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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13d

Monty Python understood p-hacking

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Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr · 14d

Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...

Christian Chavagneux @chrisaltereco.bsky.social · 14d

L'IPP a mesuré l'impact des 10 Mds de baisse des impôts de production dont ont bénéficié les entreprises. Impact sur chiffre d'affaires ? Nul. Sur l'investissement ? Nul. Sur la création d'emploi ? Nul. Sur les exports ? Nul. Budget : 10 Mds de perdus.
www.alternatives-economiques.fr/baisser-impo...

Baisser les impôts de production de 10 milliards d'euros pour les entreprises n'a servi à rien

Une récente étude consacrée à la baisse des impôts de production conclut que les entreprises bénéficiaires n’ont rien fait de ce gain. Malgré ce résultat, le gouvernement veut poursuivre dans cette vo...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Sep 24

🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n

Polygenic scores released for four national cohort studies | CLS

The research community can now access a range of polygenic scores from more than 30,000 people taking part in four of the UK’s national cohort studies.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Sep 29

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · Sep 28

L’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice. Comme pour Le Pen, des politiques critiquent l’application immédiate des sanctions pour Sarkozy. Ils se pensent au-dessus des règles qui s’appliquent à tous les autres justiciables. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Condamnation de Sarkozy : l’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice

Comme après le procès de Marine Le Pen, des voix s’élèvent à droite pour remettre en question l’application immédiate des sanctions infligées par les tribunaux. Certains politiques se pensent au-dess…

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate at the new Bennett School of Public Policy in the

www.cam.ac.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.

👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.

📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 4

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Atrocities in Gaza should not make us forget about the dire living conditions in the West Bank confronted to waves of agressive illegal settlements www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

En Cisjordanie, l’émergence d’un Etat palestinien entravée par Israël

Avec la poursuite de la colonisation, la captation des terres agricoles et des ressources hydriques, les autorités israéliennes manœuvrent pour anéantir la perspective d’un Etat palestinien. Le mouvem...

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Garance Genicot @ggenicot.bsky.social · Sep 1

Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence

By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Aug 26

@ec.europa.eu STOP ALL COLLABORATIONS WITH LIBYAN COASTGUARDS!

Euronews @euronews.com · Aug 25

The non-profit SOS Mediterranee says the MV Ocean Viking was targeted while carrying 87 rescued migrants to safety.

Libyan coastguard shot at migrant rescue ship at sea, NGO says

The non-profit SOS Mediterranee says the MV Ocean Viking was targeted while carrying 87 rescued migrants to safety.

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!

Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Sep 10

Really proud to have taken part in this evaluation of a #SuicideAwareness raising campaign as my first dip into the analysis of #MentalHealth outcomes.
On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here is a very timely🧵explaining what we did and what we found ! 1/N
www.publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/cou...

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 22

📣 We're hiring! 📣

Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?

Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

« Présenté comme la panacée, le recyclage du plastique est une bombe à retardement »

TRIBUNE. Après l’échec des négociations sur un traité international pour lutter contre la pollution plastique, seuls un contrôle strict des importations et une réforme en profondeur des filières de re...

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · Aug 20

Pre-modern universities promoted the spread of ideas.

This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Aug 18

Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—

This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.

Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Aug 14

For the @thedetectorists.bsky.social's fans out there :-)

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Aug 13

There are archaologists who have been digging for literally decades who haven't found anything this cool who are going to enjoy reading this article ;)

"Student strikes gold 90 minutes into first dig"
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Northumberland dig students find 9th Century gold object

Newcastle University student Yara Souza, from Florida, says she is "geeking out" over her discovery.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships

VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Aug 14

Manuel Bagues & Natalia Zinovyeva find that #gender segregation in #education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles.
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Graph of the gender equality paradox in higher education.

The most economically prosperous and gender-equal societies often display stronger gender segregation in educational choices – a pattern known as the ‘gender equality paradox’. This column explores this paradox using data on half a million children in 37 Western countries and 10,000 British families over two decades. The findings suggest that gender segregation in education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles. Policymakers may need to move beyond promoting formal equality and focus on family, community, and school interventions that encourage mixed-gender interactions.

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TCRU at UCL IOE @tcru-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU!

@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@sriucl.bsky.social

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 6

#PlasticsTreaty

Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years

NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production

Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Aug 5

NEW: The president of one of the world's largest plastics producers acknowledged in 1974 that recycling plastic was "not feasible."

It's “further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social.

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows

Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

www.desmog.com

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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme @liser-cb.bsky.social · Aug 6

📣 Call for Papers 📣

🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.

🗣️ With Keynotes from ‪‪‬@christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social

⏳ Submit by September 15th

🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org

#EconSky #EconConf #Migration

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just have a look at how much is spent on VC compensations and consulting fees...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

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