🚨We're hiring! 🌐Research Assistant/Associate to work with @verityharding.bsky.social on the AI & Geopolitics Project (AIxGEO) 💡Research Assistant/Associate to work with @ojgarling.bsky.social on our policy response & knowledge transfer activities 🔗 www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

Had a good session at the secure field though #sophiefromromania still needs to learn to play without growling

My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

on.ft.com/46EDjIX Europe’s bill for extreme weather damage more than doubles this decade (2020-23 costs already more than double previous 10 years - good thing financial markets are so forward-looking. Oh)

I do have to leave early this morning - sorry, #sophiefromromania

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We had the gang of friends round this evening and #sophiefromromania was very pleased

We're looking for two Research Assistants/Associates to work on exciting projects at the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk ➡️AI & Geopolitics Project (AIxGEO) ➡️Policy response & knowledge transfer Find out more & apply: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

And now I’ve learned to do links - really interested in any thoughts on the proposal re fiscal definitions in this piece: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/financi...

The report from the New Towns Taskforce - I was a member - is out: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d694... Now over to the government....

Even #sophiefromromania thought it was a bit early to go out this morning but we had to get back before the roads are closed for the half marathon

The only economy we have sits in nature: thelogic.co/comment/kevi...

Nearly a decade later after the first clinic in the US, the first municipal birth control clinic opened in the UK. In Cambridge. In one of the worst slums in town (Barnwell) which today is somewhere under The Grafton. Lella Secor Florence opened it lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/l... And-->

Oh I so love #strictly - that 70s opening took me right back to childhood and my mum & dad in the ballroom

I’ve somehow missed the Fabian thing? What are they up to?

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

There’s a massive bot invasion under way on Instagram, it seems

Polar bears occupy abandoned Soviet-era research station

Extremely sad that my much-loved friend and ally of over thirty-five years, the great poet, dramatist, socialist and acerbic wit Tony Harrison, died yesterday morning, peacefully, with his devoted partner, actress Sian Thomas, at his side. I'm so glad I visited them last week.

Where did that squirrel go, #sophiefromromania?

Whatever you think of his proposals, I cheer any candidate who talks about women’s health as a campaign issue. Who in UK politics would issue a video like this?

Great power transitions www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...

#EconSky Are Economists Architects or Auditors? https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/what-happened-to-big-thinking-in-economics-by-ricardo-hausmann-2025-07#EconSky Economics seems to have shifted away from creative problem-solving and policy design towards a more narrow, auditing approach 1/3

#sophiefromromania and I are hard at work writing papers today

It’s a girls’ evening in for me and #sophiefromromania as @rorycj.bsky.social is out schmoozing at a neurology conference

This is well worth reading

Wet afternoon? Looking for a change? Keen to work in the space between academia and policymaking? Great opportunity here to work with us at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk.

🚨New blog: The Chancellor’s first budget aimed to boost capital investment — but the bond market reacted negatively. With economic growth continuing to slow, it’s time for a fundamental rethink, writes @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social, founder of Credit Capital Advisory.

A beautiful piece from @manchestermill.bsky.social

I’m not going to rant endlessly about this but Labour came into power on a vague ticket to improve northern rail connectivity and over a year later is still wondering what it means on.ft.com/4pAIfaJ

I’m so annoyed by this I’m going to performatively burn all of my copies of the Green Book in protest.

I don’t think #sophiefromromania had noticed the cat, but the cat had noticed her

Specialized in microeconomic theory and on the job market? If you are interested in topics such as mechanism and market design, consider working with me at Lund University. For info about the tenure-track position, see 👇 econjobmarket.org/positions/11821

Super-interesting post on open banking data (and beyond) by @dgwbirch.bsky.social dgwbirch.substack.com/p/open-banki...

Now even the prof is asking where’s today’s #sophiefromromania so here she is mounting a surveillance operation even on bin day

New CSWEP newsletter focused on visibility in the economics profession: Christine Exley on self-promotion, Olga Stoddard on professional visibility, Corinne Low on public scholarship and how to write and publish a trade press book, Khoa Vu on social media and its professional uses.

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

My latest @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk piece on how the Chancellor can finance the next wave of infrastructure without unnerving the bond market. The Chancellor’s attempt to increase capital investment resulted in a negative reaction from the bond market. As www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/financi...

Indeed. I wonder if the CMA has noticed?

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

The world, at present, is giving social scientists many careers-worth of natural experiments. (Yes, I am catching up with today’s news.)

New PhD-student run journal in the history of economics, Oikonomos, has just published its first issue oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

Outlining a research agenda and nine grand challenges for studying the economic impacts of transformative artificial intelligence, from Erik Brynjolfsson, @akorinek.bsky.social, and Ajay K. Agrawal https://www.nber.org/papers/w34256

We're excited to be recording our 1st podcast episode for our 5th Crossing Channels series—in partnership with @tse-fr.eu—with host Richard Westcott, guests @jonathancgrant.bsky.social, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & François Poinas, & our new audio producer. Launching 6 Oct: podfollow.com/1539614493

🚨 We're looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to join our AI & Geopolitics Project (AIxGEO) team. Work with @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @verityharding.bsky.social, @alturobov.bsky.social & other experts on the latest AI & global policy. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Three statements of local ambition stand in Halifax, West Yorkshire: the Town Hall, the Borough Market and the Piece Hall. Such monuments of civic pride still bear the names of farsighted local leaders from past generations. 🧵 1/13

I left early for work this morning but #sophiefromromania thought she’d have a lie-in

Some worrying issues in science teaching - continuing shortages of subject specialists (esp for physics), and lower than average retention rates, all adding up to blockages in the STEM talent pipeline