All you needed was some quote marks ;)

Based on Richard Lynn’s dodgy data, of course. This was the purpose of its creation, to masquerade racism as ‘science’ & thereby infiltrate mainstream politics. This is one reason why Co-authors & I have called for retractions of scientific articles that use this data - it’s effectively propaganda.

Does 3 hours by train count as near?

I have some core memories from my late 20s of realising I could afford to buy actual tall clothes from Long Tall Sally, and the day I stopped calculating what I was spending while going round Tesco. Plus (at 30) the day I decided I would never stay in crappy dorm housing at a conference again.

Spent swipe after swipe thinking this was the most visually over-stimulating house imaginable and then I got to the uncluttered, light filled conservatory and actually I could live in that room.

Like everyone who has seen a friend, loved one or colleague go through the horrors of pancreatic cancer (where the surgery was described by my late mentor as worse than the disease that went on to kill her anyway) this is just amazing. I hope the research gets picked up outside the US now.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

£37.4 billion net economic contribution. The enlivening of communities and classrooms. Global soft power value, global literacy. Cross subsidy funding of research. Cross subsidy of niche courses. Cultural richness and perspective.

In a rational world, nations would genuinely welcome 1/

My proposed name for this process is "The Bridgerton Effect", and for its result "Rainbow Aristocracy". An attitude that what matters is that we make sure every rich person is treated equally to all other rich people, while everyone else gets shut out.

Andrea Migliano presenting information about next year’s EHBEA conference in Zurich

Andrea introducing the organising committee, including herself, Adrian Jaeggi, Jorg Gross and Charles Efferson

Next year in Zurich 😊 🏔️🇨🇭 #ehbea2027 will be held 29 March to 2 April. Website and Bluesky account are already set up (love the logo ❤️) @ehbea2027.bsky.social

www.ehbea2027.com

Indeed.

In the UK you can't resubmit unsuccessful proposals to any of the national funding bodies (nor most of the charity funders.) So person isn't banned but project definitely is. The ERC is unusual for us in that sense as you can revise and resubmit (previously 1 or 2 yrs later depending on outcome.)

I'm not totally against a coin toss when appropriate.

But there can be more bold and innovative proposals than there is budget to fund which is where coin tosses might come in handy, especially versus summing a bunch of likert scale responses. Or if there's the absolute best but then too many 'we really want to fund this too' then use a lottery there.

Fair point re 3 years. I need to go back and read the letter again as usually nan length is based on outcome category.

Would penalise ppl in less well resourced places I think (I already know ppl whose institutions did not honour buy out during their ERCs). 25% doesn't cover FEC in a UK context anyway. But there's no perfect solution of course.

Starting grants panels are drowning at screening stage (even at Advanced the numbers have been steadily rising). The leadership suggested 'read the while thing at stage 1' but no one really went for it IIRC cos of the workload.

So I've seen lots of posts arguing this should be a screen then lottery system. But that doesn't solve the sheer workload of stage 1 screening (which for starting grants is immense), the added need for screening full proposals it would create, or the lack of additional €€ coming from EC central.

There was some discussion about options for streamlining with actual panel members over the last couple of years (tho I dont remember this option being floated). I assume panel chairs and coordinators got consulted on this too.

The workload is highest at Stage 1 screening. And deciding whole project feasibility and quality (threshold style) would require reading the B2, ideally getting external reviews for specialist input. So would be even more work.

They haven't tried nothing. They've had people from off year panels or other stage panels picking up extra reviewing at Stage 1 starting grants for at least a couple of years. They created two extra SH panels in the last 4 years to spread the work more. At StG and maybe CsG its still too much.

Hm... maybe I can tolerate Jocelyn's weird 50s Dior gowns better if I think of it as a LARP event where someone's non-LARPer girlfriend insists on just wearing a ballgown and claiming its pseudo-medieval... doesn't make me not annoyed by it though!

I am a particular fan of: "He's blonde! He's pissed! He'll see you in the lists! Lichtensteiiiiiin!"

(The football chants in the tavern were a delight, but more importantly the moment where I finally clicked in to what the film was actually doing.)

I don't know if that is better or worse than my initial filter back in the day (scanning through the physical UCAS handbook and only longlisting universities that required ABB or above) 😆

Daughter and I included doggie paddle in our races against each other yesterday. She is faster than me in both doggie paddle and front crawl. I am faster than her at breast stroke. (We did not do backstroke because I was keeping my hair dry and neither of us can do butterfly.)

making all the p-hackers look like rookies

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism.

For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.

🎉🎉🎉🎉

Did not make me want to be an assassin. But I do comsider it partly responsible for my subsequent weakness for members of the Durham University Assassins Society... 😬😆