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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

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

Computer science 37%
Art 18%

Oh. And a haircut.

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Here is Socrates, sitting on a bench, minding his own business, books under his arm and a scroll in his hand, as an unnamed woman emerges from the house behind him to pour her chamber-pot's pissy contents all over him.

We got some form of non-drop malarkey that the dogs can't destroy!

Oh yeah. And physiotherapy. Forgot that hellish activity. 30 mins of pathetically hauling 2kg weights around to try to regain some strength and mobility. Attempting half press-ups (from a kneeling position). Oh great!
Sunday is also always a big medical admin day. Have to change the dressing on the central line; inject immunoglobulin; sort next batch of prescriptions; check dialysis supply delivery was accurate; send dialysis spreadsheet to nurses; and perform haemodialysis. Fun.

Yesterday, we went to buy a Christmas tree. It is not allowed to go up yet, but we got one. Feels good this time of year!

Again, a bargain £5.

Jeanette Winterson's Narratives of Desire: Rethinking Fetishism #martinsbooks

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"My leftist values are meaningless and hollow if my praxis doesn’t include masking - not necessarily for me - but for my community. [...] We are nothing without community, without each other. I mask so that I do not disable, maim, or kill anyone else."

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Selling for £5. Nearest identical listing: £96(!)

New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel #martinsbooks

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Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities, hardback for sale for £5. Bargain and great book! #martinsbooks

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Slightly concentrating face here… Just to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who sponsored me for the Cancer Research 10K November swim! You can still donate if you missed it earlier: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/carolin... All donations help fund life-saving cancer research. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Got quite a few of these. DM or email me your address 😁 [email protected]

Thank you.

Yes. It is. Ridiculous. How are you supposed to do academic work with someone on a Teams meeting right next to you? Or arrange meetings with students when you don't know if you've got a desk? Beyond frustrating and a diktat from on high, it seems.

Not really - it's 48 boxes, an awful lot.

Offices at BBK are being converted to awful multiple-occupancy flexible hotdesks, out of financial necessity. So everyone's books are out. Grim.

Selling for £5: Northern Irish Writing After The Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures by Caroline Magennis in hardcover. #martinsbooks

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from the 'Revolutionary Brides' series — Leonilda González, 1968

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'TEF uses programme level metrics to make judgements about institutional quality. It is both conceptual and methodological nonsense to attempt to scale-up judgements of quality from the programme to the institutional level in this way'. 1/3
WEEKEND READING: Three reasons why the TEF will collapse under the weight of OfS  and DfE expectations - HEPI
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I'm selling The Many Worlds of Anglophone Fiction: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions for £5. Typical hardback price: $87. Features a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha. #martinsbooks

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On top of giving away lots of academic books just for postage, I'm also planning to sell some that I don't think I will ever use again at very cheap rates. I will probably regret this. But I will use the hashtag #martinsbooks. Please block that if you don't want to know what I am selling.

Given how well received it's been this weekend, I'm hoping to do some more giveaways of books that I wrote next week. These three are in contention!

Also, the NHS is changing the allowed makes of immunogoblin, so I have to try the new batch this week, to make sure I tolerate it and don't have any seizures etc. So much fun.

Sunday is also always a big medical admin day. Have to change the dressing on the central line; inject immunoglobulin; sort next batch of prescriptions; check dialysis supply delivery was accurate; send dialysis spreadsheet to nurses; and perform haemodialysis. Fun.

One book I decided to keep was Stephen Miller's /Excellence and Equity: The National Endowment for the Humanities/. The organisation basically doesn't exist anymore, but seems a valuable historical snapshot. Used this during the writing of our book on peer review.

That piece, in my view, vastly oversimplified in a binary between transcription and interpretation. And, as you imply, did not put enough emphasis on the material nature of these artifacts, with all its evidence.

I think most serious users of transcription do understand the material evidential loss in the process and do not consider the transcription a "substitute". But it can have benefits and uses. They're just never the full picture, by any means. Assume this was a subtweet of DC's piece the other day.

They want to achieve excellency in meter reading experience

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What could go wrong? #privacy

Making difficult decisions about which books to keep and which to dispose of. All of these books get usage every few years, but I have nowhere to store them at home. It's a hateful decision-making exercise.

Yes, exactly! How many false accusations is too many? Or how many lawsuits would it take...

Also, people need to understand false positive rates. If they say it's 90% accurate at detecting AI, that's good, right? No. Wrong. It means 1 student in every 10 will be misclassified. This could be harmless, meaning they get away with AI. Or it could be harmful, accusing them wrongly of using AI.
Interesting from the Eye. I wonder if anyone told them that false positives in AI detection are more likely for English as additional language students, and neurodivergent students?