A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"321 postgraduate programmes within the field of social sciences were closed for the 2026-27 cycle."
#UKHE #AcademicSky
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
UK Russell Group unis will take any money that they think they can get away with.
It's very rare that anyone raises questions.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
What about corporate-funded foundations set up by companies with massive conflicts? Like the Global Energy Balance Network or Institute of Grocery Distribution.
Universities routinely take their money, and researchers are considered conflict free. How should we address this kind of laundering?
📢 Academics & journal editors: I'm working on a story about donors using financial intermediaries to fund studies "anonymously".
- Is this common in your field?
- Does your uni have rules to prevent this?
- Would your journal accept a declaration of an "anonymous donation"?
📱sehill.11 on Signal
The Citi training I am doing just said CONSORT was to used
evaluate the quality of a study. 🫣😭
This is incorrect. Reporting guidelines are not meant to measure quality of a study, but rather provide the a guidance on what information should be shared so we can assess the quality of a study.
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
EU court of justice ruling:
"the operator of an information society service cannot be
exempted from its liability for the information stored and rebroadcast...
"(Including) where the
operator determines, by means of an algorithm, under what conditions... that
information is or is not rebroadcast"
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📢 Call for submissions: Causal Data Science Meeting 2026
Join researchers and practitioners from academia and industry for a virtual meeting on Nov 4–5, 2026, exploring the role of causality in machine learning and AI. #CDSM2026