Special Issue on Percival Everett - http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/31/special-issue-on-percival-everett

Running human clinical studies without ethical review/oversight https://x.com/BiellaColeman/status/903001069076312065

Plutocratic Dystopia and Workers’ Utopias in Morris’s News from Nowhere and Pynchon’s Against the Day - https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.16995/orbit.219/

Grammar school 'unlawfully threw out' students who failed to get top grades< consequence of highly metricised system https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/29/grammar-school-unlawfully-threw-out-students-who-failed-to-get-top-grades?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Report: British Library Research Data Strategy - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/ZiROrdMd92g/

Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol IV, Les Aveux de la Chair scheduled for January 2018 - https://progressivegeographies.com/2017/08/29/foucault-history-of-sexuality-vol-iv-les-aveux-de-la-chair-scheduled-for-january-2018/

Prevent scheme 'fosters fear and censorship at universities' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/29/prevent-scheme-fosters-fear-and-censorship-at-universities-just-yorkshire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto < apparently, stylometry. I'm suspicious. - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/g9tR0GFucBY/how-the-nsa-identified-satoshi-nakamoto

Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VvZKzV7tbic/lost-turing-letters-give-unique-insight-into-his-academic-life-prior-to-death

There's a really good section on the Guardian website at the moment about arthritis, in its various forms (RA + OA) https://www.theguardian.com/nations-joint-problem

Great new album out today from Duncan Gray http://www.junodownload.com/products/duncan-gray-the-malcontent-vol-1/3519989-02/?utm_campaign=alert_auto_email&utm_source=auto_email_jd&utm_content=label&utm_medium=alert_title

Please do read. Hawking on the health system. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/jeremy-hunt-attack-nhs-stephen-hawking-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction - http://www.ccl.bbk.ac.uk/organic-systems/

Also, this arrived in the post today. It is immense. Great-sounding poly-synth. My new fave.

Another tedious afternoon in hospital clinics but I did finish reading David Letzler's The Cruft of Fiction... Review forthcoming!

The return of The KLF https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/23/klf-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty-2023-book#img-3

Best thing last week: friends' young children asking whether any of my academic monographs will be made into movies.

Economic Model of Long-Term Storage - http://blog.dshr.org/2017/08/economic-model-of-long-term-storage.html

In better news, I am delighted to announce that I am now an Executive Board Officer of @punctum_books -- a great, radical open access press.

(This really isn't on.)

Just emailed a journal to whom I submitted a book review... 3 years ago. And it has not yet been scheduled for publication.

Sisters are doing it for themselves https://youtu.be/7gnQ1xY-jJQ?t=4718

Amazing eclipse so far. Total black out of the burning orb. Remember, when it's over, never look directly at the light source.

Cambridge University Press to back down over China censorship https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/21/cambridge-university-press-to-back-down-over-china-censorship

"We are not in this business for the money." Afraid it's the money driving this decision, though. https://x.com/fravel/status/898973279494557698

"Birkbeck’s experience appears to buck the national trend" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/18/fewer-uk-students-degree-courses-ucas-clearing?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Fenix

Argh. Sound the "rewriting complex licenses is a bad idea" klaxon https://x.com/ryregier/status/898655999392960512

"Quiet Cottage by the Sea" https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/quiet-cottage-by-the-sea (a quick evening of playing on the synths) @ernestopriego @qui_oui @CarinaWestling

Fiscal illusions & student loan interest - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/08/18/fiscal-illusions-student-loan-interest/

That and continuing rightful anger at the fact that there are Nazis all over America.

The next 6 hours on my Twitter feed is just going to be non-stop jokes about how it was "nice to see him, to see him, nice"

Got that Friday afternoon article accepted vibe!

Phew. Caught that HDD failure just in time. Computer won't even boot today.

"One of the strongest warnings on the future finances for" UK Higher Education https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/university-financial-health-check-2017-future-prospects

Open Access and the Prisoner's Dilemma - A Theoretical Approach - http://www.lepublikateur.de/2017/08/17/open-access-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/?utm_content=bufferbbc52&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Today's walk to hospital isn't so bad...

Great day! Having a great day! Going well! Hard disk has died.

"New university students are digital natives". Just. No.

Scholarly communications shouldn’t just be open, but non-profit too - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/08/15/scholarly-communications-shouldnt-just-be-open-but-non-profit-too/

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review? < let the gaming begin? https://harzing.com/publications/white-papers/running-the-ref-on-a-rainy-sunday-afternoon-do-metrics-match-peer-review

Highlight of Yorkshire

"Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?" - http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/867

Four Biscuits - Saturday Jam Session by Martin Eve #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/martin-eve/four-biscuits-saturday-jam-session

SoundCloud stays afloat with emergency investment, as CEO steps aside. Yay. I think. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw-9jv2jU

Yeah. Never knew anyone who did this as a PhD student.

