Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?
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One question for Ruth Morgan, a professor of crime and forensic sciences at University College London.
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One question for Laura Weidinger and Iason Gabriel, research scientists at Google DeepMind.
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One question for Maurizio Porfiri and Rayan Succar, dynamical systems engineers at New York University.
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Attention conservation notice: short but entirely speculative exercise in amateur sociology/game theory, by someone who has no professional license to do either, and had a blue tick for a couple of years but was always bemused as to why. A quick note as to what went wrong with the Elon Musk strategy of giving power […]
The PM's tabloid-pleasing 'War on Yobs' will only worsen problems in crime-hit communities, writes former Anti-Social Behaviour Officer Nick Pettigrew
An evolutionary biologist on the harm still being done by unsubstantiated beliefs.
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Representation of Black women in medicine remains stuck in the 1800s.
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The Journal of Professional Learning, sponsored by the NSW Teachers' Federation, has just published a condensed version of my paper on the nature of teachers' work in schools. It's available (open access) here: https://cpl.asn.au/journal/semester-2-2021/vital-elusive-and-fantastically-complex-teacher-s-worth . Please be my guest!
Just announced: I'm being given the International Sociological Association's Award for Excellence in Research and Practice. This award is given once every 4 years; it's a great honour. My thanks to the ISA! And to the many, many colleagues & friends I have worked with, over the years.
The social science I value is engaged in the world, it doesn't watch from a distance. It's empirical and utopian. It's willing to explore questions ranging from personal life to global empire. It doesn't flinch from issues of violence and power. But it also asks how new and better possibilities emerge.