13th Century Multiverse Theory Unearthed http://zpr.io/HvZH

Unseen Octavia E Butler stories recovered http://gu.com/p/3zzdn

Governing Academic Life – conference marking 30yrs since Foucault’s death http://zpr.io/HvfB

Open Access, Monographs and "working for publishers for free" http://bit.ly/1iJ3nG7 #monographs #OA

Managed to get my head around bash completion scripting in the last hour and this is now supported in meTypeset!

Good news from Classics at Leeds http://zpr.io/H4WX

Next Thursday is Pynchon in Public Day! What will you do? http://bit.ly/fgP78w

This is what "civilization" looks like.

Botched Oklahoma execution leaves inmate writhing on gurney - http://gu.com/p/3zz63

Academic labour, students as consumers and the value form http://zpr.io/H4wf

Why yes, since you ask, I did just push to the meTypeset GitHub repo from 30,000 feet on a plane. #thefuture

"there are only a few more sponsorship opportunities available" #yeahright #whoareyoukidding

Sitting at Heathrow, having been reading and now coding, reminded me of this article by @leggetti in @AlluviumJournal http://bit.ly/UAObuD

How the FCC Plans to Save the Internet By Destroying It: An Explainer http://bit.ly/1mPnBRp

Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work http://zpr.io/HcgU

Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature now open access http://zpr.io/Hc6Q

notes on money and the democratic deficit and higher education http://zpr.io/He4g

I've just been appointed to the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College. Hurrah! #morework #butgood

Never count your new features before the regression tests have passed.

Right, cup of tea while the regression tests run but I /think/ I've just got meTypeset totally working on MS Windows. #headache

Phew. Domestic emergency and @tado have been superb at getting me back up and running. Very stressful but they were very helpful.

Ubuntu 14.10 Named ‘Utopic Unicorn’ http://zpr.io/HdVj

Writing about academic labour http://zpr.io/HdFe

"should postgrads who teach side with students or staff?" < dispute is not students vs. staff. @GdnHigherEd

A conference on Quadrophenia at Sussex. Featured in @RollingStone with comments from @pamthur! http://rol.st/1f2lVBA

And I overdid the "today"s in that tweet.

Was very good to bump into @benshowers, to meet @Stephen_Curry today (at last!) and to catch up with @lawsonstu today, all at @Jisc!

Today I am off to a Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Group meeting, where I represent @pkp.

An Open Library of Humanities? Adeline Koh interviews me at the Chronicle's ProfHacker http://bit.ly/1tw5RvR #OA #Open_Access

"This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags." LibreSSL http://bit.ly/1lzMfFI

I do hope someone will organize a Pynchon conference in 2016 called "Against the Decade".

Friends' kids are about to descend on our place for an Easter egg hunt. Will try not to compete /too/ hard against the 8 year olds.

Openness for society or for profit? http://bit.ly/Rxc503 #OpenAccess #opendata

(That's how much big business cares about the security of your data vs. profit.)

OpenSSL developers are not paid. Many enormous companies use the software w/out paying or checking it themselves: http://nyti.ms/1hWGQWU

"Clap your hands if you feel like happiness is a ruse"

Re last tweet: oh dear.

Minerva CEO Details His High-Tech Plan To Disrupt Universities http://zpr.io/Hick

So, @AlbertRolls1 just posted a picture of his kid reading my book and I now fear for the youth of tomorrow.

Happy Easter weekend all! May it be chocolate-filled. Here's some deep contemporary electronic stuff to launch it. http://bit.ly/Qtth5w

To argue that open access limits the reach of research is to undersell research. By @ersatzben of @HEFCE http://bit.ly/1hS5hDW

embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void.

Part inspired by Foucault's work on prisons. And part inspired by this Pynchon line: prisoners in the top room of a circular tower,

For those who have said kind words about the cover image of my book (don't judge etc.!), it was part inspired by philosophical cave stuff...

Co-operative university discussion at #DPR14 http://zpr.io/HiYA

Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary http://zpr.io/HiYh

Me, an owl and the book I wrote on Thomas Pynchon and Philosophy, which just arrived. Thanks @PalgraveLit!

MT @PabloK: Some quick thoughts on @ucu, UCEA's 2% (non-)offer and what comes next.http://bit.ly/1hPnLpu < very good.

In case you missed it earlier, I wrote this for the @GdnHigherEd today. On journal prestige, reach and #openaccess http://bit.ly/1hOCSQf

I will stop geeking in a minute, but, if that is how OOXML tables work, it's a complete pain. Bitmasks in XSLT look like a nightmare.

Here's what I think OOXML does to encode table headers: http://bit.ly/1hPiizc If anyone can enlighten, I'd be very grateful!

OK, I am defeated. I have searched high and low through documentation and test cases and can't work out how OOXML encodes a table header.

