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In our latest CEPEO Working Paper, @drsamsims.bsky.social studies the effects of an intervention to improve A level physics uptake among female students by countering gender stereotypes. Read the results here:
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 AM
In our latest CEPEO Working Paper, @drsamsims.bsky.social studies the effects of an intervention to improve A level physics uptake among female students by countering gender stereotypes. Read the results here:
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
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New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
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This doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI boys hai.stanford.edu/policy/beyon...
Beyond DeepSeek: China's Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and Its Policy Implications | Stanford HAI
Almost one year after the “DeepSeek moment,” this brief analyzes China’s diverse open-model ecosystem and examines the policy implications of their widespread global diffusion.
hai.stanford.edu
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI boys hai.stanford.edu/policy/beyon...
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It is Monday, and I've made some edits to the first chapter of 'R the Software Engineering Way': I'm now using pak rather than Packrat, I'm using a versioned base R image and a few other improvements have been made. One hopes that people find this useful!
#rstats
#rstats
R the Software Engineering Way: Introduction and Chapter Zero | deadSimpleTech
It is worth noting from the very beginning that a software engineer's work doesn't start with writing code, but with setting up the development environment and the tools that they need to write code e...
deadsimpletech.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It is Monday, and I've made some edits to the first chapter of 'R the Software Engineering Way': I'm now using pak rather than Packrat, I'm using a versioned base R image and a few other improvements have been made. One hopes that people find this useful!
#rstats
#rstats
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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Great read on the cumulative trillions of dollars of iterative engineering effort that has gone into developing the efficient, reliable modern gas turbine. It is an insanely complex technology featuring an unforgiving multidimensional tradeoff space
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Great read on the cumulative trillions of dollars of iterative engineering effort that has gone into developing the efficient, reliable modern gas turbine. It is an insanely complex technology featuring an unforgiving multidimensional tradeoff space
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This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
Taking Jaggedness Seriously
Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
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Forgotten Man | Maynard Dixon
Oil on Canvas, 1934
Oil on Canvas, 1934
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Forgotten Man | Maynard Dixon
Oil on Canvas, 1934
Oil on Canvas, 1934
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Bracing convo on what the UK cld do to boost economic growth w/ @timleunig.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
How to kickstart the UK economy. With Tim Leunig
Podcast Episode · The Economics Show · 23/10/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Bracing convo on what the UK cld do to boost economic growth w/ @timleunig.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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With unique data from a large global manufacturer, we were able to study how product markups vary along the supply chain and over time.
One thing that surprised us: though manufacturer and retail markups bounce up and down, total (manufacturer + retail) markups are stable.
One thing that surprised us: though manufacturer and retail markups bounce up and down, total (manufacturer + retail) markups are stable.
August 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
With unique data from a large global manufacturer, we were able to study how product markups vary along the supply chain and over time.
One thing that surprised us: though manufacturer and retail markups bounce up and down, total (manufacturer + retail) markups are stable.
One thing that surprised us: though manufacturer and retail markups bounce up and down, total (manufacturer + retail) markups are stable.
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What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question.
In new NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).
More info👇
In new NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).
More info👇
July 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What does consulting do? Lots of strongly held views, very limited data to answer the question.
In new NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).
More info👇
In new NBER paper, Gert Bijnens, @schoefer.bsky.social and I shed light on this question using the first economy-wide data on consulting relationships (based on VAT-based B2B data).
More info👇
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Some good summer reading!
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
Symposium on the UK Productivity Puzzle: Insights from Data, Regions and Sectors
The latest issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor features a symposium of four insightful and timely contributions addressing the UK productivity puzzle—assuming, of course, that one still con...
www.linkedin.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Some good summer reading!
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
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New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
May 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
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Diego Gambetta on the “Mafioso and the blind horse sale “ problem is a good parable for an age of anarcho-capitalist memecoin pump and dump schemes.
February 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Diego Gambetta on the “Mafioso and the blind horse sale “ problem is a good parable for an age of anarcho-capitalist memecoin pump and dump schemes.
