Tom O'Grady

Fascinating evidence of a clear way that AI directly lowers productivity. With troubling implications for the way we do hiring and student recruitment in academia (heavily weighting written materials like cover letters, research statements, personal statements etc)

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Happy to follow up with more details by email if you like? We have a pretty well-organised departmental template for them now and they were used last academic year with some success.

Marking a student essay today that is a joy to read, that makes me proud as a teacher, that reminds me how much I value teaching writing. But I cannot know, will never again know, whether it was written by AI. Hard not to feel a massive sense of loss, as I prepare to use oral vivas this year instead

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

You’ve Got the Ideas. What If It’s Your Voice That’s Not Landing? The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Writing

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing.

We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it.

I wrote up some reflections here:

👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

Agree with lots of what others have said. Another part of it I think is a belief that voters on the left will vote tactically/come home to labour in 2029, when the threat of a reform government becomes real and until then they have nothing to lose from trying to win over reform voters. Very risky!

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Labour MP warns party of ‘uncanny’ parallels with Germany’s defeated SPD Exclusive: Jake Richards says government needs to focus on issues such as immigration and welfare to fight off Reform

Labour should try and learn some lessons from Germany. Unfortunately, this rather speaks for a deep misunderstanding of what causes the success of the AfD and other far-right parties. Labour is set to repeat the mistakes of many other social democratic parites.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed.

Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️

A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/

Zuckerberg exposes a big problem with our ideas about authoritarian populism as backlash. Backlash as counterfactual means “if we had not had progressive thing X, we would not see that much support for this ideology“. It should have become clear that authoritarianism is nothing reactive 1/

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality?

New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social!

🧵 Thread 👇

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

A good news day :)
"The Rainbow Vote" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social

Building on observational data & six original experiments, the book explores & explains the distinctiveness of queer voters in Europe and demonstrates how this has both social & political consequences

PhD Virtual Information Event Explore our PhD programme! Join a Q&A with the PhD Programme Manager, Programme Director and PhD Rep.

Interested in doing a PhD in political science at UCL (or know a student that is)? On Friday 22nd November I am running an online information event all about our programme and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/political-sc...

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