The AHRC awards Ph.D. funding, now, through a system of Doctoral Training Partnerships. These are groups of institutions who share a funding pool, and training resources, for doctoral candidates. In many ways, this is a good idea; to agglomerate resources and to make institutions cooperate is clearly beneficial. But it also comes with some substantial frustrations as a supervisor.
I examined a Ph.D. thesis this week. I usually do about two or three of these a year. I was curious to work out how long it takes to undertake this task, so in my slightly obsessive fashion, I got cracking on the time tracking.
The report on Learned Societies and Plan S commissioned by Wellcome, UKRI, and ALPSP has been released. In general, this is a very good document. Societies should read it and act. There is one amusing element to which I’d draw some attention, though.
On Mac OSX there is a really neat feature: the ability to create an “aggregate audio device” that chains multiple soundcards into a single virtual device. This essentially lets you expand your inputs and outputs indefinitely. You can do a similar thing with Jack on Linux and with ASIO4All on Windows, although with variable levels of success. My question is: where is the hardware device that will do this?
Today marks the 50th release on the Tici Taci music label. It’s a track called ‘Opsimath and Eremite’ by the Wales-based outfit, The Long Champs (otherwise known as Lloyd Jones, half of Quantal, who previously did a remix for me). The track is unusual fare for the label, certainly, with a punkier and faster vibe than the downtempo electronic music for which Tici Taci is known.
Those who are not invested in the digital humanities, on either side of an often nasty binary “for-or-against” style argument, may have missed the bust up in the past few days over Nan Z Da’s “The Computational Case Against Computational Literary Studies” in Critical Inquiry . It’s probably rash of me to do so, but as I have just been discharged from hospital and am feeling better I thought I would jot a few notes down from my initial
I’ve been having some serious problems running unoconv, the document conversion tool, on Ubuntu 18.04 using Libreoffice 6. This has been blocking the test suite (and basic functionality) in meTypeset from working. Today, I found the answer with the help of the maintainer! The basic gist is: Uninstall the uno pip module everywhere. Use pip and pip3 to uninstall it. pip uninstall uno. pip3 uninstall uno.
I have a new article out in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction on how to read redaction in contemporary fiction. In this work, I produce an initial taxonomy of redactive functions and the contextual restrictions that are placed on the withheld content, following the work of Lisa Gitelman and others: as limited linguistic structures;
Today, Research England released its final guidance for REF2021 submissions in the UK. One of the worst parts of this was that they have changed the guidance so that universities can submit staff who have been made compulsorily redundant. That is, universities can make their staff compulsorily redundant and then submit their work to the REF. Why would Research England do this? That previous guidance sounded good.
The problem with non-lawyers, like me, speculating on legal matters is that there’s a risk of scaremongering or just plain inaccuracy. Not that this really ever stops the practice – and it won’t here. In any case, I wanted to re-state the question that I raised yesterday and that I’d like addressed about CC BY and defamatory attribution. Let us say that I have written an article about an important historical topic, for instance: the Holocaust.
