Martin Paul Eve

@eve.gd

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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 · 4h

Right.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 12h

Because they are as right wing as the Tories?

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16h

This is a tiresome writeup. Yes, APCs are bad for the humanities. That's why some of us have spent over a decade working on alternative models. These are barely mentioned.

Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair? | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?

The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair? | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair

For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?

The open movement claims to include all disciplines. But it is profoundly shaped by the institution of science, leaving humanities researchers at risk.

katinamagazine.org

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18h

How community-driven Open Access initiatives sustain mission-driven publishing in politically constrained environments - CEU Press and Opening the Future https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ac7b1a1-ae3b-440d-8843-964d095c1c1d@d9c45913-7653-4be2-920b-bdb038638184

Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 20h

My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.

Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 20h

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 22h

Birkbeck: 2nd in English. Department reduced by 50%. "Thanks."

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 1d

The recording of Mainstreaming Diamond — Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures, held during #OAWeek, is available to watch.

With contributions from Opening the Future, Open Book Publishers, OLH, the Open Journals Collective, Open Book Collective and DOAJ:

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures

This recording features a panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025 Leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyond “alternative models” to make equitable, community-owned scholarly publishing the mainstream. Th

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom

R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinog…

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social

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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Good heavens. The Guardian's list of Christmas gifts includes this monstrosity: a croissant tree bauble. Please nobody give me this.

A croissant Christmas tree bauble advertised in the Guardian

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

Please boggle at this small selection of the titles of corporate "industrial musicals" from mid-C20th America, as recorded by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industr....

Good News about Olds – Oldsmobile (1958 for the '59 model year)
Got To Investigate Silicones – General Electric (1973) (about Silicones)
J.C. Penney 1952 Show – JCPenney (1952)
Once in a Lifetime – Edsel (1957)
Penney Proud – JCPenney (1962)
Take It From Here – Xerox (1963 - for release of Xerox 813 copier)
The Bathrooms Are Coming – American Standard (1969)

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

not my thing, I'm afraid!

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Michael Hattem @michaelhattem.bsky.social · 1d

19th century people… Is the a definitive (or preferred) unabridged edition of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America?”

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

One of the things I miss most with kidney failure.

(It's not the alcohol that's the problem, by the way, it's the *pint* of fluid.)

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 1d

Just been t' hev a pint.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 1d

Just been t' hev a pint.

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

The courts are totally jammed up, but there's still space to waste time in lower magistrates' courts to convict teenagers for £1.67 of accidentally underpaid tax. Pretty disgusting.

Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social · 2d

Teenager prosecuted over £1.67 in unpaid tax on a car.
A criminal conviction for an offence that happened before she knew she even owned a car.

Infuriating that this kind of thing is still happening

Labour has failed to fix the #SingleJusticeProcedure

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Teenager convicted over £1.67 unpaid tax bill for 18th birthday gift

The prosecution of the teenager happened in the controversial Single Justice Procedure

www.standard.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...

Restoring our services – November 2025 update

In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.

www.bl.uk

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Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social · 2d

Teenager convicted over £1.67 unpaid tax bill for 18th birthday gift

The prosecution of the teenager happened in the controversial Single Justice Procedure

www.standard.co.uk

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Today kicked off with a technical problem on KC that I had to fix. Next up is a peer review, followed by reading PhD student work, topped off with a William Byrd choral concert this evening. Phew.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky

Timeline of the "Recovery" of Trota of Salerno

On November 18, 19, and 20, 2025, what turned out to be a lively thread on the social media platform, Bluesky, raised some questions about when and how the historicity of the 12th-century female medic...

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 2d

There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis.

This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals

Line graph shows the electricity to gas price ratio in GB since 2019. It was very high before the energy crisis, then fell (due to higher gas prices) and was flat since until jumping sharply in the new price cap period

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 2d

"CONCLUSIONS

I will refrain from drawing any real conclusions."

Ah, ok.

#academia

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.

RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website

In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

One of the amusing things Tom gave me was a set of Opening the Future stickers, using the original title that I wanted to use "Backlist to the Future" 😂

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

For goodness sake. Considering the regularity with which you need to use this, that is especially ridiculous.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

A day out in London today to meet with Tom Grady, with whom I worked on Opening the Future. Much OA geekery was discussed.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +