Is there any data behind this "Gen Z are workshy and immature" stuff or is this just vibes FM stuff again?

"I've created a bluesky account for my solar panels" is about as bluesky as bluesky gets Hats off to you, @jamesomalley.co.uk

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last wk.

Good news! I now have solar panels on my house so I am going to be *even more* smug and insufferable than ever. And I've started by creating a Bluesky account for my solar, ripping off @edent.tel's idea, and even re-using his code to do it.

We want to hire a new, more techy AI person in the lab. Think mechanistic interpretability, fine tuning, large-scale evals that kind of thing. If you're interested and have Qs, lmk! interfolio.com/181820

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement

Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

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OOO LOL XOXOXO

Absolutely gutted for Argentina. They seem like a really lovely bunch of blokes too

This is the real quiz

I'm actually something of a Who's Who myself

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

Comte Tete-de-poubelle is actually my old man's preferred cheese

John Walton@thatjohn.bsky.social · 4w ago

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

Do I know anyone who works at YouGov?

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Trying to explain to US colleagues why Nigel Farage is in a two-way election contest against a malevolent spaceman from the future with a bin on his head

Michael Scott: Explain Like I'm Five

ALT: Michael Scott: Explain Like I'm Five

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This is why I left UK HE... Few realize how low the standards are even in some prestigious universities. Culture and morale are shot. This is not a way to manage a potentially vital source of growth

Iain Mansfield@igmansfield.bsky.social · 4w ago

Labour is not coming to bail out universities. The revealed preference of UUK and sector leaders is that cuts, redundancies and discipline collapse are a price worth paying, to preserve the ability to recruit unqualified students, without limit, to any course they wish.

Starmer to FIFA Pres. is the banter timeline

It's honestly a real shame because the USA was almost universally liked before this whole Balogun thing

Oh no

"We appreciate that you must be busy with other commitments, particularly in light of the disruptions caused by the novel coronavirus." says a review request I just got when I woke up and I had to check the date to make sure I wasn't in some horrible inception dream tunnel

Ben Stokes is the best thing that has happened to English cricket. What a gift to the game he has been. Thank you, Ben

To the man who just ordered a Guinness at Stansted Wetherspoons and made sure to specify "a big one, please": bless you

Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of Instagram content creators talking about how important it is we stop spending so much time looking at our phones? Have I just discovered screentimewashing?

I am back in London and it remains extraordinary how absolute bollocks the 5G is here

Today I ran 30km then had an absolutely massive curry not sure I could be happier

I'm actually still driving my mum's old gpt 3.5 turbo. Still goes

World Cup Status: Just sent the YouTube link to Vindaloo by Fat Les to the NYU all sociology mailing list

These days, if you're a teenager in the UK and you use YouTube to revise for your GCSEs you'll get locked up and thrown in jail

Now if a teenager wants to go on YouTube to revise for their GCSEs they won't be able to because of progress

There are no jobs you say and this generation is going to be worse off than the last and the last one before that? How about: ban on YouTube?

In the UK you can begin training in the armed forces at age 16 but you can't go on Instagram in the evening this is fine and normal