Giles
@policygiles.bsky.social
Attempting to facilitate dialogue between researchers and policymakers. Sometimes succeeding. Views not employers (obvs).
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Great opportunity for musculoskeletal researchers!! Help us grow more inclusive research across regenerative medicine, prosthetics, epidemiology, preclinical research, clinical trials & global health 🦴🏃♂️🌎 Grow your profile, networks & have real impact! Apply now 👇 #Dsxhe #datascience #FortisNet
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Great opportunity for musculoskeletal researchers!! Help us grow more inclusive research across regenerative medicine, prosthetics, epidemiology, preclinical research, clinical trials & global health 🦴🏃♂️🌎 Grow your profile, networks & have real impact! Apply now 👇 #Dsxhe #datascience #FortisNet
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On Tuesday I told MPs on the English Devolution Bill Committee why putting the Mayoral Council on a statutory basis would help embed English devolution for the long term.
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
On Tuesday I told MPs on the English Devolution Bill Committee why putting the Mayoral Council on a statutory basis would help embed English devolution for the long term.
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Spending my Saturday evening writing MP profiles. Struck by grandfather of the House Sir Roger Gale's stance on death
- Anti assisted dying
- Pro capital punishment
- Anti fox hunting
- Anti assisted dying
- Pro capital punishment
- Anti fox hunting
August 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Spending my Saturday evening writing MP profiles. Struck by grandfather of the House Sir Roger Gale's stance on death
- Anti assisted dying
- Pro capital punishment
- Anti fox hunting
- Anti assisted dying
- Pro capital punishment
- Anti fox hunting
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This is, on the one hand, going to be terrible.
On the other hand, it is also going to be hilarious.
On the other hand, it is also going to be hilarious.
Sorry to pollute the feed with technical financial terms, but this is all fxcking nuts
www.ft.com/content/8a16...
www.ft.com/content/8a16...
August 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is, on the one hand, going to be terrible.
On the other hand, it is also going to be hilarious.
On the other hand, it is also going to be hilarious.
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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Mission Control?
This is Southampton.
We have a solution...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social researchers 👀
Accelerate the policy impact of your work by engaging with #MissionLed government using the funding below.
Light load application process - award made in SIX weeks - funds to spent by August ✅
This is Southampton.
We have a solution...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social researchers 👀
Accelerate the policy impact of your work by engaging with #MissionLed government using the funding below.
Light load application process - award made in SIX weeks - funds to spent by August ✅
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Mission Control?
This is Southampton.
We have a solution...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social researchers 👀
Accelerate the policy impact of your work by engaging with #MissionLed government using the funding below.
Light load application process - award made in SIX weeks - funds to spent by August ✅
This is Southampton.
We have a solution...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social researchers 👀
Accelerate the policy impact of your work by engaging with #MissionLed government using the funding below.
Light load application process - award made in SIX weeks - funds to spent by August ✅
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Call for Papers: Excited to co-edit this special issue on Linked Data Across the Life Course in @ijpds.bsky.social
We invite global research on linked data to advance person-centred health& life course research. ijpds.org/calls/levera...
We invite global research on linked data to advance person-centred health& life course research. ijpds.org/calls/levera...
February 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Call for Papers: Excited to co-edit this special issue on Linked Data Across the Life Course in @ijpds.bsky.social
We invite global research on linked data to advance person-centred health& life course research. ijpds.org/calls/levera...
We invite global research on linked data to advance person-centred health& life course research. ijpds.org/calls/levera...
This is shaping up to be an excellent event - reserve your spot while you can. 🩻🔖⏳
Advancing Inclusive Musculoskeletal Health : Clinical Commerical & Community Impact - Register for free #FortisNet meeting now! 🦴🎉 20th March Southampton UK 👇 Join us! @r-mestre.bsky.social @messagetgi.bsky.social @fraje.bsky.social @cmcgwhp.bsky.social
#dsxhe
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February 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is shaping up to be an excellent event - reserve your spot while you can. 🩻🔖⏳
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New platform, new piece of work for the next few months.
I'm leading on the Science, Innovation & Technology select committee's inquiry looking at DSIT's new digital centre of government. If you have thoughts please submit them and/or get in touch! committees.parliament.uk/work/8903/di...
