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Anna Alexandrova

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Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing/happiness studies, evidence based policy, measurement/quantification, Cambridge UK.
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Anna Alexandrova 's avatar Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Cool! Best wishes for your new adventures Nikhil

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Couldn’t the same be said about social science too? It’s the human condition to make sense of events you did not expect.

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Anna Alexandrova 's avatar Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Thank you I understand what you are saying. Interesting to see differences among economists what counts as bringing a ‘unique’ set of skills to the table. This realignment it seems is the key consequence of the empirical turn.

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It sounds like yours is a division of labour argument. Noted and respected! But it goes a bit against the modern trend of economists taking up challenging empirical identification work w/o any regard of whose ‘turf’ they are on. For example as in this thread from X

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Thank you for explaining, Daniel. I see now that you rely on the centrality of economic theory in the training of economists and hence making a point abt the wise use of resources in emp work. I wonder however if increasingly some economists do not see econ theory as central to their identity…

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Can you explain why to be theoretically grounded empirical work has to be grounded in economic theory specifically? Just to be distinctive among social scientists? This reason sounds purely sociological rather than epistemic, hence suspect to me. Hope I understood you correctly…

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Mark Fabian's avatar Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social
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@economeager.bsky.social unearthed this arresting quote from Simone Weil and I must share it with y'all:

"Hope is the knowledge that the evil we bear with us is finite, that the slightest turning of the will towards good, though it should last but an instant, destroys a little of it...

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Oh Richard...🤗 Very exciting indeed, thank you Huw🙌

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Taking part in a free election as an immigrant never gets old. Voted in Cambridge, a longish queue…

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At the polling station I saw someone turned away because they didn’t have any of the recognised forms of photo ID. Please don’t make that mistake. And please do vote.

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Jon, this write up mentions Page Harden in a way that paints her with the same brush as Lynn. This is not right.

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Agreed, though much rides on how we define ‘ignoring the massive injustices’. Historically people living in circumstances that made protest impossibly costly, found subtle ways to express their pain, solidarity to maintain some dignity. I see these attempts now n struggle w whether they are ‘enough’

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Can there be a better example than this of drunk man looking for his keys under the light because that’s where the light is? There’s no way such entrenchment of causal inference methods is well ordered science.

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Anna Alexandrova 's avatar Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Can there be a better example than this of drunk man looking for his keys under the light because that’s where the light is? There’s no way such entrenchment of causal inference methods is well ordered science.

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Anna Alexandrova 's avatar Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
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Ah yes! Joy is wonderful. It was so moving to see her recognise that as Riley grows it’ll be less and less of pure joy…

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I see now! Surpise, which is part of the Big Five, was never present in the first film, while the second film adds Anxiety, Ennui, Shame, and Envy. Totally going beyong the basics...

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Mark Fabian's avatar Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social
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New (open access) paper by Yamini Cinamon Nair and me in Journal of Medical Humanities...

The value of researcher reflexivity in the coproduction of public policy: A practical perspective.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Very exciting! Well done you two, I appreciate you persevering and delighted to hear Yamini is returning.

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Mark Fabian's avatar Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social
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I wrote a blog:

markfabian.blogspot.com/2024/07/what...

I am in favour of going 'beyond GDP' but so much of the advocacy is bad.

I used to blog a lot but stopped to concentrate on academic papers, and because my blogs tend to be polemical in a career-compromising way. This one is no exception.

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Agree, Lisa, fascinating to see that beliefs are grounded in memories and grow upwards from it. Very foundationalist rather than coherentist! What's the bit about delusions? I missed it.

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individuation of emotions is a whole other issue in this film! I think it mixes emotions and traits, so not quite the Big Five. But it's absolutely love to watch with a child, hope you enjoy it!

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Folks in philosophy of mind and cog sci, please explain which theories of consciousness are represented in Inside Out. Just watched the sequel and note the centrality of the console in the headquarters. Is that what ‘global workspace’ theory is? #philsky #cogsci

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Actually Ennui is a great character in the new movie Inside Out 2. She is French too

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Thanks, Dan, I see. Sorry Jo, didn’t mean to hijack, well ordered science also feels most utopian at the moment. Though perhaps not as much as well ordered society

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Berna Devezer's avatar Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social
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First time I'm bringing stuff from Twitter over here (and apologies for that) but I couldn't find another link elsewhere and this comic by Erin Basca about her experiences (as a student) with a professor deserves to be shared. It's a deeply familiar story.
x.com/rubodubo/sta...

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Wonder if that is what Kitcher modelled his ‘well-ordered science’ on?

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A lot of both was consumed indeed! You have a good eye

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Very exciting book plans, Miguel! Congratulations on all accounts 💪

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Miguel Ohnesorge's avatar Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social
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My PhD-thesis is now available at repository.cam.ac.uk/items/8dc621....
It retells how we learned to model and measure Earth's shape and test the particle-to-particle nature of gravitation.
Thanks to many kind people who supported me and this project (cf. acknowledgements!).
#philsci #histsci

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The Como summer school in Philosophy of Economics is over 😭I will miss this view so much!

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Alan Richardson's avatar Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social
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I really hate how the current AI discourse has so many people using “intelligence” so uncritically. Re today’s stupid headline: PhD holders aren’t generally more intelligent than others; we have specific skills, interests, and practices we get really good at, as do others.

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The trouble with reading Elizabeth Anderson is that you want to underline literally every sentence.

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In Durham celebrating the 80th birthday of my amazing mentor Nancy Cartwright a legend in #philsci

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Seems entirely appropriate to articulate this challenge even if it feels to common to bring up. Hope both the review and the article advance smoothly!

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This was a pleasure to watch. Looking forward to more of your GoPro exploits!

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Just because there’ll be no uptake on your expertise doesn’t reduce you to a status symbol in a pretty campus 😠

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So interesting! Not sure I follow the final paragraph. It sounds skeptical of any possibility of responsible expertise at all. Do you mean that? Or just that neither side will be heard?

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