Thomas Pollet
@tvpollet.bsky.social
I study social relationships (and a bunch of random other things) with an interest in statistics. Views are my own. https://tvpollet.github.io/
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Post Pretty Sanctimonious For Mere Month Of Sobriety https://theonion.com/post-pretty-sanctimonious-for-mere-month-of-sobriety/
Computer: say it. say the words. Me: can we not do this today? Computer: we do this every day. say it. Me: (*sigh) I would like to stay logged in on this device Computer: (*chuckling)
I must say this is one of the best things I've read in days. Absolutely dripping with charts and insights on the scale and intricacies of the wildfire season in Europe, as things currently stand. It is a complex picture - and yh, it's *bad* in many places. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/europe-wil...
Is Europe having a bad wildfire year?
Several countries in Europe are having a very large wildfire year; this is offset by lower burn in the Balkans
hannahritchie.substack.com
New paper w/ @hannohilbig.bsky.social: we examine how local exposure to the Great Recession affected politics over the long run. Counties where unemployment rose more in 2007–09 moved toward Democrats, not the populist right. The shift remained visible in 2022.
I'm back with some more #slidecrafting content, specifically how to style your footer, and adding custom footers on the side and top of the slide slidecrafting-book.com/elements#wor... #quarto
7 Elements – Slidecrafting
Tips for styling slide elements in Quarto reveal.js: custom menu icons, logo placement and sizing, footers and custom banners, transparent plot backgrounds, and controlling figure sizing with…
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RFK Jr. is now telling parents to vaccinate their children against measles. It only took 2,371 confirmed infections, the highest number recorded in 35 years. Better late than never… unless you are one of those families that had to learn this lesson the hard way. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
🇧🇷Beija-flor-de-barriga-verde 🌎Saucerottia viridigaster Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O beija-flor-de-barriga-verde apodiforme da família trochilidae. 📷 Margi Moss
Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Crested mynas, as many other birds, are born altricially, which means young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, therefore fed by parents. When they grow up, they have to learn that food doesn't simply jump into their beaks. [📹 Rebecca Gelernter] Original post
Ladybug saves this plant by feeding on aphids (time-lapse) Original post
I've never seen a more incredible series of own goals than the last fifteen years of UK higher education policy. If the stupidity of the decade-long annual funding freeze/real-terms cuts had been properly communicated I think people would be rightly horrified.
Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 5d agoGlad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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Worth remembering that this government is subsidising a theme park to the tune of £1.3bn. An amount that would go some way to preserving the intellectual and economic footprint of our universities.
James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 5d agoAccording to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...
Why do we think this is? "Employer TPS contribution costs are set to fall [...], but many universities have continued with plans to change employment arrangements regardless." 🤔
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d agoAnother one bites the dust. All new Sunderland casual tutors employed from 1 August will be ineligible for TPS, and employed by the University's wholly-owned subsidiary. UCU estimates this will save SU £36,000 this year while it will see savings going forward due to lower TPS costs of £3M p.a.
This conference may be of interest to our members and beyond - an opportunity to present your cyberpsychology research to an interdisciplinary audience spanning researchers from all disciplines and stakeholders from any sector 🌟. Find out more below⬇️
ESRC Digital Good Network@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat does a good digital society look like? is a two-day conference taking place in Sheffield, on 10th and 11th June 2027. We invite proposals for papers, panels and workshops from researchers from any discipline and stakeholders from any sector. digitalgood.net/conference-2...
I was scrolling through AliExpress for some reason and came across this brilliant cushion cover:
Prominent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A scientist says he can scan prisoners’ brains for signs of evil. Did his disputed science put a man on death row?
Kent Kiehl convinced the US legal system he can find violence in prisoners’ brains. His theories have been since used by defense lawyers – with grave consequences for prisoners
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