Bitmask values for w:tblLook w:val attribute in OOXML http://bit.ly/1mgpLXr #Technology

What do we mean by the "standing" and "reach" of research? http://bit.ly/1gKryCO #OA

Alluvium 2nd Birthday Panel Event http://bit.ly/QcGy2u

This review claims that the Lebwoski influence on Inherent Vice is "unexpected". Must know jack about the book. http://bit.ly/1euWxnr

First Impressions From Paul Thomas Anderson’s film of ‘Inherent Vice‘ http://bit.ly/QaJRXO

. @Nadine_Muller is doing some horrendous long-distance cycling for a women's abuse charity. Sponsor her if you can! http://bit.ly/1iUTMsN

Symposium on David Mitchell: 9th May, London http://bit.ly/1gZA4K3

A really interesting upcoming conference on scholarly publishing in Edinburgh http://bit.ly/1aHrzRa hosted by @Joysci and @McDawg

Enabling a triple-head (3 monitor) setup on Linux Mint 16 ("Petra") with two Nvidia cards http://bit.ly/1nnNjtp

Sussex security staff wearing continuously recording lapel pins and suppressing protest on campus. Absolute disgrace.

Darcy Casselman: Enable Two-Factor Authentication http://zpr.io/Hk9J

On the co-operative university and the general intellect http://zpr.io/Hk9i

Financialising the university: What is to be done? http://zpr.io/Hk95

Book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno http://bit.ly/1enrcDp

Recent overviews of English HE http://zpr.io/Hrb9

Gold refers to the work being open at source as opposed to green deposit. It has no presuppositions of business model. #lbf14 #facultylbf

I just read that Elsevier Vice P Mark Seeley just said that "only gold [OA] is a business model" at #lbf14 -- Gold is /NOT/ a business model

Union Efforts on Behalf of Adjuncts Meet Resistance Within Faculties’ Ranks http://zpr.io/Hrm7

The ethics of search filtering and big data: who decides ? http://zpr.io/HrmG

OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks http://zpr.io/HSrf

In case you missed it earlier: the Open Library of Humanities has funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://bit.ly/1gDjUWh

Staging Beckett at the Margins http://zpr.io/HS6E

Funding for the Open Library of Humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://bit.ly/1gCIbvG #OA #OLH

Good selling technique there by @jameswilsdon: "Overhaul of metrics usage could cut frequency of REF" http://bit.ly/1hkscII

EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP http://zpr.io/HC5k

Is the worker co-operative form suitable for a university? (Part 3) http://zpr.io/HC52

Philosophers DVD: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault http://zpr.io/HC5r

MT @LSEImpactBlog: By adapting editing environment, production process can be improved http://bit.ly/1sr6ENY < true, but unlikely to happen

Catching up on some writing as recovering from virus and jamming out to Dark Strands' "Return Of The Oscillator" http://bit.ly/1hQ5gjl

Michael Gove's bid to limit fallout from failing free schools http://gu.com/p/3z7h3

Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen http://zpr.io/HCHU

Ah, brilliant, @ernestopriego found it! http://bit.ly/9mXjO6

What is the license on images that denote creative commons licenses? e.g. http://bit.ly/1gwkuoK (can't find statement of public domain)

Suggestion to publishers: replace the disingenuous "invitation" to review with the word "request". It bugs me every time.

At what point did the obsession with being able to "relate" to works of art come to such prominence?

JG Ballard: five years on – a celebration http://gu.com/p/3z67y

Made good progress on typesetter today by reworking the size classifier. Software now detects when it has made an error and mis-nested stuff

Iwao Hakamada (now 78) spent almost 2/3 of his life waiting to be killed. CP supporters: what can you give him back to compensate for that?

Last week, the world's longest-serving death-row prisoner (48 years. 48-damn-years) was released; conviction unsafe. http://bit.ly/OfOezh

MT @anterotesis: Academic publishers are publishing booby-trapped URLs http://bit.ly/1sbLjb7 < warning, contains spider image

In the gentlest way: if you can't figure some of this stuff out, then running your own journal is not for you.

I'll never respond rudely to such requests, but will state now that I will only help with specific questions.

I still get emails, probably once a fortnight, that are just: "I want to start a journal, can you help?"

A while ago I wrote on starting an open access journal, in which I set out the processes involved; even social editorial stuff.

Nurseries 'not preparing children' for the needs of a modern economy, errr, I mean for school. Yes, school. http://bbc.in/1ee3kwv

The costs of revisions to estimated repayments for existing loans http://zpr.io/H3LE

Michael Gove wants to end innumeracy in the UK? This is the man who said that "all schools should be above average".

How long until UKIP moans about immigrant dust storms caused by gay marriage?

Opportunity: Thesis Text-mining Project Officer, British Library http://zpr.io/H3ZT

Ryan: "Federal subsidies for the [..] Arts, [...] Humanities, [& ...] Public Broadcasting can no longer be justified" http://1.usa.gov/1omgbq2

Designing an open source OA toolchain for books http://bit.ly/1gYreSk #OA

When people say we should adjust to climate change, do they understand what that actually means? http://gu.com/p/3z36z

Mark My Work? http://zpr.io/H3gZ

I have spent this morning debugging the most painful XSLT bug. Fixing is now going to entail merry hell on regression tests.

Nothing I say today should be considered an April Fool's Day prank. And all Cretans are liars.

Why OA mandates don't compromise academic freedom http://bit.ly/1iUOjDY #OA