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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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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3h
Gillian Rose - a few links for the thirtieth anniversary
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Gillian Rose – a few links for the thirtieth anniversary
Today marks thirty years since Gillian Rose died so tragically young, at the age of just 48. The wall display in the Gillian Rose seminar room at the University of Warwick, with the covers of The M…
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 15h
Hurrah! My student passed her PhD viva with minor revisions. Excellent work.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h
"What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

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"What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form
The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h
The University of Limerick subscribes to Opening the Future at CEU Press via IReL https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/
Opening the Future
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17h
"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.

Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 18h
Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
He does it to provoke outrage, I know, but it works. To think that people might be faking needing a wheelchair? Urgh. Then to feel somehow offended by seeing people in wheelchairs? Urgh.

Basically stirring up hate against the disabled to fill his massively overpaid column.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
The vexatious imbecile Johnson: What the ETTING in the off a plane US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the door. They were all tabarded airport staff, and they had wheelchairs. all That's strange, I thought. It looked as touentrev mysterious rise in the numbers As we went up the jet bridge there were more and more wheelchairs, like the lobby of a geriatric hospital. wondered varuey aloud to one or ce alport stan. wny do so many people seem to require this type of assistance these days? It's just i those things, ne of passensers are asking for saem Some flights - he mentioned Toronto to Miam! wheelchair use. Imost 40 per It seemed like ar ucure. but I didn't the winter migration, of flocks of Cana-plane for a burst of Plorida sunshine demanding wheelchairs to get to their They think they are being taken for mugs plane tells us months later. I thought no more about the phenomenon. Apparently, it is everywhere. There is about the ever in insatiable popular hunger, at almost airlines are starting to get fed up. Tre spiralling costof many or their passengers are incapable of getting on to the plane using their own two feet. They think they are being taken for and that at least some of these the welfare state

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 1d
Please report all floating bananas to HM Coastguard's Receiver of Wreck, the most metal job title in the land.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
nope. Anxious waiting outside etc...

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 1d
As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
One of my students has her PhD viva today. No matter how many times, as supervisor, this happens, I _always_ feel extremely nervous on the candidate's behalf.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
Good morning

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart - Bomba (Mile Away Mix)

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Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart ‎– Bomba (Mile Away Mix) [Skahra Gate Edit]
Electronic • Synth • Industrial • Disco • Ritual Libre Service DJs : @cebe_barnes (Manon Torres) & @skahra_gate (Julien Lafond-Laumond)
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
The vexatious imbecile Johnson: What the ETTING in the off a plane US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the door. They were all tabarded airport staff, and they had wheelchairs. all That's strange, I thought. It looked as touentrev mysterious rise in the numbers As we went up the jet bridge there were more and more wheelchairs, like the lobby of a geriatric hospital. wondered varuey aloud to one or ce alport stan. wny do so many people seem to require this type of assistance these days? It's just i those things, ne of passensers are asking for saem Some flights - he mentioned Toronto to Miam! wheelchair use. Imost 40 per It seemed like ar ucure. but I didn't the winter migration, of flocks of Cana-plane for a burst of Plorida sunshine demanding wheelchairs to get to their They think they are being taken for mugs plane tells us months later. I thought no more about the phenomenon. Apparently, it is everywhere. There is about the ever in insatiable popular hunger, at almost airlines are starting to get fed up. Tre spiralling costof many or their passengers are incapable of getting on to the plane using their own two feet. They think they are being taken for and that at least some of these the welfare state

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d
By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social

"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
A social media post by Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) on X/Twitter. Nate’s comment above a shared post reads: “The UK says it won’t even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world.” Below is a shared post from Cat in the Hat (@_CatintheHat) responding to guidance from NHS England. Cat’s message quotes an excerpt and says it’s shocking: “This has got to be one of the most 🧠 things I’ve ever seen written down…” Beneath their comment is a screenshot of an NHS England document titled “Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases” (dated July 2024). Key text is highlighted in yellow, stating: “it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.” The highlighted passage suggests rapid transmission, limited initial control, and challenges in preventing spread. The entire screenshot looks like an official government webpage with headings, bullet points, and formal formatting. The post timestamp shows 6:13 PM · Dec 5, 2025 with 111.1K Views.

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Jeremy (Reprise) @gogdog.bsky.social · 1d
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d
Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."

The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
I also had an eye patch for a squint as a child! Do they not do this anymore?

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Anna Maxwell Martin looks back: ‘I was bullied a little bit, but it didn’t affect me because I was a happy weirdo’
The actor on being an introverted extrovert, performing as a pearly queen, and becoming a single mother when her husband died
www.theguardian.com

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 1d
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
superb!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d
That's what they're there for! 😀

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 1d
For anyone wondering if this is bears any resemblance to the actual @greenparty.org.uk position on drugs, lol no of course it doesn't.

Did @theobserveruk.bsky.social just print this with no fact-checking??

The Prime Minister just making shit up and having it printed in national newspapers.

Eesh.
A screenshot from GPEW's 2024 manifesto, headed 'Real hope. Real change.' "Reforming drug laws Elected Greens will push for the establishment of a National Commission to agree an evidence-based approach to reform of the UK’s counterproductive drug laws. Neither prohibition nor the policing of low-level drug offences, especially cannabis possession, have reduced use and consequently have had no impact on the size of the criminal market or the profits made by organised crime. Elected Greens will therefore push to decriminalise personal possession of drugs, diverting people from the criminal justice system towards support with addiction, housing and employment, from health workers focused on drug harm reduction This would free up hundreds of thousands of hours of police time, which could instead be invested in tackling"

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Really sorry - we're struggling with ours too, but at least we have Librela. 😕

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Thank you! WIP, but

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
The biggest rework after peer review in my Star Trek: Voyager book is to rewrite a chapter that was on "race" to focus much more precisely on borders, refugees, and asylum seekers. It's been quite an epic act of transformation, but think it's finally coming together now.

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David Willerton @davidwillerton.bsky.social · 2d
The Tiger by Nael, age 6 From They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d
Just disgusting.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com

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Luke Snowbrr ☃️ @lukesteuber.com · 2d
I want to start a company that does remodels for accessibility. Like the whole house, countertops, the computer, home automation, all that. That’s basically what I do anyway now, and surprised I don’t see more people doing it.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 2d
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
celestelabedz.bsky.social Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2d
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 2d
The memory of the mass femicide at Polytechnique is still painful.

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where 14 women — students at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique — lost their lives in a mass shooting motivated by misogyny.

#December6