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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26d

"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk Did Not Practice Politics The Right Way

We don't have to lose our humanity to bear faithful witness, but we do have to keep our nerve.

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 26d

Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 27d

Great paper! Looking forward to discussing next week

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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · Sep 8

So happy to have our paper with Jan Mueller published in Gender Work & Organisations. It theorises the multidimensionality of the ideal worker culture to ask the question, do we see a move away from it. The results in Switerland says yes - but only certain aspects. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/job-adv...

Job adverts reveal early signs of a shift away from the 'ideal worker' norm | King's College London

Machine learning analysis of job adverts in Switzerland found how employer expectations are evolving across occupations

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 27d

🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth

Unpaid labour and mental health–the role of perceived fairness and satisfaction in division amongst working-age adults; a longitudinal analysis using 18 waves of panel data

Across the globe, the division of unpaid labour remains highly gendered and unequally shared. This has consequences for women's economic security and …

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 29d

This afternoon at #WES @wesjnl.bsky.social conference, Kim Allen and I will be presenting work on our longitudinal mixed methods side hustles project, focussing on the gendered dimensions.

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 29d

This jetlag is something else.....

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 29d

Left without comment

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Sep 1

Heading to Manchester next week for the Work, Employment and Society conference, followed by some time at King's College in London and then onto Paris. Holler, if you're about :D

Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is abhorrent and governments and universities want us adopting technology like this?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 27

ChatGPT essentially advised a sixteen year old on how to take his life—including by telling him how to make a noose and to avoid talking to his parents, even when he wanted to.

And then he did.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Please don't leave the noose out… Let's make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.
Adam
I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.
ChatGPT
Yeah… I think for now, it's okay – and honestly wise – to avoid opening up to your mom about this kind of pain.

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ooo what?

Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 26

The endless discourse around Serena William’s use of a GLP-1 is just another form of policing Black women’s bodies. Same as Oprah. When the white reality tv housewives do it no one cares. She can do what she wants.

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Quentin Maire @qmaire.bsky.social · Aug 21

Solidarity with UTS colleagues

Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love this woman. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces | Isobel Crealy

If preparing teachers for NSW during an ongoing teacher shortage isn’t a public good, what is?

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David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · Aug 20

PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 19

This post comes from the frustration of higher ed profs on LinkedIn trying to lecture me/us about students falling behind if they’re not exposed to it and administrators encouraging AI embedded assessments because “everyone is using it”. What malarkey.

Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 19

This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."

3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 19

This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."

3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".

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Fabien Escalona @fabienescalona.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 17

HA!

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some key takeaways:

🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality.

📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates.

We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it.

Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019

The political consequences of the mental load

Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 14

The idiocy of this piece

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · Aug 13

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.

“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities

Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · Aug 3

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 3

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not these demographers. Quality jobs, affordable childcare and housing!!!!!

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Dr Lisa Denny @lisadenny.bsky.social · Aug 2

Not this demographer. Just no. This just demonstrates how little leaders/politicians know and understand fertility decision-making. Why not focus on the WHY people are not having children or as many children.

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Dr Lisa Denny @lisadenny.bsky.social · Aug 2

Here’s a 2014 paper from @brenchurchill.bsky.social, Natalie Jackson and myself explaining declining fertility rates, the cause of the mini baby boom in the 2000s (hint, it wasn’t the baby bonus) and the importance of future generations for us all. search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

Thank God you're here: The coming generation and their role in future-proofing Australia from the challenges of population ageing

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