@wfinlay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. // UG Programme Director in Accounting & Finance // 🏳️🌈 // he/him
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91. Known as 'Mamma Erasmus,' she viewed the program, which has sent approximately 16 million students to study abroad through Europe, as her 'personal pacifist mission.'
Bless her - an inspirational lady.
The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An excellent article from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com in the FT.
08.08.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Education can account for about 45% of global economic growth and 60% of pretax income growth among the world’s poorest 20% from 1980 to 2019."
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education https://on.ft.com/44TtcPQ
18.07.2025 04:10 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
Fascinating stuff from @amyborrett.ft.com but also a reminder of a stain on our society - namely that, in 2025, nearly a third of British kids are living in poverty. www.ft.com/content/f0fc...
10.06.2025 05:46 — 👍 124 🔁 50 💬 10 📌 4
Our atrium mural won an industry award from Assoc of Creative & Print Managers in Education 👏🌟Hand drawn it combines Glasgow’s past, present & Smith, father of economics and our most famous #UofG alum. @uofgprint.bsky.social colleagues worked with us to pioneer innovative design and print techniques
04.06.2025 15:26 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Introducing the FT 'macro mood' -- a sentiment index based on @financialtimes.com articles that captures the global economy
on.ft.com/4krM5j0
Cartoon of a person having a light bulb moment. Overlaid text reads: How to be a great thinker
Largely because of the smartphone, we’re in an era of declining attention spans, reading skills, numeracy and verbal reasoning. How do you buck the trend? www.ft.com/content/c42c...
22.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 44 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 3It is interesting to compare this to the 1.4% rise that UCEA have announced in the last two days as the 'full and final' offer for the 2025-26 period.
www.ucea.ac.uk/our-work/col...
Financial grammar tip. If you're dealing with numbers that could be negative don't use a dash as a separator, use a colon.
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Intraday market chart of S&P 500, Nasdaq and DIJA indexes on WSJ.com homepage
Intraday market chart of S&P 500 index on nytimes.com homepage
Today is officially the day where intraday market charts have their time to shine in the media spotlight.
09.04.2025 21:42 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0John Burn-Murdoch is such a great data viz storyteller. The off the scale impact is 👌
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Glasgow University's looking particularly spectacular this evening.
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #glasgowbuildings #architecture #nightphotography #glasgowatnight #glasgowuniversity
The Bute Hall filled with graduates wearing graduation robes.
Our Summer Graduation Ceremony Timetable is online now!
Graduations will take place from 25 June to 11th July.
We can't wait to celebrate with our new #TeamUofG graduates 🎓❤️
Timetable: gla.ac.uk/events/graduations/dates/summertimetable/
This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
Come and join us! We are advertising two lecturer posts in Accounting & Finance at Glasgow:
Accounting (Data Analytics/Acc Information Sys/Tax/Audit): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL858/l...
Lecturer in Finance (Quant Finance/Econometrics/Sustainable or Climate Fin) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL880/l...
University of Glasgow logo in top left corner, Think Pacific sponsor logo, Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong in background with event details overlaid: Summer Abroad Fair; Wednesday, 29 January, Glasgow University Union, 11:00-15:00; Brought to you by Careers, Employability & Opportunity; Get thinking globally. Explore a wide range of international summer opportunities for you. learn more and register at glasgow.ac.uk/summerabroadfair
🌞 Summer 2025 could be the best yet...
Discover international summer opportunities at the brand-new Summer Abroad Fair!
👉 Learn more and book your spot at glasgow.targetconnect.net/leap/event.h....
Many thanks to our Main Sponsor Think Pacific and Key Sponsor The Intern Group. 🙏
Increased reliance on ChatGPT was associated with higher levels of procrastination and memory loss, and a negative impact on academic performance, as reflected in students’ grade point averages.”
www.psypost.org/chatgpt-link...
Bond market liquidity was so 2010s. Nowadays, stock market concentration is the new trendy bugbear of finance.
Understandably so, given that just 26 companies accounting for half the entire S&P 500's value. But are people right to freak out? www.ft.com/content/1211...
An empirical econ paper needs two things: 738 robustness checks concluding we can’t really ever fully be sure of internal validity in the appendix, and one (1) wild back of the envelope calculation indicating that the result is world-changing in the discussion section
26.11.2024 10:23 — 👍 129 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 4Excellent news. I also believe that slope charts are so heavily underused, but they do wonders for communicating change.
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Japanese prime minister’s portfolio outpaces stock benchmark
https://www.ft.com/content/8d93f3a8-1b2b-4d42-b8fe-76e4ffa14c29
Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content.
But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.
sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
