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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 · 6h

Oh. Poor little chap.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Another brilliant online service that I use all the time: MusicBrainz. And, it seems, with great social media support.

On the music front: I remain so lucky that my hearing loss from my stroke was confined to speech perception. Music powers me through the day. And MusicBrainz provides the metadata.

MusicBrainz @musicbrainz.org · 18h

Hi @eve.gd,

Thank you for your interest in MusicBrainz!

This API feature was requested as ticket MBS-3946 already.
You can follow and vote for it.

tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-3...

tickets.metabrainz.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17h

Thanks for your generous response and for getting back to me. I will follow that ticket with interest - I just had a logic bug/feature that assumed the ID I requested is the one that would come back and it caused some problems that it didn't.

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MusicBrainz @musicbrainz.org · 18h

Hi @eve.gd,

Thank you for your interest in MusicBrainz!

This API feature was requested as ticket MBS-3946 already.
You can follow and vote for it.

tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-3...

tickets.metabrainz.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 19h

Would love to hear Dominic at parties.

"So what do you do?"

"I'm an academic who specialises in killing children in British fiction"

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.

'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.

sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

Book cover with title 'Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit' by Dominic Dean. Cover image shows a seafront promenade with beach huts during dusk, with a sunset.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

He is so good at being so dislikeable!

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 1d

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

I feel like doing random shout outs from time to time, just to lift the otherwise grim mood. Today, I just want to say THANK YOU for Zotero and CSL. I use them every day. @adam42smith.bsky.social is a particular light in this area, maintaining CSL and supporting Zotero users.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Basically: your IDs shouldn't change. If you redirect, there should be some explicit data about redirects available.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Martin Fenner's Rogue Scholar is SO cool. (in a really geeky sense of cool) rogue-scholar.org/records/r5px... Just pulled in my latest blog post, assigned it a DOI (which I requested by giving it the DOI in the atom feed), got the full text, archived and mirrored it, and more.

Using a public API, or the instability of MusicBrainz IDs

I have a script (a custom static site generator) that produces the output at https://ticitaci.com – a page for the record label on which I have released music (and that I really, really love).

rogue-scholar.org

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Argh, On a problem I had in my lunch break: the MusicBrainz API uses a new UUID4 when you merge, say, releases. It redirects, but the API returns just the new data, so you can get confusing results if your locally stored correlating DB entries expect the ID you submitted eve.gd/2025/10/09/u...

Using a public API, or the instability of MusicBrainz IDs

I have a script (a custom static site generator) that produces the output at https://ticitaci.com – a page for the record label on which I have released music (and that I really, really love).

eve.gd

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 1d

Issue 64.5 of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (published open access online) is now available!
More here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Oa-issue

quod.lib.umich.edu

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a Tory and dressing in the seventh Doctor’s clothes. The seventh Doctor who defeated Thatcher-analogue Helen A, who fought race-hate, destroyed Nazis, stood against nuclear bombs and battled climate change. The anti-Tory seventh Doctor. Imagine how much of an idiot you’d have to be.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

This post resonates with me. Big time.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve met loads of really great people who turned out to be irl friends eventually.
Got invited to give talks at universities around the world, and invited to give book chapters etc
I’m a disabled academic and cant travel to conferences for networking and it’s a huge boon for me.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

So very different to reproducibility in hypothesis driven research.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

I was thinking about this at one point in OA and the Humanities. "Reproducibility" of close readings seems to consist of readings falling within certain acceptable standards - eg factually accurate re texts and persuasively historicised. But more than one can do so. And all very subjective.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'It is not easy and never has been to show how one person might reproducibly read a sonnet of Shakespeare. Indeed to some extent the fact that we are still reading and rereading suggests that some art cannot be read reproducibly precisely because it is itself not reducible to a single reading.'

Gold Standard Science

Science is expensive – and increasingly so. People need to be paid properly or they will find other things to do. Equipment costs rise. Mitigating the environmental impact of scie…

anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 2d

If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.

How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer

matthewkollmer.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

Gold Standard Science

Science is expensive – and increasingly so. People need to be paid properly or they will find other things to do. Equipment costs rise. Mitigating the environmental impact of scie…

anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Well, there's no cure for BK virus right now, but he was saying that there have been major, speedily developed advances in virology recently. There's no point rushing anything - it takes a long time to find a kidney donor who is compatible - but it just raised the future possibility.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Curious discussion with pain team today. The consultant sorted my pain management, then pulled me aside (telephonically) to tell me about advances in curing viruses using mRNA technologies. This is significant because it's a virus that blocks my access to transplant. Kind of him to offer such hope.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 2d

The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...

GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

github.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Pretty outrageous tbh

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

Oh yes - it's here!

The cover of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket