“In practice research needs to be messy and heterogeneous...because that is the way it—research—actually is. And also, and more importantly, it needs to be messy because that is the way the largest part of the world is: messy, unknowable in a regular and routinized way.” #STS #PhilSci #Methodology

As we have repeatedly tried to explain to a government intent on punishing universities, graduate outcomes will always be poor if you underpay every sector. (Nb y axis starting at 50)

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com, along with @sarahoconnorft.ft.com, has been doing some of the best work on graduate labour market woes. In this excellent piece, he underscores that erosion of the graduate premium in the UK is more down to weak productivity than HE intake or financing. 1/2

Jay (first author of our Sullivan Review paper) in their thread discusses one of the lesser known parts of the Review: its offensive against established principles surrounding ethical review, research governance, and community involvement rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I have published today in @tibg.bsky.social a critical response to the UK Government-commissioned "Sullivan Review" of sex and gender in data and research collection rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Very excited to be able to share this for the first time!!!

So amazing to have been part the Atlas of Finance team and to have been at the @bcsmaps.bsky.social award ceremony today - with a special private viewing of some the treasures from the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk vast map collection!!!

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer's appointment of Minouch shows he understands exactly what the economy needs (more bashing LGBTQ rights and violently suppressing the peaceful protest of a genocide).

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

📣Warwick Antiracism Archive Launch! Come discover our new resource on knowledge b/w generations of student antiracist activists at Warwick. 20/06 2-4pm in R0.12. Register & details: link.outsavvy.com/antiracism led by @uncomfiest.bsky.social w/ support from Anna Numa Hopkins & 6 student researchers.

Are you researching in #OpenStreetMap and #Feminism? Do you create #dataviz using #Rstats? If so, @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy and @twm.bsky.social are looking for you! They are seeking a Part-time Research Assistant +info: portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe... 📆 deadline: 17/06/2025 #job

The proposed policy is abominable, and something we oppose in its entirety. The University's knee-jerk reaction has caused immense stress to trans colleagues and the University's 'apology' does not go nearly far enough in expressing a commitment to being a safe employer for Trans comrades.

📴 Digital Disconnection, CDI-TV Livestream Today with Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social | Tune in: 17:00 GMT - tinyurl.com/bdx2uw76

Apply for 1 of 12 PhD studentships in Data Visualization, start Oct 2025. diverse-cdt.ac.uk warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diversity in Data Visualization @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social & @citystgeorges.bsky.social Funded by EPSRC @ukri.org

Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series. 6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ 7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social‬

📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢 05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini 06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi

I imagined something really really bad. It’s much, much worse

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Proud that the centre where I work, the @cimethods has left #x and is now on the #fediverse You can read more about us here: https://fediscience.org/@cimethods/113862330159542917

not to brag but my teaching slides for international economic law are 🔥🔥🔥

📺 Live Today | 17:00-18:00 GMT Join CDI-TV with guest Craig Gent as we discuss his new book, Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work. 📚 Get the book: 👉 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... 🔴 Watch live on YouTube: 👉 www.youtube.com/@centrefordi...

This is not just normal Labour sleaze. Palantir is owned Peter Thiel one of the most right-wing and aggressively anti-state oligarchs, someone completely hostile to every Labour value. So working for him in any way is just a disgrace for any supposedly Labour person. x.com/jolyonmaugha...

Everyone shifting from Twitter to Bluesky shows how easily you can "lose" your posted and viewed content. As someone involved in research, I think you should set up your own website to preserve the tidbits of information you want to last longer. Here's hopefully a helpful page to get you started:

the UK xitter > Bluesky migration is now complete as I can, once again, get live updates on Euston being evacuated because of bad weather

Reminder that academics are authors too - sign up to ALCS to get your copyright dues & to support their hard work protecting *our* hard work

Cool starter pack for anyone interested in #assetization & #financialization

You know what truly upsets me, even if it doesn't surprise me? The fact that had UK universities actually listened to those amogst us *actually* doing political economy of higher education, rather than bleated in unison all starry-eyed about international fee income, this *may* have been avoided.

Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen! academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... 🦀🦑🧪

A small starter pack for anyone interested in digital/platform capitalism, with a focus on social sciences (sociology geography, STS, econ etc.). Let me know if you want to be added!

we already have a function to provide outlines in academic work. it's called an abstract. not only is this deleterious to meaning and knowledge, it's also completely unnecessary

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet: a summary of our written up by my co-author, the amazing Liam Keenan theconversation.com/the-global-f...

Is anyone else noticing a sudden degradation in the quality of google scholar results?

There's critical and then there's the shut-up-and-sit-down type of critical:

Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy

I feel like the latest apple ai announcement may be the final step that pushes me towards being the linux/oss grognard I’ve resisted being for so long

Such an amazing little step for open science!

So impressed by @laurenfklein.bsky.social et al's Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization dataxdesign.io - ft Beothuk maps, W.E.B. Du Bois's "data portraits," Wm Playfair's time-series charts, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's chronological grids, etc. It's been 🤩 to watch this emerge!

Here is my optimism for the day: despite everything rotten in higher education, the students are proving right now that the project is worth it. They are validating the core value of the university even as they expose institutional bankruptcy. These students have *learned.*

Hey man just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed opening your recent article in a new tab

Happy Perfect Date to all who celebrate

2 x PhD studentships in @kingsdh.bsky.social in conjunction with the Responsible AI UK programme. Interdisciplinary research looking at technology and people. Funded at UKRI stipend rates paid for three years, with UK Home Student Fees also covered. www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

The real question is does not knowing where your own infrastructure is help you take on more debt 🤔

Minouche Shafik calling cops on own students, turning space of learning into a prison security complex, and zoomified university just bec she says so, no pandemic even needed

“I added all the necessary footnotes to the draft article as I wrote it and did not wait to insert them later”

Astonishing: The Modern Wealth of Jane Austen’s Characters  Read more: The Economics of Jane Austen's World: jasna.org/publications... by By Katherine Toran #JaneAusten

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies is looking for a new permanent (0.5 FTE) Research Software Engineer: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, that combined company + Walmart would control 70% of the grocery market in over 160 cities. Think grocery prices are bad now? Without competition, it would be a price gouging free-for-all. This is why the FTC is suing to stop it.