Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him)

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Pourquoi le train est toujours plus cher que l’avion Si voyager sur rails se révèle être structurellement plus cher que par les airs, c’est notamment parce que l’aérien bénéficie d’un coût artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales.

[1/8] Pierre Breteau montre pourquoi le train reste structurellement + cher que l’avion. L’article compare coûts, fiscalité et infrastructures. Il explique que l’aérien bénéficie de prix artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales qui faussent la concurrence. #geography #transport #train

Restructuration / plans sociaux / désinvestissement dans la recherche… pas les meilleures conditions de travail qui soient 😬
Mais tu as raison qu’en comparaison à la misère du monde ou ceux bataillant contre la maladie, ce n’est pas grand chose. Je t’envoie des pensées positives!

On fait le dos rond et on s'accroche dans la tempete que traverse le UK et ses universites en particulier!
Et toi?

Merci!!! Long time no speak btw. J'espere que tu vas bien :-)

Happy to say our paper (w/ Lisa Marzano) evaluating a suicide prevention campaign in Barnet (London) is now published in BMC Public Health and featured on BBC Radio London
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 1h20'

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With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the

4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain.

Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...

Polygenic scores released for four national cohort studies | CLS The research community can now access a range of polygenic scores from more than 30,000 people taking part in four of the UK’s national cohort studies.

🧬Exciting new genetic data release!
Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Condamnation de Sarkozy : l’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice Comme après le procès de Marine Le Pen, des voix s’élèvent à droite pour remettre en question l’application immédiate des sanctions infligées par les tribunaux. Certains politiques se pensent au-dess…

L’exécution provisoire est une réalité quotidienne de la justice. Comme pour Le Pen, des politiques critiquent l’application immédiate des sanctions pour Sarkozy. Ils se pensent au-dessus des règles qui s’appliquent à tous les autres justiciables. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.

👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.

📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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En Cisjordanie, l’émergence d’un Etat palestinien entravée par Israël Avec la poursuite de la colonisation, la captation des terres agricoles et des ressources hydriques, les autorités israéliennes manœuvrent pour anéantir la perspective d’un Etat palestinien. Le mouvem...

Atrocities in Gaza should not make us forget about the dire living conditions in the West Bank confronted to waves of agressive illegal settlements www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.

Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@ec.europa.eu STOP ALL COLLABORATIONS WITH LIBYAN COASTGUARDS!

Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!

📣 We're hiring! 📣

Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?

Find out more about joining our team as a Researcher ⤵️ buff.ly/EmREN1c

« Présenté comme la panacée, le recyclage du plastique est une bombe à retardement » TRIBUNE. Après l’échec des négociations sur un traité international pour lutter contre la pollution plastique, seuls un contrôle strict des importations et une réforme en profondeur des filières de re...

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

Pre-modern universities promoted the spread of ideas.

This is why you should oppose post-modernism at universities btw

Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—

This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.

Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.

For the @thedetectorists.bsky.social's fans out there :-)

This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

🚨 New post-doc opportunity at TCRU!

@susiebowerbrown.bsky.social is recruiting a Quantitative Research Fellow (0.5 FTE, 15 months) for the ESRC-funded Family Beyond the Binary project, exploring non-binary families in the UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Apply by 21 Aug 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@sriucl.bsky.social

#PlasticsTreaty

Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years

NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production

📣 Call for Papers 📣

🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.

🗣️ With Keynotes from ‪‪‬@christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social

⏳ Submit by September 15th

🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org

#EconSky #EconConf #Migration