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Feedback request! I'm working on open data tools to make UK regional analysis a little easier/less wheel-reinventy. I've stuck some links below - (1) easy-access/pre-baked ONS regional GVA and jobs data (including GVA/jobs linked); (2) an intro to using that data in R. 1/3

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Feedback request! I'm working on open data tools to make UK regional analysis a little easier/less wheel-reinventy. I've stuck some links below - (1) easy-access/pre-baked ONS regional GVA and jobs data (including GVA/jobs linked); (2) an intro to using that data in R. 1/3

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🚀 Job vacancy! 🔎 Are you an analyst with a background in data or economics? If you have an interest in climate policy and enjoy transforming complex information into actionable insights, please consider applying below: 🗓️ Deadline: 26.02.25 eciu.net/about/vacan...

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20th Feb - one month of Trump #2 down, 47 to go. Or possibly more, depending on how far he gets with the "King" thing. I'm wondering if it might go full Truss/Lettuce at any moment.

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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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On Monday I tried to explain why NHSE and ONS were finding such different things for NHS productivity in the last year (see thread below). Today both orgs have published more details about how their measures compare. Another short thread…

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Today the ONS have published new estimates of UK healthcare productivity. They estimate that productivity has declined substantially, while last week NHS England estimated that English acute hospital productivity has increased. What’s going on? A short thread

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

It is disturbing how the Trump regime is silencing and crippling science. We had a paleontology online seminar scheduled next week on Permian fossils and environments in Grand Canyon - but the US colleague planning to present has suddenly been sacked. climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

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The % thinking being white is very important to being British fell to 3% in 2020 having been 10% in 2006 The % in England thinking white important to being English fell to 10% in 2020, was 20% in 2012. Scale of this shift surprises some on the liberal-left & now vocally contested by online right

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One of world's richest men continually punches poor people, blames the poor people for being punched. This guy's just a really shit Batman.

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My piece for @productivity.bsky.social about the importance of technicians. We won't deliver growth and opporotunity without enough of them in our labs and across universities and schools. It's an urgent conversation to have www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

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📢 Our first newsletter of 2025 is here! Inside you'll find: 💰 Details of @ypip.bsky.social Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund 📜Our Year 2 Regional report ✍ Blog examining Scrutiny boards at Leeds city council 📩 For news, blogs, opportunities and much more click here: tinyurl.com/3w55c5x2

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve consulted with multiple DoD groups on climate change - their goals were predicting how geopolitics would change and the vulnerability of their built infrastructure. How does the changing Arctic affect submarine detectability? Search and rescue? Coastal flooding of naval bases?

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"Couldn't happen here..." Labour Party doing all the right things, if it was 2005. But 2025? Can reform be stopped with anything but e.g. a radical new housing crisis approach that does something to genuinely solve how locked out young people are from what their parents had / have?

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Student loans company: "Before requesting a refund, consider that any amount you get will be added to your outstanding balance to be repaid." Hmm. That word, "refund" - I do not think it means what you think it means.

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"Misinformation isn't just noise. It's a weapon."

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"At one point when we were talking off-camera, he said: if Tesla doesn’t survive, the human race is doomed. And I thought: wow, this is a man in his 40s who thinks that he’s the center of the universe." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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Really great Big Read on British economic policymakers increasingly flying blind. www.ft.com/content/dd55...

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Hint of what's to come in US mid terms, with more loyalist election officials installed? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

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“That a Labour government is seemingly willing to sacrifice poor and disabled people’s benefits in order to protect the wealthy and healthy from paying a bit more tax feels at best perverse and, at worst, a betrayal.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This is indeed a real account. Rep. Ilhan Omar is now Verified on Bluesky

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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

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"Whatever comes next, should the country weather this attempted hijacking, will need to be a fundamental rethinking of what this system is and what we want out of it. Anything less will set us up for yet another Trump and yet another Musk." (I am doing very badly at not getting drawn in...)

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Academics and management at UK universities: I'm working on a piece for Prospect about the financial travails hitting unis. What's led to the layoffs? What decisions led to the current crisis? DM me for a chat on or off the record. I'm also on [email protected]

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Periodic reminder the world of data analysis cannot be meaningfully categorised into "machine learning" and "statistics". Two cultures with substantial overlap in the use of methods (e.g. logistic regression), analytical goals (e.g. causal inference) and history jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Authoritarians don't tolerate independent info sources.

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toying with the idea of learning COBOL because when this is all over they're going to need an army of people to unfuck this

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

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Opening para could have been in Bauman's Liquid Modernity, except it's written 5 years earlier. (Link to PDF below.) "What was once a concrete mass has now become a nomadic electronic flow. Before computerized info management, the heart of institutional command and control was easy to locate..."

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Hmmmm.

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Like other economists I'm being asked to comment on Trump tariffs. We should do so - it's our job. But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c26b...

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In the last few hours several government websites have been taken down, including the usaid.gov, foreignassistance.gov, neglecteddiseases.gov, and childreninadversity.gov. www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

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1. ~50% of potash used in US agriculture comes from Canada. 2. Fertilizer costs = ~10-30% of crop grower costs. 3. Feed costs = ~50-70% of chicken farmer production costs. So, uh, eggs ain't getting cheaper anytime soon.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

What an opening sentence. (From "British Political History, Pearce + Stewart.)

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