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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18h

Im saying to people we provide bland research philosophy statements, in the large part.

Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 19h

Your philosophical position is most obvious in how you produce, understand and treat data. One of the less obviously places it comes across is usually in a bland and hackneyed statement of 'Philosophical Position'. Research philosophy is practical and pragmatic more than it is explicable in prose.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 8d

Its honest, that all the really matters to me.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 8d

What a lovely thing to say, thanks. Not only do I see them show up where you suggest, they show up in my own work! I make that point somewhere in something ive writen on the topic

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 8d

Ive been teaching in HE since 2008. Every year at least one ernest undergraduate has told me 'there's no research on [insert topic]'. And, of course, every time they have been dead wrong. I do love a wee academic truism.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 9d

Please do sign this - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 11d

Is gender equality in brain damage progress for women and sport???

It's a simple question to ask, and the answer is quite clear and logical, but no one seems willing to take the necessary next steps. Details here 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport? - Jack Hardwicke, Reem Al-Hashmi, Debra Forbes, Carrie Paechter, Molly Pocock, Katie Taylor, Dee Yeagers, Christopher R Matthews, 202...

This commentary sits within a context of growing cultural concern over brain damage that occurs in many of the Western world's most popular, profitable and...

journals.sagepub.com

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Social scientific methods are not as they should be." Some chronic problems that i'm pretty sure you've come across are outlined below 👇 and you can read more here - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 17d

Im a lucky/privileged one in that regard so I will not comment

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 17d

Academia is... spending all Sunday checking damn hyperlinks on ya CV

a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is making a funny face and smiling .

ALT: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is making a funny face and smiling .

media.tenor.com

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18d

Absolutely wholesome interactions between people on what ever level are great to see.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18d

Lol! The real deal

Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, nice detail. Im digging it, bit nerdy 🤓

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 18d

Ive started referring to myself as a social scientist. Largely because I use social theory and philosophy from across disciplines to frame the science and scholarship I do and the books i write. It feels cogent and useful to me, but if can certainly be a slippy and abused framing of what some do.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interrogating the foundations from which good science can flow, allows scholars to see that we all have much in common despite important differences. So I wrote this to capture key elements of *all* (social) science - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Social science methods are not as they should be." In this paper I expand my critique of the 'epistemological fictions' that offen sit at the core of thinking & writing in disciplines such as psychology, criminology, sociology and interpretative science more broadly. Please do share 🙏

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 22d

What address?

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 22d

DM me if youd like to read the full chapter, cheers 🍻

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 25d

What to do when local leaders are merely followers? What to do when institutional definitions of success are insipid & amoral? You establish your own vision, a morally defined & defendable path, & measures of success that point to something meaningful. More here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...

www.nature.com

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 25d

What to do when local leaders are merely followers? What to do when institutional definitions of success are insipid & amoral? You establish your own vision, a morally defined & defendable path, & measures of success that point to something meaningful. More here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...

www.nature.com

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28d

And in relation to the second half of the original post, if you want a longform read you could try the book in my bio, specifically Part 2. Do drop me a message if youd like to discuss further. Cheers 🍻

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28d

Here's a resent one (not from me) about reflexivity - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28d

He'll tell us he's doing his best/duty etc. And ill tell him he is a central part of the biggest problem humanity faces.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 28d

I get that people who think in such uncritical ways will claim to being 'pragmatic'. But they are complicity in making & maintaining education as business (capitalist realism writ large). When clearly it should be understood & engaged with as a social good & thus protected from the profit motive.

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Sep 5

I got in trouble at work for speaking too frankly about senior colleagues poor performance. This paper came from my reflections as to the foundations of my thoughts about vacuous 'leadership': www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Towards a ‘single-minded’ social science that matters - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Social science is not as it should be – I think we have lost contact with what matters. Many scholars have made similar laments and directed their attention at disciplines in an attempt to mark out a ...

www.nature.com

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