Joris Gillet

Some Personal GOATS A List of Six

Cass Sunstein lists his favourite colleagues casssunstein.substack.com/p/some-perso...

Tbh not a big fan of using black boxes to predict stuff than actual experts

AI flood forecasting allows aid to reach farmers before disaster strikes Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

I find the finding out 'whether it’s better to receive assistance even before disaster strikes' more interesting than the 'ai prediction of floods' bit but I guess the AI is better at predicting restofworld.org/2025/google-...

Wish I had more time to read books. This looks fascinating. archive.ph/RWbAp

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

From @privateeyenews.bsky.social

YouTube video by Slaine Macroth Where's me jumper

The Sultans have a long history in the garment industry, their 'big hit' was called Where's Me Jumper... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZ...

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

*jazz hands* Tyler Cowen!

Glasgow student took his own life after 'tragic' university error Ethan Brown, 23, of Coatbridge, was told he didn't have the grades to graduate in December 2024.

I cannot imagine anyone I know in academia letting this happen. It's utterly appalling. Glasgow uni failed to record the grade he had in fact earned, then refused him a degree, then abandoned him to kill himself.

For utter, enduring shame.

Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.

"Those are conditions that can make almost any stock-picking strategy look smart." arstechnica.com/information-...

Testbank (open questions preferably) with answers....

Research in Brief: With a Bonus on the Line, Teams Prioritize Leadership Adapted from our September-October 2025 magazine, this succinct write-up offers insights from a recent study on incentives and group performance. Across 722 escape-room teams in Germany, comprising mo...

"The researchers found that teams who were prompted to select a leader were 38% more likely to finish than those who were not. " hbr.org/2025/09/rese...

How market design can feed the poor America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.

"In the Choice System, food banks receive shares in proportion to their goal factor – Feeding America’s measure of need – but once they have these shares, food banks can spend them however they choose exclusively through twice-daily online auctions." www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

Standard economic thinking would say that private ownership would be the *solution* for something as 'public good'-y as a canal...

This sounds like it could be an interesting historical economic case study, about the river Fleet here in London in the early 1700's "the water soon silted up again and under private ownership the canal fell into disrepair." diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/08/flee...

you didn't take part in the stage invasion??

Just in time for the start of my behavioural economics module this year (this is one of my favourite examples of people not being 'rational' and not calculating/figuring out their 'utility maximizing' commute)

Kent and Greenwich universities to merge in attempt to improve financial viability The institutions want to rebrand as London and South East University group from autumn 2026

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - 2025 Special - BBC Sounds Another one-off return for the multi-award-winning sketch show.

Big fan of John Finnemore. Sadly his radioshow the Souvenir Programme is now just a yearly thing but the 2025 edition opens with a great sketch about research design... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New alliance to boost creative industry in north London Screen London Barnet has launched at Troubadour Brent Cross Studios, uniting education, industry, and government partners to grow film, TV, and…

www.times-series.co.uk/news/2543575...

let's not forget the key fact here which is that British higher education is still the envy of the world, and the brilliant students who flock here are bringing youthful energy and prosperity to cities all over the UK"

The absolute mind-melt it takes to NOT do that is unimaginable.

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

A Happy New Year to everyone who's spent too much of their life working in education

Painting stolen by Nazis and spotted on website disappears again - DutchNews.nl Argentine police officers who raided a house owned by the daughter of Nazi Friedrich Kadgien to recover a stolen painting have had to leave empty-handed. According to the AD, which discovered the pain...

Sadly the painting has 'disappeared' again... www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/pain...

These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy One London uni is accepting 65 per cent more students than it did five years ago

And the winner is …. UCL that increased its u/g offers by 65%. Where are you going to put all these students, UCL?!

Normal @normal_now Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

Marx with a fashionable haircut, shaved at the sides, but still with a huge beard.

Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle.

I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.

I can NOT believe that our new academic year is already starting again this week. 🤯

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.