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
RT @CASAUCL: Join the CASA team! We're recruiting a part-time, early career research assistant to work on an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Acco….
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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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RT @kanarinka: At @MITdusp and @MIT_SCC we are thrilled to announce a TT position seeking an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Computi….
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RT @USJ_online: Data relating to 373 #BTR developments in #London shows that developments are clustered where transport-related infrastruct….
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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 via @timeshighered.
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Let’s start the day with some good news!. We are excited to release csdid in Python!. 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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RT @undertheraedar: New *open* UK points of interest dataset from the @CDRC_UK (which should be funded forever, great work) - over 2 millio….
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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.
ICYMI: Paris has created an Olympic travel model to push people away from the most direct trips in an effort to reduce crowding. I understand the idea, but if you know better, it's very weird to have Google Maps giving you the wrong directions on purpose
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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.
thebookseller.com
Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.
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RT @EsraSuel: 🚨Job Alert!🚨 We have a 2-year post-doc opportunity at @CASAUCL with me, @adam_dennett, @gerardhughcasey, and Anna Sterrantino….
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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RT @EmmanouilTranos: Do you use large textual data and models to answer geographical research questions? We have a job for you👇. This is pa….
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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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RT @Victoria_Spratt: 97 per cent of over 65s are registered to vote - far fewer young adults are! Today's your last chance to register to v….
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Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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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.'. 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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