Marc Scully

a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that

22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"

Qualitative social scientists:

a woman in a blue dress is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that Alt: a woman in a blue dress (Rebecca from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is saying the situation is a lot more nuanced than that

22-year-old pollster, who is just trying to get her day's responses logged to earn her rent money, and has a script to follow: "So, will I put you down for a 3?"

Qualitative social scientists:

YouTube video by British Comedy Yes Prime Minister - Sir Humphrey shows poll rigging

Anyway, when IpsosMori release survey data on public opinions on data centres and energy use in the next few weeks, the findings can be safely dismissed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSK...

(I was nice to her, it's not her fault).

two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works ALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works

Pity the young opinion poll data gatherer who rings up a *qualitative social scientist* with a series of yes/no forced choice binary questions on complex, nuanced social issues.

Might just tag this one with #metascience without any further context and see what happens.

I'm getting PTSD flashbacks to the 2009 hurlers strike with the second one.

Projects might include selfie-taking behaviour outside the pub for instance.

Should you be so inclined, you can watch live footage of this on the Temple Bar webcam: www.earthcam.com/world/irelan...

(When I'm teaching observational methods, I get students to come up with projects based on observing behaviour on public webcams. The Temple Bar webcam is always a popular one.)

ÁR SHLÍ: Irish Identity Across Generations - London Irish Centre We are proud to announce our partnership with Derry Playhouse, delivering “Ár Shlí: Irish Identity Across Generations”; a storytelling project exploring intergenerational Irish identity within the Lon...

*cough*

londonirishcentre.org/ar-shli/

Ireland, Migration and Return Migration | Home The “Returned Yank” in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present

Sinéad Moynihan's book on the cultural impact of the 'Returned Yank' bringing Americana with them, touches on this a bit: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Ralph McTell and Ewan MacColl were people I had in mind. David Gray (also from an English folk tradition) is a more recent example, I guess.

But, listen, your take on this will be more informed than mine!

Hmm - I think maybe folk music gets more of a hearing in Ireland than England? So even if you're audibly from an English folk music tradition, you might find more of an audience in Ireland.

So, "Dirty Old Town" is very specifically an English folk song, but it's found its way into the Irish canon.

Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research On reasonable resistance to using GenAI in research

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

Contesting Power-Sharing? LGBTQ+ Activism and the Sexual Citizenship of Consociationalism Notwithstanding valuable contributions, the relationship between power-sharing and sexuality remains undertheorized. This paper asks if consociationalism can be seen as a form of sexual citizenship...

5/ Contesting Power-Sharing? LGBTQ+ Activism and the Sexual Citizenship of Consociationalism — Cera Murtagh & John Nagle.
Consociationalism as sexual citizenship: how rights and recognition get structured—and contested (Northern Ireland). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Peter Lang Verlag - Representing Migration: Discursive and Methodological Perspectives from Triangulated Fields This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging ...

📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration

I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance

Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I feel I should clarify here that the quote isn’t @penders.bsky.social personal view, as he’s made clear. People are quoting it as though it is, and it’s escaped containment. It’s part of a longer thread reporting an academic discussion on uses of AI in publishing which is well worth your time.

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

British dual citizens are not a homogeneous group, and their different constituent parts are affected differently by the new UK passport rules — changes whose wider consequences the government does not appear to have fully appreciated, @nandosigona.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com

I'm honored to be co-convening this! Free & open to all

Indeed. And how to avoid it!

I can feel humanities scholars recoil in horror, but it's worth highlighting that this is a genuine faultline between different epistemologies of psychology, particularly since the replication crisis.

I've seen people argue that writing with style and verve is a questionable research practice.

Selkies?

Sometimes industry rhetoric involves dehumanizing people.

Other times it involves humanizing AI.

It’s important to recognize how both of these moves work together to serve industry goals.

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A namebadge reading ‘Marc’ with the Blackboard Jungle logo.

A further discovery when clearing stuff.

I’m willing to bet that a high enough proportion of #spéirghorm users are a.) the right age and b.) quiz nerds that they may also have had one of these.

Obelix clutches his brow and says “Wait, Obelix! This fight isn’t your fight.” Offscreen, there is violence.

Me reading your bad takes on Bluesky.

Reminding British people that the US is not the only presidential system in existence would drive you distracted.