Nick M
@halfricehalfchips.bsky.social
• Research and evaluation methods, data and public policy
• PhD in progress on health policy evaluation
• PhD in progress on health policy evaluation
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If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum
Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
"I was once unable to brush my teeth for two days due to being logged out of my toothbrush"
May 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"I was once unable to brush my teeth for two days due to being logged out of my toothbrush"
London friends and colleagues: please take a look below and help find Tony
We’re looking for our friend Tony.
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Tony was last seen on March 10th, 2025 in Lower Clapton, Hackney (London). A missing person report has been filed. If you’re reading this, here’s how to help:
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Tony was last seen on March 10th, 2025 in Lower Clapton, Hackney (London). A missing person report has been filed. If you’re reading this, here’s how to help:
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April 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
London friends and colleagues: please take a look below and help find Tony
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LSE Library Launches New Digital Library📃
Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, the site includes digitised and born-digital items from our flagship collections and much more.
Read more and explore➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, the site includes digitised and born-digital items from our flagship collections and much more.
Read more and explore➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
March 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
LSE Library Launches New Digital Library📃
Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, the site includes digitised and born-digital items from our flagship collections and much more.
Read more and explore➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, the site includes digitised and born-digital items from our flagship collections and much more.
Read more and explore➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
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🚨 Early Ep Release! "The German Election: Friedrich Merz, “Independence” from America, and the Rise of the Far Right" 🇩🇪
Helen Thompson and I discuss the implications of Germany's seismic election.
Listen now! 🎧
pod.link/1685475850
Helen Thompson and I discuss the implications of Germany's seismic election.
Listen now! 🎧
pod.link/1685475850
These Times
UnHerd political editor Tom McTague and Cambridge professor Helen Thompson team up to investigate the history of today’s politics — and what it means for our future. Each week they will explore the gr...
pod.link
February 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🚨 Early Ep Release! "The German Election: Friedrich Merz, “Independence” from America, and the Rise of the Far Right" 🇩🇪
Helen Thompson and I discuss the implications of Germany's seismic election.
Listen now! 🎧
pod.link/1685475850
Helen Thompson and I discuss the implications of Germany's seismic election.
Listen now! 🎧
pod.link/1685475850
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Fully funded PhD studentship available at LSE Methodology
Interested in evaluation methods AND community art therapy AND post-disaster recovery? Read on!
To work with me and in collaboration with Latimer Community Art Therapy.
Deadline 25 April. #phdsky
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Interested in evaluation methods AND community art therapy AND post-disaster recovery? Read on!
To work with me and in collaboration with Latimer Community Art Therapy.
Deadline 25 April. #phdsky
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with LCAT
LSE Collaborative Studentship with LCAT
www.lse.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fully funded PhD studentship available at LSE Methodology
Interested in evaluation methods AND community art therapy AND post-disaster recovery? Read on!
To work with me and in collaboration with Latimer Community Art Therapy.
Deadline 25 April. #phdsky
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Interested in evaluation methods AND community art therapy AND post-disaster recovery? Read on!
To work with me and in collaboration with Latimer Community Art Therapy.
Deadline 25 April. #phdsky
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Terrifying how generative AI is becoming more and more like humans every day
www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...
www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...
AI struggles to understand human history and fails miserably when tested
The study, which is the first of its kind, evaluates the historical knowledge of leading AI models such as ChatGPT-4, Llama, and Gemini.
www.earth.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Terrifying how generative AI is becoming more and more like humans every day
www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...
www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...
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We're new here! 👋
Whilst we get to grips with Bluesky and think about how we best use the platform to support the homelessness sector, why not sign-up to News and Updates, our fortnightly bulletin for the sector?
homeless.org.uk/email-sign-up/
Whilst we get to grips with Bluesky and think about how we best use the platform to support the homelessness sector, why not sign-up to News and Updates, our fortnightly bulletin for the sector?
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November 27, 2024 at 9:03 AM
We're new here! 👋
Whilst we get to grips with Bluesky and think about how we best use the platform to support the homelessness sector, why not sign-up to News and Updates, our fortnightly bulletin for the sector?
homeless.org.uk/email-sign-up/
Whilst we get to grips with Bluesky and think about how we best use the platform to support the homelessness sector, why not sign-up to News and Updates, our fortnightly bulletin for the sector?
homeless.org.uk/email-sign-up/
Absolutely outrageous way to describe Newport
January 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Absolutely outrageous way to describe Newport
Just a normal overflow pipe
January 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just a normal overflow pipe
Simple but profound @stephenkb.bsky.social: "There is a lot of ink spilled about politicians and their principles and I just think, ultimately, your principles are what you do. They aren’t how sad you are about it, or how much you agonise to journalists about what a “difficult decision” it was..."
January 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Simple but profound @stephenkb.bsky.social: "There is a lot of ink spilled about politicians and their principles and I just think, ultimately, your principles are what you do. They aren’t how sad you are about it, or how much you agonise to journalists about what a “difficult decision” it was..."
I worked in public policy for some years and experienced this many times with evaluation and academic evidence that had really relevant research questions and potential findings. But we were working both out of sync and on very different timescales (me: weeks/months, evaluators: months/years).
Actionable evidence, measured by timely release of the results (esp when program is linked to the ruling party) is the only thing strongly positively correlated with spending changes. This suggests the policy environment is changing over time -- quick release of evidence might be very important.
November 27, 2024 at 10:15 AM
I worked in public policy for some years and experienced this many times with evaluation and academic evidence that had really relevant research questions and potential findings. But we were working both out of sync and on very different timescales (me: weeks/months, evaluators: months/years).
A downbeat week of course but I'm very pro this Lidl Christmas truck shithousery. I know it's a stunt and it 100% works.
November 7, 2024 at 9:10 AM
A downbeat week of course but I'm very pro this Lidl Christmas truck shithousery. I know it's a stunt and it 100% works.
I was a bit disappointed to learn that the installation of a massive chair is not part of the proposed political changes in Wales
September 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I was a bit disappointed to learn that the installation of a massive chair is not part of the proposed political changes in Wales
Doing this YouGov survey wasn't the uplifting Monday morning moment I was hoping for
September 2, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Doing this YouGov survey wasn't the uplifting Monday morning moment I was hoping for
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Calling all folk with an interest in UK public policy: I’ve created a starter pack of think tankers, policy analysts & commentators active on @bsky.app go.bsky.app/LtNiL1o
August 14, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Calling all folk with an interest in UK public policy: I’ve created a starter pack of think tankers, policy analysts & commentators active on @bsky.app go.bsky.app/LtNiL1o
Turns out your man Werner Herzog is a qualitative social scientist
January 25, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Turns out your man Werner Herzog is a qualitative social scientist