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Top journal article title (not so much sourdough making here it seems): Thomas J. Mowen and Amanda Heitkamp (2022) The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students, Deviant Behavior, 43(11), pp. 1366-1384.

I hope I'm wrong about this but when you sort marking by name with non submitted students being anonymised you get this: Able [Anonymous] Charlie [Anonymous] Easy. Probably doesn't matter much in this case but still oops.

CANCER UPDATE - BIDEN When Compassion Becomes Inconvenient by Michael Whelan. Somewhere along the way, we stopped believing that pain—real, human pain—deserved reverence. I read earlier that President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. I paused, not

Systematic Review Exhaustion: The phenomenon where you are so careful constructing and documenting your source sample that you lose all subsequent critical judgment and end up saying "Isn't it amazing that only 7% of sources have a Z in the name of one of the authors?" Is it?

Just sayin': bsky.app/profile/edmund…

If you want to know something about temperature, don't ask a boiled frog.

Websplaining: When a user tries to tell a web site of something that is clearly a fault (like University of Warwick vacancies consistently closing a ludicrously short time after posting) and the support people carefully explaining how this is all as it should be.

A crucial question. If an organisation makes the job of the employee practically impossible (with overload and/or confused/inadequate communication) who is incompetent in the event that mistakes are made?

Now provided via ResearchGate courtesy of BJS: researchgate.net/publication/37…

I worry that the world is silting up with those who don't listen and then try to make the consequences your problem.

Oh good. Free access: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Follow the reasoning carefully. Us poor humans can barely keep up with Cyberdyne Systems:

Very bored/frustrated with box checking reference forms for students. No matter how many Likert Scales you add you won't convert a personal tutor/module teacher into an "employer" nor get sensible data on things I have no way to know. Can this student be trusted with pets? IDK.

If we were entering the dumbocene, the last era of humanity, how ironic would it be if we failed to figure it out?

Inverting an argument. Unless you sincerely believe that the shape of the Earth or whether someone has cancer is merely a social construction or a matter of opinion, how does social science manage to fend off all matters of fact?

The phenomenon of simply removing people from roles because they won't fall into line and set aside ethical considerations is so important (and damaging) and yet, as far as I know, it doesn't even have a name.