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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 2d

You never know, maybe they randomized the order of response options 😞

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 8d

Love to see our beautiful wildlife on @utm.utoronto.ca campus

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 14d

Ironically the worst survey experience I've had this year is a qualtrics customer satisfaction survey.

I signed up with a panel company, and get asked maybe 5 times a year. Good to see how things feel from the other side though!

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 20d

I copy pasted some text from a french-language Word document. And now Word thinks my entire document must be french, and underlined everything in red as misspelled 🤦

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 23d

Paper rejected! 🤷‍♂️

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 26d

Really glad to see this out, terrific work.

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 27d

Paper submitted 💪

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 5

This an interesting phrasing from the Minister of Indigenous services.

"Canadians and Indigenous peoples" echoes a common phrasing "Canadians and Quebecers" used by Quebec nationalist politicians as a way of emphasizing that these are two separate groups of peoples.

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 5

(its a "help you get a Social Insurance Number") session, but pretty funny graphic design decision.

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 5

Another example of universities corrupting our youth 🤣

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yes, and generally further from Federal power in various ways.

Australian Capital Territory would complicated it though...

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great! Would be nice to have an addition to Fred Cutler's work.

Not a lot of great provincial knowledge questions, but I seem to recall names of premiers in some CES.

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Sep 2

Free paper idea!

Do people from Ontario actually know or care less about provincial politics than people in other provinces?

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Perhaps more accurate would be that Ontarians don’t care much about provincial politics (that’s my experience after 25 years in this province). Friends and family in Alberta also seem to care much more about provincial politics.

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 21

Funny to read older work - lack of attention to causality, hardly any confidence intervals, focus on class, etc.

Quite the clapback in a footnote by Pinard here though:

Critics say causality can't be inferred from correlation. But Pinard says the critics do the same thing in their own work!

Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 21

For those interested lurkers, Pinard 1992 also has a nice discussion of earlier periods of change, and emphasis on things like status, resentment, and grievance (rather than economics and language).

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very kind of you, but I think I've got it sorted.

Yet another reminder that stuff on internet often just disappears!

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is a great idea. Internet Archive proves its worth yet again.

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Paper Skygest feed is excellent and you should all add it.

If you want to see research/paper posts, its clearly the best thing around. Almost like old academic twitter.

Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · Mar 10

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks a lot!