Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Surely now we need to stop saying that a Green vote is a wasted vote! After all the bluster, it wasn’t even that close!

On 9/12/2025 10:00-16:00 I will be running an online introductory workshop on meta analysis using R. We’ll be covering background, calculating effect sizes, fixed/random effects meta-analyses, and visualisation. There are still 2 spots if you’re interested! portal.sgsss.ac.uk/event/introd...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

A powerful blog post from one current Dundee University Humanities PhD student on postgraduate study during a time of huge uncertainty at the university sgsahblog.com/2025/07/03/p... #AcSky

Primarily early-career academics have been SCREAMING about the importance of online (or at least hybrid) academic conferences since COVID, and disabled academics well before that. Professional organizations have made every excuse in the book to ignore, infantilize, and dismiss those concerns.

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

Still 4 spaces left, if you’re a PhD student in a Scottish university you should be eligible to come!

Consider coming to my (very accessible) overview of systematic review methods for the social sciences. If you are curious about the choices that build up to a full review this is for you! I’ll be taking people through each step of the process in a hands on way: social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/a-prac...

A beautiful morning from the train to Edinburgh. I’m looking forward to the @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social symposium!

In these times of hostility against LGBTQ+ people, let's remember that it doesn't have to be this way. Just nine years ago, this was the position. I was there, and it felt like an astonishing celebration of progress. We got there before. We can get back there again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Final week to sign up for the annual @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social symposium! 📍 Edinburgh University Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 💰 Free! 💬 Keynote from Lucy Dean at @natcen.bsky.social /ScotCen too! ✏️ Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/ARDLVnhyU3

Have you registered for #BERA2025 yet? Early bird deadline is 1st May! 🚨 🌟 Get £170 off as a BERA member! 🌟 Find out more and register: www.bera.ac.uk/conference/b...

🚨 The Canadian Association of University Teachers has just advised against any non-essential travel to the United States.🚨 Was doing this anyway, but still shocking to see it officially in writing. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Conference Announcement: If you conduct research using large social surveys then we want to hear from you. Do consider attending the LSS 2nd Symposium hosted at the EFI University of Edinburgh on the 27th May 2025.

CASTING CALL! Seeking disabled and/or chronically ill TTRPG fans from across Europe for a panel discussing Disability Representation in TTRPGs. Kieran @flightless-heron.bsky.social and we are seeking a diverse panel. For more information and to apply, please fill in this form: buff.ly/Or17uSB

Yesterday @maggiechapman.bsky.social asked Shane O’Neill about Equality Impact Assessments, which are designed to protect colleagues with protected characteristics during periods of change. He said that an EIA had not been completed for the recovery plan. www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

I’m very excited to have been accepted to talk about a recently conducted systematic review related to primary-secondary school transitions, academic outcomes, engagement and motivation from the international literature!

If you're interested in doing a PhD on inequities and young people, this scholarship led by Dr. Adriana Duta might be of interest to you: sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... @morayhouse.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social

If you know of someone interested in doing their PhD on the topic of physical activity, just direct them to this fantastic opportunity: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... led by Dr Josie Booth @morayhouse.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social

Wes Streeting once again demonstrating that the current Labour leadership absolutely don’t have worker’s backs. Perhaps there are other systemic reasons diagnoses are so prevalent that this government could address, or perhaps continued immiseration is the point.

📢📢📢New job alert! 📢📢📢 Please share this widely. Come work with me on my project Educational Inequalities funded by @adruk.bsky.social. This project uses linked administrative data from Scotland to explore inequalities in absences and exclusions. More info here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

UCU comment on the shocking news Dundee University cutting 632 jobs. Jo Grady: “This is a hammer-blow to hard working and committed workers at the university who are being made to pay the price for egregious management failure...” #SaveHE #StoptheCuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1394...

Newsletter: Microsoft pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI. Meanwhile, SoftBank, the only company that can afford to fund OpenAI, has to take out loans to do so. www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/

Please consider joining the TCELT community compass tomorrow (26/02) at 5pm. Ann Burnett will be talking with Dr Marianne Cranwell about her book regarding her journey with her husband Bill through life and his dementia diagnosis. If you don't have a link let me know and I can send one!

International Conference on Educational and Life Transitions (ICELT), 21-23 August 2025 Join us for an international, interdisciplinary and cross-sector, virtual & free conference. Read about it here sway.cloud.microsoft/Woy1GTpdx6Og... Deadline for abstracts - 31.3.25

If anyone is in any doubt about the motives of transphobia, look at this blatant historical revisionism. It doesn’t stop at everyday bullying, it doesn’t stop at restricting trans healthcare or rights. It’s about the complete erasure of current and historic trans people.

2 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.

Oddly, I think cutting 8 words from an abstract has been one of the more mentally taxing things I’ve done for my PhD so far this year!

Reporting on grooming gangs tends to focus on minorities, however, as Home Office's own report showed, offenders are far more likely to be white, British. This isn't an immigration issue. Playing to racist tropes means majority of perpetrators are ignored. 1/ #r4today www.gov.uk/government/p...

Today someone made my day by getting in touch with me to say they had attended a presentation I gave and found it interesting/relevant and wondered if they could pass on some findings. As an early career researcher/PhD student it is incredibly motivating to know that your work chimed with someone.

🚨 New functionality alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to share the new Recommend Us tool on our website. You can use this tool to generate personalised emails to your library to recommend they join the OLH: www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supp... Spread the word and help support #diamondOA!

Join us for this research seminar with @calummacgillivray.bsky.social tomorrow at 12 noon. www.dundee.ac.uk/events/tcelt...

📣 Big news! After a successful launch we are delighted to announce that SUP has expanded its scope to include submissions from researchers at all UK higher education institutions! Let's publish more #OpenAccess books 🔓📚 Read all about it here: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...

Next Wednesday (4th December) at 12:00 GMT I will be presenting on a recently completed systematic review related to international primary-secondary school transitions, educational outcomes, engagement and motivation. If any of that sounds interesting let me know and I can send you a link to join!

If you want to follow along with tomorrows training “Survey and Questionnaire Construction: the Shiny Package in R” that I’m hosting @edinburghup.bsky.social find the training materials on my website: scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/... #academicsky #socsky #Rtraining

Some exciting dates for your diary: this should be a great conference for anyone interested in transitions research! 21st-23rd August 2025!

This is a great idea! 💡 ⬇️ #academicsky

Hi! I’m a PhD researcher in education, looking at primary-secondary school transitions experiences, educational outcomes and associated factors. If you would like to find out more, I wrote a blog recently! 🧵1/5 #Education #Research #Transitions growingupinscotland.org.uk/utilising-gu...

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.