Prediction. This will incentivise bad faith actors to provoke 'freedom of speech' controversies on campuses. More generally, it's also a Trojan horse for attacks on the EDI frameworks that have been carefully crafted in the wake of the Equality Act (which is also in the sites of the far right).
So what's the idea here? Tenure track positions in right-wing chemistry? Endowed chairs of illiberal nano-physics?
They should also read an article or two on ‘framing’ and consider the apparently heterodox idea that reporting might actually contribute to the construction of public opinion rather than merely reflecting it.
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One of the great footnoters.
An essential thread setting out the dodgy criminal record (money laundering) of one of Reform’s principal donors.
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A combination of personal experience, anecdotes and intuition suggests that the academic job market in pol/IR is in a rough state. This thread offers conclusive supporting evidence.
A sad, sobering thread that sets out in painful detail what ‘taking back control’ means in practice.
Very good!
My sense is that this was always coming - background alignment coupled with an eventual statement acknowledging the folly of Brexit. The second bit has arguably come a little sooner than expected, perhaps prompted by current ‘events’.
btw I’m pretty confident that the answer to my question is no.
The cutting edge in demography uses Bayesian probabilistic population forecasting. Just out of interest, is there much in the way of Bayesian probabilistic population forecasting in MG’s book?
And are we at all convinced (a) that a wholly different passage from Scruton is the inspiration for the ‘misquote’ and (b) that these ‘notes’ exist?
How very Trumpian. Damn those facts.
This is good (if disturbing) thread on the capture of T&S bsky.app/profile/katj...
What is a critic's role if not to focus on those fabricated quotations and the misrepresentation of data, without which the 'argument' would dissolve into pure prejudicial assertion?
Plus the claim that the book wasn’t written for academics doesn’t in the slightest address allegations of shoddy research and blatant misrepresentations. 2/2
Perhaps worth adding that ‘I’ve responded to my critics’ isn’t quite the slam-dunk that MG seems to think. His response pretty much evades any engagement with the issue of the ‘AI hallucinations’ that Andy Twelves found peppering the text. 1/2
If the exit poll is anything near accurate, this would be the lowest vote share for the Social Democrats (the model for Blue Labour) since 1901.
Exit poll in Denmark. The Social Democrats drop below 20 per cent. They are likely to lead the next government, but the balance of power seems to lie with the centre-right Moderates.
A very good thread.
Presumably, MG's academic career would have involved penalising any undergraduate who dared to turn in this kind of lazy slop masquerading as scholarly analysis?
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
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Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Apparently more than that. Andy Twelves’ thread on X offers compelling evidence that AI ‘hallucinations’ have made it into the text.
I suppose it’s par for the course, but is it really too much to ask that someone who - until recently - held a full professorship shouldn’t scam his readers with AI hallucinations and gross misrepresentations?
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See also Wolfgang Streeck on ’democratic capitalism’, a form of socio-political order that only really existed meaningfully for 3-4 decades after WWII, but which has been naturalised by the social sciences which themselves (coincidentally) burgeoned/solidified in the decades following WWII.
