Great work by @floatingstones! https://x.com/Ajprescott/status/781914282397171714

My computer is making the "hard drive noises most ominous", as Poirot might say...

Jo Johnson's TEF looks like more and more of a bad joke every day http://wonkhe.com/blogs/trials-and-commendations-the-tef-technical-consultation-response/

Language Log » Asleep at the wheel at Zombie Lingua? - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=28545

Of all the infantilising nonsense... https://x.com/paftersnu/status/781567572613459968

I have to say, also, that the copyediting and cover design processes on my book at @OpenBookPublish so far has been superb.

Great FLXXX mix, too, though: https://soundcloud.com/playpalmusic/play-pal-mix-017-flxxx-play-pal-music-mx @jon_fugler @ernestopriego @qui_oui @CarinaWestling

Been somewhat sluggish today as had a bit of a relapse. Feeling better now though and these days get fewer and further between.

Hoping there will be biscuits. That would have an impact on me.

Off to an "Impact Evidence Masterclass" and I don't quite know why I do this to myself.

Another day, another Westminster Higher Education Conference email.

Editors’ Choice: Annotations as Peer Review, An Interview with Maryann Martone of Hypothes.is - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/rHFsDG_Ua_0/

Editors’ Choice: Beyond Binary, What the Vampire Squid from Hell Can Teach Us About Access and Ethics - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/bqg-MAFWR8o/

My life is really greatly improved by not checking email after 6pm or so.

Toward a Digital First OA Monograph http://zpr.io/Pnb6B

My mother, who went on to get a Ph.D. in neuro-biology from Cambridge, failed the 11+ exam. Grammar schools are a terrible idea.

Sunday Times University Profile Quiz http://zpr.io/PnAXR

Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool http://zpr.io/PnmVm

Subject-level TEF: It’s about the programmes, stupid! http://zpr.io/Pnmgj

On owning your own work, and letting others share it by @CopyrightLibn http://simsjd.com/copyrightlibn/2016/09/23/owning-your-own-work/

What I think I actually need to look at (and now recompute) is intra-text frequency relative to novel vs. intra-corpus frequency of the OEC.

Looks just like a Zipf's law type of relationship skewed by my initial "less than" bracket.

Have isolated that word distribution as I am currently measuring it is a feature of the corpus or of literary fiction in general. Drat.

What does the profile of a contemporary English novel look like? How different is this from the overall shape/profile of the OEC?

Next steps/questions: Is this how one writes to sound like an 1850s novel? Do novels from the 1850s have a similar distribution?

My res. on Oxford English Corpus: 52% of words in Cloud Atlas Part I (1850s) used in less than 0.001% cases in average contemporary English.

Good morning! It's Friday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzTU5fTWmPI @ernestopriego @jon_fugler @qui_oui

Editors’ Choice: Quantitative, Qualitative, Digital. Research Methods and DH http://zpr.io/Pnxwz

Make that 9 OLH signups this week.

Where Did All Those Bits Go? http://zpr.io/Pnxjq

Note: "Copyright of the manuscript remains in the author's name and the author reserves all other rights."

Note: not exclusive. "The author hereby grants and assigns to the Publisher the rights [...associated rights]"

Received takedown notice from T&F on piece published in @JofVictCulture. Contract was non-exclusive and I retained copyright...

Peer-review in the open-access humanities http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2016/09/21/peer-review-in-the-open-access-humanities/

. @JoJohnsonMP manages to turn league-table success of British universities into a negative story to push TEF agenda http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-universities-cant-afford-to-rest-on-their-laurels-50n0gtmb3?shareToken=9de675bc4b5e2747fef06a9e07ce08d4

It turns out to be quite hard to say you're against excellence. https://x.com/RealGeoffBarton/status/778678024824758273

7 OLH signups this week. #yeah

Lenovo Denies Claims It Plotted With Microsoft To Block Linux Installs http://zpr.io/PnXq6

Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems http://zpr.io/PnXqn

Smoking Permanently Damages Your DNA, Study Finds http://zpr.io/PnXGP

Looking forward to that sensation of speaking into the abyss with no idea whether participants can hear you. #webinar

Gearing up to give a webinar talk in 20 mins. All welcome! https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/technology-and-publishing-the-work-of-scholarship-in-the-age-of-its-digital-reproducibility/

Nailed the look.

