Python encoding: you are painful. Chunked download through requests framework doesn't play nicely with multibyte encoders like utf-8.

Prize Culture & Contemporary Publishing http://zpr.io/AWQQ

You Must Mutate: The Future of Fiction http://zpr.io/AWQW

IFS report on human capital – an interview - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2016/04/30/ifs-report-on-human-capital-an-interview/

The “cost” of student loans - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2016/04/30/the-cost-of-student-loans/

Comics Studies: Beyond the Canon? http://zpr.io/AW9x

Large Hadron Collider: Weasel causes shutdown - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36173247 < beware the anti-science weasel.

everywhere, every when http://zpr.io/ABiy

First OA book from Heidelberg University Publishing released! - http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/48

Google AI Has Access To 1.6M People's NHS Records - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QjsCiaGlGoE/google-ai-has-access-to-16m-peoples-nhs-records

Professor M Report checking in at the Philip K Dick Centre for Future Crime. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANO122/professor-of-future-crimes/

Sci-Hub stories: Digging into the downloads - https://blog.datadryad.org/2016/04/28/sci-hub-stories/

Almost Two-Thirds of Software Companies Contributing To Open Source, Says Survey http://zpr.io/AVLK

Editors’ Choice: Report of the Summit on Digital Curation in Art Museums http://zpr.io/AvrF

Who needs access? Me, for a start: https://whoneedsaccess.org/2016/04/28/martin-eve-humanities-researcher-open-access-innovator-and-cerebral-vasculitis-patient/#in

Quarante ans de Surveiller et punir (2016) http://zpr.io/A4Wd

Re-engineering higher education: the subsumption of academic labour and the exploitation of anxiety http://zpr.io/AcDW

Foucault / Wittgenstein. Subjectivité, politique, éthique (2016) - https://foucaultnews.com/2016/04/27/foucault-wittgenstein-subjectivite-politique-ethique-2016/

Job: Lecturer in Digital History and Head of IHR Digital http://zpr.io/AeSy

Today marks precisely 50 years since the publication of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.

Announcement: The Translation Toolkit http://zpr.io/AdrH

Editors’ Choice: Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/ZtEX24EvRgA/

Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/idiVhH8C1aQ/mitsubishi-weve-been-cheating-on-fuel-tests-for-25-years

Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird http://zpr.io/AJzS

It is critical to screen patients with rheumatoid arthritis for hearing impairment http://zpr.io/ALwb

I also do not know whether an exclusive license was signed by Swartz executor either.

Know there are differences between signing of exclusive license after permissive between UK and US, but this is Not Good.

. @thenewpress seems to have sent a DMCA takedown notice regarding to the CC BY material that it published in the Aaron Swartz book...

The Bechdel test for tech conferences http://zpr.io/Ak9U

Post-Digital Living Bookshelves http://zpr.io/AkbQ

New NUS president accuses media of printing falsehoods - http://gu.com/p/4tt8m

A fine sub-100 BPM mix for Sunday evening https://soundcloud.com/tenientecastillo/dancin-below-100-bpm-part-24 @jon_fugler @ernestopriego @qui_oui

Tomorrow, I'm picking up where I left off before the stroke with two talks in Brighton. Hope to see some of you there!

Citing film where director has since changed gender & name. Best practice for naming? Name then or now? Add note? "New Name as Old Name"?

Congratulations to the team at @unilincoln for their impressive work on type 1 diabetes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36113773

Call For Papers: True Crime Fictions | Centre for Contemporary Literature - http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/call-for-papers-true-crime-fictions/

Researchers Accidentally Make Batteries That Could Last A Lifetime http://zpr.io/ACmr

Amazon Won't Sell Non-Prime Members Certain Popular Movies and Video Games - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dM70moQ7Ow4/amazon-wont-sell-non-prime-members-certain-popular-movies-and-video-games

In this article Nick Hillman suggests there will be new HE legislation next month. http://gu.com/p/4thjz

Students vote to sabotage plans to rate teaching in universities - http://gu.com/p/4tfe6 < even students don't want the TEF.

