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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 · 1h

"We said, no, not for you, not like that, only for us. So even there, so early, the apple is associated with colonization — it is, in a sense, an intrusive, invading fruit."

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Apple Review #9: Ingrid Marie

I think there’s something interesting too about the association with apples and America. Apples, a non-native fruit, are thought to come from an ancestor in Kazakhstan — and were largel…

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 3h

You wouldn't call this unbiased reporting by The Times. The OfS might lower fees for institutions that are not Gold, Silver or Bronze rated for teaching, but are categorised as "Requires Improvement". OK: but literally *no* UK unis are in this category ...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4h

It's the "Teaching Excellence Framework" - a disciplinary exercise that includes measures such as "employment and further study" that have nothing to do with teaching, but are rather the result of a political assumption that the goal of HE is to get a job.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6h

Excellent!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7h

The idea of linking fees to TEF is clearly an attempt to bankrupt a set of universities. The reputational damage of association of cheaper tuition with lower quality* will ring a death knell.

* of course, TEF does not measure teaching quality

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 7h

Fantastic to see the London Topographical Society is now on here! @londontopsoc.bsky.social Do give them a follow.

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Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 7h

This year I have completely updated all of my classes and am writing new lectures and working weekends to put it together.
Degree of faith the "good teaching" metric will actually reflect it: zero.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 7h

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

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poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 9h

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors

On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

"Getting a DOI on personal blog posts is technically challenging, but possible using services such as The Rogue Scholar (https://docs.rogue-scholar.org/)." https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00287-w

What is Rogue Scholar? – Rogue Scholar Documentation

docs.rogue-scholar.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10h

New SF reviewed in the Guardian. I like the sound of The White Octopus Hotel.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu; When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift; The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell; Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M Night Shyam...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 10h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“School WiFi is down”.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12h

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 19h

In this new essay, I take a look at Thomas Burnett Swann's second novel, 1967's THE WEIRWOODS, a novel set in ancient Etruria about slavery, freedom, violence, justice, belonging -- and also love, grief, and how we find the strength to move on after tragedy.

Reading “The Weirwoods” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Weirwoods (1967) is his second novel, a story of slavery and freedom, of love and grief, set at the waning of Etruscan power in ancient Italy. Come for the ancient histor…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21h

Read the piece on P Thiel's views on the antichrist and the apocalypse and I find it so horrific that someone with so much power and influence via wealth has such barking views, rooted in such cruelty. I can imagine him arguing that many people should die to lower his taxes, and this is "Christian".

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23h

My surgery just said: "ah, you're down for Covid". No questions, no interrogation. They thought it outrageous that my wife didn't get it too.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23h

"We talk abt how bird brains differ from those of mammals + reptiles—in terms of their size[,] major structures [+] wrinkliness. We tour some of the most... perplexing bird behaviors + consider their neural + anatomical underpinnings. Finally, we consider what we can learn from bird brains."

Brains of a feather - Many Minds (podcast)

01:31:13 - Birds do the darnedest things. They fly, of course. They sing. They hunt in pitch darkness. They hide their food and remember where they put it. The…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23h

At whom should I direct a post requesting a feature in the BlueSky Android application? It remains hugely frustrating to me that the client always takes you to the most recent post when you refresh. I want to stay where I was and then work forward to the present!

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23h

Quite frankly, that is outrageous. I think I would tell them to mind their own business. Sorry, but how dare they? That's got me really riled on your behalf.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 23h

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Yes, definitely. My wife, who lives with me, is denied one, while I get it (under questioning). I mean: do the vaccination committee not understand the concept of viral transmission? So frustrating.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

I don't think it's a big part of most people's cultural memory, here. That might vary regionally, of course...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Do I know anyone on here who has either applied for or received an AHRC Catalyst Award?

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 1d

AI decides what research to fund; AI does the research; AI reads it; another AI assesses it for REF. Meanwhile the humans sod off to the beach or lie around in their pants watching Celebrity Traitors all day

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

"Many with large assets" need to understand that wealth doesn't buy them out of society and the collective endeavours we fund.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

Rachel Reeves's Budget is expected to contain multiple tax rises, which is making many with large assets nervous

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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