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James Mahmud Rice
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Sociologist in the Demography And Ageing Unit, Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, University Of Melbourne

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10 beautiful libraries, including the State Library Of South Australia and State Library Victoria:

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La Trobe Reading Room, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, as viewed from the 5th floor. Photo by David Iliff. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
August 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I've been having a fun time browsing through @chrispower.bsky.social's brief survey of the short story:

www.theguardian.com/books/series...

And, happily, the following books by Machado de Assis and Nabokov (both included in the survey) arrived in the post on Friday, just in time for the weekend!
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Stories
May 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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A few years ago I published an article on the effect of public transfers on intergenerational inequality in income. A recent working paper by Peter Varela, Robert Breunig and Matthew Smith approaches the same topic with a similar methodology.

The papers (see below) differ in important ways however.
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I just read this @thesiswhisperer blog, then went to the Atlantic site to find my publications are mentioned 105 times in Meta’s AI pirater 😳
Seems everything via Taylor & Francis, Palgrave, Routledge, & Cambridge Uni Press! 😭😭
March 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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In his book "Dimensions Of Urban Social Structure" (University Of Toronto Press, 1969), Frank Lancaster Jones makes some interesting observations on the value of social research that "states the obvious" or produces "commonsense" results rather than surprising ones:
"Surprise may be the essence of mystery stories and science fiction but it is not the test of fruitful and important sociological research. Indeed, I do not know how one could surprise the common sense that affirms on the one hand that 'Too many cooks spoil the broth', but on the other that 'Many hands make light work'; that advises 'Penny wise, pound foolish', yet warns 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'. Common sense in fact is little more than a treasure-trove of mutually contradictory statements in terms of which any social event or human experience can find a reassuring interpretation. While I would never presume to steal a march upon common sense, it is obviously worthwhile to investigate the conditions under which one segment of common sense may be more applicable than another."
March 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
February 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM