🕊️On the same day the Nobel Peace Center honoured Hiroshima and the EU issued a nuclear disarmament inspired statement, my reflection on switching from hate to love through Culture-Based Development appeared @Elgar_Economics 📖 Read: elgar.blog/2025/08/06/t...

Radicalism stems less from #poverty or #inequality than from the ache of being stuck in a place that doesn't matter. According to @cbd-paradigm.bsky.social, Burger & Webber in @socialindicators.bsky.social‬‬ , it grows in towns drained of people and public culture. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

For example, we've recently learned that virtually all state-level DiD's are probably incredibly underpowered.

🚐The CBD Caravan of Knowledge continues on its way! All ISQOLS2025 attendees are invited on 24 July, 9am, room: Czech Republic, to the #CultureBasedDevelopment Round Table-Book Launch, celebrating the 30th Anniversary of ISQOLS at ISQOLS2025, LUX. @isqols.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Really glad the weather cleaned up its act. Today's classroom: ⚒️

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

#ColorADay #RedWed This was last year. My first, sort of, close encounter with this handsome fellow. #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds #Cardinals

The #CultureBasedDevelopment Caravan of Knowledge has made so far four inspiring stops - ACEI2025, WISERD2025, TPI2025 & RCDC2025. 📷 Discover the stories of the #CBDParadigm quest across borders. See: culture-based-development.com/events & youtube.com/@annie_CBD #RCDC @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Check out this new volume! I was excited to write a chapter on motivated empathy & affective polarization with philosopher Martina Orlandi (my former @rockethics.bsky.social post-doc). We discussed scientific findings & ethical implications: do we, and *should* we empathize across partisan lines?

The Culture-Based Development (CBD) Caravan of Knowledge is heading to Vancouver! 📍 Location: Uni of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 📅 Event: 2nd Regional Cultural Differences Conference 🌐 Theme: CBD & Empirics in New Cultural Economics @swanseauni.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

The CBD Caravan of Knowledge arrives in Manchester. On 3rd July, at The Productivity Institute, I will deliver a talk as a TPI Fellow for Investment in Places, showing how CBD Book 1 is relevant for social cohesion. @oecdsocial.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

Exciting News: The Culture Based Development (CBD) Book Launch and its inspired Caravan of Knowledge have arrived in Aberystwyth, Wales! 🌿✨ Join us tomorrow for a stimulating book discussion with the author & special guests: Nigel O'Leary & @johnmeredith71.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social .

One more application of our Tiebout-Hirschman-Rothschild (THR) model - a CBD model for the joint effect of net migration & public investment as triggers for populist behaviour - this time with an application for tleft & right voting in the NL - more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you wonder what is inside the new book CULTURE BASED DEVELOPMENT - here is a glimpse for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLrf... You can check for this and other updates also the website of Culture Based Development here: www.culture-based-development.com/home @Elgar_Economics @SwanseaUni

If you wonder what is inside the new book CULTURE BASED DEVELOPMENT - here is a glimpse for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLrf... You can check for this and other updates also the website of Culture Based Development here: www.culture-based-development.com/home @Elgar_Economics @SwanseaUni

The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena

My first book on CULTURE BASED DEVELOPMENT appears this year published by Edward Elgar. The first launch event, organised by University of Elbasan is this on this Saturday, 26th April, at 3pm GBT . Join us here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... Meeting ID: 358 929 768 399 8 Passcode: a3CA9EP2

In an EASTER mood? Why not join todays talk on Religion and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at 2:30 GMT with Prof. Berry Billingsley here: swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/9762048721...

and a theatre with gusto <3

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The oldest street market <3

Richard Hamilton, Trainsition IIII, 1954 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124149

Odilon Redon, Underwater Vision, c. 1910 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135128

Fernand Léger, The Three Musicians, 1944 (after a drawing of 1924-25; dated on painting 1924-44) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135282

George Richmond, The Shepherd, 1827 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113241

Last October, we took a trip to the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, for a daylong exploration of lichen—the fuzzy growths often found on trees, roofs, and gravestones. Two experts joined us to discuss the fascinating world of lichen and their role in a changing climate.

Frank Auerbach, Drawing from Veronese’s ‘The Magdalen Laying Down her Jewels’ (National Gallery). Verso: Drawing from Veronese’s ‘The Magdalen Laying Down her Jewels’ (National Gallery), 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1128609

Sunday listening: The Path to Authoritarianism One month into the Trumpist regime, we reflect on how far down the road to authoritarian rule we already are, what factors still stand in the way of the MAGA assault, and what the spectrum of plausible outcomes is. New episode of Is This Democracy:

Salvador Dalí, The Little Theater, 1934 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136184