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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 · 5h
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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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 5h
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
Remote
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6h
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...
Its enduring contribution was the progressive economic model that it created, called 'Opening the Future'—by which libraries subscribe to a publisher's closed backlist and, in return, the publisher releases new frontlist titles openly. The model recognised the clunky interdependencies of legacy publishing systems and took a radically progressive rather than a purist view of openness, moving away, as Sam Moore has noted in Publishing Beyond the Market (2025) from demands of compliance to the real intellectual needs of the scholars themselves

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 6h
Presided over a system that drove vulnerable people to feeling suicidal

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

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NPR @npr.org · 12h
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.
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The Register @theregister.com · 13h
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.…
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14h
I am growing in faith every day that you really are going to do 700 of these

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14h
I think Tulip is pretty awesome, in turn!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14h
Goodness me, that's a low-blow scam.
openbookcollective.bsky.social Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14h
We’ve been made aware of individuals receiving emails claiming to be from the OBC, requesting fees from authors. To be clear: OBC does not charge individuals, book clubs, or authors for meetings/events. We're a collective funding model that channels library support to OA publishers & infrastructure.

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14h
Adams et. al. (2026) Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report) https://works.hcommons.org/records/h10rz-qk035

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 14h
We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info
Call for book review essays - book list
C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …
c21.openlibhums.org

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 14h
We’ve been made aware of individuals receiving emails claiming to be from the OBC, requesting fees from authors. To be clear: OBC does not charge individuals, book clubs, or authors for meetings/events. We're a collective funding model that channels library support to OA publishers & infrastructure.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h
Today is quite a big day internally at Knowledge Commons for me. I've been working on a sizeable project for many months - absolutely crucial but also not very visible, in an infrastructure-ey kind of way - and it's about to enter internal testing...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h
I've just done almost 2 hours of tedious medical admin. 1hr getting off the dialysis machine & disinfecting it. Then 20 minutes of immunoglobulin injection, followed by 20 mins of sorting and taking morning drugs, followed by 20 mins of waiting for the morphine to kick in.

And now I can begin...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d
Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.
The marionette theater of AI
Is it funny, or painful, when bots talk about their inner lives?
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Always the plan!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
A good day of book sorting, although my office is now CHAOS! Believe it or not, this is better than before...
An office space crammed full of boxes of books

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d
Which Superb Owl Are You Today?

Every #SuperbOwl is from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social!
Grid of 9 early modern owls from the Newberry asking "Which SuperbOwl are you today?

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d
British values

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Another frustration for me is the muscle wastage/atrophy I have as a result of my kidney failure. It was compounded by a deconditioning hospital stay last year.

Anyway, I have a friend coming round to lift boxes of books for me today, as I can't. Once sorted, the garage may be accessible once more!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 2d
My hot take –

Oscar the Grouch is an archivist, with a focus on ephemera and social histories.

Grumpy, yes, but he's also devoted to ensuring preservation and community access. A truly passionate steward of monster cultural heritage.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Not easily, sadly - I am on a strict fluid restriction for the kidney failure, so this is less than ideal. That and they make me sick 😕 Thank you for the suggestion, though.

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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 2d
Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas had to email her professor asking for an extension because she's competing at the Olympics😅

She even attached the press release as proof.

#MilanoCortina2026

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Someone has the right idea for Saturday afternoon!
A picture of Robyn, our three-legged dog, who is black and brown and medium sized, snoozing on a blue velvet sofa, amid green and yellow cushions.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 2d
Gosh I love the Olympics.*

*sitting on my couch and eating chips while watching people on TV who have trained like austere monks since toddlerhood fling themselves through the air in beautiful and improbable formations

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
A really interesting project at TiB: SHIELD. A project to preserve endangered research (in the USA, for example).

www.tib.eu/de/aktuelles...
Making sure you're not a bot!
www.tib.eu

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
This is a real loss. I would very much like to know what happened to trigger this.
james3neal.bsky.social James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 2d
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d
Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
First Monday has never charged --- in its entire history --- article processing charges (APC). First Monday has never subscribed to the notion that the article processing charges (APC) model is a version of open access publishing. First Monday has never leveled subscription fees or charges in its long history. First Monday has never tolerated advertisements in any form on its virtual pages. First Monday is truly openly accessible at all levels and has always been so, from its beginning with its first issue released on 6 May 1996.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d
Renamed this blogpost on the basis of critical comments. My responses also added in a PS at the end of the post.
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#PubPeer #retraction
An analysis of PubPeer comments on highly-cited retracted articles
PubPeer is sometimes discussed as if it is some kind of cesspit where people smear honest scientists with specious allegations of fraud. ...
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 2d
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...