Diane Coyle

@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social

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Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist

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Dame Diane Coyle is a British economist. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute.

Source: Wikipedia

Economics 61%

Political science 13%

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 23h

🧰Two days ahead of the 2025 Autumn Budget, Dimitri Zenghelis calls for a credible, growth-focused strategy—centred on better investment & a coherent, less distortionary tax system—to restore confidence & reduce the premium the UK pays on its debt.

Read his blog: bit.ly/4ije1p7

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 1d

The rain stopped so #sophiefromromania came out to drink a few puddles

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 1d

Or that having high tech successful industries (as per the industrial strategy and growth mission) requires research and researchers… ?

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Does the government perhaps understand that this is very bad for Britain?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Does the government perhaps understand that this is very bad for Britain?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago

UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget

www.timeshighereducation.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Talbot Imlay, Jeroen Van Bouwel

Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

www.yesigiveafig.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Albert Weale

Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 1d

On the Origin of Species: landmark work published #OTD 1859 by Charles Darwin, influential English naturalist, geologist and pioneer of evolutionary theory.
Portrait 1830’s by George Richmond
Bodleian Library @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@tomgauld.bsky.social | @newscientist.com

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 1d

05:50 and the Prof has already left for Cambridge. But #sophiefromromania and I aren’t quite ready to get up and out yet

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Steve Peers, Tim Bale , and 3 more Diane Coyle, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Ariadne Vromen, Lisa Diedrich, Christina Pagel

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

A 6% levy on international student fees was proposed in the Immigration White Paper. The impact is about £600 million, though very unevenly spread across institutions.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

Reposted by Diane Coyle

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Just a boy, standing in front of a political class, asking them to read @igmansfield.bsky.social's Seven Public Policy Rules of Thumb, this time on taxes:

Seven Public Policy Rules of Thumb

They're not always true. But you've got grounds to demand strong evidence before accepting that one isn't.

www.edrith.co.uk

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Christopher Smith, Margot C. Finn

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 2d

'What We Need To Do Now' ... an agenda for universities in the new post-16 system ... set out by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need To Do Now

an agenda for universities in the new post-16 system

profserious.substack.com

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 2d

Wettest walk ever - and today’s the day #sophiefromromania decides the graveyard isn’t scary after all and she’d like to explore it. So we all deserved our #bigbreakfast

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Peter Gratton

Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve wanted to read these for many years. Coming next month from University of Chicago press.

Reposted by Diane Coyle

Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · 2d

NEW on the Economics Observatory– How do the target sectors in the UK’s Industrial Strategy compare across the G7?

By James Collis, Hannah Cantekin, Will Shepherd

How do the target sectors in the UK’s Industrial Strategy compare across the G7? - Economics Observatory

The UK’s Industrial Strategy targets growth in eight high-potential sectors. The UK’s position relative to comparator countries varies in each area, and there is room to accelerate growth in most…

buff.ly

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 2d

My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 3d

Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.

(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more Diane Coyle, Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall, Adrian Vickers, Margot C. Finn, Catherine J. Frieman

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...

Restoring our services – November 2025 update

In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.

www.bl.uk

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Dave O’Brien, Christopher Smith , and 1 more Diane Coyle, Dave O’Brien, Christopher Smith, Jack Stilgoe

Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 3d

Here is @richardaljones.bsky.social basically telling us how it is. I’ve been thinking about this since listening to him say this stuff out loud at the @royalsociety.org
on Thursday.
softmachines.org?p=3192

UK Science in a post-liberal world – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

softmachines.org

Reposted by Diane Coyle

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 3d

@iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss GDP in their @originstorypodcast.bsky.social and they name check @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, author of GDP and The Measure of Progress! Check out this great discussion here—https://www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story#20.

Origin Story Podcast | Podmasters

What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From ‘woke’ to ‘centrism’ and beyond, this illuminating pod explores the hidden histories of the concepts you…

www.podmasters.co.uk

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Lindsay M. Tedds, Gerald Friedman , and 2 more Diane Coyle, Lindsay M. Tedds, Gerald Friedman, Scott A. Imberman, Erica L. Groshen

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

Hey, #EconSky!

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social!
bsky.app/profile/usbl...

Reposted by Diane Coyle

Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 4d

📣 We're piloting Knowbot, an AI-powered assistant designed to make it easier for members to find key information on our website.

But before we launch, we would like you to test it!

🔗 Find out more here: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Be the First to Talk to Our New AI Assistant

rss.org.uk

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 4d

Mr Penguin is experiencing #sophiefromromania’s tlc today. Not sure how long he’ll keep the beak or feet. But it gives Hedgehog a break.

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Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · 4d

Going back to my colleague @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's @financialtimes.com piece on giving evidence in turbulent times in the wake of the Covid report.

on.ft.com/48elHER

How to provide evidence in turbulent times

Hostility to researchers’ analysis is undermining reasoned policymaking

on.ft.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle

Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 4d

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient

Patients left in the dark after Home Based Care closure

Innovative Parkinson's scheme closed - patients told months later

open.substack.com

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 4d

Now in conversation with @terzibus.bsky.social

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 4d

Our annual public policy lecture this year is by Ricardo Hausman @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk - getting under way

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Meredith Broussard, Luca Rossi , and 12 more Diane Coyle, Meredith Broussard, Luca Rossi, Charles West, Alison Phipps, Elaine Treharne, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, Rebecca Tushnet, Margot C. Finn, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Joanna Tai, Georg Weizsäcker, Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Bergman

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 5d

Her bed is next to the radiator…

Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 5d

#sophiefromromania says she sees absolutely no reason to stir from her bed today

Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 5d

It was a pleasure to have been one of the examiners of @faustogernone.bsky.social ‘s PhD dissertation today. Congratulations to Dr Gernone!

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 5d

#sophiefromromania says she sees absolutely no reason to stir from her bed today

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