David Bartram

Incredibly stupid idea. The voters got it wrong once -- who's to say they won't get it wrong again? Loads of Russian-funded £££ would be in play again, to sew chaos and lift Farage into power after all. Astounding hubris on @andyburnham.bsky.social's part. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

Seems worth a hearing: if it doesn't seem possible to ban the frats, at least make them co-ed, they can only stay if they admit women. A second-best remedy, perhaps, but better than the usual medley of half-measures. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

These days, football matters more to Buffalo’s sense of self than anything else, @kait.bsky.social writes. She visited a city that’s primed to go all the way:

Trying this post one more time. Tempting to interpret lack of replies to mean that my question doesn't have a good answer. Will resist... It's relevant not just to GSC. Beck/Katz (1995) gave us "panel-corrected standard errors". What they don't say is: correct for what purpose??

Polanski said he couldn't focus on the "Zionism is racism" motion b/c he had to focus on campaigning. But in abdicating his leadership role he undermined his Holborn prospects *and* his claim on the leadership role. I don't think this guy is meant for politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Question for stats/quants people, re bootstrap standard errors in the context of generalized synthetic control (Xu 2017). The approach is: parametric bootstrap via resampling the residuals (in a series of leave-one-out runs), to get the “conditional variance of the ATT estimator”.

Britain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are:

AI is a vehicle for disinformation, a vector exploited for that purpose in ways that don't seem at all surprising once you've read about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...

Hey kids -- don't use 𝖽̶𝗋̶𝗎̶𝗀̶𝗌̶ ChatGPT when writing your papers! Here's a delicious example of what it can do to your 𝖻̶𝗋̶𝖺̶𝗂̶𝗇̶ manuscript: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (I wonder whether the authors' explanation is credible, and I'm surprised the article wasn't retracted.)

TFW a manuscript cites me, an article with a title not even close to anything I've ever written. Sometimes they make it easy for me...

Sounds like my local UCU branch.

MIGHT?? So she might *stay* a member??? Wild...

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

🏆 Congratulations to Kelsey O’Connor & Martijn Hendriks, joint recipients of the 2025–2026 ISQOLS Ruut Veenhoven Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to happiness studies! 🎥 youtu.be/83haygo9Iik 🔗 isqols.org/Ruut-Veenhov...

Reviewer 2, who acknowledges "not being an expert" in regard to my paper, is currently wreaking havoc and will compel numerous distortions. As an editor I understand how time-consuming it would be to intervene and facilitate a more reasonable approach. Even so: FFS...

"a Catholic vision" apparently includes regular use of ChatGPT

Imagine the vibes in the student newspaper bullpen during these email exchanges. Delectable.

The provost at Dartmouth: "The newspaper then ran Dr. Schnell’s statement on his A.I. use through an A.I. detector, which flagged the statement itself as apparently written by A.I." The PROVOST... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.

FAFO latest (#Sociology version): -- FA: write a report intended to inflict reputational damage on your own discipline* -- FO: learn from esteemed colleagues that your own reputation is in tatters I can't imagine ever going to campus again... *yes, it isn't even her discipline, by some measures

New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social & @alinaschmitz.bsky.social ! Does upward educational mobility improve life satisfaction? And do its benefits change as people age? We use 39 waves of German panel data to study mobility patterns across the life course. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... 🧵1/4

Former Labour deputy leader joins Oswald Mosley's grandson at Palantir.

Great idea. Time-consuming, though. What I take from this thread is mainly that my instincts on desk-rejections are very likely not wrong.

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

Everyone knows AI-written academic papers are embarrassing now, including their "authors", which is why even the publishers - who stand to benefit most from AI-amplified publication volumes - are now offering "Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts" 🤯

Is @labouruk.bsky.social going to tell billionaire donors to ReformUK to fuck off out of British politics? Probably not. Would require actual vision and courage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"

Speaking as somebody who spent this entire century watching his mum die in pain and humiliation, this decision is a big fat load of shite. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Who radicalized him, and where is Prevent when really needed?

That’s more like it… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Listening to Ed Miliband is an unfamiliar experience: a UK politician speaking with courage, directness, a sense of history, eloquence (mostly), and conviction rooted in the right values. Why can't we have more of this?

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.

Hmm -- these German "nationalists": do they perhaps also embrace a certain form of "socialism"?? Hard to avoid the impression that some WashingtonPost journalists don't know what "Nazi" means, what it referred to... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...