Our first Metascience research grant call is now open!

In partnership with Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Economic and Social Research Council is offering £5m of funding for research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting R&D. Individual projects can be up to £300k. More info here:

ukri.org/opportunity/uk…

🥳New papers! A cornucopia! (well, 3).🎆

#1: 'What State Housing Policies Do Voters Want? Evidence from a Platform-Choice Experiment' (w/Clayton Nall & Stan Oklobdzija)

written for a JPIPE symposium on political economy of housing

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Excited to be offering Economic and Social Research Council grants of £280k to £800k for work using AI-powered research tools to address major social or economic issues.

The funding can be used for research, methodological development, and research infrastructure.

Find out more here:
ukri.org/opportunity/es…

I will continue to argue that we desperately need a switch towards more pay less pension in the public sector. You can’t get a mortgage based on your future pension.

Important job at Our World in Data with the opportunity to write about housing: ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

Timelapse of a cruise ship's contruction

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Perhaps of interest ft.com/content/8a4ef2…

Huge opportunity to become an economics writer at The Economist: economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Great thread on how the real problem with the British state isn't 'Treasury Brain' (i.e. cost control) but the other Departments that struggle to manage projects properly and can't even get procurement right (and try to scapegoat HMT when everything goes wrong)

If you were a UK person interested in public policy and economics, and you were visiting Singapore, who would you want to meet and speak to while you were there to learn more about the Singaporean model?

RIP Vernor Vinge.

‘So, the prediction: If we don't have that general war, then it's you … who will understand the Singularity in the only possible way—by living through it.

San Diego
1983-1985’

—Marooned in Real Time

Come work with us! IFP is currently hiring for:

- Chief of Staff
- Data Fellow
- Biotechnology Fellow
- Senior Biotechnology Fellow
ifp.org/come-work-with…

From Alec Stapp and Brian Potter in Asterisk:

Substantive standards mandating specific outcomes solved acid rain, ozone depletion, and lead exposure.

By contrast, our regulatory regime today is almost entirely about process. asteriskmag.com/issues/05/movi…

In policy areas with lots of different things that can be changed (ie high-dimensioned spaces), be wary of what your intuition tells you…

Just realized that the real reason the UK independent nuclear deterrent won’t work is that the letters of last resort will have to be subjected to an Environmental Impact Assessment after opening

Is it just me or has DPD Deutschland got substantially worse in the UK recently? Sometimes packages don’t even bother leaving the warehouse.