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Philip Barrett
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Professionally: IMF economist
Recreationally: pianist, vegetable gardener, hot sauce enthusiast, cat person.
Views my own.
https://sites.google.com/view/philip-barrett/

Economics 36%
Environmental science 27%

Finally got round to bottling last year’s chili harvest!

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With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

"Announcing the fact that anybody touching that rail with his umbrella would receive a shock, everybody was promptly seized by a desire to do it. Until the starting of the train, our representative found ample occupation in egging various gentlemen on to the deed."

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From the archive: A trip on the new underground
The City and South London Railway opens
on.ft.com

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A British Rail poster from 1957 advertising fixtures at The Oval (the nearest overground station, then as now, is Vauxhall). Interesting to note there were two matches against the touring West Indians as well as the August Test. Playing a county twice was not uncommon

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NEW: Air pollution in England has halved since 2003 after falling substantially during the pandemic, but inequalities in exposure remain.

@lgadenne.bsky.social @leroutierm.bsky.social Rodrigo Toneto and Bobbie Upton’s new report examines how air pollution has changed in England over 20 years:

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1970 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kaikan Hall - Kyoto
#ArtBlakey (dr), #RandyBrecker (tp), Carlos Garnett (ts), #JoanneBrackeen (p), Jan Arnette (b), Etta Jones (voc)

#jazz jazzsky
Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜

My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides:

youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?...

speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

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1956 - Dizzy Gillespie with his 20 piece All-Star Orchestra - Near East tour

#jazz #bigband #DizzyGillespie jazzsky