I am still taking 3 flights to Europe just this term, so my cap is also full of the shit I am spreading through the atmosphere, but come on, a transcontinental flight to fascist America to have the privilege of speaking for 15 minutes in a half empty room?

Couldn’t agree more. If I don’t censor myself on this one, I’ll end up with no friends in academia.

I am not ashamed to say it once took me 5 to 10 minutes to find the toilets in that building. Also, I still do not have a clue where level 1 is.

I think it is just a case of excessive risk-aversion mixed-up with a chronic shortage of quantitative researchers in my field, but yes, in your case that might be the case. Absolutely crazy that Leeds students do not get to learn causal inference from you.

Same here. A key argument about expanding our training on quantitative methods has been: what happens if we need to replace you?

Especially relevant to British and European criminal justice / criminology researchers with a thirst for empirical methods and open acess practices. There is life beyond the #BSC & the #ESC.

I was once told I had to fill a risk assessment form to hold a seminar with colleagues (not students) outdoors, on the lawn in front of our building, in a sunny summer day.