Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
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
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 LanguageLarge 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
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!
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
LeafletBluesky 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
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 concernsScience and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’www.timeshighereducation.com
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. VictorToday, 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.
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
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The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.
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 toldOver 400 positions are set to go from April 2027 at Ulster University as it tackles £25m deficitwww.irishnews.com
"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 tacademic.oup.com
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...
EconPapers: Raising the Esteem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) from Age 14By Robbie Maris, Jake Anders and Gill Wyness; Abstract: A strong post-16 education system needs credible pathways for young people with different interests, strengths andeconpapers.repec.org
Nice paper flagging issues that can show up for researchers using LLMs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report)Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, anpapers.ssrn.com