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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 16h

There’s this scene in the movie Virtuosity (1995) where they figure out the android serial killer, Sid 6.7, is an amalgam of all serial killer personalities battling it out inside him.

I imagine all LLMs are just that, but it’s Reddit vs LinkedIn vs Twitter vs Facebook vs Weibo vs Rick Astley.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally you come across the odd screenshot from LinkedIn and realize where ChatGPT got its cringe

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Please wait whilst I formulate my next post

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

We need more events bringing disciplines together and interacting with policy, so I’m honored to be a part of this stellar line up

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 1d

With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>

Workshop on

Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...

www.eui.eu

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 1d

With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>

Workshop on

Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...

www.eui.eu

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

I just booked a multi stop train journey with 7 legs. Take that, climate change!!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

If a pdf falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to the Hotel Academia
Such a lovely place
You can find any abstract you like
But you can never read

(better stop before this gets out of hand...)

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Never gonna free you up
Never gonna let you read
Never gonna give your fulltext to someone

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

My name is paper
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes, I think you've seen me before

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

In academia, the pinnacle of achievement is a pdf no one can access and I think that's beautiful

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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health.

3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science!

🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...

Research Fellow in Mental Health at UCL

Apply for the Research Fellow in Mental Health role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

The exodus has begun

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Wrt grade creep, it's not so much a change in attitudes as a response to market mechanisms... we don't think economic inflation is due to changing attitudes, and neither is this

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

What makes the decline different is you'd have to assume teachers changed their attitudes to girls and not boys... which seems weird

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. How often do you get a study idea for free? Get on it

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't need this reminder that my German practice has stalled

Bluesky posting window with textbox "Are you writing in German?".

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Good point. But there tends to be grade inflation even if policies stay constant (unless the policy is normed grading)

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 1d

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢

We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus.

🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025

Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj

Please share widely!

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

This important paper shows a precipitous drop in girls' achievement in recent years, closing a third of the gap with boys.

Covid doesn't seem to be the smoking gun, but tiktok may be

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 23d

1 year left of my @erc.europa.eu grant on siblings and social mobility! It has been a blast. Below some of the reserach conducted by the outstanding postdocs

Jung In, JMF, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jesper Birkelund, BJS, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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#sociology

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social · 11d

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 11d

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

And that, best beloved, is how the leopard got his spots.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally you come across the odd screenshot from LinkedIn and realize where ChatGPT got its cringe

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

started with a research question
lost it somewhere in review
now i just hope
no one notices
the methods came first

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