Does commuting farther from home actually make workers more productive—and what does that mean for urban transport policy? Andrew Seltzer @royalholloway.bsky.social Royal Holloway Economics Departmen discusses: faculti.net/commuting-di... #Transport #Policy

Can embedding legal help inside health and community services measurably reduce inequality, improve wellbeing, and strengthen trust in justice systems? Liz Curran Nottingham Trent University Nottingham Law School discusses: faculti.net/health-justi... #Law #Justice

Can embedding legal help inside health and community services measurably reduce inequality, improve wellbeing, and strengthen trust in justice systems? Liz Curran Nottingham Trent University Nottingham Law School discusses: faculti.net/health-justi... #Law #Justice

When interest rates rise, why might firms cut prices faster when their warehouses are full? Tim Willems @bankofengland.bsky.social @boeresearch.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-inventor... #Economics #Finance

When interest rates rise, why might firms cut prices faster when their warehouses are full? Tim Willems @bankofengland.bsky.social @boeresearch.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-inventor... #Economics #Finance

When local councils share digital infrastructure, does efficiency come at the cost of systemic cyber vulnerability? Karen Renaud @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Computer and Information Sciences discusses: faculti.net/cyber-attack... #CyberSecurity #TechPolicy

When local councils share digital infrastructure, does efficiency come at the cost of systemic cyber vulnerability? Karen Renaud @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Computer and Information Sciences discusses: faculti.net/cyber-attack... #CyberSecurity #TechPolicy

Can competition for scarce public funds—rather than shared identity or redistribution—actually reduce local violence? @stefanialovo.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social Department of economics discusses: faculti.net/how-competit... #Economics #Inequality

Can fragmented memories, emotions, and voices tell us more about Covid-19 than any single, coherent story ever could? Stephen Bowman @stir.ac.uk Division of History, Heritage & Politics discusses: faculti.net/creative-ora... #Covid19 #Pandemic

How did a music born of racial exchange in the Jim Crow South both challenge segregation and ultimately leave its structures intact? Michael Bertrand Tennessee State University Department of History discusses: faculti.net/rock-n-roll-... #MusicHistory #RockAndRoll

How did a music born of racial exchange in the Jim Crow South both challenge segregation and ultimately leave its structures intact? Michael Bertrand Tennessee State University Department of History discusses: faculti.net/rock-n-roll-... #MusicHistory #RockAndRoll

How did government policy and household power dynamics shape the technologies that transformed women’s work in postwar Britain? Peter Scott @uniofreading.bsky.social Henley Business School discusses: faculti.net/how-househol... #Economics #PublicPolicy

How did government policy and household power dynamics shape the technologies that transformed women’s work in postwar Britain? Peter Scott @uniofreading.bsky.social Henley Business School discusses: faculti.net/how-househol... #Economics #PublicPolicy

Can human rights law genuinely protect who we are, or does it quietly decide which identities are allowed to count? Jill Marshall @royalholloway.bsky.social Department of Law and Criminology discusses: faculti.net/human-rights... #Law #Justice

Can human rights law genuinely protect who we are, or does it quietly decide which identities are allowed to count? Jill Marshall @royalholloway.bsky.social Department of Law and Criminology discusses: faculti.net/human-rights... #Law #Justice

If motherhood was always bound up with paid work and market care, why do we still treat care as economically invisible? @shepardalex.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk School of Humanities discusses: faculti.net/working-moth... #Education #Society

Can participatory research really challenge inequality, or does the neoliberal university quietly neutralise its transformative potential? Gearoid Michael Millar @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Peace and Conflict Studies discusses: faculti.net/just-transit... #SocialJustice #Equity

Can technological “solutions” to climate collapse become myths that legitimise inequality, sacrifice, and planetary control? @profjohnbarry.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics discusses: faculti.net/techno-optim... #ClimateChange

Is Switzerland strengthening its defence industry — or quietly redrawing the boundaries of neutrality in a more polarized security landscape? Keith Krause @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/switzerland-... #defense #security

Is Switzerland strengthening its defence industry — or quietly redrawing the boundaries of neutrality in a more polarized security landscape? Keith Krause @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/switzerland-... #defense #security

When historians rely on vast digitised archives, how can they tell whose voices are amplified, whose are missing, and why it matters? Kaspar Beelen @sas-news.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/bias-missing... #history #digitalhumanities

When historians rely on vast digitised archives, how can they tell whose voices are amplified, whose are missing, and why it matters? Kaspar Beelen @sas-news.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/bias-missing... #history #digitalhumanities

If protein aggregation is written into biology itself, why have we spent so long treating amyloids as failures rather than functional structures—and what changes once we stop? Salvador Ventura Zamora @uab.cat Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular discusses: imagedelivery.net/LTk-nZSQJgWk...

