Peter Thirup Bæck

Goodbye twitter. It was good while it lasted! I will be on peterbaeck.bsky.social and Linkedin linkedin.com/in/peter-thiru… for anyone who would like to stay in touch.

Survey experiment shows correcting both over- and under-estimates of policy issues can reduce polarization. An underrated potential for #AI in democracy: helping scale accurate information delivery to inform policy debates buff.ly/3YKFuZ1

In August KPMG won a £223m UK government contract to train civil servants: not the right way to 'fix the foundations' in my view. Here I suggest an alternative.

The office is dead they said. The genie is out of the bottle they said. Fully remote working is the future they said. And yet people have returned. Here’s what @centreforcities’ survey of London, along with New York, Paris, Singapore, Sydney and Toronto found 👇

46 million vaccinated adults. No increased risk of heart attacks or clots for mRNA vaccines. The “died suddenly” folks and other vaccine fear-mongers owe a lot of people a fulsome apology… nature.com/articles/s4146…

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switze…

Excited to publish @Demos Citizens' White Paper today, with @involveUK. It sets out why, when and how the govt should embed public participation in national policy making if it wants to win back trust and make policies that work for people. demos.co.uk/research/citiz… 🧵👇

One day we will all celebrate the climate activists with as much reverence as we do Nelson Mandela and Emmeline Pankhurst. And those who lock them up and enabled their imprisonment will be vilified. Let those days arrive soon.

How can public sector organisations benefit from using citizen science data to address policy priorities? Check out @nesta_uk's workshop on 2 July to learn more! Visit: #what-citizen-science-data-can-do-for-you" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">londondataweek.org/events/#what-c… @LOTI_LDN @turinginst #LondonDataWeek

See Aleksandra of @nesta_uk in 'How developments in technology and civic participation will impact the future of citizen science' at TICTeC, the Impacts of Civic Technology conference: tictec.mysociety.org/event/tictec-2…

One of the most ominous risks for Europe is that of a major change in Atlantic ocean currents. Recent science suggests it has been greatly underestimated in the past -including by me, having worked on it for over 30 years. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius a week ago!

It’s depressing how little child poverty is being spoken about in this election In parts of Merseyside, more than two in three kids are living in poverty Full story from me and @AnnieGouk liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

So glad to have Aleks speaking at ai4ci.ac.uk/ccs24-satellit… She & @PeterBaeck were instrumental in shaping the @ai4cihub via their report: The Future of Minds + Machines: How AI Can Enhance Collective Intelligence nesta.org.uk/report/future-… Pls submit an abstract + attend if you can!

Ok this clip about navigating the American Healthcare System from the recent South Park ozempic special (which was brilliant) needs to be the opening of every healthcare conference panel

Today I had the privilege to present our plan @iswe_org to launch a #GlobalCitizensAssembly at the #SummitOfTheFuture in front of civil society colleagues @democracywb @CIVICUSalliance @PlataformaCIPO @jo_leinen and @GermanAmbUN_NY at the UN Civil Society Conference

🔎Today we're launching WhoFundsThem, a new project to uncover outside interests in Parliament. You can be part of it - find out how: whofundsthem.com

1pm BBC news still reporting “evidence that London closer than expected” despite literally zero evidence - now or at any point over past 24hrs

Join us on Thu 9 May, for our interactive workshop ‘How can we harness community crisis intelligence for better prevention and response?’ with @nesta_uk 📅 Save the date: 9 May 2024 🕒 Time: 14:00-15:30 UTC+2 📍Salle 16, CICG, Geneva Register: brnw.ch/21wJrdo #HNPW24

Fascinating new @TheIFS paper finds that the closure of 70% of police stations in London was not cost effective and led to higher crime levels, with particularly negative impacts on the poor ifs.org.uk/sites/default/…

Video thread Meet the Six Horsemen of the Digital Apocalypse. Horseman 1: The quality of information in democracy is collapsing.