In Everest, F. Alton, and Ken C Pohlmann, Master Handbook of Acoustics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009), p. 247, a range of room ratios are listed to achieve optimal modal distributions using the Bolt range and a set of external sources. In other words, this addresses the question: what size should I make my room to achieve the best even distribution of sound throughout?

The autoimmune conditions from which I suffer are a total pain to describe under the general frameworks within which most people understand illness. For most short-term infections – which are, after all, the frame of reference most people hold for illness – rest is helpful. You should go back to bed and you’ll feel better. If you are tired, it is a sign from your body that you should rest.

Today I read Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University , a book that touches on many of my interests (public humanities, open access, reforming university assessments and hiring etc.). I’d already had the pleasure of reading the draft version, which was available for open comment, but the final edition really did feel even better than that.

The economy of prestige in academia is odd. We often like to think that the prestige of our institutions – whether that be a university or a publisher – is not made on the basis of a monetary or financial decision. But I think there are lots of things that give the lie to this. Consider the debate around new open-access book publishers.

The Sacred Unreadable Artefact: Digital Preservation, Computational Abundance, and Scarce Access Martin Paul Eve Birkbeck, University of London This is the text of Eve, Martin Paul (2019) The Sacred Unreadable Artefact: Digital Preservation, Computational Abundance, and Scarce Access.

The PreSonus Quantum interfaces are definitely not supported on Windows 7. But if you are not faint of heart, it is possible to hack the driver onto a Windows 7 system (or perhaps Windows 8). Here’s how I did it. OK, so first things first, this is TOTALLY unofficial, definitely not officially supported, and I am not responsible if these instructions brick your Quantum, render your PC unbootable, or cause any other kind of damage.

I have a music release/EP out on Tici Taci records today, called The Learning Experience . Available for purchase at: Juno Download Beatport Traxsource Amazon What the critics/DJs are sayin’: "This has track of the year all over if for me." "One of my faves from the year so far." "This is a terrific release. Remixes are stellar (naturally) and will go down a storm.

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.