Really interesting piece on a water sharing dispute in Goa, and the ethics of who bears the burden when the ‘common good’ is invoked. A lovely excerpt below on how our approach to funding this research made a critical approach possible theprint.in/opinion/shou...

on.ft.com/4nD1dLS Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI

Great trustee roles at @bedehouse.bsky.social - the fantastic Southwark based community charity working on tackling domestic abuse and supporting people with learning disabilities. Please share with anyone you know who might be interested bedehouse.org.uk/volunteering/

People from the Republic are travelling up to Northern Ireland to buy their weight loss jabs on.ft.com/46AvIv8

on.ft.com/4nD1dLS Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI

Great trustee roles at @bedehouse.bsky.social - the fantastic Southwark based community charity working on tackling domestic abuse and supporting people with learning disabilities. Please share with anyone you know who might be interested bedehouse.org.uk/volunteering/

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

What's the relationship between faith and climate/health agendas? We are supporting this two day conference next month in Oxford to explore these issues. Attendance is free but you must register www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Baroness Blower references our report on Reframing Childhood in the Lords debate on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

If Monday morning is too much, this may help

And then this, my favourite line of all. Never change, humans

the requirements to succeed on new media platforms are almost precisely the opposite of what successful experts… have trained themselves to do: maintain an institutional tone of formal detachment & stay ruthlessly on-message at all times.’ @noupside.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

So much to chew over on this piece about the nexus of religion, technology and the authoritarian state on.ft.com/4gArc4v

‘Today, the mere accusation of having feminist sympathies can trigger public apologies from companies.’ Piece exploring misogyny in South Korea including the role of online radicalisation, mirroring some of what we are seeing in other parts of the world www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Found this piece rather soothing - ‘evolutionary mismatch’ means we shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves for not coping with modern life - we were not designed for it. So give yourself a break www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

If you missed this it is the most interesting piece I’ve read this weekend

I had no idea that Kiran Desai started work on her new Booker longlisted book immediately after she won the Booker in 2006. I assumed there’d been a bunch of other books I hadn’t heard of. I can’t imagine what it must be like to work on a single opus for 20 years www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘Today, the mere accusation of having feminist sympathies can trigger public apologies from companies.’ Piece exploring misogyny in South Korea including the role of online radicalisation, mirroring some of what we are seeing in other parts of the world www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I now spend much more time in cemeteries than I do in parks because there’s no one else there, so that’s a place to walk around, to make phone calls, to have meetings.’ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social locking down the Buffy the Vampire Slayer voter here www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

So much to chew over on this piece about the nexus of religion, technology and the authoritarian state on.ft.com/4gArc4v

I now spend much more time in cemeteries than I do in parks because there’s no one else there, so that’s a place to walk around, to make phone calls, to have meetings.’ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social locking down the Buffy the Vampire Slayer voter here www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

‘Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".’ FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Creative UK - the national membership body for the UK’s cultural and creative industries - is looking for a new CEO. Up to £130k lead-wearecreative.uk

FOMO equity buying. Remind me how this ends again? on.ft.com/4mvwMGx

A striking trend, but also important to remember that these changes in period fertility rates often look overdramatic when childbearing is shifting to older ages, which is especially the case in Latin America where adolescent births have been traditionally high. ourworldindata.org/total-fertil...

‘Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".’ FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’ve all got a bit blasé about those demography stories but Chile’s fertility rate has dropped an astonishing 42% in a decade on.ft.com/47Punmn

Happy 20th birthday to @resfoundation.bsky.social! Pleased to serve on their refreshed advisory council alongside people such as John Kingman, Anna Valero and @anandmenon.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/press-releas...

Some good jobs here. The nice folk at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk are looking for Exec Directors for Research & Innovation, and for Impact & Influence, as well as a Director of IfG Academy. You’d work with @drhannahwhite.bsky.social and her excellent team micro.green-park.co.uk/ifg/

'by my estimates, if we count consistently over time, then the current level of out-of-work claims is NOT any kind of record; it’s similar to 2014/15 levels, and noticeably lower than 2013.' Great piece by @benbgeiger.bsky.social inequalities.substack.com/p/real-out-o...

Worth going to the Royal Academy to see the Kerry James Marshall exhibition which centres the lives of Black Americans. Given [waves hand] all this, it’s an exhibition for our time www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/k...

Seems like driverless taxis are starting to take off in California - hitting 4 million miles in May ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

So you have a Wordle type itch but love data? So here’s Chartle. Powered by numbers from @ourworldindata.org chartle.cc

Are you an early career researcher interested in themes of truth, justice and peace? We are hosting a symposium in Bonn to encourage collaboration between UK and German scholars. We'll cover travel, accommodation and visa costs. Apply by 29th October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/the-...

Oh www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'by my estimates, if we count consistently over time, then the current level of out-of-work claims is NOT any kind of record; it’s similar to 2014/15 levels, and noticeably lower than 2013.' Great piece by @benbgeiger.bsky.social inequalities.substack.com/p/real-out-o...

Given growing discussion around wealth taxes in the UK it’s interesting to see how such taxes have become significantly less popular across the OECD over the last 30 years on.ft.com/47N84Ob

So you have a Wordle type itch but love data? So here’s Chartle. Powered by numbers from @ourworldindata.org chartle.cc

Worth going to the Royal Academy to see the Kerry James Marshall exhibition which centres the lives of Black Americans. Given [waves hand] all this, it’s an exhibition for our time www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/k...

“Your HR chatbot doesn’t need to know advanced physics.” The rise of Small Language Models economist.com/business/202...

'It would be a grave mistake to leave the ECHR... For we have moved, since Brexit, from a system governed by a constitution – the EU treaties – to an unprotected one with no real checks to prevent a government from doing whatever it likes' Vernon Bogdanor www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well there's a challenge!

One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long

What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? Book your free ticket to come hear from @edithmayhall.bsky.social on this topic at our Late on Thursday 9th Oct. Plus loads more panels, a zine making workshop and exhibits www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Age old point that throwing money at things is no guarantee it will work if you can’t be clear on focus, get quality leadership and good governance www.thetimes.com/article/416b...

'Why does nothing work anymore, and what can we do about it?' Hugely honoured to be giving the Chancellor's Lecture at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social in conversation with University Chancellor, Reeta Chakrabarti. 6pm Weds 15th October - register here www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

It is a fantastic art collection.

Enjoyed two pieces this weekend with detailed and specific recommendations for their areas of policy. First was this on tax by @danneidle.bsky.social on.ft.com/3I6b7GR And then this on immigration by @benansell.bsky.social benansell.substack.com/p/select-and...