Will falling inflation give the Bank of England room to cut rates further in 2026 — or are wage pressures about to force a pause? @apferrero.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Department of Economics discusses: faculti.net/how-far-will... #Economics #Inflation

Will falling inflation give the Bank of England room to cut rates further in 2026 — or are wage pressures about to force a pause? @apferrero.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Department of Economics discusses: faculti.net/how-far-will... #Economics #Inflation

How do emotionally charged decisions made at divorce quietly shape who can afford to retire—and who must keep working decades later? Wendy Lorreto @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social University of Edinburgh Business School discusses: faculti.net/divorce-gend... #Divorce #GenderInequality

How do emotionally charged decisions made at divorce quietly shape who can afford to retire—and who must keep working decades later? Wendy Lorreto @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social University of Edinburgh Business School discusses: faculti.net/divorce-gend... #Divorce #GenderInequality

How did the rise of the pet shop transform animals into modern consumer goods while reshaping public ideas about care, childhood, and animal welfare? @janehamlett.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulhistory.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/pets-for-sal... #History #Pets

How did the rise of the pet shop transform animals into modern consumer goods while reshaping public ideas about care, childhood, and animal welfare? @janehamlett.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulhistory.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/pets-for-sal... #History #Pets

Prediction, Decision-MIf artificial intelligence is best understood as a technology of prediction, how does that reshape who makes decisions, who captures value, and who sets the rules of modern markets? @joshgans.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @econuoft.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/the-microeco...

Prediction, Decision-MIf artificial intelligence is best understood as a technology of prediction, how does that reshape who makes decisions, who captures value, and who sets the rules of modern markets? @joshgans.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @econuoft.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/the-microeco...

Why are some of the most expensive computing resources in modern ML systems spending so much time doing nothing—and what would it take to fix that? Ken Birman @cornelluniversity.bsky.social @cornellbowers.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/why-systems-... #AI #Technology

Why are some of the most expensive computing resources in modern ML systems spending so much time doing nothing—and what would it take to fix that? Ken Birman @cornelluniversity.bsky.social @cornellbowers.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/why-systems-... #AI #Technology

Is China’s record trade surplus a sign of export resilience — or evidence of deeper imbalances in global demand and trade relations? Robert Lawrence @harvard.edu @harvardkennedy.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/chinas-dolla... #Economy #Business

Is China’s record trade surplus a sign of export resilience — or evidence of deeper imbalances in global demand and trade relations? Robert Lawrence @harvard.edu @harvardkennedy.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/chinas-dolla... #Economy #Business

Can academic publishing remain trustworthy when generative tools accelerate writing faster than editorial norms can adapt? Samantha Curle @uniofbath.bsky.social @depteducationbath.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/journal-edit... #GenerativeAI #Writing

How do subtle variations in facial femininity shape women’s jealousy—and why does the effect shift across sexual orientations? Benedict Jones @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @strath-psh.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-facial-f... #GenderStudies #Psychology

How do subtle variations in facial femininity shape women’s jealousy—and why does the effect shift across sexual orientations? Benedict Jones @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @strath-psh.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-facial-f... #GenderStudies #Psychology

As ministers promise action but hesitate on timelines, what does effective protection against SLAPPs actually require — and who decides when a lawsuit crosses the line into abuse? @erinferguson.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Aberdeen Law School #Law #Justice

As ministers promise action but hesitate on timelines, what does effective protection against SLAPPs actually require — and who decides when a lawsuit crosses the line into abuse? @erinferguson.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Aberdeen Law School #Law #Justice

Can richer land-use data fundamentally change how we measure—and mismeasure—ecological connectivity in human-shaped landscapes? Vitaly Kryukov @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ncl-rse.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/mapping-habi... #Sustainability #Science

Can richer land-use data fundamentally change how we measure—and mismeasure—ecological connectivity in human-shaped landscapes? Vitaly Kryukov @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ncl-rse.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/mapping-habi... #Sustainability #Science

When violence is justified in the name of Islam, how can we tell lawful authority from rebellion—or resistance from terrorism? Mohammad Sabuj @royalholloway.bsky.social Department of Law and Criminology discusses: faculti.net/islamic-law-... #Islam #Law

When violence is justified in the name of Islam, how can we tell lawful authority from rebellion—or resistance from terrorism? Mohammad Sabuj @royalholloway.bsky.social Department of Law and Criminology discusses: faculti.net/islamic-law-... #Islam #Law

Can sustainability transitions succeed if policymakers misunderstand the social contracts that actually hold food systems together? Saadi Lahlou The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) @lsepbs.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-social-c... #Sustainability #FoodSecurity

Can sustainability transitions succeed if policymakers misunderstand the social contracts that actually hold food systems together? Saadi Lahlou The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) @lsepbs.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/how-social-c... #Sustainability #FoodSecurity

How does structured sparsity—from biological synapses to engineered deep-learning architectures—reshape our understanding of efficient computation? @romanbauer.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social Department of Computer Science discusses: faculti.net/structured-s... #AI #Innovation

How does structured sparsity—from biological synapses to engineered deep-learning architectures—reshape our understanding of efficient computation? @romanbauer.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social Department of Computer Science discusses: faculti.net/structured-s... #AI #Innovation

To what extent can a U.S-brokered peace framework remain credible when its foundations overlap with an adversary’s negotiating positions? @oxanashevel.bsky.social @tufts.edu Department of Political Science discusses: faculti.net/inside-washi... #Politics #Diplomacy

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