They should balance these "the secret to long-life is 20 whiskies a day" articles with the counterpart interviews with the innumerable dead.

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable http://zpr.io/PnaK4

Weathering the Brexit storm: University finances in uncertain times http://zpr.io/Pnaj3

£100m of UK aid budget to be spent controlling immigration from Africa https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/20/100m-uk-aid-budget-returning-north-african-refugees

UN agrees to fight 'the biggest threat to modern medicine': antibiotic resistance -
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/20/un-declaration-antibiotic-drug-resistance

Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study http://zpr.io/PnaPC

Counting words in HathiTrust with Python and MPI http://zpr.io/PnaPF

Deadline approaching: International Pynchon Week, Pynchon’s New Worlds, La Rochelle, June 5-9, 2017 http://zpr.io/PnTq2

Brief Talk at the Storage Architecture Meeting http://zpr.io/PnYBe

The video is done and everything worked! We'll be releasing it tomorrow as we move towards a public beta of the translation tool.

I'm speaking tomorrow in an ASIS&T webinar on The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/technology-and-publishing-the-work-of-scholarship-in-the-age-of-its-digital-reproducibility/

Claims Gravity's Rainbow less successful than V./Lt 49 because it's messy and supposedly utterly morally relativistic.

Couldn't sleep last night, so re-read Zamora's /Writing the Apocalypse/. A strong introduction. Good on Barth & style. Terrible on Pynchon.

Copy shops, economics, and educational use in India http://zpr.io/Pnjh7

Today we're polishing up our unit tests for the translation tool. Hoping to record a video of it in action later this week!

We went to @zsllondonzoo today for our 12th anniversary, which was where we had our first ever date.

House of Moth.

Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites http://zpr.io/Pnp6c

But more than anything, I realised how much I love the novel. It's really great. Just keeps giving.

Worked on my submission for the OLH special on Station Eleven today. Think I really found the argument and feel positive about it.

A distant reading of moments http://zpr.io/Pnz9k

But we also had more good OLH news. To be shared soon!

Had a slightly worse day today with post-stroke fatigue. But they're getting a bit better at least and I remain quasi-functional all day.

. @lesleyhulonce talks self-publishing and academic work http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/self-publish-and-be-damned-a-call-for-radical-publishing-alternatives/

Ditch TaskRabbit and do your own laundry http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwqKWHhC4

Editors’ Choice: Making Big Data Informative Data http://zpr.io/PnG3Y

CFParticipation: Digital Rhetoric Behind & Beyond the Screen http://zpr.io/PnG3s

Think this is easily going into my top 10 tracks of the year. Amp Fiddler - Return Of The Ghetto Fly - Peza Remix
https://soundcloud.com/peza70/amp-fiddler-return-of-the-ghetto-fly-peza-remix-lo-rez-preview

Our sources are usually published by others and re-analysed from multiple, sometimes conflicting, perspectives.

Revisiting data leech/vampire thing is so odd as a humanist. Why assume that the person who collected data is always best to analyse it?

Author doesn't consider that the changes in style are due to the changing material forms of dissemination & the variety of cited sources?

"Real scholars write manuscripts to submit them for peer review and editing, not to share them immediately with a final audience"

What conservative nonsense http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Hate-the-New-MLA/237761?cid=at&utm_source=at

I apologise in advance to the people I am meeting this evening. I am hot, sticky, and unpleasant. #fourthfloorproblems

Making Sense of the Works of Amar Kanwar: A Phenomenological Perspective @openlibhums http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.65

We have all-new, snazzy signage in the Arts Building at 43 Gordon Square.

