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Martin Paul Eve is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature,… more

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“context MATTERS”, insist the academic historians,

immediately before giving a lecture full of jokes and references to pop culture that was already a decade old when the 20 year olds in the audience were born
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall

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'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d
‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

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‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News
Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack
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by Martin Paul Eve

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I am very glad that you liked it. I greatly enjoyed the book.
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E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn
Centre-aligned poem whose lines forms the shape of a funeral urn: TO Farrar & Rinehart Simon & Schuster Coward-McCann Limited Editions Harcourt, Brace Random House Equinox Press Smith & Haas Viking Press Knopf Dutton Harper's Scribner's Covici, Friede
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E.E. Cummings, American writer & artist best known for his modernist free-form #poetry, was born #OnThisDay in 1894.

@ransomcenter.bsky.social has a substantial collection of his manuscripts & artwork, including this mythologically inspired doodle: sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...

#BookSky 🗃️📜
Portrait of e.e. cummings (1953) New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer. Wikipedia
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kairosdoug.bsky.social
Really appreciate the transparency and explanations. Currently trying to figure out how to get Anubis running on our servers, as Kairos is basically getting DDOS'd by AI bots scraping our content. Alas, we don't have the resources to go to Cloudflare.
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by Martin Paul Eve

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I thought there would be some button to add this after-the-fact but I can't find it!
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by Martin Paul Eve

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Sorry. I did not add alt text. The image is Boromir in Lord of the Rings saying "One does not simply set up infrastructure and leave it"
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by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by Martin Paul Eve

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A candid and transparent postmortem of two technical incidents we've had on Knowledge Commons recently, brightened up at the end with a summary of the good work we're doing in moving development forward.

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Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
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My experience with these has been very disappointing. I *was* primarily trying for music, but as you say, there was no bass, everything sounded tinny. In principle, it sounds such a good idea, though.
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by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Elaine Treharne

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A preprint/author's original version of my review of @elikaortega.bsky.social's Binding Media.

Posted under OUP's self-archiving policy academic.oup.com/pages/self_a...

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Review of Binding Media by Élika Ortega
A review of Ortega's Binding Media. My conclusion is that Ortega's terminology—"binding media"—is a useful phrase that should enter the critical lexicon. It gives us the means through which to conside...
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willwiles.bsky.social
Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
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Signal upgrades its protocol to become resistant to quantum attacks arstechnica.com/security/202...
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.
arstechnica.com
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We (OpenUK) are running a free unconference in London next week to discuss AI.
agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk
Boosters and sceptics very welcome!

#Unconference #London #AI
Agent Open Unconference organised in partnership with the AI Alliance
Agentic technology will be explored in a day of technical and security discussions, with maybe some governance and ethics in an unconference
agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk
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The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy
Higher education institution (HEI) libraries in the UK undertake a variety of interlibrary loan (ILL) and document supply operations, against a current background of increasing budgetary pressures. This article considers the foundations in so‑called library privilege exceptions in copyright law that underpin the long‑standing practice of ILL, aiming to address recurring issues and questions around what is permitted within the legislation, and which limitations apply. The focus is on addressing the ILL situation as it exists for non‑profit UK HEI academic libraries, including looking at some perceived ‘grey areas’.
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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Les Back, Nicola Carr , and 2 more

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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
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by Martin Paul Eve

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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
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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Andrew Scott, Patrick Stokes

nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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by Martin Paul Eve

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Thank you!

by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

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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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animalarchaeology.com
📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector.

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Is the Museum of the Future Contextless?
A photo of four paper museum labels reading (clockwise from top left): Oland. Thomson. Coll., Tetrastictus terminalis Thomson 1878 Lectotype, MZLU Type No 4922, and Loan 444 (Photo Credit: Biologic…
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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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by Martin Paul Eve

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Post you from a different era
A picture of me from 2005, holding some flowers
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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Margot C. Finn

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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.

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by Martin Paul Eve

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TEF Gold material, right there
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by Martin Paul Eve

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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."

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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…
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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
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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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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Erich Fromm, Smith , and 3 more

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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.
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