Reader / Associate Head @ Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool. No longer here - migrated into the blue sky.

Joined March 2013
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Ah well, then. Time to go.
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Here at the University of Liverpool... "We are looking for early career researchers who can demonstrate the potential to be academic stars of the future. We are deliberately not limiting our search to specific disciplines." 50 of them, specifically: liverpool.ac.uk/research/fel…

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Exc: Top British universities are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on pest control each year with spending up 49% in the past two years From mice and rats to silverfish and wasp nests, inside the the pest problem nobody is talking about A thread 🧵
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17 Feb 2017
Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
This is from a 1979 presentation. We are v slow learners, it seems.
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19 Jul 2023
LIVE: Major USS announcement! #ucuRISING x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmkkng…

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Leading institutions in the UK cultural/creative industries for over 20 years are filled with leaders earning £100,000 with degrees in the humanities (English/History/Languages) but drawn from the social elite. The factor isn't a degree's earning potential. It's race and class.
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Hugely exciting opportunity to join us @LSEsociology as a Chair/Full Prof in Sociology. We’re looking for a quantitative scholar with expertise in inequalities. Please apply and RT jobs.ac.uk/job/DBH463/profes…

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Counter point to 'false dreams' narrative.
🚨 Young people from low-income homes are more likely to become a high earner if they attend university. Our research demonstrates the role universities play in driving social mobility. We must persist in our efforts to widen access to higher education ⤵️
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14 Jul 2023
We are meeting with UCEA this morning. The UCU negotiating team will be doing everything possible to move towards an agreement that is acceptable to our members. We will update you later today. Thank you for your continued support. #ucuRISING | @ucu
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... Thursday is pathetic. By Friday...
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I was so proud to do this speech today. Solidarity ✊
12 Jul 2023
This is so powerful. Students are finishing university with TBC instead of grades and staff are still receiving punitive salary deductions. The bosses could have ended this dispute well before graduations. This is all on you, @UCEA1. #ucuRISING
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"Be vigilant about attempts to turn you against trans people. The 'reasonable concerns' era is long over by now."
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Great postdoc opportunity with Creative Manchester at the UoM. Closing date 18 July. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo…
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“It would not be right to stand here and not acknowledge staff who have been fighting for not more than the bare minimum”. How can we thank you enough for this brave and moving oration at Edinburgh Graduation today. @ucuedinburgh @ucu @sssn_edi
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📢 PAY YOUR WORKERS 📢 This amazing video from the ECA graduations today show that students know what needs to be done to solve this dispute 💪
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RT @QUBelfast: We note the decision by @UCEA to suspend us after we reached a local arrangement to end the Marking and Assessment Boycott.…
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Lawyer reviewing sex education worked for group lobbying to ban LGBT teaching bit.ly/3NMG9lI

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"I now believe that there is even less intelligence and reasoning in these LLMs than I thought before. Many of the proposed use cases now look like borderline fraudulent pseudoscience to me." softwarecrisis.dev/letters/l…

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"Taken together, these flaws make LLMs look less like an information technology and more like a modern mechanisation of the psychic hotline."
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