New one from me in Science Magazine, on why we mustn't see the risks of AI in apocalyptic terms

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Check out this awesome review of Tamsin Mather's new book Adventures in Volcanoland!

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Incredible, brutal self-indictment by Draghi (although Trichet takes the biggest hit). Speech in Brussels yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it from anywhere near the top of the ECB. And we just spent five years digging around. Extraordinary.

geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/…

🎒 Don't forget to submit your abstract for the ESPAnet Politics of Education stream, by April 25th! 🎒

Happening today—a conversation about attacks on DEI, where these attacks come from, and what’s next.

With b-boy bouiebaisse and Moira Weigel; moderated by Adrian Daub of Clayman Institute

3:30pm to 5pm PT

Register here and join us on Zoom: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…

First time seeing ‘Adventures in Volcanoland’ in the wild Waterstones Piccadilly! Slightly emotional….

Pew Research Center This must-read essay from Tyler Austin Harper in The Atlantic shows why White Rural Rage 'kindled an academic controversy'

The authors of the book seen on your lib resistance podcast & newsletter feed are being challenged by ... the academics they cite

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Wishing everyone participating in #AERA2024 have a great conference ahead!

Our Secretary-Treasurer Helen Seitzer will be presenting on the panel 'Looking Backward to See Beyond: Recent Developments in the Study of Worldwide Trends in Educational Reform', chaired by Toni Verger

👇🎯 People still really don’t want to hear this, but that doesn’t make it less true

🎉🎉Landing this week in all good (UK) bookshops ‘Adventures in Volcanoland’ by ⁦Tamsin Mather⁩

A wonderful and personal perspective on #volcanology , #volcanoes , and understanding their place in the world. Many congratulations!

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/advent…

In shops 4 April

Government-led plant construction during WWII had persistent impacts on local labor markets and increased upward mobility for local children, who had increased access to high-wage jobs as adults, from Andy Garin and Jonathan L. Rothbaum nber.org/papers/w32265

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff dlvr.it/T4mx7H

New working paper 🧵
When Your Boss is an Algorithm
Yotam Margalit and I explore the effect of algorithmic management on worker performance.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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'Why the debt brake is a threat to democracy'

My piece in the WZB Mitteilungen with Daniel Ziblatt on how the #Schuldenbremse is bad economic policy at home, bad for the Eurozone's stability, & a threat to 🇩🇪 democracy in the face of serious threats

wzb.eu/en/article/why…

I did a BBC investigation of the idea of the AI apocalypse (bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…). This odd idea has a powerful new lobby. And one crypto-king has just given its lead lobbyists $665 million. To understand the sociology of it, read this papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

My god, US health care markets are so broken

For the first time in forever, real wage gains are going to those who need them most. (HT Arin Dube)

This evening on BBC Radio 4. My @bbc_analysis prog on AI's imaginary existential threat bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…