Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him)
@bastiencf.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer - Economics / Demography / Health - BA Film student - Middlesex Uni London
Feminist / Antiracist / 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
https://sites.google.com/site/bastiencf/home
Feminist / Antiracist / 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
https://sites.google.com/site/bastiencf/home
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Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Monty Python understood p-hacking
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Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...
L'IPP a mesuré l'impact des 10 Mds de baisse des impôts de production dont ont bénéficié les entreprises. Impact sur chiffre d'affaires ? Nul. Sur l'investissement ? Nul. Sur la création d'emploi ? Nul. Sur les exports ? Nul. Budget : 10 Mds de perdus.
www.alternatives-economiques.fr/baisser-impo...
www.alternatives-economiques.fr/baisser-impo...
Baisser les impôts de production de 10 milliards d'euros pour les entreprises n'a servi à rien
Une récente étude consacrée à la baisse des impôts de production conclut que les entreprises bénéficiaires n’ont rien fait de ce gain. Malgré ce résultat, le gouvernement veut poursuivre dans cette vo...
www.alternatives-economiques.fr
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...
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🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores released for four national cohort studies | CLS
The research community can now access a range of polygenic scores from more than 30,000 people taking part in four of the UK’s national cohort studies.
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n
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NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS
Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
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L’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice. Comme pour Le Pen, des politiques critiquent l’application immédiate des sanctions pour Sarkozy. Ils se pensent au-dessus des règles qui s’appliquent à tous les autres justiciables. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Condamnation de Sarkozy : l’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice
Comme après le procès de Marine Le Pen, des voix s’élèvent à droite pour remettre en question l’application immédiate des sanctions infligées par les tribunaux. Certains politiques se pensent au-dess…
www.mediapart.fr
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
L’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice. Comme pour Le Pen, des politiques critiquent l’application immédiate des sanctions pour Sarkozy. Ils se pensent au-dessus des règles qui s’appliquent à tous les autres justiciables. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate at the new Bennett School of Public Policy in the
www.cam.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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VCs don’t run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
VCs don’t run universities.
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
We do.
After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.
Ballot opens October.
Vote YES.
#WeAreTheUniversity
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🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.
👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.
📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd
👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.
📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd
September 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.
👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.
📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd
👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.
📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd
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NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.
🧵 [1/8]
Atrocities in Gaza should not make us forget about the dire living conditions in the West Bank confronted to waves of agressive illegal settlements www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
En Cisjordanie, l’émergence d’un Etat palestinien entravée par Israël
Avec la poursuite de la colonisation, la captation des terres agricoles et des ressources hydriques, les autorités israéliennes manœuvrent pour anéantir la perspective d’un Etat palestinien. Le mouvem...
www.lemonde.fr
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Atrocities in Gaza should not make us forget about the dire living conditions in the West Bank confronted to waves of agressive illegal settlements www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence
By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.
docs.google.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ec.europa.eu STOP ALL COLLABORATIONS WITH LIBYAN COASTGUARDS!
The non-profit SOS Mediterranee says the MV Ocean Viking was targeted while carrying 87 rescued migrants to safety.
Libyan coastguard shot at migrant rescue ship at sea, NGO says
The non-profit SOS Mediterranee says the MV Ocean Viking was targeted while carrying 87 rescued migrants to safety.
l.euronews.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@ec.europa.eu STOP ALL COLLABORATIONS WITH LIBYAN COASTGUARDS!
Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!
Really proud to have taken part in this evaluation of a #SuicideAwareness raising campaign as my first dip into the analysis of #MentalHealth outcomes.
On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here is a very timely🧵explaining what we did and what we found ! 1/N
www.publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/cou...
On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here is a very timely🧵explaining what we did and what we found ! 1/N
www.publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/cou...
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!
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📣 We're hiring! 📣
Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?
Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c
Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?
Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c
August 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📣 We're hiring! 📣
Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?
Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c
Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?
Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c
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There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease
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Pre-modern universities promoted the spread of ideas.
This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw
This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw
August 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pre-modern universities promoted the spread of ideas.
This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw
This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw
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Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
August 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
For the @thedetectorists.bsky.social's fans out there :-)
There are archaologists who have been digging for literally decades who haven't found anything this cool who are going to enjoy reading this article ;)
"Student strikes gold 90 minutes into first dig"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Student strikes gold 90 minutes into first dig"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Northumberland dig students find 9th Century gold object
Newcastle University student Yara Souza, from Florida, says she is "geeking out" over her discovery.
www.bbc.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
For the @thedetectorists.bsky.social's fans out there :-)
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This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships
Manuel Bagues & Natalia Zinovyeva find that #gender segregation in #education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
August 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships
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🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU!
@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@sriucl.bsky.social
@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@sriucl.bsky.social
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU!
@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@sriucl.bsky.social
@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@sriucl.bsky.social
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#PlasticsTreaty
Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years
NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years
NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
NEW: The president of one of the world's largest plastics producers acknowledged in 1974 that recycling plastic was "not feasible."
It's “further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social.
It's “further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social.
‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.
www.desmog.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#PlasticsTreaty
Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years
NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years
NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
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📣 Call for Papers 📣
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
August 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📣 Call for Papers 📣
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
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It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.