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Happy to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! Thank you to @benrosamond1.bsky.social and Mat Watson for engaging so thoughtfully with my thesis; to @benclift.bsky.social and Özlem Atikcan for their guidance throughout the PhD; and to my friends and family for their support.
This is a great masters programme, taught by leading experts in the field. Ours is a supportive, inclusive learning environment and PAIS has very cosmopolitan group of amazing MA students. Come and join us…
With immense gratitude to @chris-clarke.bsky.social and @benclift.bsky.social for bringing to light this edited volume honouring the work and legacy of Timothy J. Sinclair. The contributions demonstrate that Tim’s research shaped understandings of finance and economic knowledge well beyond CRAs.
🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 8 is out now, with the latest on #climatefinance, agro-pastoral #adaptation, the gap between #mitigation targets and #climatepolicy, the IMF's #climatepolicy approach, & more 💡
📣 Insights from @benclift.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @lukemoffett.bsky.social & more ⬇️
“DONALD IS FINISHED—HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.” FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME—GAVIN C. NEWSOM—HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS “STEP.” MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE “BIG STAIRS” ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE—USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW. SAD!”
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We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
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deadline is approaching - July 31st.
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It’s remarkable how rarely our “public service broadcaster” now asks serious questions about the “small boats crisis” that do not reflect Farageist framing
One is: how can refugees fleeing persecution actually get to the UK safely so that we can uphold our commitments under international law?
Extremely wise words and applicable widely!
Wishing someone in Number 10 put this above their desks
We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps
Great to host this workshop on Epistemic Politics with @benclift.bsky.social at Warwick yesterday
Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them
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This level of ‘analysis’ from the Minister in charge of higher education does not fill me with enormous confidence.
Tools like ChatGPT are known to often provide imprecise, incorrect or even blatantly false information. If you ask those tools to provide sources, they might invent them. There are a lot of ethical challenges with using generative AI tools. Those are related to, for instance, data privacy (how the data were obtained or where the data you are feeding the tools come from and whether you are authorized to share them) and environmental costs (how energy-intensive the use of gen-AI is). I do not believe generative AI will make you a better student or a better professional. Maybe in the short run it will help you conduct some tasks more quickly, which could be useful. As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes use it to rewrite my sentences because the right word doesn’t always come to my mind quickly enough. But my (AI-free) training and career have taught me enough to know whether the sentences proposed have the meaning I want to give them. Doing research is inherently about taking the time to find the right data, sitting with them to come up with an accurate analysis and then taking more time to reflect on it. Research is supposed to be slow. In the long run, using generative AI will disincentivize you to analyze what you read, to write, or to think. Those activities are what you learn in a political science programme. If you are just here to get a degree to get a job, maybe you don’t think you need to acquire those skills (after all, you have generative AI). And at the junior level, maybe you don’t. But at the senior level, you most certainly do. Again, think long-term. Also, if you stop using your brain, well, let’s just say that probably won’t lead to a favourable outcome.
How I'm thinking about gen-AI in a university context. Thoughts?
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?
Incredible
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...
I’m looking forward to presenting my research (co-authored with Sahil Dutta at City University) on the IMF and Climate Finance at Science Po in Paris this Thursday, 12.30-2 CET. Also on Zoom.
thanks to Matthias Thiemann for organising
You can register here:-
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“They are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We can see that happening in real time. This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America that can and will be used in opaque & unaccountable ways—and it is terrifying.”
Must watch interview with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.
They don’t fear questions.
They fear an end to the gravy train.
The only way to stop the rip off is to return water to where it belongs: public essentials run for public benefit.
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The government is legitimising Reform with anti-migrant rhetoric while alienating long-time Labour voters by shifting to the right.
This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.
It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
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Image of the Climate Politics ‘Big Questions’ Conference
PAIS recently hosted a half-day conference for UG and PG students on Big Questions in Climate Politics.
The event, held at the University of Warwick, featured panels on the economy and democracy. PAIS academics took part alongside external speakers working on climate policy.
“Public development of renewable capacity ... isn't a suspension of the profit imperative but its subordination to social need”
@brusselermel.bsky.social @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on the UK’s CfD scheme & derisking energy.
🔗 @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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