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Patrick Sturgis

@patricksturg.bsky.social
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social science methodology, sport etc.

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ow I can see why Jonathan was so upset at me calling him a prat (correct spelling this time). He’d never use language like that on here.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Certainly worth reading if you enjoy tedious tendentious arguments advanced by self-absorbed toddlers.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Disappointing to see academics at Brunel university don’t understand what Academic Freedom means.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Financial Fair Play in the Premier League doesn't work and they should just get rid of it.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I can already say with some confidence West Ham are getting relegated this season. 2-0 down to Sunderland on day 1 and Potter brings on Callum Wilson and Andy Irvine. We lose 3-0.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Ha ha ha 😂
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Haven't been on here for a while but popped over to take a look because Twitter is so awful. Some interesting discussions going on but I'm mostly struck by the rigid ideological conformity and thirst for punishing those who indulge in wrongthink. Should I try Threads?
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My, admittedly somewhat limited, experience of GPT-5 has not been good. Particularly weird that it didn't even know how to code API calls to itself.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...
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AEJMC-CTM (Communication Theory and Methodology Division) @aejmc-ctm.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
👣 "Uncovering Digital Trace Data Biases: Tracking Undercoverage in Web Tracking Data" by Bosch et al. @orioljbosch.bsky.social @patricksturg.bsky.social Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Featured in our latest issue!
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New working paper with Chuyao Wang and Dan De Kadt, "AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects". The title is a concise summary but read the full paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16202
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AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects
Explicit labeling of online content produced by artificial intelligence (AI) is a widely mooted policy for ensuring transparency and promoting public confidence. Yet little is known about the scope of...
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The greatest tennis match of all time.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Interesting, I've never been to Reading.
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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
On my way to London for #MASS25. Excited for two days of discussions on Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys. Shoutout to my fantastic co-organizers (for the 6th (!) time) @peterlugtig.bsky.social, @jkhoehne.bsky.social, Bella Struminskaya and generous local host @patricksturg.bsky.social
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two men are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them says " london baby "
ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them says " london baby "
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🤖 Recent advances in AI are beginning to reshape how we design, implement, and analyse surveys. @patricksturg.bsky.social‬ will be sharing his expertise at UCL's AI for Survey Data Collection Methods and Data Analysis workshop on 9 July. @clscohorts.bsky.social‬
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
No @theguardian.com the SC judgment is absolutely clear. What you are struggling with is how you lot are going to keep misrepresenting the law now the judgment is in. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling
Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Really can't see what the problem is with AI face recognition as long as it's only used for identification. Just much more efficient and less costly than using humans to do it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars
Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Does local area social mobility affect political alienation? Andrew McNeil & Patrick Sturgis (@patricksturg.bsky.social) find it depends. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ptn4JQC @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ukpolitics @sagepub.com #polsci #polsky
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New working paper "Survey Experience and Nonresponse in an Online Probability Panel: A Survival Analysis" with Katya Kostadintcheva & Jouni Kuha. We find some interesting predictors of nonresponse. Read the paper to find out: arxiv.org/abs/2505.03971
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Survey Experience and Nonresponse in an Online Probability Panel: A Survival Analysis
We fit discrete time survival models to data from an online probability panel, where the outcome is the respondent first nonresponse to a survey invitation, following at least one previous survey comp...
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Unpopular opinion: Vice Chancellors aren't overpaid and VC pay is just a distraction from the real issues. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Universities to be ‘named and shamed’ over vice-chancellor pay
The education secretary is proposing league tables of institutions that pay bumper executive salaries but offer poor value for money to students
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
West Ham have gone backwards under Potter, that’s 7 on the bounce without a win. The only reason we’re staying up is the points won under useless Lopetegui. Potter will have zero fan patience if we get off to a poor start as we usually do. I’d sack him if it were up to me.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
How do you write a sketch for the Guardian about yesterday's PMQs on the SC judgment? Predictably, right-on John Crace goes for 'it's just a trivial culture war issue' & Kemi lost her cool (typical lady eh?). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Culture warrior Kemi and defiant Keir slog it out over sex and gender at PMQs | John Crace
The opposition leader was adamant the PM should eat humble pie but he wasn’t having it. Cue a slanging match
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
best policy announced this year by any party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England
Under the plan, those who flout the prohibition could face a maximum fine of £1,000
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The lack of discussion of the Supreme Court judgment on here really is quite weird.
