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Anna Alexandrova
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Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing/happiness studies, evidence based policy, measurement/quantification. Professor at Cambridge HPS, Fellow of @kingscollege.bsky.social
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The Ukrainian name for November is listopad, literally leaf fall. So apt
View of an urban path covered in leaves
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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definitely not, LSE! If you too received an invitation like this I suggest we boycott it.
Dear Anna Alexandrova, I am writing to you as a valued collaborator of the LSE academic community. We greatly value your views and input and would like to invite you to participate in the QS Global Academic Survey. The QS Global Academic Survey is a key element of the QS World University Ranking which compares over 1500 universities and their subjects and greatly influences perceptions of the standing or ranking of universities, particularly amongst students, funders and partners. For the purposes of this global survey, we are seeking your permission to pass on your contact details (name, job title, organisation and email address) to QS. We feel that your responses would contribute to the validity and reliability and thereby the usefulness of the Global Academic Survey.
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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River Wye as seen from Symonds Yat Rock
View of a river valley in autumn
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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oh bless you
screen shot of a notification "harry styles followed you"
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Dream come true
Two people with the poster of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
October 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Didn’t expect to receive a hard copy of this volume. So satisfying to hold. An honour to philosophise alongside these wonderful thinkers. Here’s the link academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
B&W hard copy of a volume of Aristotelian Society 2025 Table of contents and first page of an article
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Greetings from Acropolis
Corner of Parthenon against blue sky View on cariathids
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Measures of inequality we analyse in this article are in the news again. Thanks to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for covering the brave work of @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
CAIU first listed company to be valued at more than $4tn, powered by Al fever. The share of US wealth held by the 19 richest US households (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffett and friends) soared by an estimated SIt last year to $2.6tn, the biggest rise on record, according to an analysis by French economist Gabriel Zucman (pictured), an expert on wealth and inequality, reported by the Wall Street Journal. This followed the best consecutive years on Wall Street for a quarter of a century. The richest 1 percent own 31 percent of America's wealth, the bottom 50 percent just 3 percent, according to the US Federal Reserve. In the UK, the Office for National Statistics estimated earlier this year that in 2020-22 the 1 percent richest held 10 percent of all our household wealth - the same slice as the combined least wealthy 50 percent. However, this is probably a significant underestimate. A 2021 article by Professor Arun Advani of Warwick University and Resolution Foundation co-authors suggested official statistics undervalued the richest's share of the wealth pie by nearly £800bn. The 1 percent share for the period 2016-18 (the latest available) had thus been not 18 percent but 23 percent. That share is likely to have since increased, given subsequent and current higher share prices. That Journal of Applied Public Economics article highlighted that the super-
September 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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The conference had a civilised starting time of 10am. The Pinacoteca di Brera opens at 8:30, so…
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Ugly ferris wheel on Parker’s Piece is down to an orange slice. So long, please don’t come back. This has got to be a money laundering operation as no one is ever on it
Half of a ferris wheel on a lawn in the last rays of sun before sunset
September 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Since the program is not yet online I am posting the screenshot of the panels from the newsletter. @mmilkowski.bsky.social @tmarvan.bsky.social @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social @apotochnik.bsky.social @magdalenamalecka.bsky.social @malinowska.bsky.social thank you for all the work!
Panel #1 (Nov.6) - "Central and East European Philosophy of Science Across Borders" Organized by Marcin Miłkowski, feat. Marta Sznajder, Angela Potochnik, Frederique Janssen Lauret and Artur Koterski Panel #2 (Nov.14) - "Showcasing Excellent Current Work in the CEE Region" Organized by Magdalena Małecka, feat. Olesya Bondarenko, Joanna Malinowska, Endla Lõhkivi and Stathis Psillos Panel #3 (Nov. 22) - "On Scientific Understanding" Organized by Lilia Gurova, feat. Henk W. de Regt, Borut Trpin, Daniel Kostic, Andrei Mărăşoiu and Lilia Gurova
August 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Please allow me
August 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Poor old Cam is no competition with Zurich’s river Limmat which i am trying out with my sister on this photo
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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To clarify, the swimming spot is not the little brook in the previous photo but this riverish waterway
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Sheep’s Green is now a designated swimming spot, so the govt is obliged to publish data on quality of water. I haven’t swam there this season but despite the ´poor’ designation, the most recent measurements are actually alright. So i have no excuse environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles...
A brook in a sunny green field Young bull in mid moo
August 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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And this is the dining hall itself
High vaulted ceiling made of wood above stained glass windows
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This one is really sweet and wise
'If someone is ill mannered by ignorance let it pass, rather than point it out.
August 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Some great table manners from Henry VIII dining hall at Hampton Court
Don't shift your buttocks left and right as if to let off some blast. Sit neatly and still.
August 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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My best harvest ever and hence apple glut. Recipes welcomed!
Red apples in a green bowl
August 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Watch with the sound on to hear the cow bells echoing through the alpine meadows. Taken at the top of Mount Pilatus with a view of lake Lucerne at the end
August 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Solidarity and admiration from a fellow grower. Here’s my apple crop for this year
August 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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It feels good and meaningful to cheer Lionesses’ win with my sons
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This is a wonderful cover of the July 28th issue of @newyorker.com by Sergio Garcia Sanchez and Lola Moral. Having stood anxiously in this line many times, it always bothered me that this moment is never represented in art and most first world citizens are oblivious to how large it looms for others.
Travellers from different cultural backgrounds stand in line at the border check to enter USA
July 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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These are Isaac Kean and Jack Wright who graduated with PhDs today and who both wrote important dissertations in philosophy of economics. So proud to have supervised them. Thanks to @kingscollege.bsky.social for putting on a great party despite the rain!
Two graduands in b&w attire stand on both sides of a short woman in red shoes. On the edge of a lawn with Kings College Chapel and the Gibbs building in the background. All beaming
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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General Egret receives the Geese Division at the parade
A dozen of Canada geese swimming past an egret
July 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM