An excellent article about the HE sector in the UK. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

New post: "Elections 2026: The Five Battlegrounds" With national politics fragmenting I've sorted all councils up for election outside London into five groups to help explain how things are evolving. Incl predictions for all 104 councils. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/elections-...

*CECAN Fellowship Scheme 2026* - A bespoke program of individual consultations with experts from the CECAN network! Application window open until 31 May. For details and to apply, see: www.cecan.ac.uk/cecan-fellow... #PolicyEvaluation #SystemsThinking #Complexity #Fellowship

All sessions in our Policy Modelling for Health Lunchtime Webinar Series include a live Q&A and are recorded and shared on our PHI UK YouTube Channel - visit www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Research shows severe wealth poverty takes a real toll on health and wellbeing in GB. Want to know how living without a financial safety net affects wellbeing and self-rated health? Join our lunchtime webinar Tue 21 April | 12:30 | 30–40 mins Rebeka Balogh & Sarah Amele 👉 Register bit.ly/4uWvtWK

Meet our Fellow @celsenbroich.bsky.social, Reader of Computational Modelling in Social and Public Health Science at @glasgow.ac.uk! A sociologist, Corinna’s research focuses on social & health inequalities & making complexity methods relevant for policy. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/dr-corinna-e...

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

An even bigger pleasure than usual to listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social today. I've been a fan of Suzanne Vega ever since I saw her, in about 1987. James quoted a very appropriate song, in the context of #Trumps enthusiasm for other people dying on his behalf. This is it ❤️ youtu.be/FyZI-VaVg2g?...

A productive Policy Modelling for Health Full Team Meeting in Leeds over the last two days. A valuable chance to reconnect face-to-face with colleagues and review progress at our programme midpoint. Really excited about our future plans! @phiuk.bsky.social

🎉Congratulations to our three colleagues who have reecently been elected Fellows of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social -FAcSS 🎉 @celsenbroich.bsky.social 🎉 Prof Alison Heppenstall 🎉 @profellenstu.bsky.social Recognised for outstanding contributions to social science research, policy and practice.

New Fellow @celsenbroich.bsky.social is Reader of Computational Modelling in Social and Public Health Science at @glasgow.ac.uk! A sociologist working on social & health inequalities, her expertise lies in making complexity methods relevant for policy. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Congratulations to the eight UofG social scientists elected as Academy of Social Sciences Fellows 🎉 including @celsenbroich.bsky.social and @profellenstu.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Happy International Woman's Day 🌻

Darkness, formerly known as prince of.

Need a new felony of sycophantic treason!

Just two days to go till earlybird registration closes for Prevention Research 2026 🗓️4-5 March 2026 📍Vox, Birmingham 🪧 Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Equity preventionresearch26.co.uk 📄 Draft programme now available registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

Brilliant, thought provoking program! Thank you @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Happy New Year Blue Skiers! May the far right on both sides of the pond incriminate itself into irrelevance in 2026

Strange isn't it that the bigots all screen grabbed this moment at precisely the same time.

📢 We're back in 2026 with a fast-paced intro to Policy Modelling for Health — who we are, what we do, and why it matters. 🗓 Tuesday 20 January 2026, 12–12:40pm 🎙 Inside Policy Modelling for Health with Julian Cox, our Deputy Director & Assistant Director – Research, GMCA. Register at: bit.ly/445i5DK

👏 Exciting news! Our team members @celsenbroich.bsky.social and Prof Alison Heppenstall contributed some agent-based modelling to uncover the true market dynamics behind housing affordability in this @uk.theconversation.com article

A bit of fun agent-based modelling: The real reason abolishing stamp duty won’t help first-time buyers theconversation.com/the-real-rea...

With so many policy simulation models available, how do you know which ones to trust? In our Lunchtime Zoom Webinar Dr Lisa Garnham @lisagarnham.bsky.social reveals the key criteria every policymaker and researcher should know. Thursday 23 October at 12 noon. Register Now: bit.ly/4ntpkwN

🎥 Our new webinar video is live: "Microsimulation Modelling for Policy". Specially curated for our policy partners but Dr Corinna Elsenbroich’s clear, accessible guide to how microsimulations work will be of wider interest too. 👏 Thanks to 90+ attendees for the great questions! youtu.be/J0cNAVhjl1Q

I wonder what Farage thinks about black swan events.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Thank you so much for this! So glad you enjoyed it!

Motherfucking wind farms…

Remembering Marcel Duchamp on his birthday 🎂 Descending a staircase in a marvellous Eliot Elisofon photo, 1952 "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes."

Chuffed I made it onto my favourite podcast! 😊https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lrwdqx?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

A short passive-aggressive poem, written on an aeroplane.

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I don’t want Khamenei to have access to a nuclear weapon. But then I also don’t want Putin, Netanyahu, or Xi Jingping to have access to a nuclear weapon. And I definitely don’t want Kim Jong Un or Trump to have access to a nuclear weapon. The only person I’d trust with one is David Attenborough.

Outrageous dig by @timharford.ft.com at @evanhd.bsky.social on today’s More or Less - I know who I am rooting for!

German sense of humour . . .

Highly recommended! A brilliant book about the past, the present and hopefully the future of social enquiry and change. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

Is your dad serious about #cricket #history? This could be the #FathersDay present you’re looking for. 🏏📚 #BooksWorthReading

Has anyone come up with Taco Bellend yet? Not seen it. 👀 #Trump

Oh yeah youtu.be/3SoDdD4xAd8?...

*New* How to carry out a complex evaluation – Resource guide! Offering key resources for evaluating complex systems, including toolkits, frameworks, and methods. This is a living document – suggestions welcome! www.cecan.ac.uk/resources/ho... #Complexity #Evaluation

Enjoy :) zfi.org.uk/starmatic/

Ok frequentists, let’s call a truce. This has gone too far.

Handling #Complexity in #Policy #Evaluation: Online Workshop Series Summer 2025 - providing the knowledge and practical advice to allow you to deal with complexity in policy analysis and evaluation. *Training bursaries available!* For details see: www.cecan.ac.uk/training/

🔎 To what extent does the place you grow up in shape your future prospects? Which areas offer the best opportunities for disadvantaged young people? Our new analysis offers an unprecedented insight into the geography of opportunity and social mobility in England. Out tomorrow.

Lovely compliment earlier today as someone at the talk said they found #DifferentClass ‘unsettling’. And yet, the book had changed their mind on #cricket and many of its purported values.

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In case you missed this yesterday 😁

I re-read the passage in #DifferentClass relating to #immigration. The sacrifices migrants made to establish themselves in this country after #WW2 is staggering. #Starmer is a disgrace.