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Orbit is an open-access journal of American literary studies. We have no fees. We are digitally preserved. All thanks to @openlibhums.bsky.social Our next special issue is on indigenous speculative fiction. We recently had an issue on Percival Everett Check us out at orbit.openlibhums.org/issues/

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New article at Orbit. "NOT WHO BUT WHAT: WHAT IS SHE?" Disembodied Quests for Utopia and Retrotopia from Mkrtich Armen’s Yerevan (1931) to Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1963) doi.org/10.16995/orb...

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This morning @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social gave a lightning talk at @r2rconf.bsky.social on 'Bibliodiversity and Open Access Book Platforms'. Did you know the OAPEN Library has titles in 75+ languages? library.oapen.org/browse?type=... Tell us your thoughts on language & bibliodiversity #OAbooks

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Important hospital results day today. As I've mentioned, I've had real problems in the last 6 months with excessive bleeding. My dialysis fistula took over an hour to stop bleeding so is unsafe and I have to use the central line. Today I will learn if they know why.

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I don't have the math to verify what's said here. But it confirms hunches I've had as I've played with network diagrams: that we shouldn't take (most of) them as objective representations of data, but rather as illustrations intentionally designed to produce a pleasing, thesis-affirming effect.

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And so the demise of research in higher education accelerates. Can't submit a great funding bid because half the Co-Is are under notice for redundancy. So all work grinds to a halt - even for those institutions/academics remaining. This is simply the devastation of higher education in the UK.

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I donated. But it's so sickening that we have to resort to donations to fund state school education (I know this isn't a "core" activity, but we should be commending this kind of thing).

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On the stupidity of UK governments’ decisions to turn “first-rate universities into third-rate companies” 👇

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incredible load-bearing IF there, like Atlas holding up the world

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Postdoc at Birkbeck on the project: 'Making Replications Count: Identifying Barriers and Enhancing Impact with Innovative Dissemination Tools' www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA333/p...

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My friends know of my love of zines. I started making them when I was a teenager [that's a long time ago] and this essay includes lots of reasons that you should consider making your own zines in this moment we are living through: open.substack.com/pub/queerarc...

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We've reached 40,000 #OAbooks in the OAPEN Library! 🥳 The transition to #openaccess for books is far from complete, but this milestone is proof great things are happening because of passionate people who want to see knowledge open to all 🙌 Browse the collection today: library.oapen.org

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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The Developer Experience in Early 2025 gbilder.com/posts/2025-0...

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3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

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I have a number of diverse writing projects in the queue at the moment: * A chapter on open science and social justice * A chapter on George Orwell and the atomic bomb * A book on the dark web Fun!

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Mrs Eve is away for a couple of days, leaving me and the doggos back home. There's only one thing for it. The dogs requested it. It's trashy action film time!

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I love how people are posting that the UK newspapers are showing remarkable "solidarity" or unity on the AI issue, "because it's so unifying" or whatever. Nah. Their medium just has a massive shared commercial interest in it.

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Does the Royal Society perhaps have the contact details of one of its Fellows who might know something about the source of these recent attacks on science?

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It's almost as though these venues that tout free speech in the name of "debate" don't want an actual debate.

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'The real unit of resource for teaching UK undergraduates is now very low—£5,570 in 2012 pounds last month, which is back to the mid-1990s nadir and low enough to make teaching UK students uneconomic for many universities.' 1/3

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the view from london:

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New UKRI chief exec named at last. 'Ian Chapman, who currently heads the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), will take over at the £9 billion research funding body in the summer, it was announced on 25 February.'

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Robyn. My sweet little doggie.

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A really interesting piece on ipv6 transition blog.apnic.net/2024/10/22/t...

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I'm not sure this is something of which to be proud www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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In the past month, I've started grinding my teeth terribly. It's now causing massive gum pain and working teeth loose. Eek! From today onwards, I have a gumshield guard for it and feel as though I'm off to play hockey rather than building scholarly infrastructure...

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ALLEA (European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities) Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States allea.org/portfolio-it...

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This week's research and reading time will be dedicated to a PhD thesis for examination.

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'So can universities actually make money through branch campuses, particularly in India? Or do their overseas ambitions risk worsening their already dire financial prospects?' Profits figure throughout each part of this extensive analysis; pedagogy and research are nowhere mentioned. Speaks volumes.

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This article is very depressing for the positive comments solicited about Doge, but it gets this right: "Musk, the world’s richest man, has blocked food and medicine for the world’s poorest people by gutting the agency responsible for delivering US aid". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

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Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

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Open-access version of a chapter on "Literary Change" that I contributed to a recent Cambridge Companion. It tries to give a cautious account of what we learned about the tension between periodization and continuity from distant reading. + hdl.handle.net/2142/126039

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A very camp Earnest! Great fun! Realised it is 20 years or so since I last saw it.

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I love "easy read" cryptography papers that start with "this has been designed for anybody with a basic understanding of arithmetic". OK, the initial description of modulus was easy and clear. But 2 pages later...

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This afternoon's activity is going to the cinema to see a filmed version of the National Theatre's production of _The Importance of Being Earnest_, with Ncuti Gatwa.

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This week I read Barbara Kingsolver's _The Lacuna_. It took me much longer to get into than her others, but by the end I was hooked.

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I am advised, with my health conditions, to go to A&E much sooner than a healthy person. But my last trip almost killed me. They had no dialysis capacity for emergency patients and my potassium reached critical levels, risking heart attack. Fund the NHS. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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