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April 2017

Someone should also work on correlations between grumpy reader reports and headaches in peer reviewers. Willing to contribute data.

I know how to have a wild Saturday and it mostly consists of 40 minutes in an MRI scanner and a two-hour round trip to hospital.

There may be work on this. But I haven't seen it. It gets less attention than "Green OA takes 17 minutes of academic time per deposit" 5/x

What about just how long it takes to navigate the frankly awful login systems of publishers only to be told there is no access. 4/x

What about "I had to travel from Lincoln to the British Library to check a reference while on a lecturer salary"? 3/x

I haven't yet seen one that does this for subscriptions. That is, if I can get access, how long does it take me to get a copy? 2/x

There are those interesting economic analyses of the cost of green open access that factor in researcher time for deposit. 1/x

Should be a category in the retrospective time allocation survey for time spent logging info for the retrospective time allocation survey.

The other reason I didn't buy Cursed Child tickets is that we've totally blown our budget this month on vets' bills for our sick guinea pig.

I did look at getting Cursed Child tickets today, I confess. But then I was number 35,741 in the queue (not even joking) and gave up.

Isn't it funny how the people who most loudly proclaim their patriotism have done little themselves of which to be proud? Happy St George's

One of our lovely little guinea pigs was diagnosed with kidney failure today. We're ridiculously fond of her and somewhat heartbroken.

Publication citation rules: where a text is available online we indicate this but do not include the link. #helpful

Some details of the LUP-OLH deal: will apply from 2018 when Quaker Studies will be taken off price catalogue (i.e. direct offsetting)

"A Number 10 source says the prime minister won't be changing her position on the TV debates". See also: "I will not be calling an election"

Oh, what rigour. His webpage lists academic publications. He looks legit. We've never actually read the work, but...

How do they pick reviewers? "His university webpage reveals him to be a legitimate scholar with a fairly long and solid publication record".

Devoted my Easter weekend to playing with neural networks for natural language and image generation. Some impressive stuff.

An epistemology in which references that can be checked by those who can afford them are OK but absolutely inaccessible references are not.

Love when people say that we shouldn't cite web resources because they can become inaccessible but it's fine to cite books that cost >$200.

April 16, 2017. The journal-trained neural network became self-aware: "they provide the fraud of the epistemological practices of knowledge"

Another faux-bibliographic gem from the journal-trained neural net, which I might dub "Silicon Zizek": "The Sublime Object of Cruising"

Today my achievements have been somewhat limited to eating my own body weight in chocolate and thinking about machine-generated prose.

It's also fabricated a terrifying footnote: "Slavoj Žižek, Live Fiction, trans. Rushdie and Jean-Luc Nancy (London: Bohestock Press, 1994)"

"The world was right to have to introduce its choice: that meaning was a palimpsestuous scholarship, the literary moment"

I'm training a character-based recurrent neural network on a full set of literary-studies journal articles. Some great outputs.

When you buy a CD from Amazon you get a digital version. Couldn't academic book publishers do the same? Would greatly help my research.

Of course, the other reason you can have a long wait for your appointment is that they have lost your folder. #fail

I think it's because they have lifelong non-terminal conditions so an accruing patient body without commensurate resource increases.

SO pleased that @filmstudiesff appointed to a Chair at my fantastic university, @BirkbeckNews! Higher Education for all is what we do.

I just bumped into a rather shattered looking @chriskeene at Brighton station. Congratulations, Chris, on finishing the marathon!

She is also the only person in the department, so far as I know, to have a Dire Straits song written about her.

Ok, a bit mean. There are some virtues in open citation data. But mostly I'm looking forward to more performance management.

It's good that there is open citation data now because this will mean that unrestricted crude metricization can proceed and finally we

Holland knows something about academia with "academic jobs transfer" advertised with image of person belly-flopping

The remainder of my week: tomorrow, Utrecht; Friday: Leiden. Speaking about recent developments at @openlibhums.

Now off to see Albee's The Goat then on to my favourite London pub. Determined to celebrate today, despite political grimness!

A year ago today I got out of hospital. Could barely walk to the end of my road. Yesterday, reached new heights in 50 min uphill cycle!