Reviewers: ever see a paper you like, write a few paragraphs detailing its strengths. This will go much further than "great, publish" which leaves editors questioning if you read in depth

I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

Tell me you have OCD without telling me etc

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!! ⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025. Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM. Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

Teaching has decided to start again today. The weather has decided to get much colder. My train has decided to be very late. I was not consulted on any of these decisions.

This did not age well. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I guess this is my job now

Refreshingly iconoclastic

I got off academia.edu because it's rubbish.

Chapter 2 of my dissertation is now available in Socius! doi.org/10.1177/2378... In it, I aim to shed light on the debate as to whether gender specialization or gender egalitarianism is more beneficial for marital stability, considering education as an under-explored moderator of these associations

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

was it Freakonomics that started the habit of calling perfectly mainstream scholars 'rogue' in order to sell books?

Forget schools or charities, even just wasting the practical joke potential of a skipful of trumpets seems like a crime

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

Did you see? Our program is live. Don‘t miss the ISI Wealth Conference 2025: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How's your day going? I nearly sent out an R&R with the words "While the paper has promise, its overall contribution remains insufficiently unclear"

Gotta love this, from the European Commission Funding & Tenders Portal

A 1973 map showing the types of farming in #Devon and #Cornwall across a range of farm sizes from less than 50 to over 500 acres maps.nls.uk/view/245957463 #maps

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

"We find mixed results" = my theory almost survived contact with reality

I am not asking for much but I do ask that you decline my reviewer invitations promptly instead of leaving me hanging

Imagining Zizek narrating my regression output: "Significance collapses. It falls into ruin. A breakdown is inevitable. It is the truth of suffering."

I’m reading this and eyeing some of my colleagues who are offering "40% postdoc position for 8 months"

Things I wish I’d known earlier: the perfect blend of Fleabag and Seinfeld exists and it’s called SATC

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's academic job market season. I’ve written a reflection with some potentially helpful tips: jaeyk.github.io/essays/job_m...

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings updated & improved Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition. Same with local labor market competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Believing in peer review means we should also believe in our own competence to critically assess preprints ahead of their journal publication.

It’s more that “reader, you are wrong” is not a compelling rhetorical or marketing strategy

This claim is getting legs so I checked. Indeed, Google Trends in the US is currently very close to the February 2009 peak for "help with mortgage." 😔 trends.google.com/trends/explo...

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

Btw, the kudos are to myself for trying to engage constructively with a chatbot

Conference presentations are just public rehearsals for the paper you'll actually write afterward

You haven't known regret until you accidentally reread your own grant proposal with the eyes of a reviewer

Love when my cite of someone's 1997 paper makes them my intellectual enemy not just someone doing their job 28 years ago

In equilibrium all NBER working papers are published in top journals so it doesn't matter

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet

Re-upping this, just in time for the start of term.

Experiencing crisis of the self as my better half is off to give an international seminar

Can someone program a bot to identify the most cited never-published papers and we take it from there

It's ok to be 'thrilled' about research news, different strokes for different folks. Just keep me out of it please.

Love finding an NBER working paper from 2011 that was cited by 1293 but never published... tell me what the problem is

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is a complete overhaul of the overarching theoretical framework.

Used gpt to convert a text from word to latex. Turns out it can't read the equations to it just made some up thinking no one would notice. Kudos for trying I guess.

Honestly, relying on copy paste errors to detect scientific fraud was never a foolproof strategy