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Vice-chancellors are addicted to year-on-year cycles of redundancies. But you cannot cut your way to growth. Universities must listen to UCU, invest in staff & build student provision. If they refuse, they pave the way for significant industrial unrest. ft.com/content/77f7f2…

I was here ☕️

Reannouncing this having got our New Investigator Petr's affilliation wrong in the first post! 😵‍💫 @EHBEA2025 #EHBEA2025

After LONG deliberation, reflecting the number and extremely high quality of the applications we received, we decided that EHBEA's 2026 New Investigator Award should go to Petr Tureček 🥂🥳Congratulations to Petr!

A lovely thing about being on the EHBEA committee is reviewing the fantastic applications we get for our awards 😊 Lynda Boothroyd is an incredibly worthy winner of our Services to the Community award, celebrating contributions made to the community over & above research 🎉🎉

I dug up a great Venn diagram by @tomgauld.

How consistent are UK university rankings of subjects and their shifts? An exploration using a robust ranking aggregation method osf.io/fdkj5/

Decision on your manuscript:

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-a…

When you accidentally downloaded the appendix of an econ working paper:

I continue to think this is one of the most important cartoons of recent years. @marketoonist

Only 2 weeks left to apply for this funded PhD position!

Another case where the short-term program effects are null, but long-term effects are substantial. Kind of a problem since so much econ research is based on very high quality evaluations of short-term program effects. academic.oup.com/qje/article/13…

If you want to understand how profound the changes in the 20th century were, look at the life of Jimmy Carter. He grew up plowing fields barefoot behind a horse and didn't have running water or electricity until he was 11.

Joey uit Duindorp heeft voor oud & nieuw z’n handen weten te leggen op HIMARS-raketsysteem speld.nl/2022/12/30/joe…