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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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Hummmm.

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.
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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

Very good piece

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....
the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity
Local North American Christians surprised to learn of missionary work’s effects on faraway countries for first time

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the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity
Local North American Christians surprised to learn of missionary work’s effects on faraway countries for first time
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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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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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.
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

A call for innovation from UK universities... highlighting how staid lots are compared to the best of the US....
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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📈 #IFSSatStat: The number of children in the UK is expected to decline by about 7% or 800,000 between 2025 and 2035.

These declines are expected to be fastest in Scotland (8%), Wales (10%) and Northern Ireland (15%).

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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
buff.ly

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It’s 33 years to the day since one of the great goals of the 90s.

Paul Gascoigne vs the entire Pescara defence.

A genius at work.

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Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia
Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia
Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia
www.independent.co.uk
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

A few sandwiches short of a picnic

Yep. Nothing to see here. Not in any way entirely deranged... nope it's an fine. No need to reform the House of Lords.... all good.
checking on the Blue Labour tendency in the UK

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oh god, the Jan 6th pipe bomb guy was a Brony

The peer reviewed journals i read are full of really high quality excellent research. So it's a horror show to read the predatory journals.

It's a journal that requires you to pay to publish in it. And will accept any old rubbish without proper quality control. It's just a money making operation that poisons the commons.

11 last point. There will be people in Washington betting Europe will respond to critics saying its politically unable to make effective decisions by illustrating that very point very effectively. Many will take no pleasure in that.

!0. Overall a mix of realism, Old School Conservative concerns about the impact of the global trade regime, and National Conservatism (the non-techno utopian bit).

The Europe stuff shouldn't be a shock given the Munich speech and the long history of complaints.

8. Treating us (do I count as an honorary European?) as less important than Asia is just being realistic given European relative economic growth and technology status. Obama made this clear.

9. Biotechnology, AI and quantum get a shout out but not much detail (legacy Round Robin strategy making)

7. I'm not clear how easy disengagement will be. How would the US project power without bases in Germany? It could but surely less easily???

The shift in focus from Europe to Asia isn't new. So again I'm surprised by the surprise. It's a simple economic reality. Why is the US treating us ...

6. Europe gets the full NC treatment. It's reiterating think tank talking points that have been common place for years. I'm not sure why people are so surprised.

Ireland and Britain get a shout out - the day after Russia tried to bring down a plane in Irish airspace... hummmm.

3. This is the patriotic Conservatism of deindustrialised towns and regions. The reason they think outsourcing lots of manufacturing to China hasn't helped everyone is because it hasn't and they can see it clearly around them.

4. Russia is much less prominent... no idea why.

5. China is China.

2. Turn away from Europe isn't new. Continuity Obama. Though the language and analysis are new. National Conservatism clearly coming through.

There is also an old school Republican view in their reflecting a v common belief that globalisation and trade hasn't benefited everyone.

The language is more business school like. And the document doesn't have a "send it around to everyone to add their bit" feel. It's more Rumelt etc than before.

But there isn't the next bit of "these are the small number of things that will deliver or aims and here is how they work together"...

My (very non expert) take on National Security Strategy 2025

1. The preamble about strategy and what a strategy is, looks new. Content is very similar to normal Washington critiques of excessive involvement, realism about national interests etc. But the language is kinda different. ...