I'm leading on the Science, Innovation & Technology select committee's inquiry looking at DSIT's new digital centre of government. If you have thoughts please submit them and/or get in touch! committees.parliament.uk/work/8903/di...
Digital centre of government - Committees - UK Parliament
Following the general election, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced plans to become the “digital centre of government”. It was also confirmed that the Government Dig...
committees.parliament.uk
February 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
New platform, new piece of work for the next few months.
I'm leading on the Science, Innovation & Technology select committee's inquiry looking at DSIT's new digital centre of government. If you have thoughts please submit them and/or get in touch! committees.parliament.uk/work/8903/di...
I'm leading on the Science, Innovation & Technology select committee's inquiry looking at DSIT's new digital centre of government. If you have thoughts please submit them and/or get in touch! committees.parliament.uk/work/8903/di...
Blaze Foley’s 1980’s Americana lyricism is new to me but Oval Room feels pretty apt today. A kinder, more knowing America does exist and will surface again. But in the mean time whistle ‘he’s the president but I don’t care’ is helping me…
open.spotify.com/track/4snSA7...
open.spotify.com/track/4snSA7...
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Blaze Foley’s 1980’s Americana lyricism is new to me but Oval Room feels pretty apt today. A kinder, more knowing America does exist and will surface again. But in the mean time whistle ‘he’s the president but I don’t care’ is helping me…
open.spotify.com/track/4snSA7...
open.spotify.com/track/4snSA7...
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Stay bang up to date with the Centre for Democratic Futures activities & events - join our mailing list! #democracy #AI #sustainability #environment #Healthequity #CDF
All welcome 🥳 👇https://forms.office.com/e/YCLGeeG1Pc @rikkidean.bsky.social @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social @drvcardo.bsky.social
All welcome 🥳 👇https://forms.office.com/e/YCLGeeG1Pc @rikkidean.bsky.social @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social @drvcardo.bsky.social
Microsoft Forms
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January 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Stay bang up to date with the Centre for Democratic Futures activities & events - join our mailing list! #democracy #AI #sustainability #environment #Healthequity #CDF
All welcome 🥳 👇https://forms.office.com/e/YCLGeeG1Pc @rikkidean.bsky.social @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social @drvcardo.bsky.social
All welcome 🥳 👇https://forms.office.com/e/YCLGeeG1Pc @rikkidean.bsky.social @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social @drvcardo.bsky.social
FortisNet does great work - thoroughly recommend tuning in to the below for those at the nexus of #MSK and #datascience
Nearly time for the next Data Science for Health Equity MSK webinar!!!! #Dsxhe #FortisNet 🦴🥳 With Dr Aikta Sharma @ucl.ac.uk - Skeletal Sex Differences in Health & Disease using Multimodal Imaging Approaches 😍 30th Jan 4-5pm UK
RSVP and link 👇
www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...
RSVP and link 👇
www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...
Musculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar | DSxHE
Join us for a webinar on explore skeletal sexual dimorphism in health and disease with hierarchical imaging approaches
www.datascienceforhealthequity.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
FortisNet does great work - thoroughly recommend tuning in to the below for those at the nexus of #MSK and #datascience
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In case you were wondering what AI Safety testing is and how it works, very clear write-up of the testing the US and UK AISI's did in OpenAI's new model, o1 www.nist.gov/news-events/...
Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 Model
Introduction The U.S.
www.nist.gov
December 18, 2024 at 11:46 PM
In case you were wondering what AI Safety testing is and how it works, very clear write-up of the testing the US and UK AISI's did in OpenAI's new model, o1 www.nist.gov/news-events/...
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There is information about the IPP sentence and its problems here commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection
IPP sentences were abolished in 2012 but continue to cause controversy. Changes to licence termination arrangements are being phased in from 1 November 2024.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
There is information about the IPP sentence and its problems here commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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If you want to find more about the horror of IPP, (including the story of Martin Myers, jailed for 18 years after stealing a cigarette) here is a link to the Guardian series The IPP Scandal
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...
The IPP scandal | The Guardian
<p>Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences were scrapped in 2012 - but almost 3,000 people are still on them, with no idea when they will be released from prison. Why are they not set free?...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2024 at 10:51 AM
If you want to find more about the horror of IPP, (including the story of Martin Myers, jailed for 18 years after stealing a cigarette) here is a link to the Guardian series The IPP Scandal
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...
