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'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.'
Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
🗣️"In a policy environment that foregrounds evidence-based regulation, a more fundamental question arises regarding who is realistically positioned to generate that evidence"
#AcademicSky #SocialScience
Margot Finn
LSE Impact
🗣️" Providing free food is a “quick fix” rather than a long-term solution to deep underlying problems of student poverty"
#AcademicSky #Universities #StudentPoverty
🗣️"Even as fewer people share political content, those who continue to do so are increasingly drawn from the most polarised segments of the electorate"
#Twitter #SocialMedia #Polarisation
🗣️"A 50 per cent replication rate only reads as a failure when we assume that replication is the only benchmark of credibility"
#SocialScience #OpenResearch #Reproducibility
🗣️"Academic writing teaches precision. Public writing teaches clarity and empathy"
#AcWri #PhDchat
💥New | Why we built the Journal of Research on Research and what it cost us
✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @penders.bsky.social, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer
#AcademicPublishing #Metascience #OpenAccess
💥New | Why we built the Journal of Research on Research and what it cost us
✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social, @penders.bsky.social, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer
#AcademicPublishing #Metascience #OpenAccess
💥New | Gendered AI design reflects and reinforces society’s biases
✍️ @tahayasseri.bsky.social & @cuihaosabrina.bsky.social
#Sociology #AI #GenderedDesign
Three papers in Nature find that around half of social science studies hold up under replication, reproducibility, and robustness tests. Is this a bad thing
Gemma Derrick, Bart Penders, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer reflect on the choices, challenges & compromises of launching the Journal of Research on Research
Gemma Derrick, Bart Penders, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer reflect on the choices, challenges & compromises of launching the Journal of Research on Research
Gendered design in artificial intelligence is often treated as a matter of marketing and user experience. However, assigning gender to AI systems may have deeper social consequences. Read our new piece with @tahayasseri.bsky.social @soham-centre.bsky.social ⬇️
Hao Cui
Petter Törnberg shows how social media use in the USA has changed in the period 2020 – 2024 creating a smaller more polarised and less diverse public sphere.
Faced with a cost-of-living crisis more students in England are attending university hungry. The financial crisis in the higher education may make things worse.
Legal uncertainty surrounding data access creates a structural divide within the UK’s research ecosystem between those who can absorb risk and those who can't.
Writing for public audiences in a variety of media has become a common feature of PhD research. Disha discusses what pubic writing adds to the PhD journey.
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When AI tools are designed with a gender, they don't just encode gendered values they also encourage users to engage with them in biased ways.
