Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd
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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In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
Non-Elite Travel Writing and the Bibliography of British and Irish History - On History
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses several ways that the Bibliography of British and Irish History is contributing to his research on non-elite travel…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
Yes! I eventually found a digital copy, thanks. But I have this in hard copy somewhere, I am sure!
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Yes! I eventually found a digital copy, thanks. But I have this in hard copy somewhere, I am sure!
Yes. It's always the people who think they should get a huge chunk of the cash by right who suggest we abolish the mechanism that might distribute it elsewhere.
February 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Yes. It's always the people who think they should get a huge chunk of the cash by right who suggest we abolish the mechanism that might distribute it elsewhere.
It is true. We did brilliantly and then 50% of colleagues were forced out.
I have been led to believe that it would have been worse without the QR though.
I have been led to believe that it would have been worse without the QR though.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
It is true. We did brilliantly and then 50% of colleagues were forced out.
I have been led to believe that it would have been worse without the QR though.
I have been led to believe that it would have been worse without the QR though.
This would be a popular move, but it is through REF that disciplines get to "mark their own homework". Quality is appraised by people in the discipline. Doing this w tech could severely disadvantage smaller institutions. BBK was second in English. Would that be the same in a tech approach?
Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
This would be a popular move, but it is through REF that disciplines get to "mark their own homework". Quality is appraised by people in the discipline. Doing this w tech could severely disadvantage smaller institutions. BBK was second in English. Would that be the same in a tech approach?
My office currently looks like an exobrain! 😅😭
February 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM
My office currently looks like an exobrain! 😅😭
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Subscriptions to their OtF backlist will fund new OA books from the press, available globally with no paywalls. Read more here: bab.openingthefuture.net/news/168/ Supported by africanbookscollective.com with help from @copim.bsky.social 🔥
February 10, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Subscriptions to their OtF backlist will fund new OA books from the press, available globally with no paywalls. Read more here: bab.openingthefuture.net/news/168/ Supported by africanbookscollective.com with help from @copim.bsky.social 🔥
The important thing is this balance: libraries need to pay for SOMETHING often - they won't speculatively fund open future works - so give them something of value for their subscription (the backlist packages) BUT THEN use that money to fund upfront OA in new works.
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The important thing is this balance: libraries need to pay for SOMETHING often - they won't speculatively fund open future works - so give them something of value for their subscription (the backlist packages) BUT THEN use that money to fund upfront OA in new works.
Fantastic!
Leveraging a publisher's backlist as packages for libraries to subscribe to can give revenue for frontlist titles to be made OA.
This works because backlist titles are often exhausted and only sell sporadically. Opening the Future gives these titles a new life and makes new works open.
Leveraging a publisher's backlist as packages for libraries to subscribe to can give revenue for frontlist titles to be made OA.
This works because backlist titles are often exhausted and only sell sporadically. Opening the Future gives these titles a new life and makes new works open.
📢ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢A fifth publisher launches an OtF programme today! Step forward Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) Publishing House! Founded in 1971 as the publishing arm of a Swiss research library, they publish scholarly works on, and from, Southern Africa and Namibia. (1/2)
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Fantastic!
Leveraging a publisher's backlist as packages for libraries to subscribe to can give revenue for frontlist titles to be made OA.
This works because backlist titles are often exhausted and only sell sporadically. Opening the Future gives these titles a new life and makes new works open.
Leveraging a publisher's backlist as packages for libraries to subscribe to can give revenue for frontlist titles to be made OA.
This works because backlist titles are often exhausted and only sell sporadically. Opening the Future gives these titles a new life and makes new works open.
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This is so great to see - OtF beginning to grow to include v small presses that looking for a route to sustainable/reliable #openaccess book publishing. Hope to see libraries get behind this if they can - increasing their own local collections while simultaneously funding OA. Hat tip @eve.gd!
