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David Bartram
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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.

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Political science 32%
Sociology 27%
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Cool -- he must be keeping a healthy distance from Dave's wife.

hmm, the guerre didn't go particularly well for Uriah...

I don't suppose one of them is named Uriah??

Excellent thread -- this sort of thing is important.

I really hope you can get career/academic benefit out of it.
The president this morning:

So he actually did one good thing -- by going into politics he freed up one tt position for a more deserving academic.

I can only imagine Bristol thinks it was worth every penny they had to hand over after that employment tribunal.

I just use Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor.

I've been searching for additional publications I could subscribe to (replacing my Washington Post subscription, now cancelled).

My search just got a bit narrower.
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
America... boy, I dunno.

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Burn. In. Hell.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al

No-one needs ANY of these corporations.

You can boycott them all -- just as with Disney after the Kimmel thing.

If anyone wants some help setting up a laptop with Ubuntu, I'll do what I can.

Use Brave for browsing.

Get off Facebook etc. entirely.

If you know the type of UK academic news that usually comes with an initial embargo, then you'll know what sort of good news I've received that I can't currently tell you (!).

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Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration.

They all cut checks for the ballroom.
Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
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The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

I participated in a "many authors" study (n=200); the main incentive was authorship. I've seen indications that authorship might not be on the cards, b/c of journal policies.

So, perhaps be careful about promising authorship.

(We all got some $$ as well, which mitigates -- but still disappointing)

On the other hand, perhaps Nazi tattoo = Trump stamp

If someone receiving a fine of this sort happened not to be a UK citizen or have indefinite leave to remain, would getting a fine like this perhaps reduce their chances of success in an application for ILR/citizenship?

Shocking...
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
I feel Thames Water should have been asked to comment.

Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond
Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is "disproportionate" while Richmond Council say it is in line with its policies.
www.bbc.com

The fact that it's never enough is the (very pale) silver lining here -- he'll get no joy at all from an extra $230m, because he can never get any sort of joy at all.

Found one of those studies:

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

Entirely predictable: the sample involved self-selection from a mailing list. No questions were asked about willingness to discriminate against “liberals” (so, no demonstration that liberals discriminate more, the clear implication).
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