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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 · 3h
Just the theme - still generated in Jekyll

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3h
"Why would you cut education support for Disabled children when you have commissioned a review on why a million young people are not in education, employment or training?"

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...
The Government Needs to Radically Rethink it's Approach to Disability
www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3h
WordPress loading theme assets of a different theme to that selected eve.gd/2026/01/15/w...
WordPress loading theme assets of a different theme to that selected
Today’s tech anomaly was odd. I’m working on a new WordPress theme and obviously WordPress has to load its assets like the CSS file and the JavaScript file. ...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6h
I think I get away with watching Die Hard every Christmas solely because Mrs Eve likes AR so much :P

He seems to be one of the gooduns, though.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7h
"Should I let my husband write a column about dog poo? Hard YES."

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 8h
Quality journalism from the Guardian. If you are wondering how a columnist gets to write this, it helps to be married to the editor.
A newspaper headline that reads: I've been thinking a lot about dog poo, by Adrian Chiles

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18h
"We tried to build the universal library at a moment of digital optimism. This is the moment to try again."

asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
The Dream of the Universal Library—Asterisk
The Internet promised easy access to every book ever written. Why can’t we have nice things?
asteriskmag.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18h
Lawyers earning $6,500 per hour in Anthropic settlement?

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/12/19/b...
Back-of-the-Envelope Math on What Payouts We May See in the Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement
Now that the Bartz settlement has passed some initial judicial hurdles and is moving along, with important deadlines approaching (opt-out and objections are due January 15), we thought it was worth…
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Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social · 1d
The great thing about pretend metrics is that we can achieve a 20% improvement in performance and a 50% reduction in deployment time every year

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 1d
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Good correlation!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Those who walk away from Omeros

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
I benefit hugely from HS1, so won't complain too loudly, but HOW THE HECK did it end up costing this much? Bullet Trains in Japan are CHEAPER. And NOT SHIT.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d
Sloppy stuff.
profadamroberts.substack.com/p/some-ai-slop
Some A.I. Slop
Failber
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Indeed. I love Quote Investigator! But I just saw this one and thought "that does NOT sound like Kafka". It also devalues the argument being made when these things are misatttibuted. I mean, what does it say for the argument if we can't even source things correctly?

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
I really should publish book *proposals* I have written over the years on my site. However, I feel a little embarrassed by the ones that differ so radically from the finished book. That's the way books grow, though.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
If it helps, I can send you example proposals that I have written for various presses. DM me your email if you would like these.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Kafka did not say this... quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/i...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Captain, it's Wednesday.
The Tintin meme strip of Captain Haddock asking "what a week huh?" and Tintin replying "Captain, it's Wednesday"

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 1d
A number of world-leading experts who have conducted extensive quality research on this topic work in the UK, but no, Labour wants to make policy by airport book. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia
www.theguardian.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Totally true! And they are succeeding!

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 1d
"If you work for a large company, it will not allow you to say or do anything that harms its brand — at or outside work."

Well, this might even happen if you work for a university.

scribepublications.com.au/books/workin...
Working for the Brand by Josh Bornstein | Book
Josh Bornstein asks how our major corporations have come to exercise repressive control over the lives of their employees, and explores what can be done to...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
This morning I learned from Wikipedia about a mushroom that you can eat for years... And then it suddenly kills you.

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Paxillus involutus - Wikipedia
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'Wellcome said the spending hike meant that it was “on track” to meet its plan to sink £16 billion into its mission between 2022 and 2032—so far, it has spent £5.2 billion over the first three years, compared with “around £10 billion over the 10 years to 2022”.'

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
OfS free speech tsar has been 'grilling' VCs over government-funded Chinese students and Confucius Institutes.

'In private, some university leaders have been fiercely critical of the approach, believing that they were under pressure to end these links without transparent guidance from the OfS.'
Vice-chancellors under pressure from OfS to cut China ties
Leaders face grilling from free speech director amid concerns about Chinese government-backed scholarships
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Julia Heinemann @julia-heinemann.bsky.social · 1d
Last Friday I defended my Phd thesis on Mina Loy, ending the presentation with one of my favourite archival finds: "The curious soul / opens adventurous doors / upon the Infinite".
Hasn't quite sunk in yet that I'm done... but do send your tips on getting the book published! 🙃
Fragment from Mina Loy's archival papers reading: "The curious soul opens adventurous doors upon the Infinite"

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Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social · 1d
I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on #ResearchIntegrity , which now covers 35 titles. bit.ly/409E5ff
Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall, Adrian Vickers , and 2 more

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.

What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Jack Stilgoe, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 1d
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

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Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social · 2d
I want my articles to be written by a professional calligrapher on handcrafted paper with gold ink. If my university or funder refuse to pay for this, they are infringing my academic freedom.