The latest issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is all about remunicipalisaiton -- in many different counties, including France, the UK, the US, Germany, Bolivia, Spain, etc.... See: academic.oup.com/cjres/issue

Issues | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Oxford Academic

A journal of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The journal publishes multi-disciplinary research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change, and examines the effe...

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Now is the time to assess remunicipalisation (nationalisation at a local level) as local regions/cities take essential services back into public control. Article free to access. academic.oup.com/cjres/articl...

How places are contesting the privatisation of local public services

The provision of essential public services — water, energy, health, housing, education, transport, social care and infrastructure — is a crucial determinan

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What do we look for when we consider proposals for essays at the Journal of Management Studies, and why those criteria matter (a useful reminder as 3/4 of the proposals we receive have nothing to do with the remit of JMS Says!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Essays in Management and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future of a Generative Genre

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Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy? on.ft.com/4hZGrDb

Can Cambridge be a model for kick-starting the British economy?

An ambitious plan aims to double the size of the city and make it a hub for growth and innovation. But will its infrastructure cope?

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Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health The technology promises productivity gains but too much focus on machines could erode socialisation and friendship www.ft.com/content/af77...

Overreliance on AI tools at work risks harming mental health

The technology promises productivity gains but too much focus on machines could erode socialisation and friendship

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This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi

“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

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Hi Cambridge students & colleagues, Are you passionate about inclusion in the workplace? Come join us for the next ThinkLab Ideas Challenge on March 28th! Sign up to be part of a team challenge (with funding available for the winning ideas) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

😒 Massive layoffs at #Meta/ #Facebook targeting so called "low performers" My views in @fortune.com 👉 The term is meaningless and be used on the pretense of objectivity fortune.com/2025/02/13/m...

Meta's 'low performer' layoffs disputed by fired staffers and criticized by experts

Meta says it's most recent round of layoffs was aimed at 'low performers'—not everyone agrees.

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👭 How does remote work affect #gender #discrimination? 🙅‍♀️ A new study published in Organization Science tests the fact that gender differences are less salient in the context of remote work. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America theconversation.com/argentinas-p...

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America

If Argentina repeals its femicide law, it could have a ripple effect across Latin America.

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🤔Looking for concrete and practical mental health skills for the modern workplace? 🙌Stay tuned for "Wellbeing Intelligence: Building Better Mental Health at Work" to be release in July amazon.co.uk/Wellbeing-In...

Honoured to share my predictions for 2025 with @jagolinzer.bsky.social, Lucia Reisch, @thomroulet.bsky.social, @jaideepprabhu.bsky.social and and David Reiner @cambridgejudge.bsky.social in Poets&Quants. Despite writing individuals, there ar shared commone themes. lnkd.in/ezytHqdB

Tomorrow at 12pm! The ThinkLab is teaming up with the Staff Wellbeing Team to host this event on sharing experiences and feedback to create the University Staff Wellbeing Action Plan for fostering a supportive workplace. @thinklab.bsky.social @thomroulet.bsky.social #cambridge #wellbeing

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Hey University of Cambridge Colleagues, Tomorrow we'll be hosting a new event on working together to shape the future of staff wellbeing. Please share with friends and colleagues! 📅 Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 12 pm – 4:15 pm 📍 West Hub 🍽️ Free Lunch! Info and register here: lnkd.in/dChfyQM7

A Social Science of Caregiving This CASBS podcast episode attracted the most unique listeners in 2024. Recorded before a live audience, @mlevi.bsky.social, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a multi-disciplinary reimagining of caregiving 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#soci...

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Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly

Prof Low anticipated home speakers and gender neutral clothing, but missed his mark on herb-based street lighting

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💫 Tomorrow is the start of admissions interviews at the University of Cambridge. Like every year I will be interviewing candidates in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences for King's College, Cambridge 🤔 A thread

Glad to see the research programme on caste inequalities led by Hari Bapuji & Sneha Chrispal - which I have been part of as a co author and host of the first conference on caste inequalities in Cambridge - to be recognised by the Australian Business Deans Council.

Interesting new paper in The Economic Journal. The study relies on machine learning to show that the political leanings of economists influence the language they use, but also the very estimates they produce in a way that aligns the policy being promoted with their partisan opinion.

👹 When does abusive supervision and managers pass as "tough love"? 💔 According to a recent piece in OBHDP by Robert Lount Woohee Choi & B J Tepper it's all about the perceived performance of those supervisors or managers.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Musk said Bezos told people they should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock because Donald Trump would lose. It is a way to give himself an excuse to legitimately try to influence regulation to his advantage, by saying that 'Bezos started it' www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-je...

Jeff Bezos says Elon Musk's claims are '100% not true' after the Tesla CEO reignites their feud

Elon Musk posted a claim on X about Jeff Bezos that he said he learned at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos responded, saying Musk's assertion was "100% not true."

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@tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski talking about 'what works' - evidence based insights into community impact. Self efficacy around writing leads to increased writing output. Even one hour a week of shut up and write has a statistically significant impact on productivity

Fascinating discussion between @tylershores.bsky.social and Colleen Mayowski at the #shitupandwrite symposium. Discussion topic: What works? Evidence-based insights into community impact

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network on.ft.com/4fW12Yj

Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network

Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X

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🍽️ Does hybrid working impact gender balance at home? 📣 Base on UK data, two researchers looked at the impact of hashtag#hybridworking on the split of household chores. They found the following.

This paper demonstrates an important question in replication and investigation--through which process should we select papers for reevaluation? I would love to know if market is biased based on status or demographics, but the scale/cost of that study would be astronomical. @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social.

Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market - Nature Human Behaviour

This study finds that decision markets can be a useful tool for selecting studies for replication. For a sample of 26 online experiments published in PNAS selected by a decision market, the authors fi...

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🌀 Are neurodiverse individuals discriminated in the workplace? 📣 In survey data collected in the UK last month by Zurich Insurance we can observe that:

We also need a starter pack of all the people who spent most of the 1990s eagerly waiting for Mulder & Scully to get together because I am sure we have a lot in common. #xfiles