I have a NEW PUBLICATION out, about productivity and much more. If there were one theme it is this: you can't restore UK productivity growth simply by going all-out on tech-rich, "high value" sectors. Here is a thread 1/ instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/p…

There seems to be quite a rapid downturn in share price for many molecular diagnostics firms, including leaders like Illumina

Worth your time: In only 2 minutes, Josh Angrist explains, in plain language, why #ai and #machinelearning won't work to personalize care, education, etc. It CANNOT work, as it can't be proven that the prediction *really* works (it only shows it worked one time, in the study). 1/

New SI of Soc Sci & Medicine out on 'Regulating diagnostic technologies: interdisciplinary perspectives' - eds. Stuart Hogarth, Fiona A. Miller and my Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS)/UoE ISSTI colleague Steve Sturdy: sciencedirect.com/journal/social… #histSTM #sociology #STS

Tax havens are in effect the aircraft carriers from which assaults on major democratic states and their policies can be launched. No wonder Russia loves them. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/06/3…

Andrew Godsell 💙 🎗️📚 💚 "I have friends who are aristocrats, friends who are upper class and friends who are working class....well not WORKING CLASS!" #RishiSunak 2001 🙄

Further evidence confirming that academic economics is profoundly corrupt: Uber paid academics six-figure sums for research to feed to the media theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/…

Important analysis of the current threat to the US regulatory state

Having mismanaged the pandemic, the government now wants to exacerbate the other global health crisis - antimicrobial resistance. We need to be tightening control of antibiotic use, not making them an over-the-counter medicine.

Another high-ticket item on the list of expensive AI failures (IBM's Watson Health, being another prime example: shorturl.at/pBELZ )

An earth shattering thing just happened: a law enforcement official successfully stopped a gang of private equity goons from looting $4 billion out of a supermarket chain I'd never heard of anything like this in late capitalism so I had to write it down slate.com/business/2022/…

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Truly, a brilliant book. Get it.

Silicon Valley was born in the military-industrial complex and the connection remains as strong as ever.

🧵 The UK has an active industrial strategy hiding in plain sight: it supports the arms industry.  Our new report from Khem Rogaly traces state support for the industry & asks if some of its capacity can be repurposed to meet urgent social challenges.  common-wealth.co.uk/publications/t…

Excellent piece by Seth Ackerman on the flaws in Brenner's theory of global stagflation jacobin.com/2023/09/robert…

"GRAIL-Galleri: why the special treatment?", we ask in today's The Lancet as voices from the UK public health oncology community. From Richard Sullivan Ajay Aggarwal Houlston Lab, ICR Paul Pharoah (R soul) 🇪🇺🇵🇬🇿🇦🇬🇧 Margaret McCartney Stuart Hogarth Prof Nick Wald Clare Turnbull- Prof/NHS Dr thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The UK is highly centralised and there are significant economic inequalities among towns, cities, regions and nations. Policies for levelling up need to be more devolved, backed by effective institutions and based on a coherent long-term strategy. buff.ly/4903Sba

News brief: A new report co-authored by Diane Coyle is calling for regulation of “compute” – the hardware that underpins all AI – to help prevent artificial intelligence misuse & disasters. bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/ai-hardwa…