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Tom Farsides

@tomfarsides.bsky.social
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Internet waif. Employed as a social psychologist at the Univeristy of Sussex but my interest in people caring about and trying to help others takes me far beyond the boundaries suggested by my job title.

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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As opposed to:
Image illustrating a “museum of meaningless metrics, from https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/meaningless-metrics-make-more-mischief-8b5dc4ced249
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
As I move into the “Recycling the last hard copy of my PhD” stage of clearing my office, it gives me pause to see just how unrelenting my malcontent and snark have been. 🤪
Final part of the contents page from my PhD report, in which I complain about poor conceptual specification in a major social psychological theory.
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today I learned about the empiricist's moustache. Steinmetz, G. (2004). Odious comparisons: Incommensurability, the case study, and “small N's” in sociology. Sociological theory, 22(3), 371-400. doi.org/10.1111/j.07...
A drawing of a moustach as seen from the viewpoint of the artist looking down at it
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I'm teaching 'Quality assessment in Qualitative Research (QLR)' tomorrow. I will be pleading for no new checklists that add little to Chapter 5 of Murphy et al (1999). QLR … A review of the literature. Health Tech. Assess., 2(16), doi.org/10.3310/hta2...
An xkcd cartoon on "How standards proliferate", i.e., by people saying "There are too many standards, so here's a new set"
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Advertise your account with just one image
A pair of staring eyes (from a ropey ‘mind-reading’ ability test called the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test [RMET])
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
"The experimental method ... taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored.... Germans .... obviously cannot" (James, 1890, p. 192) psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Princi...
Full text from which the quote was abstracted
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Tom Farsides @tomfarsides.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Francesinha and fries
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