🚀 Can you show that your research impacts society? Most researchers can't — not because the impact isn't there, but because the tools to show it weren't. Until now. Coherent Impact launches in beta today. coherentdigital.net/products/co... #ResearchImpact #HigherEducation

The US is following Hungary and Turkey down the #AcademicFreedom Index. The 🇺🇸 now ranks alongside Thailand and Kyrgyzstan on institutional autonomy. Coercive federal actions named as the key driver. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Governments worried about #birthrates are throwing money at parental leave and child benefits. But a new EBRD study finds the most effective #pronatalist policy might be much simpler: let people work from home b/c #WFH couples have measurably more children! coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The Ayatollahs were ready. 62 Iranian-run social media accounts posing as disgruntled Texans, Scots, Irish etc spent months building real audiences. Within 24hrs of hostilities, every account flipped to pro-Iranian propaganda in unison. #IranWar coilink.org/20.500.1259...

New research: trade is like a technology which lets economies consume more than they produce. ➡️ Tax technology and you hobble efficiency. ➡️ Tax trade and you do the same. ➡️ So, the burden of 🇺🇸 tariffs falls on 🇺🇸 consumers, not foreign exporters. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Sorry, influencers, the 2025 Iberian grid failure wasn't a cyberattack or b/c of renewable energy, it happened because interconnected energy infrastructure is only as resilient as its weakest coordination point. We should listen to experts not opinion-shapers. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

When economic shocks arrive together, their effects multiply. With Trump's tariffs & the Iran conflict threatening oil, gas and fertilizer supplies the outlook is grim. The scariest bit? High inflation and fiscal deficits may leave governments with nowhere to turn. 📉⚠️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Heading to Glasgow? If you're attending next week's #UKSG2026, do drop by the Coherent Digital stand to let our Publisher, Toby Green, know what you think about Policy Commons and if you have suggestions for improvements. If not, simply DM your thoughts! @uksg.bsky.social

Oceans are masking the true scale of the climate crisis. The @wmo-global.bsky.social report finds greenhouse gases are trapping energy equivalent to 18x total human energy use annually. The impact will be with us for 1,000 years. 🌊🌍 coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The record heatwave in the US West would have been "virtually impossible" without the climate crisis, says @wwattribution.bsky.social. A similar 2016 event would have been 0.8°C cooler. This is what climate change looks like. 🌡️🔥 coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Iran - Some recommended reading: IEA's Oil Market Report coilink.org/20.500.1259... Iran isn't flailing coilink.org/20.500.1259... To where would migrants from Iran and Lebanon head? coilink.org/20.500.1259... Tehran's escalation doctrine coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Iran: The pod of war. Here are some 'casts we recommend: Ceasefire in Lebanon? coilink.org/20.500.1259... Operation Epic Folly? coilink.org/20.500.1259... What's next? coilink.org/20.500.1259... Can Iran's regime survive? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

22 billionaires hold wealth equal to two of Mexico's largest state economies, while 19 million can't afford adequate food. A new Oxfam México report argues this isn't accident — it's four decades of political decisions designed to benefit the few. 💰🇲🇽coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Africans, you're being watched. From colonial police networks to Chinese AI-powered facial recognition: a landmark IDS report offers the first comprehensive look at smart surveillance across Africa, spanning 11 countries. But who is watching the watchers? 👁️🌍 coilink.org/20.500.1259...

AI in healthcare: huge promise, real pitfalls. A new 🇪🇺 Research Council report maps AI's growing role — from surgical tools to personalized medicine — but warns that poor data quality, opaque models and weak regulation could undermine it all. Better governance is as vital as better algorithms. 🏥🤖

"Working hard or hardly working?" 60% of workers admit to ~45 minutes of slacking daily. New research finds shirking is lower than 20 years ago, but those who do it slack just as hard as ever. Public sector full-timers are worst offenders; low-paid workers idle least. 😴 coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Democracy in retreat. V-Dem's 2026 Democracy Report finds the USA has suffered its largest ever single-year democratic decline, falling from 20th to 51st globally. Trump's speed outpaces Orbán & Erdoğan. The 2026 midterms may be the last clear chance to reverse it. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Want your say at the next G20? The USA, chair of the next G20, has just launched an consultation open to think tanks. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1OMh...

🐟 fraud! Molded 🐟 paste passed off as scallops, seaweed flavored gelatine as caviar and tilapia as red snapper. 😱 To fight the fraudsters, the FAO recommends harmonized labelling, standard taxonomy, full-chain traceability and rigorous enforcement. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Africa is a 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 battleground to secure supply chains. To avoid replicating past extractive models, this report urges African nations to leverage this competition to anchor regional industrial clusters and move beyond raw material exports. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Climate change may make Africa's droughts longer and more intense, a challenge to the continent's policymakers. In response, a council of African water ministers has released a landmark framework report: Africa Water Vision 2063 and Policy. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Banning kids from social media is in vogue but what about GenAI? EU Kids Online has just released a report which surveyed GenAI use by 25k EU children. It's the first international evidence to inform child-centred AI policy and practice. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

North America has an elevator problem. This matters for aging societies with expensive housing. Fantastically clear video coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Is a "Data Winter" - a period of increasing enclosure of public-interest data - coming? Will lack of transparency stifle scientific discovery and evidence-based policymaking precisely when society needs them most? #OpenData coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Open Data by Default is the weakest link in data policy. But it's what the OECD doesn't say that might matter the most b/c the USA failed to complete the survey. In the context of disappearing US federal datasets, is this failure a message in itself? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A landmark Australian Human Rights Commission study of 76,000 students/staff reveals pervasive racism, antisemitism, & Islamophobia in unis. 🇦🇺 The report warns of a failed "duty of care" and calls for a national, systemic shift to fix ingrained discrimination. 🏛️ #HigherEd coilink.org/20.500.1259...