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Evaluating the local economic impacts of transport projects and programmes (with an application to UK Local Major schemes)
By Helene Donnat, Luz Yadira Gomez-Hernandez, Nicolas Gonzalez-Pampillon, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Henry G. Overman
Read at: ow.ly/oj8P50V7F1E
By Helene Donnat, Luz Yadira Gomez-Hernandez, Nicolas Gonzalez-Pampillon, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Henry G. Overman
Read at: ow.ly/oj8P50V7F1E
March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Evaluating the local economic impacts of transport projects and programmes (with an application to UK Local Major schemes)
By Helene Donnat, Luz Yadira Gomez-Hernandez, Nicolas Gonzalez-Pampillon, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Henry G. Overman
Read at: ow.ly/oj8P50V7F1E
By Helene Donnat, Luz Yadira Gomez-Hernandez, Nicolas Gonzalez-Pampillon, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Henry G. Overman
Read at: ow.ly/oj8P50V7F1E
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From Anthony McDonnell: Tuberculosis treatment is incredibly effective at saving lives worldwide, and reduces the risk of multidrug resistant TB spreading in the US, which would be a multibillion dollar problem. The US foreign assistance pause threatens all this.
www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...
www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...
Tuberculosis Doesn’t Respect Borders—US Aid Cuts Could Fuel a Global Health Crisis
Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes r...
www.cgdev.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
From Anthony McDonnell: Tuberculosis treatment is incredibly effective at saving lives worldwide, and reduces the risk of multidrug resistant TB spreading in the US, which would be a multibillion dollar problem. The US foreign assistance pause threatens all this.
www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...
www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...
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Report into productivity in the midlands for @productivity.bsky.social www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...
Productivity in the Midlands: Trends, Challenges & Solutions - The Productivity Institute
The Midlands Productivity Forum's 2025 updated Insights Paper.
www.productivity.ac.uk
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Report into productivity in the midlands for @productivity.bsky.social www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...
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Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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This thing by Sushil Wadhani on why UK gilts rose, is worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Why UK gilt yields have risen since the US election and what the government might do
There has been a great deal of discussion about what recent moves in UK gilts mean for future spending and tax decisions. This column argues that it is difficult to find observable economic factors that explain why UK yields have broadly tracked US yields since the US election, and so contagion might account for a part of the rise. The evidence that fiscal sustainability fears have played an important role in recent yield moves is not clear-cut. Nevertheless, conventional arithmetic suggests significant fiscal challenges, and so the author recommends a set of further measures in order to make a future crisis less likely.
cepr.org
January 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This thing by Sushil Wadhani on why UK gilts rose, is worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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December 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Why we need seven bins (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
#binchat @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
#binchat @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social
Why we need seven bins
It's time for some #binchat
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Why we need seven bins (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
#binchat @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
#binchat @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social
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🎙️How do you raise a Celtic Tiger? With Seán Kenny🎙️
In this episode of Everything Economic History, Andrew and Lloyd sit down with @seanekh.bsky.social, host of the Economic History Podcast, to talk about GDP, the Celtic Tiger, and much more!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CqE...
#econsky
In this episode of Everything Economic History, Andrew and Lloyd sit down with @seanekh.bsky.social, host of the Economic History Podcast, to talk about GDP, the Celtic Tiger, and much more!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CqE...
#econsky
December 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
🎙️How do you raise a Celtic Tiger? With Seán Kenny🎙️
In this episode of Everything Economic History, Andrew and Lloyd sit down with @seanekh.bsky.social, host of the Economic History Podcast, to talk about GDP, the Celtic Tiger, and much more!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CqE...
#econsky
In this episode of Everything Economic History, Andrew and Lloyd sit down with @seanekh.bsky.social, host of the Economic History Podcast, to talk about GDP, the Celtic Tiger, and much more!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CqE...
#econsky
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This 👇 is key. People think "the planning system is broken" or "it's all NIMBYs" or whatever but it isn't. Truth is it's impossible to make a developer use their permission once it's granted, and many don't.
December 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This 👇 is key. People think "the planning system is broken" or "it's all NIMBYs" or whatever but it isn't. Truth is it's impossible to make a developer use their permission once it's granted, and many don't.
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What I'm meant to be thinking about for the months ahead: how the UK government should organise itself for this Growth Mission. I have almost no idea, and if anyone has thoughts, links to good stuff, then share, please.
Meanwhile, here was a successful blog of mine on the politics
wp.me/pDsIG-15I
Meanwhile, here was a successful blog of mine on the politics
wp.me/pDsIG-15I
Political choices in choosing growth
One of the natural reactions to learning that Labour has a mission to grow the economy is to sneer. Every government wants to grow the economy! Most Budgets announce themselves as being a Budget fo…
wp.me
November 8, 2024 at 9:27 AM
What I'm meant to be thinking about for the months ahead: how the UK government should organise itself for this Growth Mission. I have almost no idea, and if anyone has thoughts, links to good stuff, then share, please.
Meanwhile, here was a successful blog of mine on the politics
wp.me/pDsIG-15I
Meanwhile, here was a successful blog of mine on the politics
wp.me/pDsIG-15I