We salute the lab mouse

(As the child of a cytogeneticist, three cheers too).

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I was looking for an old synthesiser joke to share with Jeff Mosenkis and found a whole thread...

Cc @traff

Hey Feargal Sharkey- your tireless action on our rivers & seas echoes global efforts to shine a light on what govts & companies do, spend, deliver.

Also moving from data/monitoring to more political, problem solving, systemic effort.

🤓 any chance of a boost for this blog?

Great work / great team!

Michael Gavin Hayman 💙💛 Olúṣeun Onígbindé Ian Gary Mark Robinson jonas moberg Elisa Peter Sanjay Pradhan Gary Forster Open Gov Partnership EITI International Open Contracting Partnership PublishWhatYouFund Publish What You Pay Open Data Charter Open Society Foundations Josh Powell Stephen Davenport A tour de force warren krafchik and Not_that_PeterEvans, thank you! A lot in there...I agree with the need for a more political approach, the need for more 'unlikely networks' & dynamic 'insider-outsider' coalitions as Jonathan Fox calls them. We have to be more hard-nosed going fwds.

Every time a foundation funder or aid donor seeks my advice on useful <<political economy research>> in relation to subject X in country Y, the <Practical Politics Platform> seems one step closer...

(today it was climate finance...).

Blog co-authored with warren krafchik on 20 years of the Open movement, & ideas for what next - hoping to spur conversation we stress need for
1. more politics & political economy
2. an ecosystem approach
3. problem solving focus
Why? Closing civic space means a gear change is needed

#TaylorSwift is a cultural phenomenon that we haven’t seen since the V.

Here are three reasons why.

The third might surprise you.

A 🧵

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It was a great Brainy Briny Thursday - our fifth round, and second thematic edition. Intrigued? Get in touch!

(Can you) do good things with bad money?
Some thoughts...
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I find Yuen Yuen Ang 's

Complex vs Complicated

Tree vs Toaster

endlessly useful.

On #InternationalWomensDay this is the paper that I've been looking for -

<gender
equality
is
macro
critical!>

So step up, Ian McFarland

I was <this week years old> when I discovered the answer to my fear of travel in espresso-free lands... no more hand laundering coffee filter papers so friends like Prof Liz David-Barrett can also have a caffeine fix

In which i make the case for more PER and more public PEA.

*Political Economy Research and Political Economy Analysis.