When interest rates rise in low-income countries, who really bears the cost—and what does that reveal about how monetary policy actually works? Andrea Presbitero International Monetary Fund IMF Research Department discusses: faculti.net/how-monetary... #GlobalEconomy #Finance

Is the way English courts assess arbitrator bias undermining confidence in arbitration itself? Leonardo Oliveira @royalholloway.bsky.social Department of Law and Criminology discusses: faculti.net/arbitrator-i... #Arbitration #Law

How accurate are forest biomass models in Sub-Saharan Africa—and what do their hidden uncertainties mean for climate policy and carbon accounting? Dan Abudu Aston University College of Engineering and Physical Sciences discusses: faculti.net/forest-bioma... #Sustainability #EnvironmentalPolicy

Does Quebec’s expanded secularism law protect state neutrality — or does it redraw the boundaries of religious freedom in public life? @richardmoon.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social @windsorlaw.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/quebec-expan... #HumanRights #Law

How do informal cross-border traders exercise agency within neopatrimonial border governance—and what does this reveal about why informality can feel more predictable than formal trade regimes? Marcus M. Larsen Copenhagen Business School SI_Copenhagen discusses: faculti.net/trader-agenc... #Business

How does a democracy survive when its citizens are trained to prefer predictability over exploration? @josemarichal.bsky.social @callutheran.bsky.social California Lutheran University's Political Science Department discusses: faculti.net/algorithmic-... #Democracy #Politics

Can targeting aldosterone synthesis with baxdrostat finally break the cycle of uncontrolled hypertension in patients already on multiple drugs? John Flack Southern Illinois University Department of Internal Medicine discusses: faculti.net/new-pathways... #HealthScience #MedicalAdvances

What does Roy Jenkins’ unwavering commitment to European integration reveal about the political costs of principle in postwar Britain? N. Piers Ludlow London School of Economics @lsehy.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/roy-jenkins-... #Politics #History

How do power imbalances inside technology partnerships quietly determine whether firms open their innovations widely or guard them tightly? Sime Serge @royalholloway.bsky.social Royal Holloway Business School discusses: faculti.net/bargaining-p... #Technology #KnowledgeSharing

How do multinational subsidiaries reinvent themselves when a sudden institutional shock rewrites the rules of innovation? @shamilto.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @uoysbs.bsky.social discusses:https://faculti.net/historical-shocks-subsidiary-autonomy-and-innovation-in-global-pharmaceuticals #Innovation

How do tiny shifts in movement shape our sense of whether a virtual agent feels real? Ulysses Bernarte Aston University @astonpress.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-micro-mo... #Technology #Innovation

I had a chat about what @profmiskimmon.bsky.social and I wrote recently about how many narratives used in politics are deliberately ambiguous - watch here, responses appreciated:

How can embracing ambiguity reshape our understanding of political conflict, public persuasion, and the erosion of democratic trust? @benoloughlin.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social Royal Holloway Politics and International Relations discusses: faculti.net/ambiguity-da... #PoliticalScience

Can invoking historical responsibility reshape climate negotiations without undermining the cooperation needed to avert disaster? Sheheryar Banuri @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social School of Economics UEA discusses: openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c... #Sociology #SocialPolicy

How did a demographic catastrophe become the engine of Europe’s ascent to global power? James Belich @ox.ac.uk @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social discusses: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History #EconomicHistory

How do debt-burdened governments end up using inflation and currency depreciation as tools of survival when global shocks tighten their financial constraints? Julian Kozlowski Washington University in St. Louis @washuartsci.bsky.social discusses: s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouis... #Economics

When do political leaders choose to break the rules meant to restrain them—and what truly stops them? @dfarber1950.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social discusses: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PoliticalScience

Are data-subscription platforms a sign of dangerous digital market power—or the very incentive needed to produce better data? @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @columbiabusiness.bsky.social #Finance

Can disruptive, outsider-driven diplomacy deliver peace in Ukraine—or does it risk fracturing the very alliances that underpin European security? @profpaulpoast.bsky.social University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

How do we build digital systems that protect us without demanding forms of trust they have not yet earned? Susan Landau @tufts.edu Tufts University School of Engineering #PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy

How did an overlooked physiocratic thinker turn the question of public debt into a fulcrum of pre-Revolutionary political and economic debate? Joel Felix @uniofreading.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Reading discusses: centaur.reading.ac.uk/112523/ #History #EconomicHistory

How does volatility in government spending quietly distort where capital flows—and what does that mean for economic performance? Sai Ding @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgasbs.bsky.social discusses: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Finance #CorporateFinance

Could the wear and tear of machines quietly determine how competitive an industry is? Alicia Dang @gwu1821.bsky.social discusses: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Economics #IndustrialOrganization

What can an anthropological lens on authority and followership teach us about the realities of global leadership today? Fiona Moore @royalholloway.bsky.social discusses: www.emerald.com/books/edited... #BusinessandManagement #LeadershipandOrganizationalBehavior

