Enjoyed chairing the Scottish Economic Society session on "Work Quality in Polarised Times" at #IEA2026 today. Excellent talks from Birthe Larsen, Johanna Rickne and Golo Henseke on workplace sexual harassment, academic careers and working time quality. #EconSky

Operation Health! at the British Academy Festival of Ideas. Participants explored NHS resource allocation in 1974, discovering that similar outcomes could emerge from very different levels of provision, but with different trade-offs. @britishacademy.bsky.social heal-researchhub.github.io/nhs-74/

If someone paid you not to work, would your health get better or worse? The UK furlough scheme created a natural experiment to ask whether the health effects of work withdrawal depend on occupational meaningfulness—a new angle on Graeber's "bullshit jobs." watttheecon.substack.com/p/bullshit-j...

Excited to share this research at #CeLMRHERU2026. Looking forward to the discussion! #HealthEconomics #EconSky

Incentives to reproduce and replicate articles are so bad. Even when your comment leads to the retraction of a PLOS One article, the reward is a (10 days late) email with a thank you at the bottom. Retraction notice: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... But we are not complaining about PLOS One 🧵

📢 250 years of "The Wealth of Nations" On 5 June in Kirkcaldy, Adam Smith Global Foundation hosts a day of events marking the anniversary of Adam Smith’s "The Wealth of Nations". 📚 Symposium 🎓 Masterclasses 🌍 Evening discussion Register here: www.adamsmithglobalfoundation.com/250won #EconSky

📢 New report out today! 📢 ➡️ Access the report here: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo... 📊 What did we find? 🔸 Most of the socio-economic background (SEB) and ethnic inequalities in entry to professional occupations are driven by employer-side decisions made during the recruitment process

Forthcoming on Fri 12 June: Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Sciences Research 📊 ♻️ 🔓 Speakers include @crahal.com, @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, @grigolus.bsky.social, @joespearing.bsky.social and @cbolibaugh.bsky.social Full details: uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/MQBjRg

Thrilled to see this published. I had the chance to be involved in the AI Replication Games, and it was such a fun + thoughtful collaboration. Big thanks to @i4replication.bsky.social for creating opportunities like this and building a great community around replication research.