Paul Nightingale

@paulnightingale.bsky.social

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Professor of Strategy at SPRU.

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

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Acting Director HSP.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · Jan 7

Reposted by Dan Goldhaber, Caroline Krafft, Paul Nightingale

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 7h

I've now updated this with a few updates:

1. I've added the JFE, JF, and RFS
2. I've added QJE and (most of) JPE
3. I've fixed some bugs
4. I added a way to adjust for length of papers over time
5. I've added citation counts (per OpenAlex)

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 14h

The case in the post is about sociology from Turner (who is extremely clever), but it's just one case.

My anecdote (artisan crafted data point) would be an engineering department I interacted with (quickly ran from). It was like a Maoist personality cult. Safeguarding alarms going off everywhere!

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not sure sociology is any worse than other disciplines. There is rubbish but also fantastic work. But it's the same in every other area.

One reason sociology and social science more generally get a bad rap is because, as the Rothschild report 1983 noted, it looks at things we all have ...1/2

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 1d

This guy hates sociology.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/06/t...

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Paul Nightingale, Stuart McIntyre , and 2 more Diane Coyle, Paul Nightingale, Stuart McIntyre, Colin Talbot, Markus W. Gehring

Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 15h

We're recruiting for a Research Assistant

We're looking for someone interested in one or more of the following - institutions; governance; devolution; place-based policy; and public administration.

📆 Apply by 5 January 2026

🔗https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistant-fixed-term-jb48083

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 17h

If it turns out British MEPs took Russian bribes (right now it is just an allegation) and they are found guilty it needs to be called out for what it is - treason. And they need to be sent to prison for decades.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 18h

Yep.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 18h

Sociology researches things we all have experience of (society) so if we agree with it, it's "bleeding obvious" and if we disagree it's just nonsense. We don't have that with other disciplines. I think Rothschild was right - he was defending social science against an ideological attack.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 1d

This guy hates sociology.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/06/t...

This guy hates sociology. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 18h

You will take my Christmas kumquat latte and £8 cinnamon cake out of my cold dead hand....

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 19h

👀!!

Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 19h

The book is now online!

While logged in at your university, if you go here and click on "Download book PDF", you can freely download the book PDF:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 19h

The book is now online!

While logged in at your university, if you go here and click on "Download book PDF", you can freely download the book PDF:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

How to download a copy of the book as PDF: go to the URL and click on "Download book PDF"

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t agree with everything here, but this is a valid question: “How is it that 450 million Europeans need 350 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians?”

open.substack.com/pub/chinaart...

A New National Security Strategy

More continuity than the Administration, or its critics, would have you believe

open.substack.com

Reposted by Colin F. Camerer, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel S. Goldberg , and 8 more Colin F. Camerer, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel S. Goldberg, Carlos Nunes Silva, Stephen D. Murphy, Gerald Friedman, Michael H. Whitworth, Paul Nightingale, Ann Bartow, Evan Roberts, Anne Hilborn

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 22h

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications

The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...

www.nature.com

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d

Little bit of personal glee on this one. I got a pile on for highlighting some problems
... and... here.... we... go.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’

Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence

www.theguardian.com

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d

VP fully signed up to STS-SSK interest theory of science here. I hope a UK sociology department gets a good REF impact case study out of this. #impact

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 1d

As the Salisbury inquiry issues its final report, I reflect on how Sergei Skripal dreams of sanctuary in this country were shattered (£) t.co/CK1scYjwzT

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/sergei-skripal-novichok-poisoning-inquiry-7kk9hzrb7

t.co

Reposted by Steve Peers, Marc Goergen, Leigh Sparks , and 2 more Steve Peers, Marc Goergen, Leigh Sparks, Mark Priestley, Paul Nightingale

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Paul Nightingale

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d

Hummmm.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Paul Nightingale, Georg Weizsäcker , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Paul Nightingale, Georg Weizsäcker, Rasmus Helles, Juan Ramón

gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 1d

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 1d

This guy hates sociology.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/06/t...

This guy hates sociology. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d

China ‘systematically’ using UK research to gain a military edge share.google/HQL1ptvuZEOM...

China ‘systematically’ using UK research to gain a military edge

Report reveals that 8,000 scientific papers — involving 5,000 academics — have been produced in partnerships linked to the People’s Liberation Army

share.google

Reposted by Paul Nightingale, Johannes Breuer

Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating data set with full Q&A transcripts on “how 1,250 professionals integrate AI into their work and how they feel about its role in their future.”
Interviews were done by Anthropic Interviewer, a #GenAI tool for conducting research interviews at scale:

Anthropic/AnthropicInterviewer · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 1d

How will AI change the world of manufacturing? Will the future consist of AGI powered humanoid robots building factories to make more robots, as Sam Altman seems to think? Or will AI be driving process & system optimisation in increasingly automated factories? A blogpost:
softmachines.org?p=3203

AI and the manufacturing firm of the future – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

softmachines.org

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

Very good piece

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

I have an Indian Christian friend in London who says "we were Christians when you lot were eating each other"...

I'm not sure about his history. But the point is clear....

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity

Funny Karate Bear (But Hungry) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 2d

Local North American Christians surprised to learn of missionary work’s effects on faraway countries for first time

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity

Funny Karate Bear (But Hungry) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 2d

Local North American Christians surprised to learn of missionary work’s effects on faraway countries for first time

Reposted by Mark Rubin, Paul Nightingale, José Pina-Sánchez

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 2d

I've been exposed to enough peer review that I think we can look at two classes of reviewers:

1. Constructive peer review
2. Adversarial peer review

I'm looking at this mostly from a psychology/methodology perspective (but wonder what other fields experience)

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Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Catherine Baker, Margot C. Finn , and 1 more Dave O’Brien, Catherine Baker, Margot C. Finn, Paul Nightingale

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 2d

This week on Wonkhe: Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education

Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?

Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

This is really good. Perfect balance of good history and funny banter.

I listened to it in the pub waiting for some friends who were late, with a pint of Guinness and a packet of crisps, and was grumpy when they turned up before it finished.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 5d

In today's episode of Origin Story, @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social explain the New Left, the messy constellation of ideas & movements that came out of the discrediting of Soviet communism 70 years ago & made the left what it is today 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#leftism #politics

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

A call for innovation from UK universities... highlighting how staid lots are compared to the best of the US....

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 2d

This week on Wonkhe: Rod Bristow draws on US examples to show why the UK needs to embrace a lifelong learning revolution

Only innovation can return higher education to growth

Rod Bristow draws on US examples to show why the UK needs to embrace a lifelong learning revolution

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