Academic Enclaves http://zpr.io/PnfHd

Joanne Winning at the Harry Ransom Center, Texas http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2016/09/14/joanne-winning-at-the-harry-ransom-center-texas/

And "think of all the jobs you create by using a terrible word processor" isn't a great argument. Hardly fulfilling work.

LaTeX is terrible. But so are Word & LibreOffice. Underlying XML is horrendous. https://x.com/mwidner/status/776108442029142016

GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall http://zpr.io/PnHBg

The one I saw this morning in a tube paper was "Motherless babies in sci-fi future" http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/motherless-babies-how-create-tabloid-science-headline-five-easy-steps

A shame it doesn't integrate the data sets collected and openly rrleased by @lawsonstu though... https://x.com/OpenAccessEC/status/776056119911481344

Our intellectual systems of contextual judgement. https://x.com/esj312/status/773647630777712640

Paid position doing editorial work on /19/! https://x.com/19_birkbeck/status/775708040624480257

University-sponsored schools not guaranteed to make the grade http://zpr.io/PnHUz

Looks like I'm not alone in having been ignored by @jaybirdsport for 2 months now. @verge @engadget @techrepublic

ScholComm mailing lists are just the internet's way of showing who has way too much free time on their hands. #subtweet

On archival ingest of malware - http://blog.dshr.org/2016/09/scary-monsters-under-bed.html

There’s nothing ‘outstanding’ about the proposal for universities to be forced to sponsor schools http://zpr.io/Pn6Qi

Writing grant reports is satisfying when everything you said you'd do has been done. Especially when you can add, "oh and I had a stroke".

I saw the RSC's /The Alchemist/ at the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wrote about it here for @birkbeck_eh: http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/english/2016/09/12/martin-eve-on-ben-jonson-the-alchemist-at-the-barbican/

OLH costs universities "just $0.008 per institution per reader". https://x.com/openlibhums/status/775241538913837056

A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM http://zpr.io/PnPB9

Linux Kernel 3.14 Series Has Reached End of Life http://zpr.io/PnPBb

“Writing At This Level”: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon III - http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/novelreadings/writing-at-this-level-black-lamb-and-grey-falcon-iii/

Have a good workflow now for automatic PDF CV and website about page updates. All using open source software that I wrote.

And, further to last, ePrintsCV now runs on Python3 and correctly substitutes nested quotation marks https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/eprintsCV

OK, I'm totally sold on Python3 now. Fixed unicode handling is a "never look back" deal maker.

ePrintsCV now links gold open-access publications to the original version of record https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/eprintsCV example: https://martineve.com/c-v/

Stroke recovery milestone today. 45 mins straight on the step machine at 55 steps per minute.

"Which was nice" https://x.com/guardian/status/774879881746407424

Closed and Open Rhetoric: American Formalist Literary Criticism of the 1950s http://zpr.io/PnUNT

“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon now also in @MLACommons CORE https://commons.mla.org/deposits/item/mla:891/

Apple Removed Headphone Jack From New iPhones Because It Owns Largest Bluetooth Headphone Company http://zpr.io/PPQ2S

Forthcoming web archive conferences http://zpr.io/PPQt9

“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon - a short article I co-authored for Orbit http://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.204

Congratulations to @jwyg on his Prize Fellowship at the University of Bath!

Demand that universities fund secondary education from student debt is further abdication of the duty of the state.

