David Bartram
@dbartram.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interests: inequalities, happiness, migration, & causal identification. Editor-in-chief of @socialindicators.bsky.social. PhD UW-Madison. AI-free teaching & research since 1998. Posts are personal.
https://davidvbartram.wordpress.com
https://davidvbartram.wordpress.com
Cool -- he must be keeping a healthy distance from Dave's wife.
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Cool -- he must be keeping a healthy distance from Dave's wife.
hmm, the guerre didn't go particularly well for Uriah...
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
hmm, the guerre didn't go particularly well for Uriah...
I don't suppose one of them is named Uriah??
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don't suppose one of them is named Uriah??
Excellent thread -- this sort of thing is important.
I really hope you can get career/academic benefit out of it.
I really hope you can get career/academic benefit out of it.
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Excellent thread -- this sort of thing is important.
I really hope you can get career/academic benefit out of it.
I really hope you can get career/academic benefit out of it.
So he actually did one good thing -- by going into politics he freed up one tt position for a more deserving academic.
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So he actually did one good thing -- by going into politics he freed up one tt position for a more deserving academic.
I can only imagine Bristol thinks it was worth every penny they had to hand over after that employment tribunal.
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I can only imagine Bristol thinks it was worth every penny they had to hand over after that employment tribunal.
I just use Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I just use Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor.
Reposted by David Bartram
This article deserves to be much more widely known/cited than it is.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An inconvenient dataset: bias and inappropriate inference with the multilevel model - Quality & Quantity
The multilevel model has become a staple of social research. I textually and formally explicate sample design features that, I contend, are required for unbiased estimation of macro-level multilevel m...
link.springer.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This article deserves to be much more widely known/cited than it is.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I participated in a "many authors" study (n=200); the main incentive was authorship. I've seen indications that authorship might not be on the cards, b/c of journal policies.
So, perhaps be careful about promising authorship.
(We all got some $$ as well, which mitigates -- but still disappointing)
So, perhaps be careful about promising authorship.
(We all got some $$ as well, which mitigates -- but still disappointing)
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I participated in a "many authors" study (n=200); the main incentive was authorship. I've seen indications that authorship might not be on the cards, b/c of journal policies.
So, perhaps be careful about promising authorship.
(We all got some $$ as well, which mitigates -- but still disappointing)
So, perhaps be careful about promising authorship.
(We all got some $$ as well, which mitigates -- but still disappointing)
On the other hand, perhaps Nazi tattoo = Trump stamp
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
On the other hand, perhaps Nazi tattoo = Trump stamp
The fact that it's never enough is the (very pale) silver lining here -- he'll get no joy at all from an extra $230m, because he can never get any sort of joy at all.
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The fact that it's never enough is the (very pale) silver lining here -- he'll get no joy at all from an extra $230m, because he can never get any sort of joy at all.