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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 34m

✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions

@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.

🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3h

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 2h

It’s just 10 days to go until our launch event on Saturday 18 October at Teesside University and there are still a few places available - don’t miss out!

Visit our website for more information and please share widely: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events/

Poster for the Where Credit’s Due project - a rainbow border surrounding the text:

“Where Credit's Due

Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

Reimagining Public Credit and Building
Intersectional Solidarity in Boro

• 18.10.25, 1.30pm: Finding the Money Film Screening and Q&A. Teesside Uni.

• 23.10.25, 7pm: A Curious Night at the Museum. The Dorman Museum.

• 22.11.25, 10.30am: Workshop 1: Where
Credit's Due. The Dorman Museum.

• 17.1.26, 10.30am: Workshop 2: The Other Saltburn. The Dorman Museum.

• 7.3.26, 10.30am: Workshop 3: Everyone's
Included! The Dorman Museum.

Join us to tell new stories about money”

Beneath the text are logs for Where Credit’s Due and TU Proud, the words BOOK HERE and a pointing hand emoji next to a QR code for the Where Credit’s Due website.

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 2h

Depends on whether a large proportion of MPs holding stock in a company and backed up by the Royal Navy makes that firm quasi- government ?

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7h

"The fire department in Jerome Township, Ohio has grown increasingly annoyed at two Amazon data centers...Since the first site was approved by local officials in 2021, first responders have answered a combined 84 emergencies...on top of regular safety inspections" #AI futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 2h

The definite sense that this makes is political – the AI industry has positioned itself in such a way that its speculative claims will have to be validated to some extent, regardless of economic fundamentals. Market melt-up = expectation of bailout.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

I'm not saying it makes a huge amount of sense, but I am saying a market melt-up is a distinct possibility. The bad stuff just isn't sticking - on.ft.com/48PHt3p

Brace for a market melt-up

[FREE TO READ] Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2h

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

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2h

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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Suzy Brandon Ph.D. @suzywbrandon.bsky.social · Jun 11

I want to share my article where I discuss the #conservationcapitalistclass & how #cheetah #conservation #NGOs, as part of this class, are institutions of global academic, economic, & social power in conservation #politicalecology #humangeography #geography

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The business of saving cheetahs: Cheetah ecology and the diverse politics at work in human wildlife conflict (HWC) interventions in Namibia - Suzanne Brandon, 2024

This paper is concerned with the intersection of cheetah ecology, human wildlife conflict (HWC), settler colonialism, and private land ownership in Namibia. Che...

journals.sagepub.com

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 12h

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 14h

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 12h

Jenrick wasn't kidding when he started hanging around with Kombat-18, was he?

John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 12h

No. That would be too much like parking my tanks on Dr French's lawn.

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 16h

Lagarde going for the throat here: swap lines.

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 17h

Looks amaaazing Louise. Congrats to all!

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 18h

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone's favourite seminar- "what is money?"

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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · 5d

How do digital platforms like Deliveroo and Uber Eats protect consumers from unsafe food? And how do they reconcile ethical imperatives to care for food safety with their commercial drive to promote consumer choice? Find out in my new OA Journal of Cultural Economy article: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Careful choice and choiceful care: digital marketplace platforms, food safety and the redistribution of care

Eating is becoming platformised as consumers increasingly choose food using digital marketplaces. Platformisation promises expanded consumer choice, but online food safety scandals have raised ques...

doi.org

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Hannah Cloke OBE is an internationally recognised hydrologist specialising in floods, climate extremes, and disaster risk reduction. She works with news media and the entertainment industry on climate, water and environmental issues.

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UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social · 9d

The new book Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance asks: When it comes to climate change ... is it better to ‘lock in’ steady, long-term policies, or do we need dramatic political conflict and protests to force real change?

Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 1d

suddenly buoyed by Farage's attendance record as an MEP/ constituency MP.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal.

China & India lead the race for renewable energy.

The US increased reliance on fossil fuels.

With corporate donations Trump wants more fossil fuels. Farage and Tories promising the same. Banks pouring money.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Jasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · 1d

Once more for the people in the back #Offsets. Are. A. Scam. Deep and fast corporate CO2 emission reductions are what is needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann

The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.

www.nybooks.com

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 1d

Sandu overstates the role of the Marshall Plan & ignores the European Payments Union (EPU) established between 1950-
1958 that made it possible for each country to finance its current account deficits without relying on the vagaries of capital liquidity provided by international financial markets.

Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 5d

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Very interesting article by Martin Sandu on whether trade imbalances are good for the global economy or bad.
www.ft.com/content/a2f3...

How I learnt to stop worrying about China’s surplus

Lessons from economic history point to the benign effects of ‘overcapacity’

www.ft.com

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 1d

America is now one big bet on AI - on.ft.com/4pTQ3US via @FT

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

on.ft.com

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