How did James C. Scott’s ideas reshape how scholars understand power, resistance, and the moral worlds of Southeast Asia? John Sidel The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #PoliticalScience #PoliticalTheory

What drives suburban resistance to even modest increases in nearby housing density, and why does it matter for the future of affordable development? Joe Gyourko @upenn.edu #PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy

Can Germany expand military space capabilities without undermining its pledge to uphold a peaceful, rules-based orbital environment? Frans von der Dunk @unlincoln.bsky.social #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

Can traditions grounded in a single loving God overcome the very tensions that have long fueled conflict in God’s name? John Brewer @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social discusses: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

How did fugitive lives in 17th-century London expose the metropolitan foundations of England’s emerging system of racial slavery? @simonatmadison.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk discusses: uolpress.co.uk/book/freedom... #History

How could interoperable, well-regulated digital money reshape competition, lower payment costs, and shift power across the global financial system? @ccatalini.bsky.social @mit.edu #Economy

How much financial contagion do we misjudge when we rely on the wrong measurement tools? Eric.J.Pentecost @lborouniversity.bsky.social discusses: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Economy

How far should Indigenous communities’ control over traditional knowledge extend once that knowledge enters the vast, diluted pathways of modern drug discovery? Peter Harrison @york.ac.uk #Law

How do communities, police, and practitioners navigate the uneasy line between necessary legal protection and the harms that criminalisation can create in cases of family and honour-based abuse? Catherine Donovan @durham.ac.uk discusses: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Criminology

How does the Bayeux Tapestry’s political storytelling reshape our understanding of power and historical memory in the eleventh century? David Bates @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social discusses: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ba... #History #MedievalHistory

How resilient is the India–Russia partnership in a world where great-power rivalries and sanctions pressures are reshaping the global balance? Michael Slobodchikoff @troyuniversity.bsky.social #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

What happens when scientific advances create entities that resemble embryos or brains closely enough to challenge the boundaries of law, ethics, and public trust? Emily Jackson The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #Law #MedicalLaw

How far can molecular tweaks to cyclic lactones give us real, predictable control over when and how degradable polymers break down? Nathaniel Bingham @uniofsurrey.bsky.social discusses: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #NaturalSciences

How do Europe’s e-lending markets reveal a deeper struggle over who controls digital access to knowledge? Martin Kretschmer @glasgow.ac.uk discusses: www.knowledgerights21.org/reports/elen... #Law

How far can Ukraine realistically stretch its fiscal and governance reforms under the conditions attached to the IMF’s new $8.1 billion program? Christopher Hartwell University of Zurich #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

How does Napoleon Bonaparte’s Corsican upbringing help explain his later transformation into a European empire-builder? Michael Broers @ox.ac.uk discusses: archive.org/details/napo... #History

How can a single tariff dispute between Washington and New Delhi expose deeper shifts in global power, energy security, and the future of the dollar? Sambit Bhattacharyya @sussex.ac.uk discusses: theconversation.com/why-trumps-f... #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations

How does a university continue shaping a country’s future when its classrooms sit beneath air-raid sirens? Tomila Lankina The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE discusses: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2... #Education #HigherEducation

What does a simple roast dinner reveal about hidden discrimination in everyday markets? Brit Grosskopf @exeter.ac.uk discusses: research.bangor.ac.uk/en/publicati... #Economics #IndustrialOrganization

How does women’s expanding role in the global workforce reshape the future of religion itself? Isabella Kasselstrand @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social discusses: academic.oup.com/socrel/advan... #Sociology #SociologyofReligion

Can a central bank built for price stability also safeguard a fragmented monetary union against the next financial shock? Emanuele Citera @bardcollege.bsky.social discusses: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... #PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy

The digital signal-processing research behind Prosody, the next-generation effects device that emulates high-quality acoustic instruments using advanced impulse responses. Patrick Gaydecki @manchester.ac.uk discusses: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38364278/ #Engineering #ElectricalEngineering

How can blockchain-driven incentives and user-controlled data reshape the ethics of remote assessment? Dragan Boscovic Arizona State University discusses: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... #Education #EducationalTechnology

How do one man’s relentless financial demands recast our understanding of migration, obligation, and family ties across the nineteenth-century Atlantic? Marjory Harper @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social discusses: books.lib.uoguelph.ca/networksandn... #History #SocialHistory

How did a battle over gas, sanctions, and sovereignty reshape the balance of power inside the Western alliance? Armin Grunbacher @unibirmingham.bsky.social discusses: research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publicati... #History #DiplomaticHistory

How did national security–driven industrial policy push the WTO toward a leadership vacuum it can no longer afford? Petros C. Mavroidis @columbiauniversity.bsky.social discusses: academic.oup.com/book/58955 #PoliticalScience #InternationalRelations