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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One shouldn't laugh but actually it's fine to laugh.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Much better second half from West Ham after being really poor and should have got a point at least. Liverpool saved by the ref, clear foul on paqueta not given.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New working paper with Ian Brunton-Smith, 'Trends in Social Science Research Methods in the Twenty-First Century: Automated Journal Article Coding Using Large Language Models' osf.io/9b7ka
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International People Who Menstruate Day!
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
One advantage of strictly defining superheroes as having to wear capes would be that people could no longer say 'not all superheroes wear capes'.
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Air raid sirens in Kyiv now, wailing across the city, as Russia drones approach. Trump's suspension of US military aid means Ukraine will find it tougher to shoot down enemy drones and ballistic missiles. The result: more death, grief, and ruin
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Does local area social mobility affect political alienation? Andrew McNeil & Patrick Sturgis (@patricksturg.bsky.social) find it depends. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/4hckeSc (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ukpolitics
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Wondering how Americans feel about allying with Russia, North Korea, and China. Utterly shaming period of American history.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Seriously thinking I'm going to have to boycott the US, what a total disaster for this once proud nation.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The train line from Tunbridge Wells must be one of the busiest into London, taking just under an hour. The wifi on the Southeastern trains is completely unusable and there is no 4G pretty much the whole way, so anyone needing the internet (like me) can't work. The UK productivity 'puzzle'.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I used to wish West Ham would be as good as Man Utd, that has now more or less come true but not in the way I wanted. Fortune's always hiding.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There is no evidence at all that parents working from home causes their kids to miss school, this whole article is based on one man's hunch. Odd. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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WFH parents ‘make children think school is optional’
Adults used to get dressed and leave for work. Now they wear slippers and stay at home. The impact on pupils is clear, warns Sir Martyn Oliver, head of Ofsted
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Personally, I would end qualification for national rugby teams through residency unless the player takes citizenship via standard routes. Wales must target overseas stars — just like Scotland and Ireland www.thetimes.com/article/c5a0...
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Wales must target overseas stars — just like Scotland and Ireland
As European economies change Wales must accept that Principality no longer boasts rugby heartlands that once spawned great players. It’s time to look elsewhere
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The RFU policy of only picking Premiership players for England is moronic and self-defeating, a massive red flag for people at the top of the game who don't understand what they're doing. www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-...
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Antoine Dupont ‘happy’ not to be facing Toulouse team-mate Jack Willis
England back-row is flourishing in France but his choice to play club rugby abroad means he is ineligible for Six Nations squad, a policy that baffles the France captain
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The laws of football should be changed so you can’t head the ball back to the keeper.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's a real shame this Trump/Musk attack on US scientists and universities has coincided with the bottom falling out of the job market in UK HE.
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thanks for coming 👋
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
You’ve seen it all bit by bit but here is what’s happening to US science and research right now www.science.org/content/blog... @science.org
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Ref was awful tonight, gave Chelsea everything and missed a blatant foul that led to their second goal, which was a massive fluke anyway.
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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I think you will find thats already happening. I believe people are working on an app that identifies products made in USA from bar codes that can be easily scanned on your phone. They did it for Israeli products recently too. One app called “No Thanks” is active in UK.
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Can we mobilise a global boycott of US products?
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ireland were the better team yesterday but their resurgence in the second half was massively aided by the worst refereeing performance I've seen in a long while. Lowe should have had 2 yellows, the non-push and closing the gap in the lineout pens, repeated scrum pens/free-kicks, the forward pass etc
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Key opportunity - esp in Britain - to reject Trumpesque backlash *and* improve quality & legitimacy of EDI/inclusion - frame effectively as equal opps/fairness - apply across all characteristics - test for what works (do more things that work, not symbolic stuff that stokes controversy,lacks impact)
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.
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