From @privateeyenews.bsky.social

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

*jazz hands* Tyler Cowen!

I cannot imagine anyone I know in academia letting this happen. It's utterly appalling. Glasgow uni failed to record the grade he had in fact earned, then refused him a degree, then abandoned him to kill himself. For utter, enduring shame.

"Those are conditions that can make almost any stock-picking strategy look smart." arstechnica.com/information-...

"The researchers found that teams who were prompted to select a leader were 38% more likely to finish than those who were not. " hbr.org/2025/09/rese...

"In the Choice System, food banks receive shares in proportion to their goal factor – Feeding America’s measure of need – but once they have these shares, food banks can spend them however they choose exclusively through twice-daily online auctions." www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

This sounds like it could be an interesting historical economic case study, about the river Fleet here in London in the early 1700's "the water soon silted up again and under private ownership the canal fell into disrepair." diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/08/flee...

Just in time for the start of my behavioural economics module this year (this is one of my favourite examples of people not being 'rational' and not calculating/figuring out their 'utility maximizing' commute)

Big fan of John Finnemore. Sadly his radioshow the Souvenir Programme is now just a yearly thing but the 2025 edition opens with a great sketch about research design... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

let's not forget the key fact here which is that British higher education is still the envy of the world, and the brilliant students who flock here are bringing youthful energy and prosperity to cities all over the UK" The absolute mind-melt it takes to NOT do that is unimaginable.

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

A Happy New Year to everyone who's spent too much of their life working in education

And the winner is …. UCL that increased its u/g offers by 65%. Where are you going to put all these students, UCL?!

Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle. I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.

I can NOT believe that our new academic year is already starting again this week. 🤯

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Thought I'd share this again, cost me the better part of an afternoon to research and write...

Jarvis Cocker sings about economics in A Sunset, one of the tracks on Pulp's new album. I fact-checked his claims blog.jorisgillet.nl/2025/08/fact...

I love reading stories about successful self-regulating systems like this case study of queueing Taylor Swift fans archive.ph/eU6Fv

I can't quite believe it, but, it appears that the person responsible for this at the University of Warwick has had a Vogue photoshoot about the rebrand, explaining his 'journey from the world of luxury [goods marketing] into higher education' vogue.sg/university-o...

hmm...

Meanwhile on the tube

"On social media, students have shared frustrations about “dumbing down” their writing to avoid suspicion, turning work they were proud of into awkward, childlike sentences. " restofworld.org/2025/ai-dete...

Graduate from our Applied Behavioural Economics MSc Degree (rip...) doing very interesting things at the Financial Conduct Authority www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Have been teaching Game Theory for about 20 years but, to my great embarrassment, had never encountered the Holmes vs Moriarty example of a mixed strategy equilibrium www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

let's see if #icanhazpdf works on Bluesky.... anyone who can help me with a copy of this paper? thnx! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

"[AI company] Anthropic recently advised job seekers not to use LLMs on their applications—a striking admission from a company whose business model depends on people using AI for everything else." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/t...

In case you're wondering why economics is sometimes looked down upon by other academic disciplines....

Good news for the connectivity of MDX's Hendon campus. New superloopbus proposed to run between Ealing and Hendon diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/06/bake...

Sounds quite intense

Not sure why there is a road sign to Middlesex University near Turnpike Lane tube station. It's miles from campus. Not even sure it's the closest university to here....

US data but still www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Good news www.times-series.co.uk/news/2517278...

Surely if this were the case, the policies announced alongside that language would have been about increased social cohesion, investment in communities and shared spaces - not about keeping people out of the country, intensifying the social care crisis and making citizenship harder to aspire to.

Coase Theorem @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Relatable

Future MDX campus carpark just out of shot on the left...

@bastiencf.bsky.social you're part of the open day...

Mathieu van der Poel, Amstel Gold Race, 2019

Who's Rich? www.edrith.co.uk/p/whos-rich-...

FFS

"So, the researchers are left to conclude it's simply because of what they call "animus" against minority drivers on the part of the police. " arstechnica.com/science/2025...

interesting little experiment by @squarepegmind.bsky.social "Comparing AI models isn’t just about what they say—it’s about how they say it. (...) Some aim to solve the problem, and others focus on explaining why the problem is complicated." thinkingaboutbehavior.substack.com/p/how-llms-t...

see, this plane got measles and was perfectly fine

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