Co-operative higher education conference paper and poster http://zpr.io/AwVk

Editors’ Choice: The Turing Point http://zpr.io/A84q

Academic Standards: A Human Right http://zpr.io/A93e

[1604.03449] Testing quantised inertia on the emdrive - http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03449

Congratulations to Patricia Bishop who graduates with a Master's degree from @birkbeck_eh at age 91! http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/shakespeare_mad_archway_woman_set_for_master_s_degree_aged_91_1_4501395

Social Solidarity Co-operatives for Higher Education (2) http://zpr.io/AEmQ

Announcement: Exploratory Programming Published http://zpr.io/AX7r

How few copies? http://zpr.io/ANVH

Researchers Can Identify You By Your Brain Waves With 100% Accuracy - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ezGi9Tcj5xw/researchers-can-identify-you-by-your-brain-waves-with-100-accuracy

C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings now published by @openlibhums! - http://c21.openlibhums.org/

Found it! And it's from here: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-digital-in-the-humanities-an-interview-with-alexander-galloway https://x.com/heatherfro/status/714076271043592192

Recent tweet something like "Counting words may tell us something re literature but it doesn't tell us anything about counting". Who was it?

Foucault, Political Life and History (2016) http://zpr.io/ATvF

Case Closed: Supreme Court Lets Fair Use Ruling Stand in Google Books Litigation http://zpr.io/ATv3

Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 http://zpr.io/ATvw

What do we need to know about the archived web? http://zpr.io/AZzq

Stern review: responses collected http://zpr.io/AGJp

Today, I will mostly be reading @StuartElden. #excited

New at OLH: Dismantling the Curriculum in Higher Education by @HallyMk1 and Keith Smyth http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.66

Phorm, the Deep Packet Inspection Ad-Injector Company, Ceases Trading http://zpr.io/A6wf

Yes, we all know there's QR, but reframing it as a purely economic exercise is not a good move.

"The primary purpose of REF 2014 was to assess the quality of research and produce outcomes for each submission made by institutions"

REF 2014 claimed "The REF is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions."

Never got to write my response to Stern review, since I was unwell, but I question this premise: "If REF is mainly a tool to allocate QR".

Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/14/1944243/dyson-airblades-spread-germs-1300-times-more-than-paper-towels

CFP: E.L. Doctorow for the 21st Century - Essay Collection http://zpr.io/APDs

Antimicrobial resistance a 'greater threat than cancer by 2050' - http://gu.com/p/4tbc7

The Architecture of Emulation on the Web http://zpr.io/hQgb

Robert Grosseteste’s Symbolic Search Engine -- fantastic blogging on his index project by @djbduncan https://indexhistory.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/robert-grossetestes-symbolic-search-engine/

Just pre-ordered @mkirschenbaum's /Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing/, released on my birthday! http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076

openness and power http://zpr.io/hWRR

Historicizing the Digital: language practices in new and old media http://zpr.io/hWRH

The Future of Firefox is Chrome http://zpr.io/hBdK

Algorithms http://zpr.io/hBdy

Job: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, MIT http://zpr.io/hB6E

PhD Defenses around the world: a defense in Sweden http://zpr.io/hVJZ

2015-16 Digital Projects Roundup http://zpr.io/hcdn

A really powerful story from Graham here about the need for OA. https://x.com/McDawg/status/719536195034853377

Institutional History of Oxford; another chapter http://zpr.io/hcY2

Very surprised at some of this. Reviewing over grants? https://x.com/abhumphreys/statuses/719474301603196928

an invitation http://zpr.io/hedQ

Also listening to this from Tici Taci, which is fantastic https://soundcloud.com/ticitaci/the-long-champs-y-llwynog-clip @ernestopriego @qui_oui @jon_fugler

I also enjoyed seeing @melissaterras here on Twitter fiction as part of my reading http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-twitter-fiction/404761/

Managed some writing, which is making me feel good about recovery. Working on something about symbolic economies vs. markets in e-literature

Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention http://zpr.io/hd4z

Iterative Book Production Manifesto http://zpr.io/hdxy

From Jurisdiction to Translation: Elite Power Under Advanced Neoliberalism (2016) http://zpr.io/hiiN

Options for making previously published material available http://zpr.io/hiSC

First check-up complete. Line of the day for me was "we think you'll make a full recovery". Hurrah!

