Jon Reades @jreades.🦋.social
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Current @CASAUCL HoD; co-author: “Why Face-to-Face still matters: The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era” (https://t.co/VPAalUUbmn); ~he/him
London
Joined December 2010
Join the CASA team! We're recruiting a part-time, early career research assistant to work on an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account award-funded project, investigating the decline in West Midlands fire & rescue services. Read more & apply by 10 December: https://t.co/yUWCPgGIY4
ucl.ac.uk
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Data relating to 373 #BTR developments in #London shows that developments are clustered where transport-related infrastructural investments have opened '#RentGaps' that can be exploited by developers https://t.co/sxMab0HPfI
@Bonnie_0000 @adam_dennett @jreades @PhilHubbard1
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.@hackneycouncil: have now twice nearly been run over by vehicles at this ‘upgraded’ junction despite being in the crossing. Drivers either don’t understand (bad signage) or don’t care (wasn’t a problem b4). Someone will die/SI if you don’t fix it soon. @MayorofLondon
Just cycled through the new De Beauvoir bike crossing today. Dare I say it, the old crossing felt slightly safer. The signage was unclear, and it seemed like cars have the right of way. Is that correct?
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News flash: pretty much everything predicted by academics has happened and architects of ‘HE market’ continue to try meld the worst aspects of markets and non-markets through tinkering at the margins.
Why should some UK universities be pushed to the wall while others swell their intake? Fresh calls for number controls after elites take more students https://t.co/Qzzh1l7wRo via @timeshighered
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Let’s start the day with some good news! We are excited to release csdid in Python! https://t.co/K65yhPWu1n The Python package scales better than our R did package (and substantially faster than the Stata sister package.) Thanks to @Alex_QR_CG and team for the partnership! 🚀
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New *open* UK points of interest dataset from the @CDRC_UK (which should be funded forever, great work) - over 2 million categorised POI points 👏 and released as a single, ready-to-use gpkg file 🥳 https://t.co/z7uERh5ddG
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Am a long way from being first to say this: algorithms that optimise for, say, time of user are a choice to privilege one set of outcomes at the expense of others. Benefits of that choice may then accrue to one group (which sees it as ‘natural’) at the expense of others.
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I am finding these opening ceremonies quite… perplexing. This feels like a long-form version of No Context French. I bloody lived there and speak fluent French and have no clue what is going on.
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Taylor & Francis sells access to academic research they’ve published to Microsoft AI.
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🚨Job Alert!🚨 We have a 2-year post-doc opportunity at @CASAUCL with me, @adam_dennett, @gerardhughcasey, and Anna Sterrantino Our ESRC project with @turinginst will develop methods and data to support an equitable transition to net-zero. More info 👉
ucl.ac.uk
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Well this is depressing: number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets. My *guess* is that fall will be less pronounced where better-trained and -resourced teachers are found. And where will that be? 🤔
theguardian.com
Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than halved in eight years, academics say
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Bumper year for @CASAUCL: huge congratulations to Prof of Cities and Networks @NeaveOClery and Prof of Economic Geography @iammaxnathan together with new Associate Profs @EsraSuel and @citygeographics News:
ucl.ac.uk
Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions 2023-24 successful list.
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Good thread on housing data and good questions/comments too!
🏠THREAD🏠 Why everything you thought you knew about housebuilding in the UK might actually be wrong. A nerdy but quite important thread, with special relevance in an election where every politician is promising to build x-thousand more homes. It begins (of course) with a chart
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Do you use large textual data and models to answer geographical research questions? We have a job for you👇 This is part of our new @SmartDataRes project: An Atlas of Economic Activities in the UK: Tapping into Web Archives for Social Science Research’. https://t.co/yYklrOrnn2
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The combination of @quarto_pub and the #pyodide extension for learners is 💯! Students wanting to familiarise themselves with @ThePSF #python can do everything in the browser without even needing Jupyter now! Eg.
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97 per cent of over 65s are registered to vote - far fewer young adults are! Today's your last chance to register to vote on July 4th. Sign up if you haven't already! Democracy! Plus, it's good for your credit score 😎
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Good description of the ‘intricate’ methodologies and poorly structured lit reviews that ‘delve’ into a topic neither the student nor I are interested in. Sentences (and the odd paragraph) *seem* to make sense but are really, really dull. The whole is a hot mess.
I've been looking for a phrase to describe GenAI output for months and, finally, here it is: 'an aura of machinic blandness... an essay with no edges, that does nothing technically wrong or bad, but not much right or good either.' https://t.co/WHwyqNMgX9 via @timeshighered
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How many stats 101 ‘rules’ are anything but? A nice, simple explanation of why heteroscedastity is mainly an issue for OLS when using small data sets with the simple standard error.
In a quick and focused tutorial, Jarom Hulet explains how to adjust standard errors for heteroscedasticity and unpacks the underlying math behind this approach.
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