AnthonyHigney
@anthonyhigney.bsky.social
Economist at Glasgow University. Environmental economics and meta-research.
https://anthonychigney.github.io/home/
https://anthonychigney.github.io/home/
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I should say: cutting US funding for Gavi is a tragically misguided decision that can and should be reversed.
Vaccines have saved more than 150,000,000 lives over the past 50 years. Over the past quarter century, Gavi has helped lead the global effort to extend vaccination to everyone. This is a simply tragically misguided decision.
www.who.int/news/item/24...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I should say: cutting US funding for Gavi is a tragically misguided decision that can and should be reversed.
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🚗 Noise pollution also drowns out the sounds of nature🚐
Our research shows that traffic noise reduces the calming, restorative power of birdsong 🐤
w/ @konraduebel.bsky.social, @simon-butler.bsky.social, @anthonyhigney.bsky.social, Nick Hanley & Eleanor Ratcliffe
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Our research shows that traffic noise reduces the calming, restorative power of birdsong 🐤
w/ @konraduebel.bsky.social, @simon-butler.bsky.social, @anthonyhigney.bsky.social, Nick Hanley & Eleanor Ratcliffe
👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Environmental psychology knows that
noise pollution is NOT silent killer - it is a loud, roaring, constant, annoying stressor that causes physiological stress & sleep disturbance
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
noise pollution is NOT silent killer - it is a loud, roaring, constant, annoying stressor that causes physiological stress & sleep disturbance
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds
About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deaths
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚗 Noise pollution also drowns out the sounds of nature🚐
Our research shows that traffic noise reduces the calming, restorative power of birdsong 🐤
w/ @konraduebel.bsky.social, @simon-butler.bsky.social, @anthonyhigney.bsky.social, Nick Hanley & Eleanor Ratcliffe
👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
Our research shows that traffic noise reduces the calming, restorative power of birdsong 🐤
w/ @konraduebel.bsky.social, @simon-butler.bsky.social, @anthonyhigney.bsky.social, Nick Hanley & Eleanor Ratcliffe
👉 osf.io/preprints/os...
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🚨 Thrilled to announce 4th Annual SGPE Summer School
🎓 One-day masterclass on causal inference
📚 Topics: SCM, matrix completion, partial ID
🗓️ 5 June | 📍Stirling, UK | 💻 Dr Anthony Higney (Glasgow)
🎟️ £50 PhDs / £100 staff
Lunch & dinner included!
Sign up:bit.ly/SGPE2025SS
All welcome!
🎓 One-day masterclass on causal inference
📚 Topics: SCM, matrix completion, partial ID
🗓️ 5 June | 📍Stirling, UK | 💻 Dr Anthony Higney (Glasgow)
🎟️ £50 PhDs / £100 staff
Lunch & dinner included!
Sign up:bit.ly/SGPE2025SS
All welcome!
May 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🚨 Thrilled to announce 4th Annual SGPE Summer School
🎓 One-day masterclass on causal inference
📚 Topics: SCM, matrix completion, partial ID
🗓️ 5 June | 📍Stirling, UK | 💻 Dr Anthony Higney (Glasgow)
🎟️ £50 PhDs / £100 staff
Lunch & dinner included!
Sign up:bit.ly/SGPE2025SS
All welcome!
🎓 One-day masterclass on causal inference
📚 Topics: SCM, matrix completion, partial ID
🗓️ 5 June | 📍Stirling, UK | 💻 Dr Anthony Higney (Glasgow)
🎟️ £50 PhDs / £100 staff
Lunch & dinner included!
Sign up:bit.ly/SGPE2025SS
All welcome!
Why is there such a difference in loneliness by gender for teenagers? who.int/europe/publica…
April 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Why is there such a difference in loneliness by gender for teenagers? who.int/europe/publica…
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James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.
Paper finds heat pump adoption in UK led to 70% less carbon usage and 40% less energy.
www.nber.org/202502/diges...
