A researcher of social policy.
Joined May 2012
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Nicola Horsley retweeted
The #webinar Calibrating Children and Families is now available in LBU #Repository. Explore how child-parent relations are quantified and translated into data points. A discussion with Val Gillies. Access the recordings now! #BigData #BehaviouralEconomics eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/i…
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Let’s check in to see how the island that’s taken decades just to even consider a new railway line is getting on
UK economy in growth ‘doom loop’ after decades of underinvestment dlvr.it/SqwlHs
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#technopoly excellent blog from @Horslean on the marginalisation of #cultural-heritage practitioners deep and tacit knowledge by the adoption of new data systems while users’ access to information is curtailed by search algorithms. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.u…
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It's so jarring hearing smart people who understand how things work commenting on current affairs on corp media.
John Barnes + Ian Wright are on a totally different level to the private schoolboy Oxbridge punditocracy dominating UK media.
A window into how things could be.
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We are facing a serious threat to academic freedom & social safety in Dutch academia. Please join us & sign this open letter demanding (1) the reinstatement of Susanne Täuber, (2) independent grievance procedures & (3) a stronger academic freedom policy organizetherug.wordpress.com…
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There are no words to describe this utter shambles adequately. It’s beyond hyperbole - & parody.
Reality tho is that ordinary people are paying the price.
The interests of the Tory party should concern no-one right now.
A General Election is now a democratic imperative.
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New variant on MLK just dropped.
Suella Braverman says it would be “my dream” to see a flight deporting migrants to Rwanda by Christmas.
But she warns it will take much longer because of the lengthy process of legal challenges.
#ChoppersPolitics
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Looking forward to our SIRIUS paper @ECER_EERA ' Lessons from the Lockdown Lab: How can Migrant Families' check out details here: sirius-migrationeducation.or… @leedsbeckett @mcintyre_jo @LeedsUrp
Nicola Horsley retweeted
Critical Dataset Studies should also become a sub-discipline of #digitalhumanities, especially where critique of #ML and #BigData, cultural heritage institutions and the science of history is at stake.
@jedmond36 @Horslean @mike_priddy @cneudecker
Today we're sharing our Critical Dataset Studies reading list. The Knowing Machines team uses it to reflect on the growing literature on ML datasets across disciplines. Datasets powerfully construct model worldviews, so they're important to study. knowingmachines.org/reading-… (1/4)
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(2016)
Penny Mordaunt said: "A remain vote in this referendum is a vote to allow people from Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey to move here freely when they join the EU soon."
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Nicola Horsley retweeted
“Comforting fairytales” are what the billionaire class call decent wages, a working NHS, and social safety net. Rishi is already setting out his vision that anyone hoping for a fairer Britain is a childlike fantasist. #Ready4Austerity
I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister.
Let’s restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country. #Ready4Rishi
Sign up 👉 ready4rishi.com
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If you think this week has been mad just think, we could have had chaos with Ed Milliband
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They've said it out loud again.
What the Tories fear most: a coalition of parties "which would change voting rules and force the Tories out of power for decades".
The next Labour Govt must introduce PR & initiate constitutional renewal to end rule by the few once and for all.
Nicola Horsley retweeted
Join LBU Professor of Peace Studies, @rachelcjulian, on 5 July for an online discussion on peace and nonviolence hosted by CIRCES. Read Prof Julian's blog on how we use ideas and principles from peace and nonviolence in our everyday life.
leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/lee…
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“Know your place.”
ALT “Working class people should aim lower than Oxbridge, social mobility tsar to say.”
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Kharkiv school graduate in her graduation dress on the rubble of her school destroyed by the Russian artillery
Nicola Horsley retweeted
Finally got hardback copies of a book with my name on it, along with those of @jedmond36 @jrglmn & @Horslean. Now I just need to somehow get them all to autograph a copy for me.
