The emerging lab of labs: practices and experiences of European urban experimentation spaces www.ulalabs.eu/post/sharing...

"Understanding how government structures function is often the first hurdle for development practitioners. Information about state systems is fragmented, outdated, or tacit, making it difficult to engage effectively with government processes" www.resgov.org/resources/vi...

"We proposes a new approach to policymaking introducing the concept of policy acupuncture or "pressure points" to address complex and interconnected challenges" op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Bureaucrat Poetry - "This collection is the result of a long-standing course in the Public Sector Management Program at Stockholm School of Economics, in which senior Swedish state and municipal administrators are tasked with writing and performing poetry" bureaucritics.substack.com/p/back-in-of...

So much wish I could attend this filesformsfictions.com

Fab website - What's eating your collection www.whatseatingyourcollection.com ht @botanistlaura.bsky.social

I am obsessed with this plant. A species of cucumber, it fruits up to 90cm UNDERGROUND. Why does it do this? Because the only animals known to eat them are AARDVARKS 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT, THIS IS AN AARVARK CUCUMBER. And I got my hands on a specime for the @perfect-specimen.bsky.social 🌿🎙️🧪

Beautiful glowing birds of paradise

A new era is unfolding, one that demands thoughtful decisions about how the bison fits into contemporary ecosystems and human society. Its survival is no longer in question; how we choose to live alongside it is newlinesmag.com/reportage/le...

ChatGPT is blind to bad science blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Join the 2025 SIRI Symposium in Gothenburg this October! On 8 October, come together for a day of dialogue and exchange. This year’s theme is Design and Implementation of Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). 👉 Register here: tipconsortium.net/event/swedis... #SIRISymposium #Innovation

Who needs GenAI...

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

Bureaucrat Poetry - "This collection is the result of a long-standing course in the Public Sector Management Program at Stockholm School of Economics, in which senior Swedish state and municipal administrators are tasked with writing and performing poetry" bureaucritics.substack.com/p/back-in-of...

What does it mean to be a teacher in the government school system in Delhi? Lessons in state capacity from Delhi’s schools scroll.in/article/1083...

"We proposes a new approach to policymaking introducing the concept of policy acupuncture or "pressure points" to address complex and interconnected challenges" op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

"Understanding how government structures function is often the first hurdle for development practitioners. Information about state systems is fragmented, outdated, or tacit, making it difficult to engage effectively with government processes" www.resgov.org/resources/vi...

The emerging lab of labs: practices and experiences of European urban experimentation spaces www.ulalabs.eu/post/sharing...

"Our goal is to build bankable companies that move beyond fragmented solutions to create systemic resilience" www.deepscienceventures.com/cerl/

Their striking intelligence makes octopuses tempting subjects for wishful anthropomorphism and uncanny reminders of nature’s mysteries www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

"We’ve started to hold a quarterly workshop where we collectively log our confidence across open questions and critical uncertainties" www.nesta.org.uk/blog/test-an...

What happens when intuition becomes algorithmic? speculativemachines.co.uk

“The briefing room in Kofi’s day brimmed with journalists. Now it’s more mausoleum than press room" www.ft.com/content/ef26...

"Almost nobody is playing the role of financial backbone to orchestrate diverse sources of financial capital in pursuit of a collective impact mission. As a result, not enough financial capital is flowing in ways conducive to catalyzing systems change" ssir.org/articles/ent...

Fambul Tok: reintegration, reconciliation, and cultural practices in Sierra Leone governancefutures.org/2025/04/famb...

"We help leaders in government who want to support the energy at the edges. If you’re working in government, and you see the machine around you struggling, how can you shield, support, and spread alternatives?" medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The museum will be a dynamic space, both physical and digital, dedicated to showcasing the significance of global agrifood systems, culinary traditions, scientific and innovative advancements" www.fao.org/museum-netwo...

Who owns Britain www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

My latest in the @ssir.org, basically an executive summary of our white paper titled "Financial Backbones: Capital Orchestration for Systems Transformation". ssir.org/articles/ent...

"I'm worried that all the fru fra about our discovery of bias being systematically uploaded ignores the fact that some people actually, culpably choose to write biased AI" joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2017/07/thre...

"I’m interested in chaos, senselessness, irrationality, randomness, and infinity. If that makes me part of a 19th-century movement, well, there’s not much I can do about it. I’ll never willingly include myself into any group. Unless aliens arrive" www.publicbooks.org/there-are-mo...

[Oh boy] Palantir wants to be a lifestyle brand www.wired.com/story/palant...

Shamaun Sobhan was working with a private airline when he saw a job posting he couldn’t believe. The government was hiring satellite engineers. “The ad didn’t mention any salary or benefits, but I applied anyway" restofworld.org/2025/banglad...

"Examining non-knowledge involves investigating the strategies, practices and cultures that surround what is not known. Non-knowledge can result from genuine lack of knowledge or strategic avoidance" evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2022/09/21/n...

"In a lot of our projects we’re really reverse engineering a system and then repurposing it. And in doing so we come to understand how a system works" pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the storm?

Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck in old habits — grant-giving, compliance, and rigid oversight — when the world needs institutions that **learn, adapt, and lead**. Full article 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...

The political context of public sector innovation: the case of Ukraine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Data Empowerment Clinic tackles "the missing profession of the 21st century": data stewardship. The clinic will train professionals to support communities in developing their own data empowerment structures" www.kcl.ac.uk/centre-for-d...

"The virtual assistant "Diella" made its "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament. Maybe unsurprisingly, the software — which had been appointed Minister for Public Procurements last week by prime minister Edi Rama — was met with fury by certain officials" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Establishing a world-class research institute to advance the frontier of knowledge in agriculture is not part of that playbook for "backward" countries. Yet that is exactly what Brazil did in establishing Embrapa. And they succeeded beyondimitation.substack.com/p/embrapa/

AI×Animals is an 8-week program preparing learners for impactful careers at the intersection of AI and animal welfare www.lesswrong.com/posts/YZ6Wu3...

[Hmmm] "Our mission is to prevent the sixth mass extinction" www.conservationxlabs.com

The unfortunate trend across Southeast Asia is that each time platforms bow to political pressure, they become more restrictive in anticipation of future crises. ... Over time, this feedback loop produces systemic fragility fulcrum.sg/when-tiktok-...

"Much of Gen Z’s organizing was done in a language the state and major news outlets failed to decode" niemanreports.org/nepal-gen-z-...

This commentary examines how understanding animal culture—shared behaviors and knowledge transmitted through social learning—plays a role in advancing welfare practices for captive fishes www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

“The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord” charlesmok.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

The shoes, bags, and belts assembled from this leather will bear labels like “Made in Italy” but give no credit to the Nigerian workers who did the dirty first steps continent.substack.com/p/hide-and-s...

The Heart of the Andes and the invention of virtual reality www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/16/f...

Not now, but soon: a hurricane of data issues.org/hurricane-of...