Can Big Data Reveal the Origins of Purdah?

Using ‘Google Arts & Culture’, I have analysed thousands of museum exhibits, to trace South Asia’s cultural evolution over five millennia.

What did I learn?

ggd.world/p/can-big-data… cc Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ Shruti Rajagopalan Arpit Gupta

This is so cool - how The British Academy Fellow Jane Ohlmeyer is using AI and digital tech to recover lost and hidden stories of women in history
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The British Academy has today announced the recipients of 8 Global Professorships awards. The scheme fosters collaboration between leading international researchers and UK-based institutions working on cutting-edge research projects. See the full list:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/eight-new…

This is so cool - how The British Academy Fellow Jane Ohlmeyer is using AI and digital tech to recover lost and hidden stories of women in history
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

nature Also see this great piece by Anjana Ahuja which gives more of the rationale for why we are trialling partial randomisation for our small grants scheme.

Making research funding a lottery could help tackle ‘status bias’.
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You can read more about the thinking behind this ‘partial randomisation’ mechanism for grant making in this editorial in nature

The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding nature.com/articles/d4158…

We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Probably one of the most important pieces of new evidence on how to reduce educational inequalities in a long time.

Sure Start worked. It worked best for those who really needed it. And it paid for itself. These findings are huge.

Silver coin boom in medieval England due to melted down Byzantine treasures, study reveals theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Global CO2 emissions from aviation have quadrupled since the 1960s and are likely to keep rising as only around 10% of people fly in a given year, and this will grow as incomes rise. Great Our World in Data explainer
ourworldindata.org/global-aviatio…

This is v cool

2/2 This piece is totally different, looking at how victims and perpetrators have sometimes found reconciliation theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

1/2 Two rather different pieces on the Rwanda genocide. This excellent piece by Alec Russell (and input from The British Academy Hon Fellow Philippe Sands) explores the possibilities of securing legal justice
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‘He has never been interested in straight narrative storytelling; he has instead found disturbing and poetic ways to deconstruct historical myth’

Feature on The British Academy Hon Fellow John Akomfrah ahead of his representing the UK at the Venice Biennale theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…