Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk

This resonates with my thoughts about systematic and non-systematic knowledge systems: Physics is systematic: everyone is taught the same thing, physicists rarely disagree over fundamental facts, knowledge is disseminated through calm explanation, translation into policy is straightforward

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 4w ago

There’s a second part to this I guess, which is that our filtering approach to knowledge relies on the premise that someone (often a colleague) has done the detailed work in the background, and we are filtering out key lessons that are well evidenced

Isn't he just repeating this (from 12 years ago) Prof Piketty’s r>g equation causes waves - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Prof Piketty’s r>g equation causes waves

Returns on capital rising faster than the economy is a big deal

giftarticle.ft.com

Gary Stephenson is a fine advocate for a wealth tax purely by dint of being a literal demonstration that just because you made a lot of money, it doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. It's actually brilliant and hard hitting performance art.

using these graphs to try to *debunk* the degrowth claim that the relationship between GDP/capita and poverty reduction flattens out above $20k is... a choice

I actually think he should keep reeves. I think she's more aligned with his agenda than most realise. She hasn't been the problem (despite polling). And it would signal a seriousness that would provide more leniency in other areas

Its 2035, and Morgan McSweeney is a regular pundit on BBC news, writes a substack, hosts a popular podcast, has a number of well remunerated advisory positions and guest columnist roles in the FT, and is widely described as having a brilliant strategic mind. Because this. is. how. it works.

Congratulations genAI enthusiasts, you've exaggerated the benefits so obnoxiously you've managed to radicalise half the world into this incredibly hardline luddite position

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 2mo ago

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

ChatGPT absolutely nailing the maths today:

My contribution to the food discourse is below - Having briefly lived there, I'd say the US also falls into the diversified category, the main difference from UK food is the more heavily corporate food system with higher consumption of both fast food and highly processed food.

Adam Brown@adamlbrown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some countries have specialised cuisine, and are better to visit, some countries have diversified cuisine, and are better to live. Most of Europe is category 1, UK is category 2. I'm sure I will get shouted at for this.

Innocently asking, does anyone on bluesky enjoy incredibly extensive cricket-based analogies for bond valuations? www.natwest.com/premier-bank...

Pavilions to portfolios: lessons for bond investors | NatWest Premier | Insights

In the latest monthly letter from Coutts Chief Investment Officer, Fahad Kamal examines the factors shaping bond markets and highlights our latest investment views and positioning.

natwest.com

New report out today that I worked on with Adam on a vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region for the Supercluster Board. We explore the role of clusters, and strategies to optimize knowledge flows and innovation from gpts to specific industrial applications. Check it out!

Adam Brown@adamlbrown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the science superpower conference today. Rachel reeves speaking this afternoon. Earlier today, our new vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region was released. You can read it here: 16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c872_d...

Excerpt from the chancellor's speech this afternoon. if you want to read the vision and rationale for the ambition she is referring to, see below

Adam Brown@adamlbrown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the science superpower conference today. Rachel reeves speaking this afternoon. Earlier today, our new vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region was released. You can read it here: 16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c872_d...

At the science superpower conference today. Rachel reeves speaking this afternoon. Earlier today, our new vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region was released. You can read it here: 16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c872_d...

UK Government Backs £7.3bn Universal United Kingdom Resort to Anchor Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor: www.themepark.network/news/uk-gove...

UK Government Backs £7.3bn Universal United Kingdom Resort to Anchor Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor

Comcast NBCUniversal and the UK government have formalised a historic £7.3 billion ($9.8 billion) development agreement.

themepark.network

Deal signed for new community of 10,000-plus homes and 9,000 jobs at #Cambridge East www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/the-hil...

Deal signed for new community of 10,000-plus homes and 9,000 jobs at Cambridge East

The transformational acquisition of the Cambridge East strategic site will deliver one of the UK’s largest urban extension projects.

cambridgeindependent.co.uk

Plan to triple publications and patents from OxCam corridor. Ambition outlined for Oxford to Cambridge region to break into top 10 global innovation clusters. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

At the science superpower conference today. Rachel reeves speaking this afternoon. Earlier today, our new vision for the Oxford to Cambridge region was released. You can read it here: 16132662-4776-43f6-9435-f34efd9db16a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c872_d...

Is Tony Blair selling Crypto yet?

Ultimately you can't get a growth burst without rejoining the CU/SM/EU, which you can't get without sorting out our informational environment, which you can't achieve without taking a hard line on regulating US tech platforms. I wish people would wake up to this basic reality.

In March I told a Swiss investment banker or that European automakers will all either be partnered with Chinese groups for tech transfer, or dead ducks, within five years. He thought he was being optimistic by arguing but really he simply lacked insight into the nature of change.

Testing how good Claude is getting at Industrial Strategy. I asked it to do this: what do you think it said?

"Taking macroeconomic advice from bond market traders is like taking advice on how to deal with pandemics from undertakers."... Great quote from @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #economics #endausterity

Less of a logical non sequitur as a complete logical inversion in the space of 2 paragraphs. "The problem is that the state has not been active enough therefore we need to be even less active" errr

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Seems like a timely moment to repeat this short thread - As today has shown, reform are very clearly a direct threat to Labour, but the way to beat them is not to copy them, but to draw attention to, and attack their actual policies, over and over and over.

Adam Brown@adamlbrown.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I think the takeaway message here is that reform voters, particularly the working class ones, are far, far more economically left wing than actual reform party position and there's a very obvious strategy for progressive parties to make them aware of this

This is one of those where its genuinely crazy to actively believe it was a false flag based on current evidence, but equally, would anyone really be that surprised if in a decade's time, it turns out that's exactly what happened? Stuff like this turns out to be true surprisingly frequently.

Wayne Exclaims@waynesbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

Just institutionalise it - if we'd have just institutionalised the entire internet 30 years ago like the wisest amongst us advocated, none of this other shit would have happened

This is just called adulthood - there is absolutely no need to impose gender stereotypes on this at all. Are we really saying women *don't* do all this?

Apologies to Nesta, who are a good outfit, but this genuinely reads like a rambling reddit post from a 14 year old who has just read Ayn Rand for the first time and decided they're a libertarian. Its so wilfully naïve I genuinely loled a few times

Nesta@nestauk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have a new home for ideas and radical thinking on policy challenges - Options for the UK. The latest essay, from @timleunig.bsky.social, tackles the housing crisis and proposes bricks and mortar solutions to help the UK government meet its housing target. https://bit.ly/4bJWJP7

Claude relying on some... unorthodox sources here when I asked it to tell me current employment levels in CPCA districts