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#WeekendReading 🔖 The latest #DirectorView

The 'Dean Trench' Weekly Memo from our Director David Aikman examines what the #Chancellor should say in the new MPC remit - and poses five critical questions for the Chancellor to consider when writing this year’s letter 📨 👇

niesr.ac.uk/blog/what-sh...
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
annachantwriter.bsky.social
Bitter betrayal, forbidden romance, and a love story to change the course of history...

#HistoricalFiction Dawn of the Franks - the story of Basina of Thuringia is only #99cents or #99p
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#KindleCountdown #WeekendReading
The backdrop of a dawn sky with orange and pink clouds displays historical fiction novel Dawn of the Franks - the story of Basina of Thuringia. The cover features a backdrop of trees silhouetted against an orange sky and the rising sun. In the foreground a blonde man kneels before a medieval couple. A dark-haired man in a red tunic has his arm around a woman with a white mantle and a fur cloak. The text reads 'The might of Rome has waned. And the sun is rising on the Dark Ages'. https://mybook.to/DawnoftheFranks
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 Our latest quarterly UK Economic Outlook suggesting the #Chancellor should use the forthcoming Autumn #Budget to create a bigger fiscal buffer and set #debt on a clearly declining path📉

Free to access 🔓 and in HTML for the first time 👇

niesr.ac.uk/reports/econ...
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
waynepubliclibrary.bsky.social
📢 Weekend Reads: The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman

It's #cozy #romance time! #Download this contemporary #fiction #eBook from @libbyapp.com and enjoy.

#weekendreads #weekendreading #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #Booksky
Weekend Reads. The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman.
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 What's the current state of the UK economy? What is the outlook for 2026?⚡️

In our latest #MondayInterview, our @econstevem.bsky.social outlines what the main issues are at the moment and what to expect from the forthcoming #AutumnBudget
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niesr.ac.uk/blog/assessi...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
cynthiarterrell.bsky.social
Read this week’s #WeekendReading with all the latest news on women’s representation & leadership! Plus a plug for @lorissa.bsky.social’s new book on Jeannette Rankin & another dip into history with the 1st televised presidential debate — between two women!
representwomen.bsky.social RepresentWomen @representwomen.bsky.social · 3d
✍️ From the desk of @cynthiarterrell.bsky.social, this week’s #WeekendReading celebrates a "Pink Wave" of women’s leadership breaking barriers from VA to NJ to NYC.

🗳️ Historic firsts
🏛️ Systems reform
💫 Stories of courage, collaboration, & change

📖 Read it here: https://bit.ly/3WKgXS0
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
representwomen.bsky.social
✍️ From the desk of @cynthiarterrell.bsky.social, this week’s #WeekendReading celebrates a "Pink Wave" of women’s leadership breaking barriers from VA to NJ to NYC.

🗳️ Historic firsts
🏛️ Systems reform
💫 Stories of courage, collaboration, & change

📖 Read it here: https://bit.ly/3WKgXS0
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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#MichaelJFox
#booksky
#Weekendreading

If only the $$$ we spend on wars and the time we spend on hate went to those who need the most love, this world would be heaven on earth!
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
obialik.bsky.social
#WeekendReading: Something topical for a change, Mohamed et al., on climate change and migration dynamics, with Somalia from 1990 to 2020 as a case study. 🧪

Link: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
Migrated walking along a road in Somalia. Source: https://somalia.iom.int/stories/search-better-life-migrants-brave-dangerous-eastern-route
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
dark-solar-system.bsky.social
Thinking of holiday gifts, yet? Take a look.
books2read.com/The-Dark-Solar-System-Series

#BookBlast #loverofbooks #bookbub #AppleBooks #AuthorUproar #THRILLERS #sciencefictionbooks #bookdiscussions #DarkReads #WeekendReading #RRBC #nextchapterpub #sciencefictionnovel
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 Technology Spillovers from the Final Frontier 🌌

The latest Discussion Paper examining the technological and economic effects of #space activities in the U.S. from the 1960s to the present day 🚀

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November 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 The latest #DirectorView

The 'Dean Trench' Weekly Memo from our Director David Aikman looks at a set of established #policy rules to gauge what they would prescribe for #Bank Rate in the current economic environment.

