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Paul Nightingale
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Professor of Strategy at SPRU.

Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.

Editor Research Policy.

Acting Director HSP.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 14h
Sadly the UK debt ignores a lot of very good work on the c impact of AI because it's so framed in terms of AI and not how AI interacts with organisational and individual routines, processes etc.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 14h
The structural problem about failure to regulate monopolies etc is a disaster here. AI hype etc has a dismal impact on that.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 15h
Exactly the same in UK and EU. The public debate is between evidence free extreme of "AI is all hype" and "it changes everything!!!".

Sadly there is very little space for nuance.....

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 15h
Beamish and Butthead frog baseball at a Boston animation festival
andykhouri.bsky.social Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 18h
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 15h
My hot take: the UK Conservative party is the model for the Republican party post Trump.

Reposted by John Maynard, Paul Nightingale, Colin Woodard

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 18h
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)

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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · 21h
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21h
Great post @ruxandrabio.bsky.social on FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s flu vaccine, changing its position on what trial design was acceptable.

Regulatory uncertainty doesn’t just mean missing out on this vaccine, but also reduces future R&D investment:
clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/the-modern...
Adding to the confusion, entrepreneur Dr. Jing Liang noted on X that publicly available trial data appear to show Moderna conducted analyses involving higher-dose comparators in older adults. If accurate, it would raise further questions about the basis for issuing a refusal-to-file letter in the first place. No matter which account ultimately proves correct, this episode leaves us with two uncomfortable possibilities. If the FDA changed its regulatory position after years of clinical development, that reinforces a persistent concern about regulatory inconsistency. If, alternatively, Moderna met the agency’s highest level of stated expectations, actually did use a high-dose comparator and still received a refusal-to-file letter, the implications are even more serious, raising questions about transparency and internal coherence at the agency.

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 1d
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Very interesting and timely paper. The authors find that "industrial policies lead to trade surpluses if the government pursues an unbalanced policy mix, such that domestic demand does not rise as much as supply. These surpluses are absorbed by the rest...
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
I've been pushing this. The selection bias issue makes a joke of any claims to research quality.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
RF is fantastic. But this is a really tough job given the politics.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking: Research Excellence Framework director to step down in April.

Former director Kim Hackett returning to oversee strategy while successor to Rebecca Fairbairn is found.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Research Excellence Framework director to step down in April - Research Professional News
Former director Kim Hackett returning to oversee strategy while successor to Rebecca Fairbairn is found
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d
Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.

Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.

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Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
Narrator's voice: they didn't go to mars within 7 years.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 3d
Getting ready to submit a theory paper.... started in 1996.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 3d
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 3d
Brilliant!

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 3d
I can relate to this.
Whenever Iranians take to the streets to protest the Ayatollah’s totalitarianism, my online feed, which evidently curates ‘left-wing’ content to me, gets filled with popular accounts taking a break from declaring their support for Palestine to make shit up in defense of the Iranian regime. One video shows people searching for loved ones in a Tehran morgue filled with corpses that have clear signs of torture, while another video features some influencer who has taken it upon themselves to tell me there is a global propaganda campaign led by the US and Israel to demonise the Iranian regime.

Reposted by Adrian Barnett, Paul Nightingale

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 4d
Can you justify using (and paying for) a service that generates a ready to submit paper with just one prompt?
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
He is just vile

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
Exactly the same as Houston the rising oncology centre in the USA.

Manchester lacks the concentration of cancer hospitals. Not the population!

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
Manchester has great research hospitals and universities and the scale that is needed.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
It should complement i hope. Oncology research has shifted recently from looking at population variation to individuals and the dynamics of tumours (thanks to new tech), so it's important to be (a) close to patients and (b) have population scale. It's a big city thing now.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
No one is going to like this thread so I'm going to hide and watch the rugby.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
Academics thinking in zero sum terms - you can predict views by whether their university has a research hospital, and this strange bunch of policy wonks influenced by the neo-liberal turn in British STS.

This suggests their grip is slipping and policy is becoming more strategic.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
This is maintained by a strange very British alliance of unlikely bedfellows. On the right, people still wedded to the 1986 vision that basic research is enough for magic to happen (it isn't and it hasn't), on the left people toxic to industrial collaboration seen as a zero sum game, academics ...4

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
Production's importance can be seen in the success of the Irish Biotech sector. UK policy it's influenced much too much by a few academics worried about papers in nature, with not enough industry voices - both big global pharma and small biotechnology firms. 3.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
Secondly, bioscience R&D had changed in the last 15 years and has moved upstream and (especially in oncology) downstream. Hospital based research is more important.

You can see this in the rise of Houston as a major research centre in the USA.

Production has also increased in importance....2

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 4d
This is an important development for UK research.

South London, despite what people argue about the geography of UK R&D, is a research desert despite its huge population

Imperial is doing v interesting things in W London. But step out of KCL and had South and you won't find much until Brighton.
london.gov.uk Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5d
I welcome the expansion of the world-leading London Cancer Hub, which will further cement London as a global leader in health and innovation and create meaningful jobs and investment for Londoners.
World leading £1bn cancer research "village" in south London wins green light
Plans for a new research neighbourhood include homes for 220 people, a pub, padel court and open spaces
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 5d
Masha Gessen - interviewed here - is very interesting. And "The Future is History" is a wonderful book.

Unreality and Social Corrosion: Masha Gessen and Ethan Zuckerman in Conversation · Issue 6: Unreal jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/0y02faqe....
Unreality and Social Corrosion: Masha Gessen and Ethan Zuckerman in Conversation
A discussion on the role of Unreality within politics as narrative, negotiation, and loneliness.
jods.mitpress.mit.edu