Reading Mariana Mazzucato’s The Entrepreneurial State (2013) and it’s as relevant now as it was ten years ago. Would love to read a stand-alone chapter on mRNA technologies and gov role in development of Covid vaccine (although the long run benefits are ofc still playing out)

This reinforces work by Center for Civic Design on voting info, which recommends "make it look official." Voters actively look for indicators of credibility, and formal gov styling is one. (note: important not to conflate formality with inaccessibility/jargon!) cavotes.org/sites/default/…

The Harvard Kennedy School team highlighted our Formality Effect research in an article published today: hks.harvard.edu/faculty-resear…

Gabriel Deschsmps (1919-2022) My word he was long lived. I took the dates down from a reliable site. French painter of mostly Landscapes of Provence where he had a house. Important artist Very fresh looking

Think casual correspondence works with residents? Think again. New research shows formal letters are more effective at encouraging residents to take action. Learn more from Elizabeth Linos about what this means for city leaders. bloombergcities.jhu.edu/news/new-resea…

📢🎉📢1/9 Delighted to share new report funded by Nuffield Foundation focusing on transition into the labour market for #careleavers and other #cep. Full report (with exec summary): education.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… Two-page policy brief: education.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

India is on the cusp of passing China to become the most populous country in the world, UN estimates say. China has taken advantage of its immensity to change the world more than any other nation over the past generation. Will India do the same? nyti.ms/3MXXGc8

This is awesome! Like the quoted tweet to get reminders about photo ID for the May local elections

Low emission zones work: It would have taken London another 193 years to comply with legal air pollution limits. Launched by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan in 2017, ULEZ reduced nitrogen dioxide from traffic by 46% by 2022. The benefit across inner London was 21%. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today we launch UK 2040 Options, a @nesta_UK and @B_I_Tweets led project to set out the policy options for tackling the biggest challenges facing the country over the next two decades options2040.co.uk/the-project/

🚨🚨 🚨Randomisation Klaxon! 🚨🚨🚨 I'm delighted to announce that Economic and Social Research Council & UK Research and Innovation are today launching a £15m funding call for testing policy interventions using "robust counterfactual evaluation methods" - including RCTs, analysis of existing trials data & quasi-experiments

Wow, what a powerfully told story by Chris here

1. The govts plan to tackle “low quality courses” has reared its head again this week… There are problems with the idea of restricting student numbers on courses which do not have "good outcomes" :

Science is based on ignorance. For thousands of years, people’s knowledge came from faith. The scientific revolution began with admitting we don’t have all the answers. From ‘Aprendemos Juntos’, May 2023. Watch the full video: bit.ly/YNHaprendemos #discovery #ignorance

Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. Carter gave Lesley Stahl a tour of his home during a 2010 60 Minutes profile, showing her his wood shop and painting studio. He said he picked up these hobbies "because it relaxes me.” cbsn.ws/3ZLMaXJ

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain

Our lack of good deep measures of human creativity, reasoning, empathy, etc. is really a problem in AI right now. A lot of tests that were "good enough" for human research (RAT for creativity, Seeing the Mind in The Eyes for empathy) are not robust enough for benchmarks for AI.

Good evening fellow Europa league champions! 🐓⚽️ COYS!! #thfc