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Martin Paul Eve
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Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd

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

Computer science 37%
Art 18%
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If you would ever like a distraction, I wrote a cathartic self-indulgent blog post last night that explains all my health problems clearly, where they come from and why I seem to have so many of them. It also explains what's happening at the moment with my current treatment.

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A further health update...
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There's a service here called Patients Know Best that lets you monitor all of your medical tests. I wish it was called Experts Know Lots, Which Is Why Patients Consult Them, But Patients Should Be Able To Know Things About Themselves.

Excellent to have a social stream of #iPres2026 in the background as I am working on streamlining our digital preservation processes at Knowledge Commons 😁

In the past week, w/ infections, my weight has reeached a new low. I am skeletal. This induces major shakes and twitches. I accidentally threw my smartphone down the hospital bed while writing this!

That all sounds quite amusing, but it's actually extremely debilitating.

I really like this Markup from Hell site, b/c it not only shows humorous bad code, but tells newcomers WHY it's wrong https://www.htmhell.dev/
Markup from hell - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
www.htmhell.dev

Credit to *Research Professional 8am Playbook for bringing this to my attention. I still can't believe that they are bringing this to a close.

Reposted by Stuart Elden

And this China Miéville book, from what I understand, is long form. Very, very long form. I may need to do some warm-up book to get me going!

It seems I have cleared the life-threatening infection in my dialysis line. The IV feeding has restarted. I have never been so relieved.

Reposted by Margot C. Finn

A heavy lift. It takes up to 80 mins to complete this survey. I doubt they will get many responses https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezwjVjPbDdI-ffohsvhg2Yo9Q_FuS6D1fE9gNIr6bRo-rpvA/viewform
Feedback Survey - DOAS Adaptation for OA Books
Are you a university, library, research institute, or another similar community based publisher or platform working with Diamond OA books? Then we need your input! The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guidance and Incentives for Sustainable Open Access publishing) project is an EU-funded project under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. It aims to establish a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH). OA Books are a very important part of the Diamond publishing landscape and within this anonymous survey, we are seeking community feedback on the adaptation of the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS)—originally designed for journals—which will now also cover OA books. For those that are not familiar with DOAS, it helps foster quality assurance in Diamond OA publishing, by enabling publishers to assess their compliance with different quality standards. Further information is provided below. Before starting the survey you should read the following documents: The draft for public consultation of the DOAS adaptation for books HERE. We recommend you have this open when completing the survey. You can find more context to the Diamond OA Books publishing here. The survey takes up to 80 minutes to complete depending on how many sections you provide feedback on. You can choose which DOAS sections you feel comfortable providing feedback on and that you have the most experience with while skipping the sections you prefer not to provide feedback on. It consists of five different parts and it is fully anonymous. The initial part on the stakeholder type is mandatory and will help us understand the results of the survey from the different perspectives better. The deadline for providing your feedback through the survey is 18th October 2026, 23.59 CET. To start the survey, click ‘Next’. Any of the questions that are not mandatory can be skipped, however we would appreciate extensive feedback in order to be able to provide a DOAS adaptation for books that works for the whole community. Do not forget to click ‘Submit’ once you are done. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! The anonymous responses will be collected and managed as per the AEGIS OA Data Management Plan. If at any point you wish to stop your participation prior to submitting your responses, you can withdraw or choose not to click ‘Submit’.
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Reposted by Martin Paul Eve

'The Office for Students (OfS) has reduced the importance of employment outcomes metrics within its quality framework, citing that employment outcomes are influenced by factors beyond universities’ control and that Graduate Outcomes data is imperfect.'
Why has the OfS downgraded graduate outcomes?
Stephen Isherwood explains that despite the challenges of measuring career outcomes, they remain central to student interests, value for money and informed choice
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And add the cost of assessing it on top of that. It is phenomenal how much time we spend just so that we can maintain the ideology of meritocratic competition.
About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.
21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.

I may get blood culture results later today. I'm trying to be positive, but these frighten me. If E. coli remains, it has terrifying consequences. 4 surgeries. Near-impossible infection control. How do you stay positive with such loomings?
The Research Professional 8am Playbook, my favourite read on higher education news, notes that the Lib Dem conference doesn't have a single session on higher education or research. At least, not in the official agenda.