Happy St Georges day...

Reflecting on what, if anything, has been decolonised in the Democracy from Below project with ⁦Boitumelo Matlala⁩ ⁦Research Training Centre - University of Edinburgh⁩ ⁦[email protected]⁩ research-training-centre.sps.ed.ac.uk/using-survey-r…

📘NEW CPC-CG Working Paper on fertility intentions across England, Wales & Scotland Examines the different childbearing trends across the three countries & uses survey data to establish whether intended family size choices contribute to the differences ⏺️cpc.ac.uk/docs/WP_105_Be…

As economists we talk a lot about the "College Premium", but really it's a "Graduate School Premium" in conjunction with a "High School Penalty"

In BHPS/Understanding Society, we have over 3,000 panel members who have participated in every one of 26 annual survey waves. This is what Nicole James found out about how they differ from others:

To give #SocialScience researchers an introduction to event history analysis, Research Training Centre - University of Edinburgh is running a one-day online course on 13 June. The course is led by kevralston. Bursaries are available for #research staff. Find out more and register: ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.…

🎙️ On this weeks episode we talk about a “Causal Quartet” a set of four datasets generated under different mechanisms, all with the same statistical summaries (including visualizations!) but different true causal effects (Plus a chat about M-bias!)

Demography has increased the word count for our "Research Note" category: We now allow up to 4,000 words (counting only the main text; excluding refs, acknowledgments and footnotes). This will allow authors to more fully present their methods and findings. So send them our way!

Day 1, Dumyat fort, Stirling. Was this a political centre of the Maitai or was the place-name attached to a much older fort (or both)? We have five days to find out....! canmore.org.uk/site/47117/dum… Archaeology at UoA Dr Murray Cook Historic Environment Scotland University of Aberdeen

In Stata 18, you can now use Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) as part of the Stata shipped software! The commands are hdidregress and xthdidregress. We will keep updating the csdid command, too, so you can use it with other Stata versions. stata.com/new-in-stata/h…

We are delighted to announce Prof Andrew Gelman's seminar on educating the future statisticians on Tuesday 13th June 2023, hosted by Royal Statistical Society Teaching Stats Section, UCL Statistical Science and NASH_UCL. Seminar will be at UCL and via Zoom. For tickets: ucl.ac.uk/population-hea…

New in Advance Access! Editor's Choice Article! "Preferred Reporting Items for Complex Sample Survey Analysis (PRICSSA)" by Andrew Seidenberg, Richard Moser, & Brady West @bradytwest UM SRC National Cancer Institute Truth Initiative academic.oup.com/jssam/advance-…

Write to university bosses and demand they withdraw threats of punitive salary deductions against UCU members. Support the boycott. Support the strike. Support university staff. #ucuRISING ucu.org.uk/email-your-VC

News: Congratulations to our four new Chancellor's Fellows at SPS: Shruti Chaudhry, Théo Bourgeron Laura Sochas and Marlee Tichenor! Find out more: bit.ly/chancellors-fe…

The first aDNA study of Mainland Pictish individuals was published today in PLOS Genetics - led by University of Aberdeen and Liverpool John Moores researchers. Hugely exciting new research!! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a… independent.co.uk/news/science/b…

If you are a social science PhD students in Scotland then you mustn't miss this one! Brilliant training opportunities, and a chance to get to know other social scientists with related interest 👇

Come and join the Geography team School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ! Lecturer in Human Geography (Climate Justice/Environmental Justice) elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Got chatting to some people at the bus stop. Showed them this graph. They didn’t believe it was true. It is. From the University of Reading. They said why isn’t this on the news? Quite. People are right to panic when they see it. @bbcnews @skynews ITV News @cnn

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🕑 86' Norway 1-0 Scotland 🕒 87' Norway 1-1 Scotland 🕓 89' Norway 1-2 Scotland Relive these two magical minutes of football from last night 🙌 #NORSCO