In recent years, a disturbingly high proportion of high-profile academics have shown themselves to be unserious and/or unsuitable people. Unfortunately, (social) media selects for such people and, when flaws become apparent, the image of regular academics declines unjustly.

In some major professional news, tomorrow I will be starting as Assistant Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin! 🇮🇪 Super excited about this opportunity, and huge thanks to everyone who made this possible.

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

Is there some kind of paid/professional service available which replicates the results of your paper prior to journal submission? Given the increasing importance of replication, it seems preferable to relying on the generosity of colleagues!

It’s not out for another six months or so, but *Electoral Realignment: How Brexit Reshaped British Voting Behaviour*, my book with Ed Fieldhouse, @profjanegreen.bsky.social , Geoff Evans, @jack-bailey.co.uk and @jonmellon.bsky.social, is up on the OUP website! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just met an American, in the cafe at the university, who has learned Welsh to a fluent level. It's always wonderful to see

Congratulations to Substack; the site has embedded Pangram (an effective AI detector) into its system. Can't academic journals do something similar?!?

As difficult as conditions in universities are becoming, the assertion that academics are proletariats remains ill-advised.

If Argentina win this, will they be the worst world champions ever?!?

On the subject of the 1990s, this is also making me think of Marseille v Red Star Belgrade!

This evokes the 1990 final. A limited Argentinian team, defending the trophy with an ageing superstar, playing negative and dirty football against a better team.

Been working with Claude Code for 4-5 months now. Notwithstanding impressive efficiency gains, I'm far from convinced it's going to revolutionize academic publishing. From what I can see, there are too many bottlenecks, e.g. the need to check code, co-authors, journal reviewers...

As an institutional theorist, I'm not surprised that Tuchel's tournament performance resembled Southgate's; structures matter more than the decisions of agents! Relatedly, I suspect that Burnham's premiership will follow a similar trajectory to Starmer's.

The idea of staff who are well paid, have substantial autonomy, high cultural capital, are effectively impossible to sack, and hard to performance manage, is a complete anathema to those who now view the future via the lens of geopolitical turbulence and balance sheets.

Very sorry to hear this - solidarity

covucu.bsky.social@covucu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Coventry University uses TUPE to move staff into subsidiaries, strip them out of UCU national agreements, and refuse to recognise UCU for collective bargaining. TUPE exists to protect workers, not sidestep unions. If it's happening here, it can happen anywhere.

I was 13 when the last Chinese imperial eunuch died.

Il Neige@ilneige.bsky.social · 4w ago

"verify your age" My first Batman was Michael Keaton.

Look how popular this post is. A specific problem for many Bluesky apologists is that, unlike many X apologists, they assert that wider behaviour on a social network implicates other users.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Time for some real football 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

How much can you trust the Stata code that Claude Code produces? Is there any literature on this?

Well done England! Ref had quite a good game, no?!?

The climate's influence on this match is making it (almost) as interesting as a cricket match...

I've stayed up but am already struggling 🥴🥴😭

Anyone know much about this case? Not sure the examples in the article are sufficient to justify a UK ban... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

MPs seek to end UK broadcast of Russian ‘soft power’ cartoon Masha and the Bear

Cross-party group writes to ministers of concerns children’s show contains unsubtle ‘propaganda content’

theguardian.com

Wtf is that noise outside my office window?!? 🤬 Why it's Lewis Capaldi doing a soundcheck for his gig in Blackweir fields tonight 😎😎😎

Is there likely to be a major press article which excoriates Stokes? If not, it speaks very poorly of the British cricket press.

I'm desperate for New Zealand to get Stokes out

Incredibly inappropriate from Stokes - don't think I've ever seen such selfishness from an England cricketer. And with Woakes and Broad in the commentary box, you're unlikely to hear a word of criticism on Sky.

'It is clear, however, that... [student] confidence will be impaired if there is suspicion on the part of the student that... university teachers in general are a repressed and intimidated class who dare not speak with that candor and courage which youth always demands.'- AAUP, 1915

Hot day, hot book 🔥 It's here, in the flesh! my new book, The Disraeli Myth, in all its glory. Princeton have done such an amazing job on this.

Despicable: Uni of Exeter putting over 500 staff at risk of compulsory redundancy. Thoughts are with all Exeter branch comrades. #UCU #UKHE

Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.

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