Spoiler: not time to cut yet✂️

niesr.ac.uk/blog/what-do...
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
olivierschmitt.bsky.social
#WeekendReading. This intellectual history of the concept of “the West”, which traces its origins in Auguste Comte’s anti-imperialism (cocorico🇫🇷) and the need to differentiate the “West” from “Europe” and its evolving understanding since the XIXth century.
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 The second 'CfM-NIESR survey' ⚡

What is the role of the #OBR and how should it evolve?

One highlight is that only 11% of respondents thought the OBR should move to a single comprehensive forecast per year.

Read more here 👇

niesr.ac.uk/news/october...
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
waynepubliclibrary.bsky.social
📢 Weekend Reads: A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig

Interested in #fantasy #horror? Then #download this title from @libbyapp.com as an #eBook or #audiobook today!

#weekendreads #weekendreading #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #Booksky
Weekend Reads. A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖

Why is supporting #schools teaching controversial issues important?

In our latest #MondayInterview, we explore how third-sector organisations support schools in engaging students with emotive political and social topics👇

niesr.ac.uk/blog/support...
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
thejoyofnature.bsky.social
Weekend Tarot Forecast – Halloween edition! 10.31.25

#Tarot #Halloween #SpiritualGuidance #WeekendReading #Intuition

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Weekend Tarot Forecast – Halloween edition! 10.31.25
Deck: Aquarian Tarot Ace of Pentacles: A new beginning is on the horizon. Could be a new job, or chance at entrepreneurship. This is a chance for material abundance and comfort. However, it’s going…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
representwomen.bsky.social
🗳️ From witches to women governors, this week’s #WeekendReading traces women’s power across time — from Halloween’s feminist roots to the systems reforms making representation possible.

Read the complete piece here 👉 https://bit.ly/43Gbqj3

#WeekendReading #WomensRepresentation #RankedChoiceVoting
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
obialik.bsky.social
#WeekendReading: Hu et al., trying a new approach to figure out past alkalinity and phosphate levels (at least diagenetically) using carbonate-associated phosphorus. 🧪⚒️

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Carbon and oxygen isotope compositions and carbonate-associated phosphorus (CAP) levels of aragonite (Arg.)-containing, calcitic, and dolomite (Dol.)-containing carbonate rocks and ikaite. (a) δ13C and δ18O values. (b) CAP levels normalized to Ca and/or Mg in their corresponding decarbonated leachates.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🗞️Our newsletter is out!👉 lnkd.in/e22kqvXR
💡Discover our draft topic texts for call 12, our brokerage event NEXT WEEK, how our projects are investigating global #DrugShortages & strategies to improve #PatientAdherence & more. Happy reading!
#IHITransformingHealth #WeekendReading #HealthResearch
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 Latest #inflation figures showed that it held steady in September at 3.8% but the prospects for inflation in 2026 are promising, argues
@Econdixon in his usual monthly deep analysis of the numbers 👇

niesr.ac.uk/blog/inflati...
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
annachantwriter.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 899, Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons, died.
Meet him as a young boy in #HistoricalFiction Three Times the Lady - the story of his stepmother, Judith of Flanders.
mybook.to/ThreeTimesth...
#OTD #WeekendReading #eBook #paperback #KindleUnlimited 📚👑
A backdrop of hills and forests beneath a hazy sky displays historical fiction novel Three Times the Lady - the story of Judith of Flanders. The cover features a woman, her face partially in shadow with a cream-coloured mantle over her head. A badge on the cover proclaims this as a five-star read. The text reads: A Frankish princess, a Wessex queen, stepmother to Alfred the Great, a scandalous widow... Can she escape the destiny her father planned and find happiness? https://mybook.to/ThreeTimestheLady
October 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 The latest #DirectorView

The 'Dean Trench' Weekly Memo from our Director David Aikman looks at the evidence for and against the so-called “debasement #trade”, and its implications for the #USA and the global economy

#gold #Dollar
niesr.ac.uk/blog/digging...
October 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
waynepubliclibrary.bsky.social
📢 Weekend Reads: Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi

Check out this #fantasy #romance #book in our collection or in the @libbyapp.com as an #eBook or #audiobook!

#weekendreads #weekendreading #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #Booksky
Weekend Reads. Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi.
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
niesrorg.bsky.social
#WeekendReading 🔖 Our latest #CPI Tracker suggesting #inflation will stay above 3% through the first quarter of 2026, causing the #BankOfEngland to remain cautious and pause #InterestRate cuts at least until February 📈

More here ⬇️

niesr.ac.uk/publications...
October 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM