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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · 4h

🎉 Policy and Politics, Vol 53 Issue 4 is live!

We are happy to share our latest Issue featuring many fantastic articles by our authors: @samwarner.bsky.social sky.social , David Richards, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social coyle1859.bsky.social , Martin J. Smith...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 9h

This is on a par with discovering you can send wireless signals through rock, Cave Link www.cavelink.com/cl3x_neu/ind...

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NBER @nber.org · 15h

Characterizing the potential and limits of using satellite imagery and machine learning technology to measure ground conditions, from Proctor, Carleton, Chong, Fransen, Greenhill, Katz, Murayama, Sherman, Tseng, Druckenmiller, and Hsiang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34315

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NBER @nber.org · 13h

Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 13h

Alas, not possible up Station Road …

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 13h

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI - excellent column by @johnthornhill.bsky.social. "Instead of hyperventilating about AI ushering in a new era of abundance, wouldn’t it be better to drop the rhetoric and build AI systems for more defined, realisable goals?" www.ft.com/content/3474...

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

www.ft.com

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 13h

On the way from my office to the station today

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Stuart McIntyre @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social · 17h

ONS has taken a lot of stick recently over problems with core economic statistics, but its response today on the public finance stats - setting out what happened and a path forward - is a frank and useful explainer from the new team that's to be welcomed. blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/08/a...

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 19h

This morning‘s walk with #SophieFromRomania had everything – a film crew setting up, kids going to school, the bin lorry, the excitement of another dog to bark at furiously. And throughout there was my bad back which meant I had to stop every few yards. All in all I think she coped pretty well.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 1d

Given the circular deals, it surely isn’t a $1T market?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

The recent wave of circular deals and partnerships involving Nvidia and OpenAI is escalating concerns that they are artificially propping up the $1T AI market (Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 3d

We're looking for two Research Assistants/Associates (RA) to join our team:
- RA in the AI & Geopolitics Project – directed by @verityharding.bsky.social
- RA to support policy response & knowledge transfer activities - led by @ojgarling.bsky.social
Apply: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 2d

🆕Welcome to our fifth series of Crossing Channels podcasts — giving interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions

🎙️First up: Are universities ready for the age of AI?

Richard Westcott talks to @jonathancgrant.bsky.social François Bonnefon & François Poinas.

🎧Listen: pod.fo/e/337864

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

#sophiefromromania returned from her walk invigorated by hunting through the leaves and especially by her furious bark off with the two golden retrievers behind their front gate. The owner and I apologised to each other profusely but it wasn’t our fault!

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

Speedy #sophiefromromania had fun with Juno and some other dogs today

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

Fun with Juno and Nuna for #sophiefromromania

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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge @eng.cam.ac.uk · 2d

Alumnus Michael Korn has launched BLUE GARAGE an "Applied Commercialisation Lab”, part lab, part community, part launchpad, designed to help early-stage companies move from working prototypes to scalable, investable products.
@ifmcambridge.bsky.social
www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnus...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a short book. I like its forensic focus on the role of information flows in shaping organisations

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

“Authority is viable to the extent that it is the focus of convergent expectations…. [This source] implies its fragility.”

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 2d

We're looking for outstanding applicants to join the IFS for our 2026 intake of Research Economists.

➡️ Find out more and apply here by 11pm, Sunday 26 October: app.beapplied.com/apply/tgjfew...

➡️ Those on the PhD job market can apply here: econjobmarket.org/organization...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll report back later

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly not!

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2d

I started reading Arrow’s “The Limits of Organization’ for the first time in many years:

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Making do without public data on.ft.com/46DEYjp | opinion

Making do without public data

Plus why this shutdown is different

on.ft.com

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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 3d

#TeachEcon

Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone have slides that lend themselves for undergraduate teaching, which go step by step through a behavioral lab experiment, and would be willing to share them with me?

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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social

manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story

‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

manchestermill.co.uk

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