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Sociologist. Interests: inequalities, happiness, migration, & causal identification. Editor-in-chief of @socialindicators.bsky.social. PhD UW-Madison. AI-free teaching & research since 1998. Posts are personal. https://davidvbartram.wordpress.com

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1) cops never actually do this.

2) any who would are the ones you definitely want gone.

02.07.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 291    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

13.10.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 676    πŸ” 556    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 18

I've been a Wikipedia editor for ~20 years. I used to be very skeptical about its reliability re any issue where there is ideological "vulnerability" (temptation to impose a partisan viewpoint).

But I agree that is mostly beyond right-wing control. Can't be bought. Now more important than ever.

12.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've just removed his reviewer's account from my journal.

12.10.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

09.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 999    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 13

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

09.10.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application?

The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers.

For prof job, just give them published articles?

09.10.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Context: the search is open-rank -- so, the JMP requirement might be intended for more junior applicants.

The ad asks for a JMP plus "up to four other published papers".

What I'm trying to work out is whether I need to send them an π˜‚π—»π—½π˜‚π—―π—Ήπ—Άπ˜€π—΅π—²π—± paper -- or to send all published work.

09.10.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You could give them a link to a google scholar search tailored so that your article is at/near the top.

09.10.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application?

The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers.

For prof job, just give them published articles?

09.10.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Israeli government's planned hosting of Tommy Robinson is a reprehensible betrayal of Jewish values and history.

Robinson is a racist street thug. He is no friend of British Jews.

We must never permit the far-right to exploit antisemitism to attack Muslims.

Good to discuss on i24News.

05.10.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 317    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

08.10.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

If only it were so easy...

08.10.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Leicester choir I'm currently a member of is π—²π—»π˜π—Άπ—Ώπ—²π—Ήπ˜† π˜„π—΅π—Άπ˜π—².

No integration at all, especially in the context of my very mixed neighborhood. Shut it down -- it's a throwback, an instance of "parallel lives"...

08.10.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking Bread: Investigating the Role of Ethnic Food in Potentiating Outgroup Tolerance - Rodolfo Leyva, Miguel Da Silva Ramos, Joseph Sakshaug, 2025 This study examines the role of ethnic cuisine as a potential mechanism for fostering outgroup tolerance. Data were collected via a web survey administered to a...

hmmmm: "Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant"

"this study's cross-sectional design does not allow us to firmly determine whether ... ethnic food engagement ---> support for outgroup rights over time."

And yet, there it is, in the Guardian

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

07.10.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jim Gavin: Fianna FΓ‘il candidate withdraws from presidential race He said in a statement he had

I can still remember the shock of being a naive student in the 1980s and seeing some of Dublin's finest propertied middle class screw student tenants out of money. Kudos to the former tenant who coldly claimed revenge 16 years later.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.10.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Immigration is not just an overwhelming net positive for the UK, but desperately needed to keep the country running. Anyone claiming otherwise has nothing to offer but hatred and a race to the bottom.

07.10.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict.

And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson.

It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.

06.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 845    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12

25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict.

And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson.

It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.

06.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 845    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12
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β€œMost British Jewish voices have consistently been clear that they reject Robinson’s bogus claim to be an ally of their community. It is important that we hear that again now.”

04.10.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 255    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Isn’t he on bail? How is he still in possession of a passport?

04.10.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above

02.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1554    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

Surprised not to see more sabotage, Luddite-style...

02.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The RS surely has a duty to 'police the personal political opinions' of a Fellow if those opinions and actions act against the scientific process and community.

01.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Something really fucking scary happened to me today and it turns out it was a scam I didn't know about. I consider myself pretty savvy about the various scams out there, but this one got me.

Someone called, identified themselves at Sgt. Frank Sullivan with Middlesex County Sherriff, and badge #.

30.09.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

If Putin wanted to invade Alaska, 𝐫𝐒𝐠𝐑𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 would be a really good time. Imagine the psychological disorientation felt by top brass at this moment.

30.09.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A research idea (in case there’s no study already):

What happens to a #UCU branch when its leadership is mainly UCU-Left? Does membership fall b/c some people are alienated by the ideological nonsense? Are there more strikes, and/or less effective strikes?

I mean, maybe my suspicions are wrong...

30.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

What could go wrong?? He did such a great job with Iraq...

30.09.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

29.09.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 488    πŸ” 274    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11
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To Evaluate the Age–Happiness Relationship, Look Beyond Statistical Significance - Journal of Happiness Studies The persistent contentiousness of research on the age–happiness relationship is puzzling; it should be possible to gain clarity and consensus about how to address the question effectively. In this paper I show that a key reason for the lack of clarity consists of overreliance on statistical significance as a means of evaluating empirical results. The statistical significance of a quadratic specification (age plus age-squared) is often taken as evidence in support of a β€˜u-shaped’ relationship between age and happiness. But statistical significance on its own cannot tell us whether the age–happiness relationship is β€˜u-shaped’ (nor indeed whether it takes any other shape). On the contrary, statistical significance can mislead us about it: a set of quadratic age coefficients can be β€˜significant’ even when the relationship is obviously characterised by a different shape. When we have clarity on how to construct the analysis so that we can β€˜see’ the underlying patterns in the data, it becomes obvious that the age–happiness relationship in European countries commonly shows other patterns; a u-shape is evident only in a minority of countries.

I'm totally on board with that finding, and the reason for previous incorrect findings:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

29.09.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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