"....In reality, the ‘truth’ around a policy problem can be uncertain. It will be contested in good faith by experts and in bad faith by lobbyists, in high stakes contexts..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fascinating to hear what's happening at home at the research-to-policy interface. #FOMO

Calling all @ox.ac.uk folk interested in knowing more about policy outputs, come join me at this hands-on workshop next week!

Are you an @ox.ac.uk researcher or staff? Interested in exploring and informing the policy world? Want your research to have more policy impact? Watch out for OPEN's upcoming learning opportunities. We strengthen links between researchers and policy professionals for rich, meaningful engagement.

Of interest @torchoxford.bsky.social ? @socsci.ox.ac.uk @reutersinstitute.bsky.social ?

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Excellent piece by @jamesrball.com for @prospectmagazine.co.uk arguing for better data for policy making. We should all be extremely concerned by the many examples collected here. A must-read for fans of Bad Data. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/busine...

Most of us are in a wobbly position when it comes to our understanding of immigration numbers. How would things go if we didn’t make these half-remembered statistics so central to how we form and articulate opinions? georginasturge.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...

Have you ever written an evidence-based Policy Brief? communicatingscienceforpolicy.org wants to make examples of formal written communication easily accessible online, enabling us to learn from one another. P𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝘁 bit.ly/4mJHUk7 (Re-use the same link for multiple submissions.)

Hybrid workshop: 'Communicating Science for Policy in a Populist Age' lead by our good friend Karen Akerlof @georgemasonu.bsky.social Looks like a great and important agenda! Sept 8th In person: www.eventbrite.com/e/communicat... Online: www.eventbrite.com/e/online-wor... #scipol #scienceadvice

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Really looking forward to this. Of interest @migobs.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social ?

Nice sentiment, though a lack of evidence isn't the issue here with this particularly policy-making.

I've signed up to "How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises" by Jules Pretty, University of Essex, organised by @biodivoxford.bsky.social 7 November bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

Shoutout to @jamesrball.com whose excellent Prospect essay on the Dead Internet Theory I referenced: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

On the 'enshittification' of LinkedIn ....

Note to self...

Earworm. #Officemusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHZ...

Come join me and much more articulate colleagues talk about communicating with policy folk. I will bring cake. Lemon drizzle or chocolate?

NEW: Mo Salah is a star, a saint and a symbol of inclusion. But the fragile myth of the “good immigrant” can’t combat the rise of the far right, writes Tam Hussein for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/mo...

Good to see so many Oxford names here. www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Really looking forward to this book talk next week: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...

" in an era where media saturation and digital interconnectedness have often seemingly blurred borders, the greatest power now lies in the refusal to allow access to real spaces of influence...Borders, once the spaces between nations, are now the frontlines of silencing."

Now this is a cool job!

Hurray for my old alma mater (though I was out in the north Antrim field that is the Coleraine campus, now pitched as "coastal living"!)

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

Please do share with @ox.ac.uk colleagues. Awards up to £5,000 enabling researchers and public policy professionals to kick-start short (3 month) projects to deepen collaboration & share evidence and support its use in policy making.

So proud.

Emerging proposals for Worcester Street Car Park and the ice rink mean that Oxford residents could have more boats and bikes in their lives. In this 🚨Clarion exclusive 🚨 we take a look at the future of Oxford. oxfordclarion.uk/bikes-and-bo...

Does HE politicise today's students? Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...

beside myself with excitement because of this new Ireland series..

And for those that might be interested, UPEN will be retiring its 'X' account, and be coming to Bluesky soon. Until then, you can still access our updates on Linkedin, or via our newsletter: www.linkedin.com/company/poli...

'I am convinced beyond any doubt that, in spite of all the challenges we face, there remains within the Irish people a profound and unyielding commitment to seeing beyond the self, to seeing the other as a friend, the principles of generosity, decency and care for one another'

"Fellowship is Life" I really do like the work of the @oxfordclarion.bsky.social. Read more about them here (including why they are anonymous- not only because,yes, 'even' local journalists experience abuse and harassment); oxfordclarion.uk/we-are-all-t...

The accompanying cartoon has particular resonance ...

Do read my latest blog on the implications Trump for climate action worldwide. thepolicypractice.com/implications...

How does Trump’s rapid rollback of Biden’s climate policies—from lifting oil and gas restrictions to pulling out of the Paris Agreement—reshape the global fight against climate change? New blog from TPP Director Neil McCulloch - read here: thepolicypractice.com/implications...

"Knowledge brokers have been conceptualized .. as individuals who form relationships between researchers & policymakers to facilitate knowledge exchange. ..This does not fully capture the diversity of roles and activities that knowledge brokers perform.." transforming-evidence.org/blog/the-inv...

"The public sphere is where policy decisions are debated and ultimately legitimised. This must be a reciprocal process — .. “communicating with your ears” — rather than just deploying a bigger megaphone. Great piece by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/bf6e...

Question Time last night was pretty fierce. And had to be. There's a deliberate effort now to shift the ground: towards appeasement, inhumanity and authoritarianism. Once more, we must resist it. We must fight hard for kindness. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Do you feel you need to do something other than doom-scrolling? #Resist somehow? But how? In @hrw’s Daily Brief today, @astroehlein offers some tips: www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

Define confusion.

good www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

"She hails from the House of Brexit, the natural successor to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak in a tradition defined by incoherent bombast, culture war performance, policy as gimmick, intellectual vacuity clad in libertarian verbiage."

'Even if revisions are planned, they may still have a cost: lower public trust in the data.' @migobs.bsky.social's Madeleine Sumption explains why the UK’s net migration numbers keep being revised ⬇️ theconversation.com/why-do-the-u...

Interesting and useful post from Altmetric. TDLR: 🎉 BlueSky is an awesome place to share research. ❌ Don’t use link shorteners (unless it’s the DOI one) ✅ Keep the link in the post (don’t remove it once you have the auto-preview) #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Altmetric is now tracing research engagement on #Bluesky! It's time to share your research with the #AcademicSky community! #science #academia

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