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Lucy Barnes
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Professor of Political Economy, UCL. She/her. Here to lurk.
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lucy-barnes.bsky.social
100% correct response
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Sep 12
lol fuck you
resprofnews.bsky.social Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Sep 12
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
September 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
Almost: some of us got lucky and own it
p-hunermund.com Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 4
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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fgenovese.bsky.social
yes, next question
Can me and women be just friends by the economist
July 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
This, but also for research
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:

What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)

Who are you arguing against?

What alternatives are you rejecting and why?

What follows if you’re right?

These are also good questions for Q&A.
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Gender neutral spaces have existed for years, we all know that. It isn't trans and non-binary individuals attacking women without any repercussions, that's men. Nothing about demonising trans and non-binary individuals makes women safer. It does make people more vulnerable though. 3/5
April 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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bjpir.bsky.social
📣 New BJPIR article out now!

'The political effects of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone' by Andrew McNeil and Frieder Mitsch

⬇️ Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QIn8Bm9

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
buff.ly
April 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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janus.bsky.social
“define a woman” fine ok, so you know when shania twain says “let’s go girls”? if you go then you’re a woman
April 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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profcathyelliott.bsky.social
Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs!
Polisky SoTLsky
The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025
In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...
journals.sagepub.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
I love this but my personal vibe is a mixtape
April 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.
gsoh31.bsky.social Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Apr 8
The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...
UK Home Office’s reform of graduate visas runs into opposition
[FREE TO READ] Education department at odds with plan to curb number of overseas students allowed to stay in Britain
www.ft.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
Maybe if there were better news 🙁
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Apr 1
'The proportion who say they have a high interest in news has almost halved in the UK over the last decade, from 70% in 2015 to 38% last year, according to the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.'
That's why most of us on this platform are a weird sample!
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Outlets seek fresh strategies as UK poll shows ‘news avoidance’ on the rise
Negative content and distrust among reasons given by audiences as industry works on how to keep them engaged
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
writing books is so easy, i just type out all of the true and original ideas i have about a topic in the correct order but also to exactly the right length without any digressions or mistakes and then bask in the well earned acclaim from my very reasonable peers who recognize pure truths when they s
March 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
I’m fairly confident that “The Economist”, not the mention the economists, is the answer to this question
March 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
If, like me, you are a UCU member and agree the union should stop wasting time and effort on a fruitless round of pay strikes at a time when tens of thousands of academic jobs are at risk, then please consider signing this open letter (link early on the document): ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...
Motion to HEC: Focus on Defending Jobs and Reforming UK HE
Two UCU Commons HEC members are bringing the following motion to the special HEC meeting on Wednesday 19th February. We are looking for UCU members in HE to add their names in support of the motion…
ucucommons.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
Super interesting!

But/and: do politicians understand “what the public want” to be the same as “what surveys of citizens show”?

Cf: Fastenrath and Marx: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
liorsheffer.bsky.social Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · Feb 13
Now in @bjpols.bsky.social: Are leaders really better at reading public opinion? In a large-scale study led by Stefaan Walgrave and Julie Sevenans, we test the assumption that politicians in leadership positions have more accurate knowledge of public opinion than others. /1
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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idatolgensbakk.bsky.social
#academicvalentines
Redpenblackpen's valentine card with the text "I've read your work."
February 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
This is good, but surely a role for sector leadership in this mess.

Top uni mgmt: dogs that didn’t bark; union leadership: often barking up the wrong tree

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
What do we want “inflation” to mean? The price profile (but of what?) before behavioural changes, or the change-inclusive impact on consumer payments?
February 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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bjpols.bsky.social
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -

Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue - cup.org/3E8Avcx

- @lucy-barnes.bsky.social, Julia de Romémont & @benlauderdale.bsky.social
BJPolS abstract discussing public opinion towards taxation in the UK, focusing on preferences related to budget problems, the marginal quantity of revenue, and tax choices, highlighting a hidden consensus among respondents.
January 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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norawaitkus.bsky.social
🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸

The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
lucy-barnes.bsky.social
And that x3 doesn’t even include re-reviewing revisions!
teele.bsky.social Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · Jan 25
Hey @polisky.bsky.social #gendersky Friends! Want to PUBLISH papers? please REVIEW. As @mirya.bsky.social says, you owe x3 reviews for # of submissions for the system to work smoothly. @cpsjournal.bsky.social received 120+ submissions from Dec 1 to today and HUNDREDS of reviewer declines. Bad Math.
January 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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bjpols.bsky.social
#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Public Preferences Over Changes to the Composition of Government Tax Revenue - cup.org/3E8Avcx

"there is a ‘hidden consensus’ regarding different tax levers across income levels..."

- @lucy-barnes.bsky.social, Julia de Romémont & @benlauderdale.bsky.social
BJPolS abstract discussing public opinion towards taxation, budget research challenges, tax preference experiments in the UK, and variability in tax lever popularity
January 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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britishacademy.bsky.social
A new British Academy report on Politics and International Relations provision in UK higher education has found that it remains a popular subject, with graduates out-earning national averages. Read the report in full:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-rep...
New report uncovers popularity of Politics and International Relations degrees, with graduates outearning national averages
A new British Academy report on Politics and International Relations (PIR) provision in UK higher education shows a 20 per cent increase in first degree enrolments and a 41 per cent rise in postgradua...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM