I am looking forward to reading it back-to-back at lunchtime with this report from yesterday, which also had great contributions from social science researchers.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

There are also lots of people who are doing great work on how we develop and use digital technologies @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social, @sociodigfutures.bsky.social, and @digitcentre.bsky.social who might know an ECR interested in this.

I can imagine that this is something the @productivity.bsky.social and @poid-lse.bsky.social might be interested in, as well researchers interested in how businesses use AI in R&D at @e-r-c.bsky.social.

This will likely be of particular interest to those working in STS and innovation studies, but the opportunity is open to researchers from all disciplines.

One of my aims for the new year is to write more about our strategy and our funding decisions.

In the spirit of our anniversary, I'm starting with some reflections on what our history & structure implies for how we fund, and our role in the soc sci ecosystem.

open.substack.com/pub/magicsmo...

There is a great photo of the Clydach Gorge in this piece. This is home to the village of Clydach were I grew up - and where my family has lived for generations. The gorge was one of many incredible engineering challenges of building this new road.

I strongly recommend East West Street by Phillippe Sands. It's a brilliant book and it covers the origins of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' as legal terms, as well as the live stories of the two men who came up with them.