Across the world, overwhelming majorities of people say that all states should particpate in decisions on critical global challenges (e.g. conflict, climate change, pandemics) irrespective of how powerful they are.
Read the full polling at: lexinternational.org/wp-content/u...
Great coverage of our 🆕report on funding the #JustTransition away from fossil fuels in the @FT today.
Say it with us: “Public money is a non-negotiable part of the green transition." 💸 www.ft.com/content/8e5f...
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We're hiring two senior economists to develop and lead research projects that generate arguments, policies and ideas to address the social and economic challenges that underpin poverty and household economic insecurity in the UK.
Apply now: jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
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Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
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According to World Weather Attribution, "climate change has made a 32C day in the UK 100 times more likely than in the pre-industrial era. A June heatwave of three consecutive days above 28C was 10 times more likely to occur now." www.ft.com/content/650c...
Honored to have been invited to my former work place to participate in stimulating discussions about democratic innovations. The basis of my intervention was our OA paper on public opinion about deliberative democracy (with @jbpilet.bsky.social). ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨
The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/
We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...
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🚨 We're hiring!
King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway.
Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...
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Happy to answer questions about the role/department!
Sigh.
"the healthy food push was dropped after the Food and Drink Federation, which represents corporations including Nestlé, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, Mars and Unilever repeatedly demanded the government ditch it."
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Late to this, but “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal” is precisely why the topic of climate change needs leadership! It is a coordination problem! 1/
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📗 Call for papers!
The 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference this September is now inviting paper submissions on Public Finance & Development.
Keynote speakers: Tim Besley & Annette Alstadsæter
📅 Deadline: 15 May
Find out more: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
🌟 Fantastic Day 1 of #PSA25, incl. a powerful opening keynote by Prof. Rosie Campbell @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on ‘What next for the study of #PoliticalRepresentation? Shifting identities, #CultureWars & the quality of #democracy’
Looking forward to Day 2! #politicalstudies #politics
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
A book co-authored by our academics, @bpiotrowska.bsky.social and @maiaking.bsky.social, has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize 📚🏆
Read more 🔽
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It's wonderful to see the news that my fantastic Department of Political Economy colleagues @maiaking.bsky.social and @bpiotrowska.bsky.social have been nominated for this esteemed prize. Huge congratulations guys!!!
🚨 PSA25 KEYNOTE: ‘What next for the study of political representation? Shifting identities, culture wars & the quality of democracy’
Join us to hear from keynote speaker @profrosiecamp.bsky.social at #PSA25.
Register now: buff.ly/rtngDMa
📚 MacKenzie Book Prize 2025📚 ‘The Way the Money Goes’ by Piotrowska, Hood, King & McLean has been shortlisted for this PSA prize. Winner announced in April. buff.ly/OJo7p9u
@bpiotrowska.bsky.social @maiaking.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #bookprize #politics #economy #books
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London!
Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi).
No fee, travel grants available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly
Britain has uniquely expensive housing, which is also a disproportionately large part of poorer households' spending.
This means that aggregate Purchasing Power Parities used to make income comparisons of living standards understate the true gap between poorer households in the UK and OECD peers.
Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.
1.6 million people stand alongside experts calling for bee-killing pesticides neonicotinoids to be banned, with no exceptions or exemptions
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🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT!!! 🚨
ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE
How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate
Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF…
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As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)
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Government 2025: IfG's annual conference
📅 Tuesday 21 January, 08:45–18:00
To kick off the new year, we will bring together influential speakers and experts to explore the key questions for government in 2025.
Register now to attend online 👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...
