@danjdevine
public opinion, behaviour, attitudes, &c. Associate Prof, @sotonpolitics.bsky.social; Assoc. Editor, @poqjournal.bsky.social & @jeppjournal.bsky.social ColU, Pompey, music, books, & pubs https://djdevine.org
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The real generational divide
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What a cheery paper to work on!
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That's not too bad for the UK. For the most competitive jobs you could be at >1000 applicants.
Just a flavour, but there are currently four 'permanent' jobs on jobs.ac.uk in politics, and **not one** in the UK.
Sorry - I meant current parliamentarian! There of course were. I think Nadia is a likely one but it's a bit unclear from her Wikipedia.
It's possible that the new Green MP Hannah Spencer is the only parliamentarian who had a manual job immediately before election.
Are there any others?
Why a man with a fragile ego and inability to take a loss would choose ACADEMIA then POLITICS as a career is beyond me.
Facing a probable defeat, call into question the process and blame it on your base's outgroup.
I think maybe they were offering good odds. What they have now is what Ladbrokes and Bet365 had last few days. Seems Labour has tanked though.
I'm seeing similar to a few days ago? I put money on a party and at that time Greens were quite favourite followed by Reform and Labour.
It seems Labour's odds have got longer though so assume it's G/R.
The liberal elite plumbers from the constituency he was contesting
Blog post summarizing my research with Kyra Rodriguez on the class gap!
The UK emerging into sunshine after months of darkness
And 'Greens win. Maybe Labour should reconsider their strategy.'
I think a lot hinges on whether/if it goes Green or Reform.
I don't know why, if AI can do all of those things, it can't also just do the question, pre-analysis plan, and the analysis.
Cool. I think @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social has a similar paper? May be wrong (remembering from a workshop a few years ago!)
So many pub conversations with people exactly like this
Vibes
Although I can sort of understand it, you'd be hard-pressed to not see this as a very generic millennial-terraced-house living room
In particular, I enjoy there being about 700 years of ??? before I get to a slightly better understanding of this through my (now largely defunct) understanding of Icelandic
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In another universe I would have studied linguistics instead of politics, so this content is right up my straße.
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There's been a pretty large pivot in the last year or two to both more working and a more diligent cohort. I think it's actually better (generally more engaged and mature) but the system isn't built for it. No control over timetable, all on one campus, etc.
This is true, even at Southampton (typically drawing wealthier students from the south east). I'd probably say the majority of students that I know well enough (e.g., supervise dissertations) have at least part time jobs and a couple work approaching FT hours.
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