print-of-terms-and-conditions-of-travel-insurance-policy

Having a small personal party* on Ward Eleven West https://soundcloud.com/stampthewax/beard-in-dust-at-the-dawn

* listening to music while answering emails

Funny how previous ministers claimed everything at universities violated freedom of speech... Except their own legislation, which has now been ruled to violate freedom of speech. 🤔🤔🤔 https://x.com/GdnUniversities/status/1104071643989790722

It's good that the OfS acts in students' interests isn't it? https://x.com/timeshighered/status/1104081599333875712

The problem, of course, is about distribution and predictive measures of success in scarcity cultures. We explored this in '“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence' https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.105

But also the problem with most grants: the Matthew Effect. They accrue to those not who most need the support, but to those already doing well/with a track record. See also suggestion that REF should fund institutions that most need the funding to improve. https://x.com/EmmaKEdDev/status/1103921935975505920

I think a university should sue the Office for Students for libel through TEF.

University teaching grades invalid, statistics body says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47462273

Five minutes into nil-by-mouth and I was hungry.

I am afraid I will be slower to reply to emails over the next couple of days as I have been admitted to hospital and am quite unwell. Please bear with me.

Billing my life as a medical humanities project

Today's IFS report is extremely significant for UK HE. In modeling loan non-repayment it shows major distributional shifts in government investment in the sector that are likely to be politically unpalatable.

For example, it notes that deficit per tranche of creative arts students will rise from £25m to £1.2bn. Cost at Russell Group institutions per student has fallen by about £6k while cost per post-92 has risen by £2k. Engineering is £9k cheaper for gov w loans. CA, again, £6k more.

If a government was looking for an argument for differential fees, this equation of loan non-repayment with government HE investment is the report they've been needing. Logical extension of LEO but this one is going to haunt us.

IFS + ONS + Augur (the latter more likely to fizzle out) = problems

Why 'ji32k7au4a83' Is a Remarkably Common Password
https://gizmodo.com/why-ji32k7au4a83-is-a-remarkably-common-password-1833045282

Today's reading for me is Exit West by Moshin Hamid

The Guardian view on academic publishing: disastrous capitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/the-guardian-view-on-academic-publishing-disastrous-capitalism?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

11 SCELC institutions join the @openlibhums LPS model https://www.openlibhums.org/news/327/

Japes at the station

Every 15 minutes for the past 4 hours I've had an email from @tandfonline asking me to complete the SAME SURVEY. "Unsubscribe?"

A correction: as the last column clarifies (which I hadn't seen[!]), there are still licensing challenges here. Still an interesting sheet. https://x.com/martin_eve/status/1102551978595487745

A list of scholarly publishers who already allow zero-embargo green OA, thereby ensuring Plan S compliance. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n9NO5KZr3s7SXySq6y50_l-7X8Dax7mExSHQhMfvZEc/edit#gid=1649899853

Them: "Please attend our annual Editorial Board meeting."
Me: "I will do this as it is clearly my duty."

Them: "Then we're having a launch party at the Mail Rail underground postal network museum. Including riding the trains."
Me: "I AM THERE AND WILL BE STAYING ALL NIGHT."

New issue of Alluvium out today! The first since its handover to a new editorial team under @BACLS_official! https://www.alluvium-journal.org

Benchmarking in the TEF: Something doesn't add up. On a potentially major statistical error in TEF that affects outcomes. @CSkidmoreUK
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2019/03/benchmarking-in-tef-something-doesnt.html?m=1

Goldman Sachs asks in report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

Perhaps achievable, as previous people in this role have, by just stating this to be the case in the face of all material evidence to the contrary. https://t.co/7JtUxJP4bN

Today's reading is Anthony Uhlmann's Saint Antony in his Desert. Reviewing this for EBR.

Back of the envelope mulling over breakfast: with 1/10th of just UC's Elsevier spend in a single year, even if no other institutions participated, reckon we could run OLH for three years.

UC Leadership and the Transformation of Scholarly Publishing - "Libraries have a growing list of trusted partners working to advance open access, including the Open Library of the Humanities, Public Library of Science, Libraria, and Knowledge Unlatched"
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2019/03/01/enough-is-enough-uc-leadership-and-the-transformation-of-scholarly-publishing/

I'm being subjected to some competitive sewing TV show and my god what is this?

It seems to be a whole hour long too.

Birkbeck appoints Sir Andrew Cahn as Chair of Governors
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-appoints-sir-andrew-cahn-as-chair-of-governors

Punctum Books + UCSB Library Partnership. Proud to be an Executive Board Officer for @punctum_books and am also writing a book for them. https://www.library.ucsb.edu/punctum-books-ucsb-library-partnership

"But despite the good journals it publishes, Elsevier is not a good actor in the scholarly communications field" - Jeffrey MacKie-Mason https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/28/why-uc-split-with-publishing-giant-elsevier/

Also pleased to announce today that I have taken up the role of Strategic Lead in Digital Education at @BirkbeckUoL