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by Max Nathan

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Last month’s tube strike did not, in fact, bring London to a grinding halt

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FT graph showing a drop in Oyster check-ins, and a rise in Overground, Crossrail and Lime bike use during last month’s tube strike

by Max Nathan — Reposted by Andrea Morrison

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🚨 📚 Heads up! Applications are open for fully-funded UCL PhD studentships via UBEL.

Please get in touch if you’re working on topics in economic geography, urban policy or urban economics.

Deadline: 10 November!

More info: ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-student...
ESRC Studentships Main Competition - UBEL DTP
ESRC Studentships Main Competition The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend. What’s on offer UBEL DTP studentships co...
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by Ben H. Ansell — Reposted by Max Nathan

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I love how the Isle of Man - and actual Crown dependency a few miles off the coast - is completely ignored, while these guys fixate on petrostates thousands of miles away.
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by Max Nathan

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Host kitchens and zombie brands: top rundown on London’s food delivery scene from @londoncentric.media

www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...
Your upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop
"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”
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by Christina Pagel — Reposted by Max Nathan, Martin McKee, Dorothy Bishop , and 20 more

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Ian Loader, Jack Stilgoe

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By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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by Max Nathan

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See also: the great running joke in This Is London, where Ben Judah asks himself “where are the true Cockneys?” while being repeatedly mistaken for a Romanian / Spanish Bulgarian / Greek person
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by Max Nathan

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"Here’s what is not a measure of whether someone is integrated: the colour of your skin. No one who looks at me and my grandmother, a white South African, in the street, can tell which of us is more integrated (it’s me, for obvious reasons) or frankly even that we are related."

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Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Anna O. Law, Ashish Arora , and 2 more

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by Max Nathan

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“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”, 2025 edition

by Gavin Kelly — Reposted by Max Nathan, Diane Coyle

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Some of the most thoughtful social commentary atm is coming via @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
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by Diane Coyle — Reposted by Max Nathan, Kelly Smith

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Very nice article co-authored by one of my former students, Mihai Codreanu, discovering how much of many documents eg press releases, job postings, have been written using LLMs (10-20% depending on type of document but it might have stabilised in late 2024) www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The widespread adoption of large language model-assisted writing across society
This study explores AI-generated writing adoption across consumer complaints, corporate press releases, job postings, and international organization communications, revealing widespread use following ...
www.cell.com
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by Max Nathan

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Careful, powerful reportage by @manchestermill.bsky.social. Thank you for writing this.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 13d
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Smith, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
manchestermill.co.uk
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Federica Genovese, Christina Pagel

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Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured.

Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.
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by Max Nathan

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d
1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.
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by Max Nathan

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There are eight million stories in the naked city; feels like the @londonermag.bsky.social is telling every one of them, and that’s good

www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-braz...
London’s Brazilian Blood Couriers
'If you’re delivering food, nobody gives a fuck about you. With blood it’s more respect.'
www.the-londoner.co.uk
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Hitting ambitious housebuilding and affordable homes targets will be key to reducing private rents.

Read the latest Housing Outlook here ⤵️ buff.ly/pQXp2Sc
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by Andrea Morrison — Reposted by Max Nathan

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📣 Want to know more about the links between #Migration and #Innovation? 🚀
Check out this new book I co-edited with Francesco Lissoni

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by Max Nathan

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“King of The Wirral”
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by Max Nathan

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From this very interesting FT piece on how Paris is doing social housing atm

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The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris
Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights
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by Max Nathan

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Social housing stocks across the OECD. The UK is doing much better than I expected!
Graph of OECD data showing number of social rental dwellings as a % of total stock (2022 or latest year available, by selected countries). OECD average 7%, UK 16%.
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by Max Nathan

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@londonermag.bsky.social is also very good
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Tim Bale, Calvin Jones , and 1 more

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Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Exclusive: CPRE study suggests housebuilding targets can be met without encroaching on green belt land Almost 1.5m new homes could be built on brownfield sites in England to avoid encroaching on green belt and meet the government target for housing growth by the end of this parliament, new figures suggest. But despite the scale of brownfield land available, developers are pushing to build on green land, including increased housebuilding on and adjacent to areas of outstanding natural beauty. Continue reading...
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Reposted by Max Nathan

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A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Stephen P. Jenkins, Kelly Smith , and 3 more

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1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.
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by Max Nathan

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And this is asking about ILR for new arrivals. Imagine the polling if you asked about taking leave to remain from people *already here*.
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by Max Nathan

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Also: hardly anyone wants this 👇

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 23d
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 7 more

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I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Reposted by Max Nathan, Gillian Douglas, Catriona Seth

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Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...
Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust
A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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