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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 1d

New report alert: Young people at risk of violence are too often excluded from mental health support — unless they offend first.

🔗 Read the full report youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/acce...

#WMHD25 #WorldMentalHealthDay #EarlyIntervention #ViolencePrevention

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 2d

What's galling is hearing AI leaders/boosters brush off overbuild or bubble risks as if they don’t matter

The BoE warns a burst could dry up finance for households and businesses.

When people with power say ‘don’t worry’, what they really mean is ‘we’ll be fine’

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI on.ft.com/3WqHK5t

BoE flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 5d

Short note with Fernando Miró Llinares published on @crimrxiv.com: 'Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill'
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...

Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill

Founded in 1999, RECPC became one of the most influential Spanish-language journals in criminal law and criminology. After a 2024 change of management, articles of dubious authorship and quality linke...

doi.org

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · 23d

Whaaaaaaat?! Amazing! Thanks for keeping me up to date and thanks for sharing all the useful R stuff 🙂

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · 23d

Very cute!

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · 28d

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · 28d

Current end of PhD and academic career planning feelings

a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

media.tenor.com

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · Sep 11

“P8 is […] skewed when children don’t attend well”

“When we label schools as underperforming, we make it harder […] to recruit”

“disadvantaged children can be concentrated in certain schools […], in turn […]these schools find achieving a positive P8 more difficult - and so the cycle repeats”

Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · Sep 11

“multiple factors contributing to disadvantage, many of which schools may not be able to influence. As some of those factors only […]start to bite at secondary school, it’s [common] for a school to be doing everything it can, only to still see little progress -a reality that P8 fails to acknowledge”

Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · Sep 11

Among the 100 schools with the highest % of disadvantaged pupils and lowest % of EAL pupils, just 7 have a positive P8 score.

Nick Gibb claims it shows teaching needs to "improve"; the schools say P8 is broken.

@ellencph.bsky.social gets behind the numbers
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · Sep 11

“multiple factors contributing to disadvantage, many of which schools may not be able to influence. As some of those factors only […]start to bite at secondary school, it’s [common] for a school to be doing everything it can, only to still see little progress -a reality that P8 fails to acknowledge”

Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · Sep 11

Among the 100 schools with the highest % of disadvantaged pupils and lowest % of EAL pupils, just 7 have a positive P8 score.

Nick Gibb claims it shows teaching needs to "improve"; the schools say P8 is broken.

@ellencph.bsky.social gets behind the numbers
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

The ‘impossible situation’ of Progress 8 in white, working-class schools

Just seven of the 100 schools with the highest rates of disadvantage and the lowest rates of English as an additional language have a positive P8. With the metric on pause, is it time to rethink it?

www.tes.com

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · Sep 8

🥳Congrats to @oliveiratr.bsky.social, winner of the prestigious 2025 ESC Policing WG Early Career Researcher prize!

@jacksojp.bsky.social said "this research on aggressive policing in São Paulo provides crucial insights into how confrontational police tactics undermine public trust and legitimacy"

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 8

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · Sep 8

Last year saw more children convicted of committing homicides, rising from 26 in 2013/14 to 46 in 2023/24, an increase of 77%.

🔎 Look #BeyondtheHeadlines to find out what’s happening with children involved in the most serious forms of violence: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/beyo...

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University of Leeds Press Office @unileedsnews.bsky.social · Sep 8

As children across England settle in to their new school life, research by @childofthenorth.bsky.social shows almost half of those on free school meals weren't 'school ready' - with big impacts for their life and education.
www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... #natoppsummit #childrenfirst

Half of children on free school meals were not ready for school

Almost half of school pupils currently on free school meals will have started their formal education without the necessary skills to thrive, according to new research.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 20

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted […]society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. […]software updates are rolled out […]non-consensually, [MS]Office is bundled with chatbots & we […]have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI”

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 7

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 7

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Sep 7

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.
A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

The AI authorship issue is real. We've caught papers that looked OK but had references to works by the *journal editors* that *do not exist*. Like, don't send us papers citing papers we know we didn't write, right?

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Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today I learned that my initials are cool in Catalan ⚡️

Amazed to find out that I won the 2025 ESC Policing WG early career researcher prize for my JOEX paper! Thanks so much @davidbuil.bsky.social and @jacksojp.bsky.social for the nomination, and the ESC policing WG for the award 🙌

David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Sep 6

Can you guess who received the 2025 ESC Policing Working Group Early Career Researcher Prize? Clues: based at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and his initials spell the Catalan word for “thunder” ⚡

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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congratulations @oliveiratr.bsky.social! 😃🥂🍾

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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · Sep 5

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

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