At this rate, every course will soon be called X and LLMs
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Burak Sonmez
Профиль VivelyAssociate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at University College London brksnmz.github.io
Trust in scientists depends not only on evidence, but also on perceived political identity. That’s one reason I believe academic associations like AAUP should avoid partisan endorsements and protect institutional neutrality. Evidence from our experiment: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Public perception of scientists: Experimental evidence on the role of sociodemographic, partisan, and professional characteristicsPrevious research shows that public trust in scientists is often bound up with the messages that they convey and the context in which they communicate. However, in the current study, we examine how th...journals.plos.orgAAUPThe AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.
Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...
Another reason sociology is vulnerable to these attacks is that it’s such a broad church. Its disciplinary boundaries are highly fluid, making it easy to move in and out of the field and for a wide range of interdisciplinary work to be conflated with sociology and sociologists
Philip N CohenSociology has epistemological (science/nonscience), methodological (qual/quat), and political (left/right) divides. It's best when these groups overlap (hi, fellow overlappers!). The external force of right-wing attack is forcing the political divide to the fore. Bad, but maybe inevitable.
Everyone can see this is disastrous, but no one is screaming loudly enough. Years of policy drift have hollowed out the funding model, and now direct cuts are accelerating the damage. But hey, there’s still demand for university merch on Oxford Street!
David HigginsI’m starting to suspect that many in government think UKHE is too big and actively want courses to close, staff to be sacked, and unis to collapse. But this is hard to say publicly, so instead they go for a funding squeeze, leading to total chaos.
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Burak Sonmez🤝 We are inviting researchers & labs to join the SSA’s inaugural study. Labs will implement a shared, pre-registered protocol of behavioural tasks across many regions, pooling data for robust evidence! ➡️ Express your interest here: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Could they also consider banning poverty for under-18s?
Jonn ElledgeThe Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.
What would you randomise in this pathway if you were an economist? Wrong answers only
Per EngzellShort story about statistical modeling without causal inference gone badly wrong. Just head on the news that preschoolers play 15 minutes less on rainy days. The reporting stressed that the research was "associational" and therefore couldn't tell us why. Huh? 1/
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
Sociological Science AcceleratorThe Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.experimentalsociology.github.ioAfter the Brexit referendum, I was racially abused on the train (threatened with being burnt alive) because I was mistaken for Jewish. Today the same people march as “friends of Jews” while demanding Muslims be deported. These hate marches are a reminder of what white supremacy has always been about
Tarik Abou-ChadiWhen I moved to London 5 years ago, I did not think that I would ever wonder if it was safe to move through the city just because of the color of my skin. Today, this is the case. Yet again. Far-right agitators and thugs are roaming the streets. Empowered and emboldened by the rhetoric and politics
With all due respect to the authors (the study raises a “potential” concern), but its framing overstates that concern imo. A few things worth flagging before everyone panics 1/
David BarnerBots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
If your QM module still runs on SPSS, the students may actually have a f***ing point here 😆 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...