Great coverage of our 🆕report on funding the #JustTransition away from fossil fuels in the @FT today. Say it with us: “Public money is a non-negotiable part of the green transition." 💸 www.ft.com/content/8e5f...

One week left 🚨 We're hiring two senior economists to develop and lead research projects that generate arguments, policies and ideas to address the social and economic challenges that underpin poverty and household economic insecurity in the UK. Apply now: jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

According to World Weather Attribution, "climate change has made a 32C day in the UK 100 times more likely than in the pre-industrial era. A June heatwave of three consecutive days above 28C was 10 times more likely to occur now." www.ft.com/content/650c...

Honored to have been invited to my former work place to participate in stimulating discussions about democratic innovations. The basis of my intervention was our OA paper on public opinion about deliberative democracy (with @jbpilet.bsky.social). ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

🚨 We're hiring! King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... Please share! Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

Sigh. "the healthy food push was dropped after the Food and Drink Federation, which represents corporations including Nestlé, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, Mars and Unilever repeatedly demanded the government ditch it." www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Late to this, but “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal” is precisely why the topic of climate change needs leadership! It is a coordination problem! 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📗 Call for papers! The 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference this September is now inviting paper submissions on Public Finance & Development. Keynote speakers: Tim Besley & Annette Alstadsæter 📅 Deadline: 15 May Find out more: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

🌟 Fantastic Day 1 of #PSA25, incl. a powerful opening keynote by Prof. Rosie Campbell @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on ‘What next for the study of #PoliticalRepresentation? Shifting identities, #CultureWars & the quality of #democracy’ Looking forward to Day 2! #politicalstudies #politics

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

A book co-authored by our academics, @bpiotrowska.bsky.social and @maiaking.bsky.social, has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize 📚🏆 Read more 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/book-co...

Aw shucks - and nice to be in such esteemed company.

It's wonderful to see the news that my fantastic Department of Political Economy colleagues @maiaking.bsky.social and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social have been nominated for this esteemed prize. Huge congratulations guys!!!

🚨 PSA25 KEYNOTE: ‘What next for the study of political representation? Shifting identities, culture wars & the quality of democracy’ Join us to hear from keynote speaker @profrosiecamp.bsky.social at #PSA25. Register now: buff.ly/rtngDMa

📚 MacKenzie Book Prize 2025📚 ‘The Way the Money Goes’ by Piotrowska, Hood, King & McLean has been shortlisted for this PSA prize. Winner announced in April. buff.ly/OJo7p9u @bpiotrowska.bsky.social @maiaking.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #bookprize #politics #economy #books

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

Britain has uniquely expensive housing, which is also a disproportionately large part of poorer households' spending. This means that aggregate Purchasing Power Parities used to make income comparisons of living standards understate the true gap between poorer households in the UK and OECD peers.

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

Link got broken - don't know why.... www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

1.6 million people stand alongside experts calling for bee-killing pesticides neonicotinoids to be banned, with no exceptions or exemptions www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT!!! 🚨 ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF… A short 🧵 👇1/6

As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)

Government 2025: IfG's annual conference 📅 Tuesday 21 January, 08:45–18:00 To kick off the new year, we will bring together influential speakers and experts to explore the key questions for government in 2025. Register now to attend online 👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...

Marc does not disappoint when he said he was moving back to writing in long form. A really thought-provoking piece on the current direction of development economics. marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/14...

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

Top blog by my colleague @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @instituteforgov.bsky.social on how the govt's tangle over IHT on farms is complicated by its failure to be clear about the purpose of its reform www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/agri...

Submit your papers to the 2025 @escoeorg.bsky.social conference! Keynotes include @erikbryn.bsky.social, Carol Propper (Imperial) and Vipin Arora (BEA). Attendance is free and the conference takes place on KCL's beautiful central London campus. #EconSky 1/2

Hello, does anyone know where I might find a source for a factoid along the following lines? “There are significantly fewer opinion polls conducted in low-income countries, compared to the amount of regular opinion polling which takes place in rich countries”

Interesting to see very strong cross-party support for "environmentalism" in the UK The only exception is populist right-wing Reform supporters (who only made up 14% of voters at last election in any case) yougov.co.uk/politic...

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

Now have two complete starter packs for "Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ & History". Starting a thread of all of my Africa starter packs, including more specific ones like, country/region, journalists, academics, media orgs, etc. Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ

Excellent debut post from what promises to be a must-read new Substack 👇 I love a good “if we plot this using a new chart, it makes us think about the issue differently” 😍

Resources for philosophers on Bluesky (updated) 1. Starter packs go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals) go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs) 2. Philosophy feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags (see profile for others) 3. List of philosophers bsky.app/profile/did:...

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

⏳ Deadline Alert! Just 1 WEEK left to submit your extended abstracts or full papers for the 2025 EAYE Annual Meeting at @KingsCollegeLon (May 27-29, 2025)! 📅 Deadline: December 1, 2024 📍 Connect with top junior economists globally. Don't miss out!

#RPVSky Are you an educator wanting to use my blog posts to teach your students how to conduct a literature review? This post is for you: A sequential strategy for teaching how to write a literature review www.raulpacheco.org/2021/06/a-se...

This fantastic map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881

My article, "When development cooperation principles clash: Country ownership and LGBTQI+ inclusion in hostile environments", has been published in the October issue of the Journal of International Development. Click here to download the PDF for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time. So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine. It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar. Here's how to use it:

AI apps like ChatGPT generate fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at the University of Washington built OpenScholar. It's a large language model integrated with millions of research papers. And it's totally free. Here's how to use it:

1/2 Can you help make sense of the global flux society is experiencing? We at The British Academy are commissioning up to 40 discussion papers of 4,000-5,000 words to cast light on the issues of the changing international environment www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

Looks like an important project and event.

Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1

So this turned out to be the final step in replicating Twitter for me. It's slightly fiddly, but if you follow the instructions on a desktop it doesn't take long. Found *1,600 people* I used to follow on Twitter. Allowed me to follow them all with the touch of a button. Strong reccomend.

For those negotiating in Baku on the #NCQG climate finance goal @edwickstead.bsky.social and I have calculated two new scenarios in our @cgdev.bsky.social model of baselines relating to multilateral development banks and the latest negotiating text 1/5

The idea that blended finance can mobilize huge sums of private finance has lost its lustre. Next year's fourth Financing for Development conference must be more realistic about private finance. New blog: www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...