Would anyone like to chuck me an article processing charge? Sadly I can't always publish in OLH journals... :(

Target impairments – a correction (of sorts) - https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2017/08/10/target-impairments-a-correction-of-sorts/

Job: Head, Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Pennsylvania State University Libraries - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/7ik7JJGDDh4/

Ongoing Janeway improvements and bugfixes every day at the moment. Last stable release here: https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway/releases/tag/v1.0

Can tell already that this "recap on calculus in eight minutes" is going to be pretty intense...

I'm taking an online neural network course since, although I've played with them, I want a better understanding of the maths.

The media is going full Chris Morris. "North Korea-US tensions: How worried should you be?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY

This is an AMAZING project idea. Science Beam - using computer vision to extract PDF data - https://elifesciences.org/labs/5b56aff6/science-beam-using-computer-vision-to-extract-pdf-data

A bruising boycott for the Russell Group - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/nss-boycott-2017/

Why Is Open Access Moving So Slowly In The Humanities? - http://blog.apaonline.org/2017/06/08/open-access-in-the-humanities-part-2/

Just out in @OrbitJournal: David Foster Wallace and New Sincerity Aesthetics by Adam Kelly https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.16995/orbit.224/ (a response article)

Procrastinating here since it's that or read the peer review reports...

No, no, not THAT kind of discrimination.

Seems that guy who wrote the manifesto arguing that Google should be more discriminatory is now threatening to sue Google for discrimination

Making a co-operative university - http://wonkhe.com/blogs/making-a-co-operative-university/

Elsevier Is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities Be Wary? - http://www.chronicle.com/article/Elsevier-Is-Becoming-a-Data/240876

Leave PDF and JATS as end of line formats - https://www.adamhyde.net/leave-pdf-and-jats-as-end-of-line-formats/

"Yet Another Sting Paper" - as in: what do you think you're proving? https://x.com/timeshighered/status/894813442854408193

Twenty-First Century Historical Fictions - http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/07/twenty-first-century-historical-fictions

Saturday jam while writing is this great remix by In Flagranti of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" https://soundcloud.com/inflagranti/free-download-the-chain-unofficial-in-flagranti-remix

The Word “Enlightenment”: A German Table of Usages from 1790 - https://persistentenlightenment.com/2017/08/06/table-from-1790/

INK 1.2 - https://www.adamhyde.net/ink-1-2/

Thanks, for suggestions, all! I guess I should have been clearer: looking for multi-genre juxtapositions in single works!

I have a list already, but can you recommend texts with multiple generic perspectives (genre-shifting)? Please RT and share suggestions!

Emerging controls in Elsevier's scholarly communications ecology - http://darkrepository.net/blog/garret/emerging-controls-in-elseviers-scholarly-communications-ecology

I have seen into this afternoon's near future. It is Janeway reaction gifs as far as the eye can see.

“Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, & modify. http://www.ctp.bbk.ac.uk/2017/08/04/birkbeck-centre-for-technology-and-publishing-releases-scholarly-communications-platform-janeway/

Big announcement! Birkbeck Centre for Technology & Publishing releases scholarly communications platform, “Janeway” http://www.ctp.bbk.ac.uk/2017/08/04/birkbeck-centre-for-technology-and-publishing-releases-scholarly-communications-platform-janeway/

Monsanto Leaks Suggest It Tried To Kill Cancer Research On Roundup Weed Killer - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/q4hZkOI9HHE/monsanto-leaks-suggest-it-tried-to-kill-cancer-research-on-roundup-weed-killer

TIL: it is possible to make a US - > International flight connection at Toronto in 15 mins. Just.

(By which I mean the citation plug ins...)

Interesting (and frustrating): new Zotero doesn't seem to work without an internet connection. (At least on Linux) Is this a recognised bug?

Preservation Is Not A Technical Problem - http://blog.dshr.org/2017/08/preservation-is-not-technical-problem.html

Seven functionalities the scholarly literature should have by @brembs
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/08/03/seven-functionalities-the-scholarly-literature-should-have/

Day 2 of Digits advisory board about to kick off. Software containerization as publication in the humanities.

"commonsenseandreason" https://x.com/IanDunt/status/892784621766791171

Bassel Khartabil, In Memoriam - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/bassel-khartabil-memoriam

Here's what I contributed to the Cost of Freedom book, dedicated to Bassel. Still shocked. https://book.costoffreedom.cc/book/opening:freedom/freedom-to-vs-freedom-from.html

I wrote a chapter in this book for the Free Bassel campaign a few years ago. http://costoffreedom.cc

Horrific news. https://x.com/petersuber/status/892496031887368193

Made it to Pittsburgh. Exit the airport, pursued by a dinosaur.

En route to Pittsburgh and mid-Atlantic. (Still can't get over plane wifi.) My air sickness is SO bad these days though; horrible.

Could something called ‘cough CPR’ save my life? Answer: no. - https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-matters-magazine/medical/ask-the-experts/cough-cpr