A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
There was a dip after all the excitement of the Employment Tribunal. But, things are never dull in scandal-hit Cambridge University. The average of the last week is ~ 3,000 visits a day, so at that rate, the chart will settle closer…
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Andrew Gelman is Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University. He’s famous for his book (co-authored with others) on Bayesian Data Analysis. His substack has tackled the emerging scandal at Cambridge University here, comparing…
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It’s best to look at the data directly and form your own conclusions from it (as @TheResearcher has been saying). Just look at the damn data. Run some tests or do some simple visual checks. That…
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There is now a lot of press coverage of in The Times, the Telegraph and the Mail. From a mathematician’s or programmer’s perspective, we highlight an outstanding piece of work by Alexey Titorenko, available to download…
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Cambridge University’s Professor of the Sociology of Education, Jason Arday, has become the subject of allegations of plagiarism. Dr Nathan Cofnas has highlighted a number of passages that appear to show close textual similarities between Arday’s…
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Extraordinary events are unfolding at a Newspaper. A hugely damaging story about Consigliere University is about to be published. The Vice Chancellor of Consigliere University sanctions its silencing. The Editor of the Newspaper calls his CEO…
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Accusations of plagiarism are damaging to famous universities. As Richard Posner in The Little Book of Plagiarism notes, an author’s name “establishes a brand identity . . . in the market for expressive goods.” In contemporary…
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We have described in an earlier blog posting the sad yet inspiring case of Magdalen Connolly The matter was extensively discussed in the Times Higher Educational Supplement by Wyn Evans and in the Daily Telegraph by…
