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Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · 1h ago

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NEW on the Economics Observatory - How has the UK’s trade changed over the past 100 years? by Brian Varian buff.ly/H3mf1Jc

How has the UK’s trade changed over the past 100 years? - Economics Observatory

Debates about globalisation and trade policy have deep historical roots. Patterns in the goods and services bought and sold by the UK have shifted over the past century, alongside the framework that…

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We also realised that we might be one of the few UK academic teams to have used Intel (Dawn), AMD (Vultr, Zenith) and NVIDIA (Isambard) GPUs at this petabyte scale. Our experiences are in this short paper, in the hope we can compare notes. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~avsm2/tesse...

Can university teams train large-scale foundation models? Yes! At @geotessera.org, we've been training state-of-the-art FMs from scratch at Cambridge. This involved vast data shuffling, stuffing every SSD we can find, overloading network links, jury-rigging GPU farms, and using national clusters.

Uncle Si @sociabledog.bsky.social and #Sophiefromromania were out playing in the garden before 7 and then took me for a frisky walk

'Instead of asking business leaders what society needs going forwards, political leaders should be doing a better job of stress-testing their claims and making sure that their businesses and products contribute to society-wide success.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs

Imagine inviting oil companies to design climate policies or car companies to make traffic rules

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Now & then: Amsterdam landmark church & tower Zuiderkerk 1603-1614, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch Mannerist architect, born 1565; worked in England with Inigo Jones; buried at Zuiderkerk 1621. It was later associated with Rembrandt; & painted by Monet in 1874. ALT @philamuseum.bsky.social

A Dog Is Never "Just a Dog": How to Form Deep and Kind Bonds | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

A Dog Is Never "Just a Dog": How to Form Deep and Kind Bonds

In "More Than Just a Dog," Simon Wooler stresses compassion, kindness, and the importance of demystifying the science of dog behavior to understand what they are asking of us.

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Today, @wired.com is launching our latest issue: WIRED Women. This issue started at an office happy hour. What if our publication, which spent years putting powerful men on its covers, made an entire edition about women? We thought, we talked, we laughed. We got mad. And then we went for it...

Guess which friend of #Sophiefromromania has arrived

The college heron is parading up and down again. As for the ducks, very frisky today

📢 We’re hiring We're looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to join a research project exploring the relationship between wellbeing & productivity at work, in a Cambridge University-wide partnership with KPMG. Apply by 8 October 2026: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/57112/

Yes, all of this. I’ve had to reregister every time, it operates differently everywhere, and the system often seems to have glitches/need rebooting. I am now turning down some travel because of the 2+ hours needed each way.

Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · yesterday

Missed this one from last week but my latest for Business Traveller looks at the chaos the EES has caused www.businesstraveller.com/news/opinion...

Heard the ominous sound of a brick falling from the top of our food bin in the middle of the night and woke to find a major fox crime and a prime suspect legging it…

Arthur Schopenhauer, German ‘philosopher of pessimism’, died #OTD 1860, whose work on the Will influenced philosophers, scientists & writers including Nietzsche, Einstein, Schrödinger, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett. Portrait by Ludwig Ruhl, 1815, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee have voted to hold interest rates at 3.75%. Committee member Catherine Mann will join us in Bristol on 17 November to discuss the UK economy, inflation and monetary policy. Book your tickets for free here: economicsfestival.co.uk/event/cather...

Economic uncertainty has defined 2026. In the opening session of this year's Festival of Economics in Bristol, @edconway.bsky.social @richarddavies.bsky.social @helenmiller.bsky.social @ruthcurtice.bsky.social respond to the latest events in an attempt to distil clearer stories from the noise.

My banana bread looks good, doesn’t it #sophiefromromania?

#sophiefromromania is helping cook Big Breakfast

The #strictly pro dancers are all so amazing

The machines are just machines. A hammer cannot commit a crime. I am baffled that we are not arresting the techbros actually responsible. This does not feel like a safe nor sustainable position for any government.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d ago

Anthropic brings in Accenture for AI safety testing ft.trib.al/iOk1jtK

Much for #sophiefromromania to sniff this morning

Vase of flowers, 1700, by Dutch flower artist Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750); admired for botanical detail & realism, a wilted blue iris, drooped tulip & freshly cut stalk missing bloom suggest transience. Daughter of Professor of Botany Frederik Ruysch; pupil of Willem van Aelst. Mauritshuis Den Haag

We are delighted to welcome Prof @mathieupar.bsky.social as Editor of @theeconjournal.bsky.social. Mathieu is Professor of Economics at the @pse.bsky.social & Research Director at @inrae-france.bsky.social, & previously served as an Associate Editor. Read more: https://bit.ly/46msYC0 #EconSky

Michael Kremer, one of the most creative and dedicated economists of our time, has found his next act, at the World Bank. (Sometimes the news is encouraging, even nowadays.) #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/09/mich...

I have a new blog post with Mihai Codreanu and Arthur Turrell about why AI use makes it important to understand what’s happening in households as well as the ‘official’ economy. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/ai-hous...

AI, household time, and productivity - Bennett School of Public Policy

AI is changing how households spend their time, from managing finances and accessing public services to education and menu planning. Diane Coyle, Mihai Codreanu and Arthur Turrell argue that understan...

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I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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🆕 Beyond the market: What AI tells us about productivity in the household @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, Mihai Codreanu & Arthur Turrell explore how AI is changing household activity—& why measuring productivity means looking beyond the market economy to what happens at home. 🔗https://bit.ly/4dDLmKj