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This is shocking behaviour by Wiley; the stated justification does not stand up. I will not be doing any peer review for Wiley journals in future.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

'Engaging researchers in conversations about the impact of their publishing choices'. This is quite funny. The general public finds academics insufferable in how we love pontificating about everything, yet when it comes to our own practices, we are as innocent and oblivious as little babies. 🙈🙉🙊

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy as @jpinasanchez.bsky.social policy in publishing/editing/reviewing may sound we've reached the point that if we have a minimum of integrity any shitty really open access journal is better than any of these buccaneer enshittifiers & exploiters of our precious time and money.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 14 days ago • 308 comments

A lesson here, perhaps, is that measurement comes first. It's trivial to speculate, "hey, here is this unexplored aspect of biology, perhaps it explains x". But the instead we get 50 narrative reviews of such tantalizing ideas before even the most fundamental aspect of science is sorted. Measurement

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Quick reminder that I'll be teaching a course on longitudinal data analysis this summer in Manchester. Registration is still open!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Because Trump knows how to make a big show when he does something and the British government has been slowly strangling higher education in a less obvious, demure way.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Help 🙏 Def who used car as weapon now guilty of manslaughter, not murder. I can't find the CACD decision quashing the conviction, only the decision granting leave (www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...). Can anyone point me to the appeal case? www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/2518766...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

@michaelgoodier.bsky.social I think part of the reason for the drop may be the switch to using the 2021 Census figures. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Out now in @sociusjournal.bsky.social: We describe the volume and spatial distribution of tent-based unsheltered homelessness in Seattle before and during the peak of the pandemic using "shoe-leather" methods: An on-the-ground, street-by-street census of tents. See here: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Are children in the UK more spoiled than those in Spain? I think so too. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #ConfirmationBias

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Latest migration figures show a 17% drop in international student applications. An unbelievable act of economic self harm that is destroying the crown jewel of Britain's modern economy. UK #HigherEd generates around £265bn per year. Around 250x more than fishing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

NEW THREAD Gauke review - key points: * Huge switch from prison to community sentences to free 9,800 jail spaces by 2028 * Possible early release after one-third of sentence * Jail terms of under 12 months only in ‘exceptional’ cases * Extend suspended prison sentences 1/5

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"75% fewer kids killed on 20mph roads compared to no effect on other roads". This statistic alone should lead to a nationwide adoption of the 20mph limit. How is this still up for debate?!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

"Meeting the AI and Big Data Revolutions in Quantitative Social Science" - IN PERSON event in Leeds on 24 June at 3:30-5pm (+ drinks 5-6pm) Join us for this exciting participatory event with an opening from me! cc @lida-leeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meeting-th...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds. Open to all academics/researchers to sign. molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

This is key: "It doesn’t help that the higher education sector has so few friends these days."

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

constantly go back in forth on if interdisciplinarity is a superpower or a headache (or both. probably both).

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Discover how narrative methods bring data to life in qualitative research in this quick video with our expert Dr. Rebecca Shaw. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtb...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Last chance to sign up for this FREE one-off, in-person workshop on selection bias on Friday in Leeds! @whiteroseuc.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @nihrleedsbrc.bsky.social @choral-research.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Please share your views on parks and green spaces in #Bradford. Do you use local green spaces? If not, why not? How could they be improved? Enter a prize draw to win a £100 shopping voucher. Survey: orlo.uk/bjsdV Please re-share with your Bradford networks.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 39 days ago • 176 comments

"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round" The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

submitted 39 days ago • 39 comments

New pub alert 🍾 The most challenging yet rewarding paper I’ve worked on: 3y from idea to publication in BJC! I explore how unstructured spare time shapes individual and temporal differences in crime, and propose a spare time model in criminology. doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

At 4pm-5pm on Thursday 15th May, I'm giving an in person introduction to causal diagrams for social scientists. Come along if you haven't already heard me speak on the topic. I am hoping to go for food and drinks afterwards. cc @srmleeds.bsky.social @lssi.bsky.social @whiteroseuc.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments