The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
18.11.2025 06:27 — 👍 969 🔁 573 💬 33 📌 68
YouTube video by Eric Schneider
Introduction to IPUMS International Webinar
Delighted to host colleagues from @ipums.bsky.social for a webinar at LSE this week to showcase IPUMS International. I presented the 19th-century Egyptian census datasets that I developed and contributed to IPUMS, and shared plans to expand and link the series.
Recording here: youtu.be/vlRJwFFItpA
13.11.2025 07:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My blog post at LSE Middle East Centre on elite conflict and democracy in MENA. Democracy struggled because of colonialism and domestic elites resolving conflict via disenfranchisement not powersharing
27.09.2025 06:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great 2-year postdoc opportunities in social sciences at Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse.
20.09.2025 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East | LSE Event
YouTube video by LSE
It was a great pleasure to deliver this public lecture at The London School of Economics and Political Science @lsepress.bsky.social Thank you to @britishacademy.bsky.social for supporting this research and to my own @lseechist.bsky.social and @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social for hosting the event.
31.05.2025 09:49 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power
Very excited that our article about the redistribution of political power within precolonial institutions under indirect colonial rule is available on First View @apsrjournal.bsky.social
@msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
27.01.2025 09:21 — 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2
📉 Economics Seminar Series - Joint with @cephie.bsky.social - Tuesday 28 January 📈
We look forward to welcoming @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social to TCD next week!
#econsky @trisstcd.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. Studying identity, FP, authoritarianism, protest, pop culture, other media. Turkey focus.
Demographer | PhD student, @lseechist.bsky.social | Usually working on the 1918 flu | he/him | https://hggaddy.github.io/
Economic Historian of Money and Banking.
Assistant professor in Economics - Trinity College Dublin & CEPH
👩🎓 PhD in Economics & History from Geneva Graduate Institute
https://maylisavaro.info/
Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona
https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat
Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
yusufimaadkhan.com/watermelon
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
Assistant Professor at @sdueconhist.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark. Interested in Economic Geography, Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Economic History.
https://sites.google.com/view/christianvedel
Economic Historian at Università di Torino. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily.
Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com
Assistant Professor of Economics @UConn. I Study the Co-Evolution of Risk & Utility. Recovering Thru-Hiker.
https://sites.google.com/view/remy-levin
Professor of Economics, University Bergamo, CEPR, and CESifo. Economic history, growth and development, public economics.
https://sites.google.com/site/cinnirellaecon/home
Economist and professor at LSE. “Posting through it."
Professor of Social History, University of Helsinki, Finland. Often based in Lusaka, Zambia. Profile and publications here: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/sakari-saaritsa & https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MtvkZ8oAAAAJ&hl=fi
Professor of Economic History at LSE studying health, demography, living standards and economic growth; working on global historical child stunting.
Website: www.ericbschneider.com
AP @econstandrews, economic history, labor, and development. ResAff @iza_bonn & @OxfordESH
https://www.escamilla-guerrero.com/
Economic historian, AP at University of Southern Denmark.
I work with big data from parish records and genealogies. Interested in historical demography, social mobility, and human capital.
Economic History, LSE ||
Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain || Postdoc @CSH Vienna. Senior @atlanticfellows
Econ and Biz Historian of the Early Modern World, including but not limited to trade, war, and state capacity. Researcher at Uni Helsinki, Meetings Coordinator of the Econ Hist Assoc, and Exec. Director of @socscihistory.blsky.social. More: jeremyland.org
Professor in Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Capoerista.
