Dan Cook
@dan-he-man.bsky.social
Director, Data Policy and Research at HESA (part of Jisc). We do the R&D behind the data you love best. Own views, obvs.
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/research
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7833-4244
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/research
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7833-4244
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Was always inevitable Labour would need to move on youth mobility, and that would probably be part of an overall package. There's nothing else that's new in this long report, for ambition to remove SPS barriers doesn't make that happen...
December 1, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Was always inevitable Labour would need to move on youth mobility, and that would probably be part of an overall package. There's nothing else that's new in this long report, for ambition to remove SPS barriers doesn't make that happen...
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Today I argue that the fusion of Big Tech and politics in the Tony Blair Institute is causing trouble for both The Royal Society and Keir Starmer.
Big Tech in the UK
Dorothy Bishop’s attempt to get The Royal Society to oust Elon Musk has crystallised political dilemmas of sweeping consequence
open.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Today I argue that the fusion of Big Tech and politics in the Tony Blair Institute is causing trouble for both The Royal Society and Keir Starmer.
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Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Did you know that Indian higher education has now achieved gender parity?
I visualise data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (2021-22)
www.ggd.world/p/indias-unt...
I visualise data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (2021-22)
www.ggd.world/p/indias-unt...
November 25, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Did you know that Indian higher education has now achieved gender parity?
I visualise data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (2021-22)
www.ggd.world/p/indias-unt...
I visualise data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (2021-22)
www.ggd.world/p/indias-unt...
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I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
@kyivindependent.com will you be making a starter pack of all your excellent team? It's great to see such a strong KI presence on this platform!
November 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
@kyivindependent.com will you be making a starter pack of all your excellent team? It's great to see such a strong KI presence on this platform!
Excellent use of cursing as a discovery mechanism here.
Here’s a visualization of all the curse words in real time, which is oddly satisfying:
swearsky.bagpuss.org
swearsky.bagpuss.org
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Excellent use of cursing as a discovery mechanism here.
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Tempted to get this (very real product) to wear to management meetings from here to doomsday… 😂
November 23, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Tempted to get this (very real product) to wear to management meetings from here to doomsday… 😂
I'm honoured to have been asked to deliver the opening plenary at HESPA's Autumn Conference next week, and I can honestly say that it has been one of the most interesting presentations I've worked on for a long while.
If there are any HESPA peeps on BlueSky - I hope you like it!
If there are any HESPA peeps on BlueSky - I hope you like it!
November 23, 2024 at 11:01 AM
I'm honoured to have been asked to deliver the opening plenary at HESPA's Autumn Conference next week, and I can honestly say that it has been one of the most interesting presentations I've worked on for a long while.
If there are any HESPA peeps on BlueSky - I hope you like it!
If there are any HESPA peeps on BlueSky - I hope you like it!
This makes an alumnus very proud.
The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...
We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions
Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:06 PM
This makes an alumnus very proud.
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I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)
November 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM
I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)
Did someone mention that it is Beaujolais Nouveau night?
November 21, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Did someone mention that it is Beaujolais Nouveau night?
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We used to be a country x
November 21, 2024 at 9:54 AM
We used to be a country x
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Alexandra Epps: The Gloaming by #LauraWilder
November 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Alexandra Epps: The Gloaming by #LauraWilder
In our recent end project report of the review of the HESA Higher Education -Business & Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey we published a first version of an observed data model for Knowledge Exchange. (See annex b of www.hesa.ac.uk/innovation/r...)
HE-BCI major review | HESA
In January 2022 HESA launched the second phase of the Higher Education – Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) major review. Endorsed by the Office for Students and the four HE Funding Bodies, H...
www.hesa.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
In our recent end project report of the review of the HESA Higher Education -Business & Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey we published a first version of an observed data model for Knowledge Exchange. (See annex b of www.hesa.ac.uk/innovation/r...)
There's now a Knowledge Exchange Starter Pack. Thanks to @markgray.bsky.social for his public service in creating it! go.bsky.app/8sC4hAL
November 20, 2024 at 9:41 PM
There's now a Knowledge Exchange Starter Pack. Thanks to @markgray.bsky.social for his public service in creating it! go.bsky.app/8sC4hAL
Welcome to BlueSky Tamsin @kematters.bsky.social if you decide to make a Knowledge Exchange Starter Pack let me know! (As far as I am aware it is just you, me, and @orlakellybell.bsky.social on here at the moment!)
November 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Welcome to BlueSky Tamsin @kematters.bsky.social if you decide to make a Knowledge Exchange Starter Pack let me know! (As far as I am aware it is just you, me, and @orlakellybell.bsky.social on here at the moment!)
Useful reflections on digital innovation diffusion. (I might pick this book up!)
PS GDS = Government Digital Service
PS GDS = Government Digital Service
I’m reading this on diffusion and it’s quite a useful way to think about public sector digital work.
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
You can think about internet-era methods as an innovation (for example, the idea of organizing work into outcome-based product teams). 1/n
November 20, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Useful reflections on digital innovation diffusion. (I might pick this book up!)
PS GDS = Government Digital Service
PS GDS = Government Digital Service
This should be excellent news for access to Higher Education everywhere in England (not to mention about 101 other things). I already have a policy evaluation piece in mind for 2028.
As confirmed at Transport Committee meeting this week, Labour are adopting a new (+better) approach to bus funding
Many areas were disappointed by the previous bidding process (getting no or little investment), so this cash will make a big impact in some communities
Bodes well for the CSR
Many areas were disappointed by the previous bidding process (getting no or little investment), so this cash will make a big impact in some communities
Bodes well for the CSR
STORY
Buses will get a £1billion boost in plans to be announced on Monday.
Will be distributed based on need, population and levels of deprivation...rather than making local areas waste time and resources on competitive bidding wars
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Buses will get a £1billion boost in plans to be announced on Monday.
Will be distributed based on need, population and levels of deprivation...rather than making local areas waste time and resources on competitive bidding wars
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
November 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This should be excellent news for access to Higher Education everywhere in England (not to mention about 101 other things). I already have a policy evaluation piece in mind for 2028.
Bluesky is officially complete.
November 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Bluesky is officially complete.
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Ciężko nadążyć, ale robię co mogę. Zaobserwujcie mnie na Bluesky!
November 16, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Ciężko nadążyć, ale robię co mogę. Zaobserwujcie mnie na Bluesky!
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What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
November 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Why skeets and not bleets? Come on people stop taking yourselves so seriously.
November 16, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Why skeets and not bleets? Come on people stop taking yourselves so seriously.
Wonderful clear, educational dataviz setting the COVID-19 pandemic in its historical context.
Here's the full chart: A timeline of pandemics.
Historical knowledge of past pandemics is sparse. Pandemics with an unknown death toll are shown as triangles, while pandemics with an estimated death toll are shown as circles.
Historical knowledge of past pandemics is sparse. Pandemics with an unknown death toll are shown as triangles, while pandemics with an estimated death toll are shown as circles.
November 16, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Wonderful clear, educational dataviz setting the COVID-19 pandemic in its historical context.