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

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 7h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 11h

Hummmm.

Reposted by Paul Nightingale, Georg Weizsäcker, Rasmus Helles

gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 13h

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

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Reposted by Paul Nightingale, Johannes Breuer

Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

Very good piece

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity

Funny Karate Bear (But Hungry) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

the thing is Indian Christianity existed before Western Christianity

Funny Karate Bear (But Hungry) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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)

🧵 1/

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 1d

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

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 1d

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

Reposted by Will Jennings, Paul Nightingale

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 1d

📈 #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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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 1d

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

Reposted by Paul Nightingale

A Funny Old Game @sidlambert.bsky.social · 1d

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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The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia

www.independent.co.uk

Reposted by Steven French, Richard Pettigrew, Paul Nightingale

assbutt @nasboat.org · 2d

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

bubs, i’ve only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me. Four tops.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

A few sandwiches short of a picnic

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 2

checking on the Blue Labour tendency in the UK

Pelt shoplifters with fruit in stocks, Labour peer demands
‘Public humiliation’ would act as deterrent against surging crime rates, says Lord Glasman

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

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

Jason Paladino
@jason_paladino
Cole's usernames online were:
- USAForever
-America1
-patriotism4usa
-Brony1Delta
and
-Lam_Hot4_Cock
Kyle Griffin Griffin@@kylegriffin1.6h
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his ...
9:28 AM • Dec 5, 2025 • 692 Views

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

!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.

Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d

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)

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