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February 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Paper finds heat pump adoption in UK led to 70% less carbon usage and 40% less energy.
www.nber.org/202502/diges...
www.nber.org/202502/diges...
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My favourite Minoan fresco from Akrotiri, showing boats arriving to the harbour. A detail. #FrescoFriday
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My favourite Minoan fresco from Akrotiri, showing boats arriving to the harbour. A detail. #FrescoFriday
Workshopping here: if an estimate contains information about an ex-ante unobserved treatment then it has some degree of external validity for that treatment.
December 31, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Workshopping here: if an estimate contains information about an ex-ante unobserved treatment then it has some degree of external validity for that treatment.
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We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper.
Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.
(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )
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Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.
(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )
4/
December 24, 2024 at 2:45 PM
We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper.
Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.
(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )
4/
Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.
(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )
4/
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Some hope for first gens after all! Fabulous new study notes: "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts but are less likely to receive recognition." This is good, not bad, news. Our different view on life is our super power to make change! www.nber.org/papers/w33289
Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Some hope for first gens after all! Fabulous new study notes: "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts but are less likely to receive recognition." This is good, not bad, news. Our different view on life is our super power to make change! www.nber.org/papers/w33289
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According to some of the records in the archive, Santa Claus himself sat in Parliament in the 15th century... But was he really in Westminster when he should have been at the North Pole? #Christmas
Below, Dr Hannes Kleineke explores the mystery of 'Nicholas Christmas'
Below, Dr Hannes Kleineke explores the mystery of 'Nicholas Christmas'
Medieval MP of the Month: Santa Claus in Parliament - The History of Parliament
Here's a seasonal offering from Hannes Kleineke of the House of Commons 1422-1504 Section for our Medieval MP of Month...
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December 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
According to some of the records in the archive, Santa Claus himself sat in Parliament in the 15th century... But was he really in Westminster when he should have been at the North Pole? #Christmas
Below, Dr Hannes Kleineke explores the mystery of 'Nicholas Christmas'
Below, Dr Hannes Kleineke explores the mystery of 'Nicholas Christmas'
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Take a look at artifact. This inscription is ostensibly part of a large stele which has evidently been broken into fragments and we are seeing one (middle) section. All the edges are broken and unfinished. Here is the problem - if this was a broken stele, some letters would be fragmentary.
December 13, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Take a look at artifact. This inscription is ostensibly part of a large stele which has evidently been broken into fragments and we are seeing one (middle) section. All the edges are broken and unfinished. Here is the problem - if this was a broken stele, some letters would be fragmentary.
Reading this paper now. Interesting but I don't quite agree with his take on "true" p-values. Will post about it next week. arxiv.org/abs/1603.07532
December 12, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Reading this paper now. Interesting but I don't quite agree with his take on "true" p-values. Will post about it next week. arxiv.org/abs/1603.07532
This person is using my study/chart in a misleading way on twitter.
There is a correlation here between the SE and effect size that is picked up by pub bias methods. Partly this is due to underlying study characteristics. Adjust for this and we find there is pub bias, but lead does cause crime.
There is a correlation here between the SE and effect size that is picked up by pub bias methods. Partly this is due to underlying study characteristics. Adjust for this and we find there is pub bias, but lead does cause crime.
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This person is using my study/chart in a misleading way on twitter.
There is a correlation here between the SE and effect size that is picked up by pub bias methods. Partly this is due to underlying study characteristics. Adjust for this and we find there is pub bias, but lead does cause crime.
There is a correlation here between the SE and effect size that is picked up by pub bias methods. Partly this is due to underlying study characteristics. Adjust for this and we find there is pub bias, but lead does cause crime.
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I haven't fully read this piece by @jacklandry.bsky.social yet but according to his meta-analysis of only the recent spat of GI pilots, the income elasticity of labor supply on the intensive margin is...0.16. Which is broadly consistent with the literature!
jainfamilyinstitute.org/guaranteed-i...