📢ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢A fifth publisher launches an OtF programme today! Step forward Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) Publishing House! Founded in 1971 as the publishing arm of a Swiss research library, they publish scholarly works on, and from, Southern Africa and Namibia. (1/2)
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
This is so great to see - OtF beginning to grow to include v small presses that looking for a route to sustainable/reliable #openaccess book publishing. Hope to see libraries get behind this if they can - increasing their own local collections while simultaneously funding OA. Hat tip @eve.gd!
Drat. The real problem with this major book clearance is that, in the current chaos, I can't find works I need. Just been hunting for my copy of @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's The Digital Dark Age and I can't find it anywhere. Grr.
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Drat. The real problem with this major book clearance is that, in the current chaos, I can't find works I need. Just been hunting for my copy of @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's The Digital Dark Age and I can't find it anywhere. Grr.
Doing some writing and jamming to the A Love From Outer Space 15th anniversary EP.
February 10, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Doing some writing and jamming to the A Love From Outer Space 15th anniversary EP.
Is there a way, in the Android app, to search Bluesky lists that people have created? (the packs where you can follow a curated list)
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Is there a way, in the Android app, to search Bluesky lists that people have created? (the packs where you can follow a curated list)
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Cool postdoc: hiring someone with training in philosophy + computational methods to study how AI is transforming epistemic norms & practices across academic fields of knowledge. Can vouch the PI is both a fantastic advisor & person. Great academic network too: Purdue to CMU to Chicago to Princeton.
Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...
Postdoc Research Assoc/Sloan Fdn
Postdoc Research Assoc/Sloan Fdn
careers.purdue.edu
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Cool postdoc: hiring someone with training in philosophy + computational methods to study how AI is transforming epistemic norms & practices across academic fields of knowledge. Can vouch the PI is both a fantastic advisor & person. Great academic network too: Purdue to CMU to Chicago to Princeton.
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Cool/important job alert:
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Cool/important job alert:
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Enjoying browsing the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in the humanities.
Looking at the entry on Open Longform Scholarship. Love this description of Opening the Future, the model I developed and implemented with @scholtom.bsky.social
catalogue.morphss.work/practices/op...
Looking at the entry on Open Longform Scholarship. Love this description of Opening the Future, the model I developed and implemented with @scholtom.bsky.social
catalogue.morphss.work/practices/op...
February 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Enjoying browsing the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in the humanities.
Looking at the entry on Open Longform Scholarship. Love this description of Opening the Future, the model I developed and implemented with @scholtom.bsky.social
catalogue.morphss.work/practices/op...
Looking at the entry on Open Longform Scholarship. Love this description of Opening the Future, the model I developed and implemented with @scholtom.bsky.social
catalogue.morphss.work/practices/op...
Presided over a system that drove vulnerable people to feeling suicidal
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
DWP permanent secretary to step down after carer’s allowance scandal
Peter Schofield tells staff he will leave the department for personal reasons
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Presided over a system that drove vulnerable people to feeling suicidal
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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describing voluntary masking as "extreme" is wild. why is NPR trying to shame and embarrass athletes for taking extra steps to protect their health during one of the most important competitions of their lives?
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
describing voluntary masking as "extreme" is wild. why is NPR trying to shame and embarrass athletes for taking extra steps to protect their health during one of the most important competitions of their lives?
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The "extreme measures" are common sense measures, especially if you're an athlete where a single COVID infection can end your career (or simply make it so you can't compete or compete at your best this Olympics).
(They're masking up & quarantining together with their teammates.)
(They're masking up & quarantining together with their teammates.)
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The "extreme measures" are common sense measures, especially if you're an athlete where a single COVID infection can end your career (or simply make it so you can't compete or compete at your best this Olympics).
(They're masking up & quarantining together with their teammates.)
(They're masking up & quarantining together with their teammates.)
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How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…
dlvr.it
February 9, 2026 at 12:09 PM
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
I am growing in faith every day that you really are going to do 700 of these
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
I am growing in faith every day that you really are going to do 700 of these
I think Tulip is pretty awesome, in turn!
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I think Tulip is pretty awesome, in turn!