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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 6h

Claude?

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 12d

My daughter will be delighted.

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

🌞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 · 20d

Rudely interjecting, but I feel I should say welcome.

And, yes, use Zotero.

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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.

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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”.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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

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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.

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