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Paul Nightingale
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Professor of Strategy at SPRU.

Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.

Editor Research Policy.

Acting Director HSP.

Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654 .. more

Business 41%
Economics 31%
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I'm trying.... but *hushed tones* I'm not clever enough.

Becoming a professor is a bit like this, except you don't get to keep your title in the Olympics until you retire. The younger generation are just much better.

youtu.be/btHeD_uVLLI?...

💯% agree. And it turns academia into a zero sum game. Which will drive more zero sum research

This is an important issue.

My bugbear - the quality of training and methodological rigor has advanced so much in the last 20 years that old buffers like me can't keep up. My generation and especially the generation above are clogging up the system.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Should professors be forced to retire?
Some universities are implementing a mandatory retirement age for academics. Will it help young researchers to get permanent positions?
www.nature.com

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Today on Volts: you've probably heard that rooftop solar is 3X the price in the US that it is in Australia, because of "soft costs." How can we fix that? Today I get into the details of permitting & interconnection with two experts who have devoted their careers to bringing those soft costs down.
How to make rooftop solar power as cheap in the US as it is in Australia
Nick Josefowitz and Andrew Birch join me to explain how slashing red tape can bring Australian solar prices to the US.
www.volts.wtf

Lots of journals are close to collapse and making it easier to generate AI slop will just make it worse.
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.

prism.openai.com
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.

prism.openai.com
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If this continues, they may end up being a secular traditional European Christian Democrat party....

the ones that historically win lots and lots of elections when they occupy the centre right ground.
We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.

We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.

In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.

link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
Suella Braverman becomes latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK ft.trib.al/3J7EaHl
Suella Braverman becomes latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK
Former Conservative home secretary announced move at rally for military veterans
ft.trib.al

I think they are pretty good at some of them. Good enough to mess up the old model. But I'd be very unhappy paying for an AI legal opinion

Schon is wonderful. The design theory people get it and that is probably why they are ahead in changing how the teach in response to AI.

And why their discussion isn't full of hype and PR fluff.

This is good on the impact of AI on 'practice' based on-the-job learning, which notes the value of the UK training policy.

Part of the AI policy problem is most academics don't have a clue about in-work-learning, what it is, and why it's so important. And why education needs to change.
Good policy direction from Brookings on how to deal with entry level job disruption that may come from AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/to-...
To save entry-level jobs from AI, look to the medical residency model | Brookings
www.brookings.edu

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Good policy direction from Brookings on how to deal with entry level job disruption that may come from AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/to-...
To save entry-level jobs from AI, look to the medical residency model | Brookings
www.brookings.edu

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Zack Polanski the Greens are sharing misinformatioin about the Gorton and Denton by-election, and ought to be ashamed of themselves.

The chart he has shared on Threads suggests only thee Greens can beat Reform. But it's using vote change data.

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Selection over incentives every time. Exactly the same problem in academia creates magical thinking about implementation of top down policy being trivial...

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“The economic cost of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan—estimated to reach $10 trillion—would fall heavily on the developing world,” write CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies experts Henrietta Leven and Hugh Grant-Chapman.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/und...

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🚀 New IJIO special issue on Industrial Policy and IO now live!

Fantastic collection of papers on how industrial policy shapes firm behavior, market structure, innovation, and productivity.

Pushing the debate beyond slogans toward credible evidence.

👉 shorturl.at/B3Ygs

#IndustrialPolicy #IO
International Journal of Industrial Organization | Industrial Policy and Industrial Organization | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Industrial policies—which we define as government interventions in specific industries that can have various objectives, e.g., stimulating technological innovation or promoting competitiveness—have al...
www.sciencedirect.com

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Excellent discussion here on current workd situation...https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/trump-relations-uk-eu
What does Trump mean for relations between the UK and Europe, and the rest of the world? | Institute for Government
Sir Simon Fraser, Fiona Hill and Anand Menon join us to discuss the impact of Trump's presidency on the UK and Europe
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
CMU's Philosophy department is doing a search for a new department head. If you are interested, definitely apply. ALSO, if you know anyone that we should consider, please let me know. I'm happy to reach out to anyone who might be interested. (Please repost for reach!)

www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
Applications Open for Philosophy Department Head Position - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon’s Philosophy Department seeks a Department Head to provide academic leadership and shape the department’s strategic vision.
www.cmu.edu
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com

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The inability of the British establishment, and consequently the UK public, to recognise what is happening is shocking.

Just a huge failure of leadership.
So many British people are clearly unaware of the downside risks and consequences of the Greenland crisis, including, many people whose job it is to inform the country about it:
Britain is underprepared for this crisis
Keir Starmer needs to make clear the stakes over Greenland
www.ft.com
So many British people are clearly unaware of the downside risks and consequences of the Greenland crisis, including, many people whose job it is to inform the country about it:
Britain is underprepared for this crisis
Keir Starmer needs to make clear the stakes over Greenland
www.ft.com

My view 👇
If you support Greenlanders' right to self-determination but not Chagossians' right to self-determination your moral compass may just be a tad broken.

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If you support Greenlanders' right to self-determination but not Chagossians' right to self-determination your moral compass may just be a tad broken.

Who can I follow for insight on US politics?