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Jake Anders

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Education, evaluation, economics, etc. Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social Principal Investigator, COSMO study Dad to three. https://jakeanders.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 1h

Come and join our busy, fun and friendly team!

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

📢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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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

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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 1d

Claude?

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 13d

My daughter will be delighted.

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 15d

🌞Another day, another @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper 🌚

Our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social examines a recent major reform to the UK education system:

the introduction of T levels - a qualification that aims to blend the academic and vocational

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 21d

Rudely interjecting, but I feel I should say welcome.

And, yes, use Zotero.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 8

For the record, I still haven’t done this.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 8

Almost always do this at renewal to avoid upward creep in the premium. Basically, as long as they don’t have any ongoing conditions it’s worth seriously considering.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 5

Not the point I know, but I always find it particularly grating that they could also be more concise themselves by using “concision” instead of the ponderous “conciseness”.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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

We have more of our online courses on using administrative data, supported by ADR UK, coming up soon.
➡ National Pupil Database (NPD) 23-24 Sept www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...
➡ Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) 30 Sep - 1 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 1

It's always worth doing that.

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven N. Durlauf, Dave O’Brien , and 25 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven N. Durlauf, Dave O’Brien, Michael A. Clemens, Mark J. Brandt, Lorraine Dearden, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Cyrus Samii, Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Sear, Valerie Mueller, Adam Gamoran, Melanie C. Green, Max Nathan, Julia Lynch, Miguel Á. Malo, Maria Abreu, Rachel S. Franklin, David Bartram, Marco Albertini, Rense Corten, Jill A. Jacobson, Stefanie Mollborn, Jon Dean, Alexandra Cirone, Jake Anders, Evan Roberts, David Darmofal

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

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UCL Div. of Psychology & Language Sciences (PALS) @uclpals.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔬 PALS researchers in npj Science of Learning show that people unconsciously track irrelevant probabilities, reshaping perception – sometimes causing lasting “statistical deafening.”

Read the paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Reposted by Gill Wyness, Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 21

GCSE results are out:

On the surface, today’s results seem cause for relative optimism.

Despite this cohort’s tough time — both final year at primary & first year of secondary were disrupted by COVID; rates of SEND and mental health issues also up among this group — there’s no results drop off.

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Rachel Brooks, Dave O’Brien , and 7 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Rachel Brooks, Dave O’Brien, Justin H. Kirkland, Frank van Tubergen, Miles Corak, Adam Gamoran, Patrick Präg, Jake Anders, Jani Erola

Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · Aug 19

UCL staff and students - have you seen our Research Data Management webpages? 🌐💻

With information about writing data management plans, complying with funder requirements, using the UCL Research Data Repository and more, it's worth having a browse 👀

www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open...

Research Data Management

The Research Data Management team advises staff and students on managing research outputs both during a project and once it is complete. Come and talk to us about writing data management plans,…

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 14

Can confirm that it’s a great pub, even before this!

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 14

Great paper on the under-explored topic of non-A level pathways by my PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social — highly relevant for Level 3 Results Day!

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 14

What do progression pathways for T Level students look like?

New CEPEO paper from Robbie Maris

repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 14

What do progression pathways for T Level students look like?

New CEPEO paper from Robbie Maris

repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...

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Reposted by Geraint Rees, Dave O’Brien, Lindsey Macmillan , and 2 more Geraint Rees, Dave O’Brien, Lindsey Macmillan, Gill Wyness, Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 14

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades.

But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 13

I use this for local code auto-complete, and the de-censored DeepSeek R1 as a more general model that can run decently on my machine. That’s been a nice combo for me.

I’m hoping someone distils the gpt-oss models further, since they’re open source, but guess we’ll see.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 13

Ah…

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 12

Potentially useful for you to benchmark against, mine is Mac M2 with 16GB memory and it took, like 45 minutes to respond to the prompt “hello”! I regret not getting one with more memory…

If you have a similar experience then perhaps give the OpenRouter free model a go

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 12

Yeah, ollama can support a bunch of models. Here’s a useful blog post on getting it to download gpt-oss: cookbook.openai.com/articles/gpt...

How to run gpt-oss locally with Ollama | OpenAI Cookbook

Want to get OpenAI gpt-oss running on your own hardware? This guide will walk you through how to use Ollama to set up gpt-oss-20b or gpt-...

cookbook.openai.com

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 12

Ah, not directly from OpenAI, it seems. But certainly OpenRouter if you set up an account and API key there. There’s even a free model variant there (albeit with things like tools support turned off): openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-o...

gpt-oss-20b (free) - API, Providers, Stats

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. Run gpt-oss-20b (free) with API

openrouter.ai

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 12

I’ve not tried yet, but had been thinking about it. Looks eminently doable either by installing locally with ollama & using ellmer’s chat_ollama() function (if your computer is powerful enough: mine is not, hence only thoughts so far), or by calling it from OpenAI or OpenRouter with those functions.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Aug 1

Re: your link about the Chiltern weekly replacement bus service, I think you’ll enjoy learning that — just to add to the general ludicrousness of the situation — it was for a time operated by a great big Oxford Tube coach busandtrainuser.com/2023/06/15/b...

Britain’s most ridiculous bus journey just got more ridiculous

Thursday 15th June 2023 I blogged about the West Ealing to West Ruislip ‘ghost bus’ when it began back in January. Readers may recall Arriva owned Chiltern Railways’ rail replacement division…

busandtrainuser.com

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Jul 29

Use of “trending” about anything that isn’t a process drives to me distraction when reviewing (and at all other times). 😤