Off for my first hospital follow-up today. Feeling so much stronger than a week ago and able to concentrate once more. Fantastic so far.

Foucault and Educational Ethics (2016) http://zpr.io/h5mu

Global warming may be far worse than thought, cloud analysis suggests http://gu.com/p/4t5ec

Australian loan strife or Wot no RAB? http://zpr.io/hk3k

Managed just under an hour and a half of stroke recovery walking today. Really good progress! Shame about upcoming hospital appts, but hey.

Calculator Caveats http://zpr.io/hrL2

Next week is Birkbeck's Science Week. It looks great! http://www.bbk.ac.uk/science/about-us/events/science-week/

Call for papers: International Pynchon Week 2017 https://www.pynchon.net/announcement/

My review of Jerome McGann's /A New Republic of Letters/ has now been published in /Alexandria/ http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14851

Job: Manager of Library Applications at Johns Hopkins University http://zpr.io/hCVk

Managed an hour's worth of (admittedly slow) walking today, split across a number of sections. Good recovery progress!

Young arthritis patients have unique concerns about treatment http://zpr.io/hCiE

Editors’ Choice: Distorting History (To Make It More Accurate) - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/KW2pIG0LBxM/

So you want to create a library publishing program? http://zpr.io/hC3v

The Universities formerly known as Polytechnics http://zpr.io/hCHj

There's more than one way to exploit the commons http://zpr.io/hFLA

US Govt Commits To Publish Publicly Financed Software Under FOSS http://zpr.io/hwJb

Nonsense. Many members of the many publics have university educations. https://x.com/thePeerJ/statuses/716995992546058240

Moral dimensions of Open, part 1: “marginal cost is zero, so price should be zero” by @MikeTaylor - http://svpow.com/2016/04/04/moral-dimensions-of-open-part-1-marginal-cost-is-zero-so-price-should-be-zero/

Opening up access to grants http://zpr.io/hwPg

Stylometric Analysis of RealDHTrump (Bonus Content) http://zpr.io/hDJ5

High-rise challenge: the new quality assessment model http://zpr.io/hDrE

Meanwhile, those at the Dutch Presidency's EU Open Science Conference will get a good dose of @openlibhums from @the_blochian.

Apologies to CNI in San Antonio. Was looking forward to presenting to & speaking with you but had to cancel on doctors' orders. I'll be back

I've been particularly persuaded of this reading @MikeTaylor's blog recently, countering JE on ScholKitchen.

Open access to research can be framed around public right to education. This is why the same arguments often play out re funding.

Medic, one attending blood vessel, flicks here? (5-2) [The Times Crossword getting topical for me today]

What’s Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee review – the problem with Airbnb and Uber - http://gu.com/p/4tv7y

‘We never thought he wouldn’t come home’: why did our son Connor Sparrowhawk die? - http://gu.com/p/4tvjq

Aaron Swartz on digital business models http://zpr.io/h9nG

Today, I plan to sit quietly and read in the sunshine, enjoying the fact I am still here.

Call for papers: the politics of identity http://zpr.io/hbWw

#BritSoc16 fringe event: ‘Radical Education Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University’ - http://markcarrigan.net/2016/04/02/britsoc16-fringe-event-radical-education-inside-and-outside-the-neoliberal-university/

Here we go again: latest GSU ruling an odd victory for libraries http://zpr.io/hudC

Glossa: a journal of general linguistics publishes its first articles! - http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/

Hurrah! I am to be discharged from hospital & monitored. Still a way to go to recovery but have avoided stenting of carotid arteries.

PHP, Python and Google Go Fail To Detect Revoked TLS Certificates http://zpr.io/hKva