Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

katherineschof8.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:47

*this para is important. William O'Reilly, history don, was found to have plagiarised by the university, and has had sexual misconduct claims against him as well — but he remains in post at Cambridge, and the press/public barely noticed.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

katherineschof8.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:46

This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jessica Leight

leightjessica.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:34

Third R&R of the summer accepted! 💪

For some related longer pieces: https://www.trfetzer.com/on-limitations-to-survey-experiment-research-and-attacks-on-academia/ https://www.trfetzer.com/when-social-listening-stopped-being-social/ Context: https://x.com/edenhofer_jacob/status/2085095990592188549

More of this -- only if we cultivate norms that regard failures as valuable will make progress. This is how knowledge accumulates. As an aside: we also need fewer survey experiments. At the moment, we have a misallocation of effort/resources. See also these slides by Macartan Humphreys.