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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading He/him, autistic
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one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

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someone on Instagram called us based. they're right. we are based at the University of Reading, in England's largest town

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Protest in reading tommorow

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submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Fabrication undermines confidence in primary data collection (bad!). p-hacking undermines confidence in frequentism (laudatory)

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... THREAD! 🧵⬇️

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

Incalculable = when we calculated it, it didn't give us the answer we wanted

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

Now that Labour have seen off the distraction of immigration they will finally be able to address the public's kitchen table concerns like "why are NHS waiting lists so long" and "what does all my council tax go towards?". Stopping immigration will finally let ministers get a grip of these problems.

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“Bullshit Jobs” is an excellent ethnography of the modern British university combined with a less convincing argument that it can be taken as a microcosm of all employment relations. But nor is it reasonable to support the opposite position that UK universities are completely sui generis phenomena.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Having just taught History of Economic Thought for the first time it’s humbling to see how the same discussions surface again and again in different forms. It’s not just other fields we have to rediscover. Keynesianism literally had to be re-derived from first principles in the 1980s!

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Locke would have loved peer review.

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I am struck, once again, by how arbitrary and cruel academic processes are both in hiring and promotion. Anyone who has succeeded was smart, hardworking, ambitious, but also just lucky.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

The east-west AfD vote gap is because reunification led to outmigration from the east. Despite generous fiscal transfers the east remains in a vicious outmigration cycle whose effects are blamed on immigrants who are also not moving to these declining places.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 51 days ago • 1133 comments

The people demand to know whether Carney will govern according to a structural or reduced-form model.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I've just written to my MP, @mattrodda.bsky.social with my concerns about the recent Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. The law (Equality Act 2010) must be fixed before this state interference in the private sphere becomes normalised. Pleas contact your MP if you feel similarly.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

submitted 62 days ago • 112 comments

Gorsuch opinion that sex equality implies trans equality looking more and more goated by comparison.

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You can get hard, concrete proof that parliamentary systems are superior because the Trump Crash and the Truss budget crisis were basically the same and one resulted in the head of state serving for less than four weeks and the other being irrevocably in charge for four entire years

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

Stop using us to justify your sick death cult

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Worse. Bailouts will be forthcoming only when banks do the admin’s bidding.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

The supreme court has no more authority to declare extrajudicial rendition lawful than the head of NASA has to declare the moon to be made of cheese.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

*taps head* You’ll find the strength you need to ride the train in here my friend.

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