"There is no Truth Police that you can ring if you believe an epistemological crime has been committed..."

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 3d ago

New post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...

Teaching touch- typing in school -obvs a v.good idea -suprised to see from replies that this was common in US - wish we'd learnt at school (Mavis Beacon came later for me!)

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Solidarity with Editorial team of Semantics of Natural Languages, who left Springer Nature (pushing them to publish more papers) to retain academic control over journal. Authors: please, when considering where you submit/review, do support #diamondOA community-owned journals when you are able!

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2w ago

OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages Our Editorial Officer, @maddiesinclair.bsky.social, speaks with the SNL editors about their move to #diamondOA, community-led publishing, and leaving Springer Nature to launch SNL with OLH. Read full interview: www.openlibhums.org/news/977/

An excellent piece by colleagues pooled for redundancy at Exeter

What universities count – and what they cannot afford to ignore - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Anna Zimdars, Christopher Playford, Eve Worth, Luke Graham, Joanna Merrett and Joseph Crawford, members of the Centre for Social Mobility, University of Exeter. He tha...

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And harder than I thought it would be! (12/15 - missed one bot, and maligned 2 humans)

Louise, Prof/Dr@louiselocock.bsky.social · last mo.

Ooh this is fun. I got 9/15. I mistook 2 bots for human and 4 humans for bots (sorry, humans)

Would be a welcome shift of policy... let's hope the erosion of the thriving regional uni sector in UK can be reversed

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Andy Burnham has set out ambitions to put universities “at the heart of local economies” and to make the UK the world’s leading “innovation nation”, in a speech making those goals central to his vision for the UK if he becomes prime minister. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Solidarity with all at Exeter - this is grim news for staff, students and all the city

Sam Kinsley@samkinsley.uk · last mo.

153 academic jobs are proposed to be cut at Exeter. Just had the news. Process is going to be quick too. We will be told if we are part of those considered later today

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Large-scale academic redundancies at my employer, University of Exeter, with up to 200 being released to 'rightsize and reshape' the institution 🤮

Finalising reading lists for PG methods next term? Looking for a guide to doing theoretically- informed applied qual research? uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qu...

Qualitative Methods for Health Research

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Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

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Paper led by Alan Knuth - calls for better incl of context - esp on structural inequalities - in #physicalactivity reaearch. Pdf in english at bottom of refs. rbafs.org.br/RBAFS/articl...

From counting minutes to considering the context: moving paradigms to foster physical activity

Introduction: This analytical essay invites the physical activity community to move beyond counting minutes and explore the context in which physical activity occurs. Objective: To advocate for a reco...

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New paper online first - Simon Pemberton, Mark Lucherini & Hannah Smith on 'sense of place' and smoking #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Doing a lit review. Have had to prove I'm human so often, beginning to doubt it myself

On taking 'non-rational' beliefs seriously www.cost-ofliving.net/on-irrationa...

On (irrational) health beliefs - Cost Of Living

On (irrational) health beliefs

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Excellent new paper from Emily Claypool & Aaron Neiman just out! Ethnographic insights from trials to critique the 'absorption' of institutional logics in implementation science journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

New online first paper: Ally Brown on how the politics of devolution shape 'health inequalities' narratives in policy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Lovely editorial on the collegiate scholarly work of curating a special issue

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 2mo ago

“Burawoy’s work has travelled through time because it names a puzzle that reappears whenever labour is reorganised, revalued, or made newly precarious.” Constantine Manolchev & Ryan Nolan on creating a journal special section to mark the 45th anniversary of Manufacturing Consent. buff.ly/8MnzHhj

Just filled out another EDI monitoring form with no indicator for class background. Why are we so reticent to look at class-based inequalities in UK HE?

That rather good Rekdal paper on citation practices worth another look amid the moral panics on AI and referencing... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Latest issue 3(2) now out! Read, download, share with your colleagues - and please do make sure they all know that JCPH is THE diamond #OA community owned-critical #publicheatlh journal. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Had a declined paper 'referred' to a 'sister' journal recently? Kirsten Bell reflects on 'bait & switch' in a new editorial journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Doing urban citizenship with (broken) digital data from an air pollution sensor osf.io/preprints/so...

Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know An open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation” It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?” Please download and read it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know | 15 | Epidemiological O

Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do? Why do they sometimes pose research questions that sidestep what they

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After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging. It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/young-men-...

Young men, bad data and moral panic

Before we build another national conversation around what young men supposedly believe, it is worth asking whether the data underneath it is any good.

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Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter

Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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How risk information generated by new technology is changing the GP consultation: my latest piece with Dr Alex Burns. @cphjournal.bsky.social @judegreen.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social www.cost-ofliving.net/how-does-dec...

How does Decontextualised Risk Information change the GP/Patient Consultation? - Cost Of Living

How does Decontextualised Risk Information change the GP/Patient Consultation?

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Oh, sad. I've so often found Habermas's writing super useful for thinking with (and against).

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo ago

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

New paper! Published online first from @tamar-antin.bsky.social and colleagues: on drivers of inequalities in rural tobacco use journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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