Ben Baumberg Geiger

Absolutely! My most cited paper (obviously nothing compared to Card..) had a null result.

I agree - instead of seeing this a anti-quant, better for quantitative researchers to be in conversation with those with lived experience to figure out what they should be measuring (like we're doing in @welfare-experience.bsky.social !)

Really like this way of doing system maps with experts by experience, and comparing them to system maps generated by experts & policymakers - a really persuasive way of showing what's missed from research/policy ways of thinking

We asked claimants what was the biggest problem with UC, and one issue came up more than any other ⤵️

Panel 1: A tech bro strides across a stage. The word “PeoplBOTS” is in huge letters behind him. He says: “Our journey began with a simple question:” Panel 2 “Can we create a robot that is enormously powerful, but also completely safe?” Panel 3 “The answer to that question was 'No'.” A huge red armoured metal robot trundles across the stage belching smoke. It has a flamethrower for one arm and large shears for the other. Its eyes glow meanly red. Tech bro announces “So I give you: Dangerbot900!!”

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

The Equality Act should protect disabled people at work

But @citizensadvice.bsky.social supported 5,393 people with health-related job discrimination in 2025 - roughly one every 1.5 hours

Mine and @victoria-anns.bsky.social's new report digs into the barriers our disabled clients face at work /1

🎉I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book! 🎉

“𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧-𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦”

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This book is the final milestone from my PhD and I hope is useful to scholarly debate.

The Inconceivability of the CLPM and RI-CLPM Written by Brent Roberts and not ChatGTP. Really* The existence of an observational scientist can be a frustrating affair. Relegated to second class citizen status due to interest in phenomena that…

A bit of a Festivus inspired post about CLPMs and RI-CLPMs: floggingpvalues.blog/2026/01/20/t...

Please do forward on @louisemurphy.bsky.social sky.social @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social y.social @eduinlatimer.bsky.social @beccastacey.bsky.social @pollardtom.bsky.social - and many thanks!

Please do forward on @kingscsmh.bsky.social l @annieirvine.bsky.social @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @heejungchung.bsky.social @jedmeers.bsky.social @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social tes.bsky.social - and many thanks!

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Work, Welfare & Mental Health at King's College London Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Work, Welfare & Mental Health role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Job opportunity - we need a fab new colleague to do quant research on work, welfare and mental health within
@kingscsmh.bsky.social (closes 8 Feb)

This is funded until Apr/28, but we'll support you in bids to extend it - please do circulate to suitable ppl!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD294/p...

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...where Harry Collins et al say that ""the views STS was espousing were consistent with post-truth irrespective of their authors’ intentions or their causal impact" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

Latour is a good shout. There's also an editorial in Social Studies of Science that led to a debate there (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1....

Huh. Turns out officials thought they were dealing with a tolerable risk of harm.

I really hoped that wasn't the explanation

There's a key element about the cost of living crisis that a lot of people are missing, according to @luketryl.bsky.social from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social.

He explains the pernicious impact when everyone feels like they're going backwards 👇

Yesterday, over 60 of us fr @changingrealities.bsky.social came together in @10dowingstreet.bsky.social for a reception at which the PM & @darrenpjones.bsky.social thanked us for our efforts to push for action on child poverty. Together, we can make change happen. But this is just the beginning.

Precise null results of inequality exposure on educational choices.

I actually was writing almost this exact paper at some point during my PhD but got talked out of it.

Well, I’m glad someone did.

@profbambra.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @vkatikireddi.bsky.social @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social

Lecturer in Health Economics | King's College London

Great permanent job opportunity for interesting health economists in my department at King's College London - please circulate to anyone who might be a good fit! Deadline 8th Jan
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130565-...

A long-term picture of participation is helpful - we're more or less at record highs. (@benbgeiger.bsky.social has drawn this chart before so I'm not new here)

Labour Market Outlook Q4 2025 • Resolution Foundation Employment has fallen over the past two years and is substantially lower than it was before the pandemic. Perhaps surprisingly given its central place in policy debates, participation is essentially u...

Have written a piece teeing up tomorrow's labour market stats, pointing out the sort-of obvious - that we currently have a problem with unemployment (i.e. demand) not just participation (i.e. supply). www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Quote from IFS Senior Research Economist Eduin Latimer: "Across four different reforms, we find an unintended consequence of benefit cuts – that they lead to more people claiming disability benefits. One result of these spillover effects is that the fiscal savings from cutting non-health-related benefits are slightly smaller than previously thought. These effects will likely also have a long-term legacy, as people often stay on disability benefits for many years."

"The big-picture lesson for policymakers is that changes to one part of the benefit system can shift pressures elsewhere, rather than remove them entirely."

📗 Read our report, funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

NEW: Cuts to non-health-related benefits caused increases in disability benefit claims, our new report finds.

📗 Jonathan Cribb, @heidikarj.bsky.social, @eduinlatimer.bsky.social, Sam Ray-Chaudhuri and Tom Waters examine the impact of four cuts to benefits in the 2010s [THREAD:🧵]:

4 jobs in Melbourne around work disability prevention & social insurance - looks like an amazing project, deadline 1 February 2026 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Very pleased to finally have this OECD working paper out (with the brilliant Chris Prinz)! -> take-home message:

**Simple ways of measuring 'disability employment gaps' are often wrong - but better methods are available***

Across OECD countries, people with disabilities are, on average, 26 percentage points less likely to be employed than those without disabilities. But accurately measuring this is not straightforward.

Find out more with new analysis ➡️ oe.cd/6ic

#IDPwD

Research opportunity with the Disability Benefits Consortium

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69141

3) given gov plans on settlement reforms, including standard 10yr route to settlement plus additional 5+/10+yr penalties for children & families accessing benefits, we are likely to see more not less child poverty before the parliament end

When has a UK government shied away from claiming this? (Never in the decades I've been living here.) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...