Sale of Student Loans http://zpr.io/PPWbY

Headlines from the BIS accounts http://zpr.io/PPWbs

Universities, grammar schools and the week that social mobility went askew http://zpr.io/PPWbZ

TEF "does not pretend to be a direct audit of the quality of teaching". Quite Panglossian here. https://x.com/HEiKnow/status/774228682206486528

Society Journal, Marvell Studies, to Join @openlibhums Platform https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/09/09/society-journal-marvell-studies-to-join-olh-platform/

UK universities to face revenue cuts unless they sponsor schools http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-mays-grammar-school-revolution-to-include-universities-tuition-fees_uk_57d1ae64e4b0ac5a02ddcb9c?ss8n1xwj7u7a3piudi

Prince Buster, ska pioneer, dies aged 78 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/08/prince-buster-dies-ska-jamaica-two-tone

Citation standard governance structures, for fun and profit. http://zpr.io/PPBwC

Editors’ Choice: A Plot of Brownian Noise - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/EMGEKTVJYlQ/

‘Markus Gibb - Râle. Fantastic. @qui_oui @ernestopriego @jon_fugler https://soundcloud.com/markusgibb/markus-gibb-rale

Follow-up on Simenon and Sentence-Length: Visualization and Hypothesis-Testing http://zpr.io/PPvwK

notes on peace education and indignation http://zpr.io/PP4du

The process of finishing writing books that need an MS Word index in LibreOffice is painful. VM on Linux -> Windows -> Word (-> XML/PDF).

ICYMI, my big news today is that OLH has entered into first partnership with a university press to make a journal OA https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/09/07/olh-and-university-of-wales-press-partner-to-convert-journal-to-full-open-access/

This is sounding great. Love everything Tici Taci puts out. https://x.com/thelongchamps/status/773465628019654656

I wrote something about studying contemporary fiction for @TheTLS blog http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2016/09/by-what-does-it-mean-to-research-contemporary-fiction-in-a-university-how-are-academics-working-in-this-space-different-t.html

Big news from OLH! We're partnering with a University Press to convert a journal to full gold OA without author fees https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/09/07/olh-and-university-of-wales-press-partner-to-convert-journal-to-full-open-access/

Translation of Deleuze’s seminars into English (2016) http://zpr.io/PPJH7

Caroline Bergvall in Conversation with Marina Warner, September 14th 2016 http://zpr.io/PPJHq

Conference: Library 2.016 – Libraries of the Future http://zpr.io/PPJHG

Saxophone still going well. I perhaps look more competent in this picture than I actually sound, though.

. @mikeneary and @josswinn are doing great things. https://x.com/mrnick/status/773101486863749120

"Why we have set publisher requirements" by @robertkiley on the Wellcome Trust's (now) explicit policies https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/why-we-have-set-publisher-requirements

"Brexit minister, David Davis, gave his first lack-of-progress report" http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/05/so-brexit-means-brexit-means-brexit-is-that-it

Things I learned today. New NHS commissioning procedures mean that departments have to refer to each other via GPs. Ridiculous waste.

Programme | LITERARY NETWORKS AND CULTURAL COLLABORATIONS - https://literarynetworks.wordpress.com/programme/

Oh yes, never saw that coming. "Theresa May refuses to commit to Brexit pledges on immigration and NHS". http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/04/theresa-may-refuses-to-guarantee-brexit-pledges-on-immigration-and-nhs

Amazon Suddenly Stops Selling Student Loans http://zpr.io/PPFcL

OpenOffice In Danger of Shutting Down, Project VP Warns http://zpr.io/PPFjX

As we enter the anniversary month for @openlibhums we have lots of exciting news to share! Watch this space... #tease

I'm no Conservative but this is totally true: "UK university reforms are a betrayal of Conservative principles" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f39bad38-6b73-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld_uk_politics%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz4J5jtMjoS

The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump http://www.boundary2.org/2016/06/peter-gordon-the-authoritarian-personality-revisited-reading-adorno-in-the-age-of-trump/

Adam Curle: Education for Liberation and the potential for mass intellectuality http://zpr.io/PP8pZ

400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? http://zpr.io/PP8nY

Personally, I suspect @dkernohan.

. @UKRI_tweets might be the most niche of higher education political parody accounts I have yet seen... and niche defines the genre!

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.92