David Bartram
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
- Reposted by David Bartram1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by David BartramDonald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people
- Reposted by David BartramFrom tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC. We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
- For the very wealthy, "happiness is probably best achieved by having a sense that you've done some good in the world, and that you've treated people around you with care and kindness. It's not exactly rocket science."
- FA with the editorial page. FO what happens with the rest of the newspaper.
- There was (and remains) a real journalistic opening for a super-robust news operation that isn't doing false equivalence. That's what's needed in the Trump era. That could have been the Post. Except its owner doesn't want that. newrepublic.com/article/2061...
- Reposted by David BartramBefore anyone gets too angry about this, several things. (1) Universities in the UK, unlike the US, are pretty much under the financial and admin control of central govt. If RefUK moves to wipe them out, as they will, then some will choose life. (1/3) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...
- Reposted by David BartramThey used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
- Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Reposted by David Bartrami can’t believe the lead nazi is antisemitic
- Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
- More of this please. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
- Reposted by David BartramWe deserve to live until we are old. substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy
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- Reposted by David BartramA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by David BartramThe Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished
- Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1. Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
- Reposted by David BartramThe murders will continue until submissiveness improves
- As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- "never again" isn't meant to be (only) "never again for Jews"...
- Reposted by David BartramAfter 5 years I can finally share a full WP of our project conducting cognitive interviews of life satisfaction reporting. Main findings: 1. LS scales are psychometrically valid, but... 2. Standard statistical assumptions made when analysing LS data are not credible. osf.io/gv5e3/files/...
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- Reposted by David BartramJOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
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- Reposted by David BartramThe Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
- Having taught courses/modules on immigration for many years, I feel useful. "Research comparing UK & US finds people with fewer qualifications more likely to support rightwing movements" (yes, the impact is broader, not rooted in the study of migration per se) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by David BartramMulti-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
- Reposted by David BartramFor @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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- "Trump says killers of protesters will ‘pay a big price’" -- this refers to Minnesotans, right? Right?? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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- Reposted by David BartramWe now check manuscripts for the possibility that AI has been used to produce the paper. Springer's system does some automated checking but doesn't catch everything. So, in certain situations we check the refs for hallucinations. Latest manuscript: multiple hallucinations. Author will be banned.
- Reposted by David BartramSaying the officer who committed murder is a murderer is dangerous, but it's OK to claim that his victim was a domestic terrorist who literally ran him over.
- "We elect people for scientific achievement/delivery. ... we get rid of them if that turns out to be false or not correct" But Musk has precisely zero scientific achievements. So, none will be incorrect -- thus there's no way to get rid of him. How clever... www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
- Reposted by David BartramSHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News
- Reposted by David BartramICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.
- Reposted by David BartramMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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- This is the video that EVERYONE needs to see... And the NYT headline is (thankfully) unequivocal. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
- A murder that helped cement the upward career trajectory of Cressida Dick. Sticking to the lies is a strategy that often works.
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- Reposted by David BartramWe have a word for it: Gleichschaltung. While you were busy studying Civil War battles in high school, Germans were taught—painfully and deliberately—how dictatorships take hold and how entire societies are brought into line. That's why we recognize the pattern—and why your complacency is alarming.
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- Reposted by David Bartram@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.
- Social disease, yes -- but I think it's more important that a few billionaires refuse to fix their systems so that this sort of thing isn't possible. And there's no political will to make them do it.
- Sometimes I figure I could in fact live on bread alone.
- Reposted by David BartramA functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
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- Reposted by David BartramCan't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
- Reposted by David BartramMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
- Reposted by David Bartramthis documentary about people in Kenya who write essays for UK and US students is jaw-dropping there’s a part where someone in the US needs an essay for her course. she goes online to sell nudes to get the money to pay the essay-writer in Kenya to write it for her www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
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- Reposted by David BartramAll of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
- Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- I've started checking submissions this way. No hallucinations discovered yet. But automatic rejection (even for a single one) is indeed my intention. And yes I do resent having to spend additional time on it. I figure publishers should be able to automate checks for it.
- Concentration -- a reliable strategy to increase efficiency
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- Reposted by David BartramIT'S CARS THE ANSWER IS, CARS
- "pro-life"
- Reposted by David BartramBREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
- Reposted by David BartramClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
- Reposted by David BartramOne thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
- Final week before authors are meant to stop working. On the publisher's submission system I can see there are 50 new manuscripts, waiting to be assigned to me. FIFTY! & why wouldn't there be more over the weekend. What a lovely week of "holiday" I will have. @socialindicators.bsky.social
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