does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

Interdisciplinary PhD workshop on (un)employment at IAB in Nürnberg in January 2027. Submissions by 31 August. iab.de/en/iab-veran...

Hartmut Rosa

LLMs reduce the cost of writing. They do not reduce the cost of having something worth writing.

"To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we include random intercepts..."

Does anybody have a book recommendation about the rise and fall of US school buses, as the leading form of mass transportation? Ie what about US sprawl and transportation led them to be popular here? To what extent are recent cuts caused by the same people who don't want taxes to fund transit? etc

Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...

arxiv.org

There’s a fine line between "state of the art" and "a comprehensive survey of my pet peeves"

I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

Submitted our Paper Factory in mid-May, and it’s still awaiting reviewer selection. By the time it reaches reviewers, it will qualify as intellectual history.

At some point you realise most of academia is just people carefully not saying what they actually think

What the abstract promises vs paper delivers

The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦@thehobo.bsky.social · 7d ago

Your Bluesky account is a lot more than just a Bluesky profile. For instance, I also use @leaflet.pub (website/newsletter), @grain.social (pictures), @popfeed.social (movies, TV shows), @bookhive.buzz (books), @tangled.org (code), @margin.at and @semble.so (social bookmarks). #EconSky

Leaflet@leaflet.pub · last wk.

Bluesky and Leaflet are in the Atmosphere!!! ...wtf does does that mean? Here's a little explainer, written for everyone. No tech experience or prior knowledge required. All you need is 4 minutes or less :D

This feed is a great way to keep up with research from the people you follow

Paper Skygest Team@paper-feed.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2

Course closures at University of Surrey raise concerns

Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’

timeshighereducation.com

tc;dr (Too Claude; Didn't Read)

Publishers: Would you like to write a textbook? Me: Maybe. Will I get paid a lot? P: Not at all. M: Oh so it will be affordable for students? P: Also no. M: But at least I can easily make edits after release? P: Definitely not. ….

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today, in middle-aged academics' rage, I learned that a paperback version of the course textbook I've used for 20+ years costs $265!! The electronic version, which requires students to read it through the publisher's proprietary software interface, is $98. RIP books! 😩

Other people have made this point, but it's crazy that universities haven't been supporting development of open-weight LLMs and forking over cash to the big players. I would trust LLMs way, way more if there was something that had the decentralized, open-source and repository-based structure of R.

Starting to think the worst use of LLMs in research is to finish a paper whose core idea wasn't good enough to write it up in the first place

Do educational opportunities skip generations? Cousins end up with similar schooling — but not because grandparents matter directly. Why? Bc their parents are siblings, and similar parents raise similar children. New paper in RSSM. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... @erc.europa.eu #sociology

The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.

Time has come to mute 'Fauci' from the timeline. Ty for everything, I'll never forget when we shared a shuttle at Atlanta airport

My dad once fooled a friend my brother had brought home who had never seen avocado that they were dog eggs

The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

New Ulster University buildings will ‘sit gathering dust’ if job cuts go ahead, council told

Over 400 positions are set to go from April 2027 at Ulster University as it tackles £25m deficit

irishnews.com

When you ask me "what does your day look like?" and I don’t immediately answer

Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 7d ago

You haven't seen the French Revolution until you've seen it on videodisc. Proudly presented in 1990 by François Mitterrand, the Blbliothèque nationale de France and Pergamon Press 🗃️

"Who Pays for Unions?" - new publication by Alexander Willén ( @nhhecon.bsky.social, @nhhnor.bsky.social & @fair-cele.bsky.social), @microsamonomics.bsky.social and @annastansbury.bsky.social in The Quarterly Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Who Pays for Unions?*

Abstract. If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the t

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Following announcement of plans to expand technical education from age 14, our new briefing note by @robbiemaris.bsky.social @jakeanders.uk & @gillwyness.bsky.social asks: What would it take to achieve parity of esteem between academic and vocational education? econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

This feels kinda essential to understand today’s "scrap climate goals and embrace Mediterranean life" discourse

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

They don’t tell you this on the Life in the UK Test, but the most British trait is quiet resignation to bad outcomes.

a second plane (alex rails post) has hit the towers (daily nous)

I’m sorry who are these people getting more than 8 hours of sleep

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 7d ago

Chart shows how people spend their time around the world. Source: buff.ly/3gDumW7