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I can't resist piggy backing on this to share something relevant: a paper I wrote with the wonderful Kate Paradine, based on discussions & workshops we had with lots of great people. Thinking about visions for the future, & academic-third sector collaboration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A vision for academic and third sector collaboration in (criminal) justice
In this article we sketch a vision that might guide academic and third sector collaboration. We do so by drawing on a project that involved collaboration with a range of stakeholders, in order to sti...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:15 AM
I can't resist piggy backing on this to share something relevant: a paper I wrote with the wonderful Kate Paradine, based on discussions & workshops we had with lots of great people. Thinking about visions for the future, & academic-third sector collaboration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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💥 New: What happens when migrants implement migration policy?
✍️ @katerinaglyniadaki.bsky.social examines the pressures faced by people with a migration background who provide migration services to new migrants blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍️ @katerinaglyniadaki.bsky.social examines the pressures faced by people with a migration background who provide migration services to new migrants blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
What happens when migrants implement migration policy?
Social services for migrants are often provided by local organisations and “street-level bureaucrats”. Yet as Katerina Glyniadaki explains, when the actors providing these services also have a migr…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2024 at 9:25 AM
💥 New: What happens when migrants implement migration policy?
✍️ @katerinaglyniadaki.bsky.social examines the pressures faced by people with a migration background who provide migration services to new migrants blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍️ @katerinaglyniadaki.bsky.social examines the pressures faced by people with a migration background who provide migration services to new migrants blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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I'm going on tour next year! Ticket link in bio!
November 28, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I'm going on tour next year! Ticket link in bio!
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The wonderful Commons Library has done us all a favour by mapping the Constitution- no plans for reform, just a faithful account of what we have. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
The United Kingdom constitution - a mapping exercise
A briefing paper which "maps" (or summarises) the main elements of the United Kingdom's uncodified constitution.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 27, 2024 at 7:43 AM
The wonderful Commons Library has done us all a favour by mapping the Constitution- no plans for reform, just a faithful account of what we have. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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For the academics amongst you we’ve opened the call for our conference scheme where we provide up to £30k for an event. You can get a flavour of the kind of things we fund by looking here at the ones we supported this year www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/from-im...
December 1, 2024 at 1:39 PM
For the academics amongst you we’ve opened the call for our conference scheme where we provide up to £30k for an event. You can get a flavour of the kind of things we fund by looking here at the ones we supported this year www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/from-im...
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The Department for Environment is looking for a Chief Scientific Adviser. You'd advise the department on scientific issues, oversee a £200m R&D budget and sit on SAGE. £149k.
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
Defra plays a unique and vital role at the heart of UK life. From the food we eat to the water we drink and the air we breathe – we exist to protect the
www.saxbam.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM
The Department for Environment is looking for a Chief Scientific Adviser. You'd advise the department on scientific issues, oversee a £200m R&D budget and sit on SAGE. £149k.
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
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Just updated my Migration Statistics briefing paper (PDF is live, landing page should update soon).
Well worth a read to understand the background/ context to UK migration statistics.
A lot is changing: in the statistics and in the population!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Well worth a read to understand the background/ context to UK migration statistics.
A lot is changing: in the statistics and in the population!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Migration statistics
This Commons Library briefing paper is a guide to understanding UK migration statistics. It explains the concepts and methods used in measuring migration and sets out a range of data on migration in t...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
December 2, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Just updated my Migration Statistics briefing paper (PDF is live, landing page should update soon).
Well worth a read to understand the background/ context to UK migration statistics.
A lot is changing: in the statistics and in the population!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Well worth a read to understand the background/ context to UK migration statistics.
A lot is changing: in the statistics and in the population!
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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This is interesting, in the new migration figures: England and Wales non-UK-born population now stands at ~11.4 million or 19% of the population.
Number has been rising steeply since 2021, solely from increase in non-EU population.
Number has been rising steeply since 2021, solely from increase in non-EU population.
December 2, 2024 at 5:51 PM
This is interesting, in the new migration figures: England and Wales non-UK-born population now stands at ~11.4 million or 19% of the population.
Number has been rising steeply since 2021, solely from increase in non-EU population.
Number has been rising steeply since 2021, solely from increase in non-EU population.