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July 2017

Insurance companies employ Michael Gove's mathematical logic: they are always experiencing more calls than usual.

My wife insisted I get a hobby that isn't work. So, bought myself some music gear & have first bass line recorded!

This is just so frustrating. So many rightsholders just haven't thought about licensing in the digital age.

Handling a third-party image inquiry where the rightsholder wants us to estimate views for an OA article & will only license for 10 years.

Wow. Stared longingly at @drclaireocall's BRILLIANT looking book but couldn't afford it. Bloomsbury sent me a copy!

Lovely surprise in my pigeonhole from @terrainsvagues at @MLACommons! I will show off my MLA Commons platypus with pride!

I think the hybrid non-portability option for #REF2021 is sensible - Schrodingers Credit at both institutions.

If you're going to quibble about staff and what research active means, then you can reduce burden by, err, not quibbling.

So, basic principle of staff selection for REF2 seems to be: submit all research-active staff. One output minimum.

Pleased that DH has a female lead. But WoC still very much passed over. Ppl tweeting past examples: Janeway, Buffy, Ripley. Hardly diverse.

Spent the day celebrating my grandmother's 96th birthday, watching the men's Wimbledon final, and enjoying the Dr Who reveal.

Just noticed that Felski refers to Ricoeur's "1952 book Freud and Philosophy" (Limits, p. 31)... Errr, 1965 for 1st ed in French?

Assumes readers are able and interpellates them into that position while marking people with disabilities as an other "them".

Also note that REF panel chair appointment document refers to REF 2021, confirming speculation from technical consultation.

Got to that point of boredom doing admin where I am replying to emails while playing along to my background music on a plastic kazoo.

Spoiler: some good finds. Also did some correlation work against the OEC to test a hypothesis about historical style & C21 frequency.

Uses a range of computational techniques to appraise etymological mimetic accuracy of twenty-first-century rendition of 19c language.

Finishing touches to manuscript of The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas complete.

He seems to think that putting fees back down to 1k will give the government has a great opportunity to underfund universities.

So before we all go cheering Adonis, the subtext of what he's saying is: we should abolish tuition fees so we can really hit universities.

I am at last arriving back from #ESF2017 in London. Only 160 minutes late thanks to train delays. #argh

A friend did a thing on Facebook that read: "your DJ name is DJ + your greatest fear". Mine was DJ Antibiotic Resistance.

Recent spike of interest in "post-truth". Term first used in 1980s to mean moment after truth is told (!!) #ESF2017

Multiple panellists have already turned to Orwell here. 9500% increase in recent sales of 1984 #ESF2017

We are in a grand room called the "Council Chamber" which seems to have a throne and seats with voting apparatuses

At the first panel for the English: Shared Futures Conference. On advocacy and defending the discipline.

Armed with this t-shirt for the ECR publishing panel I'm on tomorrow at the English: Shared Futures Conference.

It's been a while since I've done the journey to Sussex. Southern Trains, delayed by default, has reminded me why I don't miss it!

In fact, I seem to remember getting a rather curt and I thought blunt/rude response from the Royal Free at the time.

I can barely work out what the petitions are for now without clicking. Seems to minimise spreading the word about the cause itself.

Interesting how petition sites have changed from "support this cause" to "stand with your friend" in social media sharing snippets.