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Martin Paul Eve
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Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd

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Martin Paul Eve is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London and the Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University. Previously, Eve was Principal R&D Developer at Crossref from 2023-2024 and Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University until 2022. He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, digital media studies and history of the book, and open-access policy. Together with Caroline Edwards, he is co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). .. more

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11h
Oh good heavens. What could possibly go wrong?

ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 19h
Academic study of the BBC consistently shows a right-wing bias but it is only ever news when it is accused of left-wing bias…which is very characteristic of the general miserable sordid reactionary British media in general theconversation.com/bbc-question...
BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
theconversation.com

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 21h
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.

Link below.

Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
That Keir Starmer’s government foundered in its attempt to cut £5bn from welfare earlier this year was “a red flag from the perspective of the gilt market”

These people are ghouls who think it's all a game.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The bond market is wrong. Reeves should not cut welfare to placate the City | Richard Partington
Keeping the markets on side is the chancellor’s priority but it’s not an easy task given their simplistic, misplaced views on welfare cuts
www.theguardian.com

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Data is not available upon request https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4008

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 1d
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Just had two really positive reader reports on my next book (proposal and sample chapter). Some constructive-critical ideas put forward, but it's put a metaphorical bounce in my step.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 1d
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
Audible email advertising an allegedly new book by George Eliot: Middlemarch. If only!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Urgh. Keep your beak out, OfS.

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The Office for Students steps on to shaky ground in an attempt to regulate academic standards
The Office for Students' intervention on degree algorithms poses some interesting questions about the role of regulation in maintaining academic standards. David Kernohan asks them.
wonkhe.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making

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Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
www.thebookseller.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
You mean Dave?

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 2d
we’re doing a frankenstein double bill tonight and i’ve gone down the adaptations rabbit hole
screenshot for the wikipedia page for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Pinball

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 2d
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.

Reposted by Jesse H. Kroll, Martin Paul Eve, Fred

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 3d
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d
New at Orbit:

Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024)
This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that, ...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
A set of graphs and stats, showing off the features of Knowledge Commons Works

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 3d
Quite a headline.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
A satirical poem about universities. All Staff Assembly Unlike other universities We do not have an emergency However, we must continue To take action with urgency Don't let there be rupture In trust over the new role families This is not a restructure There are always some redundancies We do not work with arms companies We work with engineering firm subsidiaries Who produce dual use technologies That kill people Some of us are paid very differently But this is very good for the university You see, the disparities in our salaries Are contributions to Diversity

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex www.sussex.ac.uk/news/univers...
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex
Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
www.sussex.ac.uk

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d
Yesterday's walk in two phases. 1 Robyn lies down and refuses to walk another step. 2 Robyn gets a ride on the support vehicle and doesn't like it!
A medium sized dog lying in the autumn leaves The same dog on a motorized wheelchair with me

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d
Classic
sharonmcmeekin.bsky.social Sharon McMeekin @sharonmcmeekin.bsky.social · 4d
I hadn't planned to do anything particular for #WDPD this year, but when inspiration hits who am I to deny it?

So, here's my contribution for 2025, all put together since 10:30 this morning! A bit of fun aimed at everyone's "favourite" standard... 😝

youtu.be/OXb0NMKumkc
Actually Pedantic
YouTube video by Sharon McMeekin
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d
Today's peek inside the @kcommons.bsky.social tech lab: whenever we change the site, we have a set of automated tests that run to verify we haven't broken anything that was working before. Some of these test the code, and some test the actual site with a simulated browser. Green ticks make me happy!
A set of GhostInspector tests, all marked "Passing"

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Sharon McMeekin @sharonmcmeekin.bsky.social · 4d
I hadn't planned to do anything particular for #WDPD this year, but when inspiration hits who am I to deny it?

So, here's my contribution for 2025, all put together since 10:30 this morning! A bit of fun aimed at everyone's "favourite" standard... 😝

youtu.be/OXb0NMKumkc
Actually Pedantic
YouTube video by Sharon McMeekin
youtu.be

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 4d
REF 2029 branding ban baffles research offices.

Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF 2029 branding ban baffles research offices - Research Professional News
Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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aj boston @aj-boston.bsky.social · 4d
Editor: You get that library photo for the Pledge to Open campaign?

Photographer: Sure did boss, "pov you're a stalker" just like you asked.

Editor: what

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 4d
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d
Oh. It's a typo. For Bowring. Doh.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d
Hmm.

Seitz, David K., ‘Mahler and Migrants on the “Final Frontier”: A Contrapuntal Reading in Small-Screen Musical Geopolitics’, Geopolitics, 1 January 2025

makes reference to "Bowleg (2004)" but it's not in the bibliography. I do not know this Star Trek scholarship. Anybody any ideas?

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Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
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