The Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan certainly does get around...
www.oxfordnorth.com/news-events/...

Interesting visuals here in the research outputs section...and the trend lines re China vs the US are sure to diverge even more... [HT Phil Baty]
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...

"Publicly-funded R&D in the US is massively skewed towards military research" @adamtooze.bsky.social> Source: www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...

2 June 2025: The Ottawa Declaration of the Science Academies of the G7: rsc-src.ca/sites/defaul... (PDF)

Last class of the Spring term! And big presentation today about the securitization of university research based on a full-term intensive research project. Good stuff! In the end they ate 24/24 Greenbush donuts and 1/6 (healthy) Bloom donuts. I had a second vegan Bloom donut. Who knew, lol.

College and University Employment, January 1958 to February 2025. Under attack right now. The total number employed in it in the US is about 1/4 of the manufacturing sector, and about 2x the agriculture sector. 5/5

The 'leisure and hospitality' sector employs more people than in construction, and just under manufacturing. See 'Total employed persons in the United States in 2024, by industry' 3/

The 'leisure and hospitality' sector is huge in the United States...and it is being ignored and indeed rapidly damaged by US 'leaders' right now. Source: www.ft.com/content/6dc1... 1/

Five years ago, today, the #UWMadison campus was shut down (for an initially estimated 30 days!) due to COVID-19, and I cleared my head by the lake and took this photo. And now a political crisis roils our campus (and generates so many strategy meetings), many campuses, the country, many countries.

How can an untrustworthy threat offer a security guarantee?...