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Guaranteed Income In The Wild: Summarizing Evidence From Pilot Studies and Implications for Policy - Jain Family Institute
How to make sense of competing claims about guaranteed income?
jainfamilyinstitute.org
December 9, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I haven't fully read this piece by @jacklandry.bsky.social yet but according to his meta-analysis of only the recent spat of GI pilots, the income elasticity of labor supply on the intensive margin is...0.16. Which is broadly consistent with the literature!
jainfamilyinstitute.org/guaranteed-i...
jainfamilyinstitute.org/guaranteed-i...
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This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
Holly Else reports at Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
Holly Else reports at Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Anna Abalkina is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:51 AM
This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
Holly Else reports at Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
Holly Else reports at Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Funding available to do a PhD on statistical methods for assessing the integrity of RCTs, based in Aberdeen, with Alison Avenell, myself, Graeme MacLennan and Mark Bolland. Competitive process, funded by MRC Trials Methodology Research Partnership: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Investigating statistical methods to assess the conduct and integrity of clinical trials at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating statistical methods to assess the conduct and integrity of clinical trials at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Funding available to do a PhD on statistical methods for assessing the integrity of RCTs, based in Aberdeen, with Alison Avenell, myself, Graeme MacLennan and Mark Bolland. Competitive process, funded by MRC Trials Methodology Research Partnership: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I have started writing about papers as I read them to help remember them, but in case others are interested I am also putting them on my site.
First one is a working paper criticising publication bias detection. I think their critique is not quite right.
anthonychigney.github.io/home/blog/Tr...
First one is a working paper criticising publication bias detection. I think their critique is not quite right.
anthonychigney.github.io/home/blog/Tr...
How Much Should We Trust Publication Bias Detection Techniques?
Publication bias occurs when the distribution of observed effects differs from the distribution of all such effects. Usually, this means there is some filter based on the magnitude or direction of the...
anthonychigney.github.io
December 6, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I have started writing about papers as I read them to help remember them, but in case others are interested I am also putting them on my site.
First one is a working paper criticising publication bias detection. I think their critique is not quite right.
anthonychigney.github.io/home/blog/Tr...
First one is a working paper criticising publication bias detection. I think their critique is not quite right.
anthonychigney.github.io/home/blog/Tr...
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My default explanation for sudden changes in a time series is change in measurement.
So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.
So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.
Maybe it's just YOUR testosterone that's low
How the measurement tools have led us to falsely believe our T is low
eryney.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:50 AM
My default explanation for sudden changes in a time series is change in measurement.
So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.
So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.
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Around 1800 BCE, a businesswoman named Taram-Kubi received 20 shekels of fine gold, presumably as payment for textiles she wove.
She lived in Assur, capital of the Assyrian empire, and sent her textiles to far-flung Anatolia for her husband to sell them cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/28...
She lived in Assur, capital of the Assyrian empire, and sent her textiles to far-flung Anatolia for her husband to sell them cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/28...
November 30, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Around 1800 BCE, a businesswoman named Taram-Kubi received 20 shekels of fine gold, presumably as payment for textiles she wove.
She lived in Assur, capital of the Assyrian empire, and sent her textiles to far-flung Anatolia for her husband to sell them cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/28...
She lived in Assur, capital of the Assyrian empire, and sent her textiles to far-flung Anatolia for her husband to sell them cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/28...
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We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
We've made it much easier to reuse our data
An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM
We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
The National Milk Scheme led to large increases in Milk consumption (Hollingsworth, 1951). Much lower now.
November 19, 2024 at 7:56 PM
The National Milk Scheme led to large increases in Milk consumption (Hollingsworth, 1951). Much lower now.
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Wow - @flintdibble.bsky.social has collected loads of archaeology starter packs here in this thread. Lots of fantastic people doing brilliant research and engagement here in the cerulean ether. Thank you Flint!
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 14, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Wow - @flintdibble.bsky.social has collected loads of archaeology starter packs here in this thread. Lots of fantastic people doing brilliant research and engagement here in the cerulean ether. Thank you Flint!