100% told to, Cambridge are trying to salvage their reputation
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Salary of £80k-103k. Plus moving expenses paid. And of course all those sweet sweet speaking engagements and a term off on sabbatical for every 6 terms worked.
No wonder he wanted the job ( and I don’t believe the first time he found out about it was on Radio 4 - if you’re offered a job, you have to accept it before a press release is sent out, even if it is at Cambridge).
Well, if his dreads were/are fake, then maybe he glued that patch on in the dark? What with removing all the light bulbs to save money or is that another grifter with scant regard for truth and scrutiny?
I cannot find JA named as a Principal or Co-investigator on the UKRI website. After 3 years in post I would have expected to see something from ESRC.
I also can't find much in the way of citation or publications in international journals.(I may ,be looking in the wrong places) Ithink there is at least one academic posting here that can confirm this?
I'm catching up on the extracts today, and all I can think is - apart from the fact that it reeks of bull - how badly written it is. If a student at second level handed any of that up as an essay, I think they would be told to rewrite it.
I don’t think so - tell a narc what to do and they will not, under any circumstances ever do it.
If he says he found out on Radio 4, that contradicts the book, where he said a got a phone call just an hour or two after the last interview.
Working at Sainsbury's a humbling experience. Who the **** does this entitled ***** think he is? Realistically he's of average to below average capability and his entitlement is extreme.
I worked in Boots at 16 & double shifts at McDs during my degree at a top 10 University pre 92. At McDs I mopped the huge tiled floors after kids parties & even scraped chewing gum up off the street frontage. However I was good at maths & fastest on the till so that was 90% of my experience there. It was OK, the local staff were surprisingly friendly to us students & took us to some great all night secret bars. It paid relatively well & I had the energy for double shifts then though I certainly wouldn't want to do it today.
I'm from the era before it became fashionable to wear disadvantage as a badge. In those days we kept quiet about our dysfunctional families, our MH struggles went undiagnosed. A Dx could damage future career prospects and we tried to dampen our eccentricities. Disability discrimination wasn't protected in the 1990s.
There was a guy on my course whose father beat him up badly & called him a "stuck up tit" when he went home to the Rhondda valleys Christmas Y1. He worked all his hols at Uni thereafter. Did he **** tell the lecturers.
At one milk round interview they asked me what challenges I'd overcome. I didn't think they wanted to hear about my wrangling an alcoholic, paralytic parent away from driving a car or being called a freak so I muttered something pretty bland.
I think this is what is riling me so much about the back stories of JA /DJT.
When you've experienced - parental death at 10, violent alcoholism in survivor parent, school bullying (weird duckling glasses & brace till 16), no money no clothes other than school uniform & one outfit till 16, rare physical disorders, undiagnosed ND and you haven't benefitted from being able to get mitigations for these genuine multi domain hardships & yet you still got As when only 2% of 18 year olds met that standard it pisses you off to see ppl like JA.
Massive rant over. JA is a prime gob.
I worked in Boots at 16 & double shifts at McDs during my degree at a top 10 University pre 92. At McDs I mopped the huge tiled floors after kids parties & even scraped chewing gum up off the street frontage. However I was good at maths & fastest on the till so that was 90% of my experience there. It was OK, the local staff were surprisingly friendly to us students & took us to some great all night secret bars. It paid relatively well & I had the energy for double shifts then though I certainly wouldn't want to do it today.
I'm from the era before it became fashionable to wear disadvantage as a badge. In those days we kept quiet about our dysfunctional families, our MH struggles went undiagnosed. A Dx could damage future career prospects and we tried to dampen our eccentricities. Disability discrimination wasn't protected in the 1990s.
There was a guy on my course whose father beat him up badly & called him a "stuck up tit" when he went home to the Rhondda valleys Christmas Y1. He worked all his hols at Uni thereafter. Did he **** tell the lecturers.
At one milk round interview they asked me what challenges I'd overcome. I didn't think they wanted to hear about my wrangling an alcoholic, paralytic parent away from driving a car or being called a freak so I muttered something pretty bland.
I think this is what is riling me so much about the back stories of JA /DJT.
When you've experienced - parental death at 10, violent alcoholism in survivor parent, school bullying (weird duckling glasses & brace till 16), no money no clothes other than school uniform & one outfit till 16, rare physical disorders, undiagnosed ND and you haven't benefitted from being able to get mitigations for these genuine multi domain hardships & yet you still got As when only 2% of 18 year olds met that standard it pisses you off to see ppl like JA.
Massive rant over. JA is a prime gob.
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That's exactly who/ what I thought of, when I read that. Not just the cleaning lady's name but her favourite cereal* - *okay I made up that last bit. Just got carried away while reading the epic bull that this guy's book clearly is.
I've just done a bit of digging. JA isn't named as a Co-i for the EDICa on the UKRI website, but is on he EDICa site.
The funding was awarded in 2022, before JA stated at Cambridge. This means he did not do anything to put the application together and only joined when the project was up and running. So, why was he asked to join, and just what has he done to attract research funding to Cambridge since he started there?
I'm from Liverpool myself and I can't tell you how pissed off his description of us as though we're uneducated idiots who've never seen a non white person before makes me.
Oh maybe he didn’t find out about it. Maybe he was just surprised at the coverage.
‘The youngest black professor to be appointed to Oxbridge in a thousand years’.
Cambridge is about 800 years old, Oxford about 900. He just can’t resist elevenerifing everything. And surely radio 4 would have wanted to interview him.He’s honest about one thing though. He does have a silly shiny face.
He’s terribly ignorant about Liverpool and so patronising. He’s an absolute joke.
***t I would have organized all the students to save the plastic toys from the cereal & gift them to him.
Prof Scornflake
I think he genuinely has a messiah complex.
Surely the way anyone finds out they have a new job is when the organisation hiring them posts publicly about it?
Ridiculous. This is a job like any other, with a contract that would be agreed and signed before your appointment is made public. A professorship is not some magical bestowal that doesn't adhere to the normal rules of employment. What a ludicrous liar this man is.
The bit about everyone (like absolutely everyone apparently, the population of a small town at least, most of whom don't know him) congratulating him as he trundled about his day because they recognised him is just lol. But then haven't we all had our new and exciting jobs heralded to us when we walk out our front doors by everyone from the postie to the pigeons to the delivery drivers to the Lord Mayor's irascible little terrier jumping straight into a flashmob rendition of Simply the Best with the grand finale of a bin lorry driving past us with "CONGRATS!" sprayed on the side as we stand humbled and in awe of these small and gracious acts of kindness and tenderness by our city, our community, nay, our friends?
My God, the bull. It is immense.
My God, the bull. It is immense.
If you live in a Richard Curtis movie, absolutely you do.
Jason was a keynote speaker at a conference I attended last year. He was very much treated like a celebrity and I remember thinking that it must be overwhelming to receive so much attention. When he came off stage, there was a huge crowd of delegates wanting a piece of him (mostly women). I can imagine that really went to his head, because he was living as a rock star.
The title of his keynote was “I am the King of Wishful Thinking”. Yes, really.
The title of his keynote was “I am the King of Wishful Thinking”. Yes, really.
Another good tune, the memory of which has been sullied by Professor von Munchausen.
The parallels to arch-bullshitters Jessica Taylor and Jack Monroe are astonishing. All three of them live in a world populated solely by NPCs thanking them on the regular for all the good that they do.
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