About to grumble about the Christmas DJ at Cambridge train station when he dropped possibly the finest Christmas pop song. youtu.be/-wNhdjoF-6M?...

Fascinating looking article from colleagues at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the Cambridgeshire family of Olaudah Equiano. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some really wide ranging conversations at this event last night, and above all, a great chance to connect our work with what's happening in places across the UK and the many roles that heritage assets can play.

Great @archhfund.org.uk event @buildingcentre.bsky.social last night, featuring excellent research insights from @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk & @anooshc.bsky.social in conversation with a host of top projects. Emphasised once again the importance of heritage assets as vital social infrastructure.

Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.

Has anyone else had these type of messages purportedly from @bsky.app? Assuming scam.

Time for some performative reading.

Been on a couple of trains today. On the first one, a couple of young people were knitting. On this one, a young person is sketching. It's us oldies glued to our phones.

🚨Economics students! People who know or teach economics students!🚨 The IFS offers summer internships each year. Many of our permanent staff started with one of these. On Monday we're holding an online event to provide more info. Please do come/share. ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-r...

"Govern well, govern clearly, and in the broad interest of your overall voting base." Simple.

Off to London for an @archhfund.org.uk event. Some particularly relevant reading for the train: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Exploring AI at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social 📱🐋 For the last year, the Museum has invited visitors to chat to museum animals in an innovative AI experiment with Nature Perspectives. One year on, what have they learned? Find out in our latest blog: bit.ly/480raQs

We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI. If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?

Walter, 'Squib' and Bill (the three on the right) are three of my great uncles. Walter and Squib never came back from France. They'd enlisted together and after Walter and Squib were killed, Bill was sent home. #RIP

Whilst we're having an #EdwardThomas moment, As the Team's Head-Brass: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57207/...

I didn't realise Michael Caine was still alive?!?

Another methodology for assigning Levelling up / towns fund / neighborhood fund / pride in place funding. www.gov.uk/government/p...

📝 New blog: Dr Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros argues that community-led, non-clinical initiatives that support men’s mental health should be viewed as vital social infrastructure, with the Bennett School’s framework a useful tool for making them visible. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pi...

Terry Callier afternoon. What a voice. open.spotify.com/album/4LUwVU...

Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026. The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges. Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...

Another methodology for assigning Levelling up / towns fund / neighborhood fund / pride in place funding. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Worked well for Tony Greig

Is there a win/loss/never happened ratio for all of Trump's threatened litigation? (Was going to type sewerage but that felt a bit close to the bone)

Nice example of how our @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk framework for measuring social and cultural infrastructure can cast a different light on important initiatives that may sit at the edge of policymakers' thinking.

My other half has always wanted to do a PhD on the underwear of the civil war so this is a definite!

Help! There was an @lrb.co.uk piece sometime earlier this year (I think) that in part critiqued the formulation of "the making and unmaking of . . ." Can anyone point me in the correct direction? Cheers.

We went to Fowlmere bird reserve this morning. Whilst we were there we decided to walk to the war memorials at what had been RAF Fowlmere. What I'd not known before is that after the war the airfield became a Polish resettlement camp. Such a fascinating hidden part of our shared history.

Frightening piece on the infrastructure of the scam industry.

Wonderful picture of Alderman Mrs Keynes.

Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...

Hermann ❤️ Pauline www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhQ...

Speaks to questions of who owns and uses cultural infrastructure. Reminds me of this picture I took outside the Art Gallery of NSW. (More holiday snaps) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More work from the "AI in the Street" project, where we used "access data walks" in the streets of Cambridge. Other cities (London, Edinburgh and Coventry) featured in this study too.

Fascinating looking @cam.ac.uk research on the link between neighbourhood deprivation and dementia risk. bit.ly/4osWEVo

Fascinating looking @cam.ac.uk research on the link between neighbourhood deprivation and dementia risk. bit.ly/4osWEVo

New favourite YouTube channel. ⚠️ Warning: contains drone footage of sharks. Lots of sharks. 🦈 youtu.be/ZSP2ezERex8?...

Wincing on behalf of the officers working at Kent County Council.

The murder rate on Shetland must almost equal that of Grantchester.

A whole new strand of place-informed music for me to explore. Good-o. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

I've just got back from Sydney where integrated transport has been introduced since I was last there. Everywhere's tap on and off and there's a daily and weekly cap on ticket prices. It made a real difference to getting around the city. www.centreforcities.org/blog/sizing-...

Banger. As they say.

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Last Friday, new English Indices of Deprivation were released for the first time since 2019, measuring relative deprivation in 33,755 areas of England across multiple domains. How do these geographic disparities relate to voting patterns in the UK’s last General Election? A short thread 🧵

A reminder that we are still accepting applications to this funded DPhil post! Deadline 2nd Dec, though we recommend getting in touch before then. Do please share!

One of those forgotten little gems of an album. open.spotify.com/album/414oo6...

Only a 16 minute drive from Sandringham to the closest Pizza Express in King's Lynn. Saying that, will Mr Windsor want to go to a town that has retained its royal title?

I’ve written for @financialtimes.com about the need for belief in the future to get things built on.ft.com/47cO3Qs Why optimists build better infrastructure

I see that Louis Leakey's old house in Foxton has gained a blue plaque. When I lived there Maud Ochs and her little dog Trouble loved in the Oast House. To us, she was just a little old lady on her bike with a particularly grumpy dog. 1/2 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/blue-pl...

I hope Ebony Rainford-Brent's work here is properly recognised. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

We're looking to change how local council teams & @cam.ac.uk researchers work together to solve the problems that matter. Join our upcoming #AI in Local Government Fair to hear real challenges and explore AI solutions. ➡️ Apply by Friday 14 November www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-in-...