Financial Fair Play in the Premier League doesn't work and they should just get rid of it.

I can already say with some confidence West Ham are getting relegated this season. 2-0 down to Sunderland on day 1 and Potter brings on Callum Wilson and Andy Irvine. We lose 3-0.

Ha ha ha 😂

Haven't been on here for a while but popped over to take a look because Twitter is so awful. Some interesting discussions going on but I'm mostly struck by the rigid ideological conformity and thirst for punishing those who indulge in wrongthink. Should I try Threads?

My, admittedly somewhat limited, experience of GPT-5 has not been good. Particularly weird that it didn't even know how to code API calls to itself.

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...

👣 "Uncovering Digital Trace Data Biases: Tracking Undercoverage in Web Tracking Data" by Bosch et al. @orioljbosch.bsky.social @patricksturg.bsky.social Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Featured in our latest issue!

New working paper with Chuyao Wang and Dan De Kadt, "AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects". The title is a concise summary but read the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16202

The greatest tennis match of all time.

Interesting, I've never been to Reading.

On my way to London for #MASS25. Excited for two days of discussions on Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys. Shoutout to my fantastic co-organizers (for the 6th (!) time) @peterlugtig.bsky.social, @jkhoehne.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya and generous local host @patricksturg.bsky.social

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No @theguardian.com the SC judgment is absolutely clear. What you are struggling with is how you lot are going to keep misrepresenting the law now the judgment is in. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Really can't see what the problem is with AI face recognition as long as it's only used for identification. Just much more efficient and less costly than using humans to do it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Does local area social mobility affect political alienation? Andrew McNeil & Patrick Sturgis (@patricksturg.bsky.social) find it depends. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ptn4JQC @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ukpolitics @sagepub.com #polsci #polsky

New working paper "Survey Experience and Nonresponse in an Online Probability Panel: A Survival Analysis" with Katya Kostadintcheva & Jouni Kuha. We find some interesting predictors of nonresponse. Read the paper to find out: arxiv.org/abs/2505.03971

Unpopular opinion: Vice Chancellors aren't overpaid and VC pay is just a distraction from the real issues. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

West Ham have gone backwards under Potter, that’s 7 on the bounce without a win. The only reason we’re staying up is the points won under useless Lopetegui. Potter will have zero fan patience if we get off to a poor start as we usually do. I’d sack him if it were up to me.

How do you write a sketch for the Guardian about yesterday's PMQs on the SC judgment? Predictably, right-on John Crace goes for 'it's just a trivial culture war issue' & Kemi lost her cool (typical lady eh?). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

best policy announced this year by any party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The lack of discussion of the Supreme Court judgment on here really is quite weird.

One shouldn't laugh but actually it's fine to laugh.

Much better second half from West Ham after being really poor and should have got a point at least. Liverpool saved by the ref, clear foul on paqueta not given.

New working paper with Ian Brunton-Smith, 'Trends in Social Science Research Methods in the Twenty-First Century: Automated Journal Article Coding Using Large Language Models' osf.io/9b7ka

Happy International People Who Menstruate Day!

One advantage of strictly defining superheroes as having to wear capes would be that people could no longer say 'not all superheroes wear capes'.

Air raid sirens in Kyiv now, wailing across the city, as Russia drones approach. Trump's suspension of US military aid means Ukraine will find it tougher to shoot down enemy drones and ballistic missiles. The result: more death, grief, and ruin

Does local area social mobility affect political alienation? Andrew McNeil & Patrick Sturgis (@patricksturg.bsky.social) find it depends. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/4hckeSc (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ukpolitics

Wondering how Americans feel about allying with Russia, North Korea, and China. Utterly shaming period of American history.

Seriously thinking I'm going to have to boycott the US, what a total disaster for this once proud nation.

The train line from Tunbridge Wells must be one of the busiest into London, taking just under an hour. The wifi on the Southeastern trains is completely unusable and there is no 4G pretty much the whole way, so anyone needing the internet (like me) can't work. The UK productivity 'puzzle'.

I used to wish West Ham would be as good as Man Utd, that has now more or less come true but not in the way I wanted. Fortune's always hiding.

There is no evidence at all that parents working from home causes their kids to miss school, this whole article is based on one man's hunch. Odd. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Personally, I would end qualification for national rugby teams through residency unless the player takes citizenship via standard routes. Wales must target overseas stars — just like Scotland and Ireland www.thetimes.com/article/c5a0...

The RFU policy of only picking Premiership players for England is moronic and self-defeating, a massive red flag for people at the top of the game who don't understand what they're doing. www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-...

The laws of football should be changed so you can’t head the ball back to the keeper.

It's a real shame this Trump/Musk attack on US scientists and universities has coincided with the bottom falling out of the job market in UK HE.

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You’ve seen it all bit by bit but here is what’s happening to US science and research right now www.science.org/content/blog... @science.org

Ref was awful tonight, gave Chelsea everything and missed a blatant foul that led to their second goal, which was a massive fluke anyway.

I think you will find thats already happening. I believe people are working on an app that identifies products made in USA from bar codes that can be easily scanned on your phone. They did it for Israeli products recently too. One app called “No Thanks” is active in UK.

Can we mobilise a global boycott of US products?

Ireland were the better team yesterday but their resurgence in the second half was massively aided by the worst refereeing performance I've seen in a long while. Lowe should have had 2 yellows, the non-push and closing the gap in the lineout pens, repeated scrum pens/free-kicks, the forward pass etc

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Key opportunity - esp in Britain - to reject Trumpesque backlash *and* improve quality & legitimacy of EDI/inclusion - frame effectively as equal opps/fairness - apply across all characteristics - test for what works (do more things that work, not symbolic stuff that stokes controversy,lacks impact)

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

The solution to the Jevons paradox is that it isn’t a paradox.

I am very much of the view that Starmer’s poor polling numbers don’t matter at all at this stage of the electoral cycle.

How on earth have West Ham ended up with such a poor squad? We sold home-grown Rice for £105 million after winning the European cup and yet we've gone backwards and have one of the oldest, thinnest squads in the PL. Sullivan, Moyes, Lopetegui, Steitden all culpable.