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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 3m

Plus everyone (including the Tory party leader) has forgotten that the Conservatives *designed* the current funding system to subsidize degrees with the RAB charge: it was a feature then, not a bug, and now it is a 'rip off'.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 34m

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 27m

Absolutely! I find this disproportionately irritating - perhaps as clear an example of the McNamara fallacy (only caring about those things for which you have measures) as you will find.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 34m

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 2h

Question for today - will the 2029 UK general election be the first where the '2nd dimension' dominates vote choice (rather than also being important) - which looks like very bad news for the 'old' parties or /1

Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 1d

You can see clearly the party space fragmenting as Reform dominate the authoritarian (and increasingly the 'moderate') groups but staying virtually at 0 on the liberal left. While the Greens move to a strong second place in the liberal left group but struggle outside that group.

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 18h

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 19h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 20h

Never was a truer word spoken

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 21h

Also the “boop” tram noise is superb

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to David and Delia for editing this excellent special issue!

David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 1d

I would happily participate in an RCT to test this more rigorously

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 5d

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 5d

Look forward to it!

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats Ceri, this looks great!

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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 5d

Very pleased to say my new article is out @polstudies.bsky.social ! In it I compare single individuals to those with partners with different past vote choices/party identifications and demonstrate that this is associated with an individual's own vote choice. doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections - Ceri Fowler, 2025

This article explores differences in voting behaviour between those that were single and those that had a Eurosceptic or Europhile partner at the United Kingdom...

doi.org

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Anyway I don't think you understand what motivates Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News, without looking at the particular flavour of his Church of England faith. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories

Sir Paul Marshall, a co-owner of GB News, is building a media empire and accumulating political power

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Rabbi Alexander Altmann, a communal leader in Manchester 1938-59. He was responsible for one of the most remarkable acts of reconciliation in the city's history when the German footballer Bert Trautmann, an ex-soldier and former Nazi, signed for Manchester City in 1949, just 4 years after the war

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 5d

Hex map

Map by Ollie Corfe showing the followers of witchcraft in Britain by local authority according to the 2021 census

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 5d

Reform very much the Millwall of UK political parties

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 5d

Do you trust the police?

Great deal / fair amount: 55%
Not very much / not at all: 42%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 6d

Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars.

Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!

PSA Political Psychology Specialist Group @psapolpsychology.bsky.social · 6d

This time in two weeks, we will launch our autumn/winter seminar series. We have an exciting line-up of four online talks covering a range of topics in political psychology.

All presentations are on Thursdays at 12:00 UK.

Sign up to attend here!: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

Political Psychology | The Political Studies Association (PSA)

Political Psychology is a multi-disciplinary group established to provide a forum for collaboration, discussion and support for political psychology scholars and practitioners as well as to facilitate...

www.psa.ac.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

My wife is supposed to be doing synagogue security duty on Saturday. It's terrifying.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 6d

Yes I was speaking from personal experience! I've obv had to supplement my own contributions with bits of the Moana soundtrack I've found somewhere

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Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social · 6d

An important new paper from my talented, but BlueSky-less PHD Jose Lopes

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe

In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 6d

The millennial version of this is making a Yoto card mixtape from the MP3s saved to an external HDD 20 years ago

(although admittedly my taste as a teenager and my under-5s taste now don't perfectly overlap)

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8d

I love music streaming and digital music (I use Qobuz). But I raided my mother's collection last week and her vinyl records from the 1970s still play just fine. Whereas the music collection of ripped CDs, pirated MP3s, etc that I carefully built as a teenager I lost over a decade ago

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6d

What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...

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