New GFI data: 25% of Mexico-US imports are misinvoiced. Paradox alert: using tariffs to fix this might backfire, pushing trade further into the "shadows" to evade new duties. Vital evidence for anyone tracking the 2026 USMCA review. 🚢 #USMCA coilink.org/20.500.1259...

AI has an Asian American problem. A new report finds #AANHPI communities are blocked from policy roles while bearing the brunt of #AI harms—from deepfake scams to detectors that flag non-native English 97% of the time. Evidence in community voices from Houston to Honolulu. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

New @pewresearch.org data on religious diversity: 🇸🇬 Singapore is #1 Insight: In almost every nation, one group forms a majority. Only 10 countries have two groups of roughly equal size. Diversity is the exception, not the rule. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The US electorate at breaking point ahead of #midterms? New from JHU: Older voters fear for election integrity & hate the 'other side'; younger ones want to scrap the system entirely. Most alarming? A minority of young men now justify political violence for reform. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

If you want to understand why voters are looking beyond traditional parties, look no further than this illuminating study from @resolutionfoundation.org of those who comprise the poorer half of a developed nation. Lessons here for other countries. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

If the UK creative industries contribute £124.6 billion and employ 2.4 million people and the AI sector is worth £11.8 billion employing 86,000, why does UK government policy treats the latter as the priority? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new @IPPR.org report argues that AI poses a more fundamental threat to news economics than search or social media ever did because AI news summaries in search are good enough for most. But if AI bankrupts journalism, from where will AI get new news? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

How AI-ready is your government? Oxford Analytics 2025 Readiness Index tells you what you need to know. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, is a stark reminder of the chasm between AI's increasing capability and society's capacity to keep real-world deployments safe. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new report from @oecd-ocde.bsky.social OECD suggests that while AI can help students with their assignments, its use risks a 17% underperformance in exams. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

@article19.bsky.social Article 19's new report Tightening the Net: China’s infrastructure of oppression in Iran is a comprehensive analysis and in-depth examination of China’s role in the expansion of digital repression in Iran. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Three successive storms have brought record rainfall and flooding to the Iberian peninsula and Morocco. To understand why we're going to be both wetter and drier we thoroughly recommend this keynote by oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf at last year's Holcim Foundation Forum. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Climatologists to economists: It's going to be much rougher than you think. In this report, climatologists are unambiguous: today's economic models aren't capturing what matters most - cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Vance's "wrecking ball" speech at the '25 Munich Security Conference ended the post-WWII order. So where are we today? A good place to start is the newly released 2026 Munich Security Report, "Under Destruction". coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Peer review in the age of AI. A paper by a group of social science editors, addresses the increasing strain on academic peer review and publishing due to rising submission rates and the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs). coilink.org/20.500.1259...

People in liberal democracies think that politicians are useless, so it's no surprise they are is looking to the extremes. To win back trust, FGF says governments must redefine power distribution and reform the state to wield its authority effectively. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new paper from the EIB shows that AI has already boosted productivity by 4% without firms shedding staff. AI-adopting firms are more innovative, and their workers earn higher wages. But the benefits are concentrated in medium and large firms. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Polluters pay, economy wins A win-win policy? Combine a polluter pays levy with a fair share levy on carbon energy and you'll get carbon abatement with tax revenues to compensate households and fund investments in green industries and social policies. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Despite all the chatter about peace prizes, an extensive new report reminds us that 23 recent conflicts have killed 100,000+ civilians, with widespread torture and rape too. Is international humanitarian law at breaking point? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Singapore's governance model for agentic AI is one of the first government frameworks to deal directly with AI systems that can plan, act, adapt, and interact with other systems. It signals a shift from high-level principles to engineered system design. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

While support for open data principles is strong (80%), there is declining support for open data mandates, especially in Australia and the USA because researchers still think they're not getting sufficient recognition and credit. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Did the greenback undermine Trump's bid for Greenland? Two papers from a programme on Global (Dis)Order by British Academy and Carnegie Endowment might help understand Washington's retreat on its proposed Greenland acquisition. coilink.org/20.500.1259... & coilink.org/20.500.1259...

AI v the steam engine Compare 2 reports on transformative technologies. Steam engines boosted regional wages for over 140 years 🥳 coilink.org/20.500.1259... AI might do the opposite, deskilling the workforce 🤦‍♀️ coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Water bankruptcy leads to conflict. The UN finds many water systems are now 'bankrupt' because aquifiers and glaciers are empty coilink.org/20.500.1259... @pacificinstitute.bsky.social reports water fights reached record levels in 2024 coilink.org/20.500.1259...