Linkfest

Me, in AfD prophet mode: Full WEP article ($) Rage over the lost coin:British Polling Council seeks investigation into skewed results How I kept a promise to Ben. Definitively time to go home now.

Linkfest: Coding Advice, Libel Laws/Autocrats & Funny Pics

Great advice from the great: writing good code | OUPblog PHD Comics: Feeling sick English libel laws & Russian autocrats: ‘Book prize judges criticise decision to axe Putin exposé’ You want one of those. You know that you want one of those: Gnome Chomsky: The Essential Ornament for the Thinking Person’s Garden An illustration of…

Seven Links: Wittgenstein, Hillary, Greece, Norman Nie, and More

This is cool: A Corpus-Based Analysis of REF Output Titles for Politics & International Studies Why austerity is not #Greece’s problem University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat Obituary: Norman Nie, inventor of SPSS Ouch: Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal Hillary onesies and ‘Rand on a stick’: the best…

Linkfest: Comics, Views on Immigrants & HIV, Consolation for Rejectniks

Math Joke, anyone? Answer to “Immigrants are a burden on the welfare state” by voting intention in the 2015 General Election Things to remember when your manuscript is rejected Self-referential comic: Self-Description Majority of Germans now support a Grexit. (52% compared to 41% in Feb) (Pro tip: Opinion bounced back again) Ukip parliamentary candidate forced…

Five More Links I Liked

Trouble telling your economist from your sociologist colleagues? Look no further: Economics/sociology phrase book The Gamification of graduate lives: PHD comic: ‘Level Up.’ Hamburg election: AfD enters first parliament in West Germany, CDU at record low The German constitution gets its own float at Mainz carnival. Tags mark sections on religious freedom & free speech.…