Diane Coyle

We're looking for two Research Assistants/Associates (RA) to join our team:
- RA in the AI & Geopolitics Project – directed by @verityharding.bsky.social
- RA to support policy response & knowledge transfer activities - led by @ojgarling.bsky.social
Apply: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

🆕Welcome to our fifth series of Crossing Channels podcasts — giving interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions

🎙️First up: Are universities ready for the age of AI?

Richard Westcott talks to @jonathancgrant.bsky.social François Bonnefon & François Poinas.

🎧Listen: pod.fo/e/337864

#sophiefromromania returned from her walk invigorated by hunting through the leaves and especially by her furious bark off with the two golden retrievers behind their front gate. The owner and I apologised to each other profusely but it wasn’t our fault!

Speedy #sophiefromromania had fun with Juno and some other dogs today

Fun with Juno and Nuna for #sophiefromromania

Alumnus Michael Korn has launched BLUE GARAGE an "Applied Commercialisation Lab”, part lab, part community, part launchpad, designed to help early-stage companies move from working prototypes to scalable, investable products.
@ifmcambridge.bsky.social
www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnus...

It’s a short book. I like its forensic focus on the role of information flows in shaping organisations

“Authority is viable to the extent that it is the focus of convergent expectations…. [This source] implies its fragility.”

We're looking for outstanding applicants to join the IFS for our 2026 intake of Research Economists.

➡️ Find out more and apply here by 11pm, Sunday 26 October: app.beapplied.com/apply/tgjfew...

➡️ Those on the PhD job market can apply here: econjobmarket.org/organization...

I’ll report back later

Certainly not!

1st page of the book

I started reading Arrow’s “The Limits of Organization’ for the first time in many years:

Making do without public data Plus why this shutdown is different

Making do without public data on.ft.com/46DEYjp | opinion

#TeachEcon

Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story ‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’

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

manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...

When a nearly 30-year old textbook is still the best on the digital economy www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...

First park walk for a while with the prof and #sophiefromromania who’s still spooked by the churchyard but was otherwise calm so we all deserved a #bigbreakfast

Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need... The spirit of public improvement that led to the legislation that created free public libraries 175 years go needs to be rekindled

‘175 years ago this year, Queen Victoria gave her assent to “an Act for enabling town councils to establish public libraries & museums”, that enabled local authorities… to levy a ha’penny on the rates to establish a free public library.’ @richove.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

#Czechia re-elects #Babiš. The map tells the tale: #Prague holds out, towns & rural areas—where status, jobs & faith have faded—swing.
Brussels should invest in the places time forgot or brace for irrelevance.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rescue Dog Spent Months Hiding Behind Sofa and Refusing Walks. Now She's Helping Her Owner with His Parkinson's (Exclusive) Author Rory Cellan-Jones speaks exclusively to PEOPLE about his shy rescue dog Sophie, how she has helped him with his Parkinson's diagnosis and his book 'Sophie From Romania.'

Oh, @rorycj.bsky.social forgot to mention he’d been interviewed by *People magazine *!! people.com/rescue-dog-s...

#sophiefromromania agreed with Motsi #strictly

The bookshelves at Indigo bookstore at Bay and Bloor in Toronto last week. Bark! The Science of Helping Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Dog by Zazie Todd has a bright blue cover and a slightly worried Chihuahua. Also shown is More Than Just a Dog by Si Wooler which is a paler blue with a slightly worried looking black Lab.

Bark! spotted in the wild again, this time by me! At Indigo at Bay & Bloor in Toronto last week. Once again, in good company with More Than Just a Dog by @sociabledog.bsky.social

Reading Room | Bishopsgate Institute The Reading Room is separate to the Researchers’ Service, so if you’d like to look at our special collections and archives, you’ll need this instead https:

Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀

Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.

👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/

For econ JM candidates:

@princetondevo.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year postdoc with a start date in summer 2026. The only responsibility is to be an active participant in our Princeton development econ seminars and to continue pursuing your great independent research.

Apply by Nov 24.

I Like to Boogie The freedom of anonymity Since my Parkinson’s diagnosis, dancing really seemed a thing of the past. The thought of parading my dyskinetic and statuesque dance moves in public was confidence-s…

My husband posted this blog yesterday about dancing with PD!
ballstoparkinsons.co.uk/2025/10/02/i...

Is there a text on the basics of digital economics better than Shapiro & Varian's 1999 (!) Information Rules? I just re-read it and it stands up pretty well. But that's a long time ago.

Sophie dog looking over her shoulder in the hallway

#sophiefromromania forgot to say good morning- our walk was so uneventful

Actually yes you’re right - the distribution but not just variance. Thankyou.

I read it as essentially using the variance.

but also blands out variation in human text