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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 · 7h

We found quite a serious bug in the Knowledge Commons core this evening. It's now resolved and I'll write a full post-mortem tomorrow AM. #transparency #accountability #headache

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 12h

Thank you!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14h

YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 15h

So many people reached out in support, often offering whatever they could to help me find my next thing. I know other colleagues at NEH experienced the same.

I'm profoundly lucky to have landed in an amazing new role, when I know many more-talented former NEH colleagues are still looking.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16h

Post you from a different era

A picture of me from 2005, holding some flowers

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 21h

Research funders urged to drive culture shift on negative results.

Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

TEF Gold material, right there

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"We said, no, not for you, not like that, only for us. So even there, so early, the apple is associated with colonization — it is, in a sense, an intrusive, invading fruit."

terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Apple Review #9: Ingrid Marie

I think there’s something interesting too about the association with apples and America. Apples, a non-native fruit, are thought to come from an ancestor in Kazakhstan — and were largel…

terribleminds.com

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn't call this unbiased reporting by The Times. The OfS might lower fees for institutions that are not Gold, Silver or Bronze rated for teaching, but are categorised as "Requires Improvement". OK: but literally *no* UK unis are in this category ...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

It's the "Teaching Excellence Framework" - a disciplinary exercise that includes measures such as "employment and further study" that have nothing to do with teaching, but are rather the result of a political assumption that the goal of HE is to get a job.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 1d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm going to start a market for "Accessibility Offset Credits".

Your site may be an unholy mess of div elements, no alt text, and terrible contrast - but you can pay to offset your accessibility sins by buying credits from sites with perfect WCAG scores.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Excellent!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

The idea of linking fees to TEF is clearly an attempt to bankrupt a set of universities. The reputational damage of association of cheaper tuition with lower quality* will ring a death knell.

* of course, TEF does not measure teaching quality

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic to see the London Topographical Society is now on here! @londontopsoc.bsky.social Do give them a follow.

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Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social · 1d

This year I have completely updated all of my classes and am writing new lectures and working weekends to put it together.
Degree of faith the "good teaching" metric will actually reflect it: zero.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors

On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"Getting a DOI on personal blog posts is technically challenging, but possible using services such as The Rogue Scholar (https://docs.rogue-scholar.org/)." https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00287-w

What is Rogue Scholar? – Rogue Scholar Documentation

docs.rogue-scholar.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

New SF reviewed in the Guardian. I like the sound of The White Octopus Hotel.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu; When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift; The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell; Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Remain by Nicholas Sparks with M Night Shyam...

www.theguardian.com

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“School WiFi is down”.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

retractionwatch.com

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 2d

In this new essay, I take a look at Thomas Burnett Swann's second novel, 1967's THE WEIRWOODS, a novel set in ancient Etruria about slavery, freedom, violence, justice, belonging -- and also love, grief, and how we find the strength to move on after tragedy.

Reading “The Weirwoods” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Weirwoods (1967) is his second novel, a story of slavery and freedom, of love and grief, set at the waning of Etruscan power in ancient Italy. Come for the ancient histor…

seanguynes.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Read the piece on P Thiel's views on the antichrist and the apocalypse and I find it so horrific that someone with so much power and influence via wealth has such barking views, rooted in such cruelty. I can imagine him arguing that many people should die to lower his taxes, and this is "Christian".

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

My surgery just said: "ah, you're down for Covid". No questions, no interrogation. They thought it outrageous that my wife didn't get it too.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2d

"We talk abt how bird brains differ from those of mammals + reptiles—in terms of their size[,] major structures [+] wrinkliness. We tour some of the most... perplexing bird behaviors + consider their neural + anatomical underpinnings. Finally, we consider what we can learn from bird brains."

Brains of a feather - Many Minds (podcast)

01:31:13 - Birds do the darnedest things. They fly, of course. They sing. They hunt in pitch darkness. They hide their food and remember where they put it. The…

www.listennotes.com

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