1. Personality traits that typify job roles revealed in study is the claim made by a recent post on the Edinburgh University blog: Stereotypes about which personality traits are associated with different jobs are largely true, an extensive study by psychologists (at the universities of Edinburgh and Tartu) suggests https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2024/personality-traits-that-typify-job-roles-revealed

You can jump straight to the test here https://apps.psych.ut.ee/jobprofiler/ You’ll need ten or fifteen minutes, if you don’t agonise over your answers too much.

The questionnaire results give you a) a job list of the people doing jobs that tend to give the most or least similar responses to yours; b) a job map showing your position relative to average job incumbents according to their personality profiles; c) your ‘Big Five trait’ scores. My scores on that last one? High on extraversion and openness; medium on disagreeableness and conscientiousness; low on neuroticism …

2. The LSE Impact Blog describes itself as ‘a platform for understanding and increasing the impact of academic research’. Here’s an enthusiastic recent post by Friedrich Geiecke & Xavier Jaravel, AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/10/30/ai-can-carry-out-qualitative-research-at-unprecedented-scale/

3. An intriguingly-titled post from Ben Williamson’s blog, code acts in education, on the Oblongification of education https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/oblongification-of-education/

Ben’s latest post is on Critical keywords of AI in education https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/11/08/critical-keywords-of-ai-in-education/

4. Here’s an NYT gift article, the latest in their ‘Read Your Way Through’ series, Shanghai https://tinyurl.com/bdfxkjvb

5. As the first week of COP29 in Baku (at which oil and gas were described as a ‘gift of God’ by the president of the host country) comes to a close, the Carbon Brief team are offering an “ask-us-anything” webinar at 14:00 UK time tomorrow, Friday 15^th November, to explore the key emerging topics and themes of the summit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3117314089955/WN_olK1_zCjSkSBZfP40pvvBQ#/registration

6. And, finally, sex, scandal and the death of a poet in 1970s Karachi on the Southasia Review of Books podcast https://www.himalmag.com/podcast/society-girl-sex-lies-scandal-karachi-pakistan-media-1970-mustafa-zaidi-shahnaz-gul