David Bartram

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.

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

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

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

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The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers.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

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 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 paper -- or to send all published work.

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

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The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers.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

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.

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.

If only it were so easy...

A Leicester choir I'm currently a member of is 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲.

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"...

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....

Jim Gavin: Fianna Fáil 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...

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.

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.

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.

“Most 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.”

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

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

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

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.

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 #.

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

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...

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

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/...

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 ‘u-shaped’ relationship between age and happiness. But statistical significance on its own cannot tell us whether the age–happiness relationship is ‘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 ‘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 ‘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...

was it "enema"...

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.