Some good follows for the upcoming general election:

Balanced set of policy Wonks:
Robert Colvile Jonathan Portes Torsten Bell Rachel Wolf Anand Menon Nick Davies Iain Mansfield Ben Zaranko Ian Mulheirn Tom Forth Sam Freedman Sam Dumitriu Dr Catherine Haddon
Jill Rutter
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Nvidia now worth over $2.5 Trillion, more than the market cap of the entire German stock market.

Your starter for 10. What polling can - and can’t - tell you. ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

We’re piloting Stripe Climate Fellows with the goal of seeding many more ambitious but feasible ideas to grow demand for carbon removal. We’d love help finding exceptional people for this! Applications are due July 15th.

stripe.com/climate/demand…

Congratulations to Andrew Przybylski Mental Health in the Digital Age awarded national funding from @SmartdataRes UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council to study how gaming affects the mental health of players. Find out more about the new Oxford Internet Institute research project. bit.ly/3wBoHfJ

Thanks to funding from Smart Data Research UK, UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration are delighted to be working with anya skatova from University of Bristol to investigate acceptability and governance of linking #smartdata with UK LPS research.

This is a really interesting case of successful industrial policy.

Also if you did SPRU 1.01 Have a look at your lecture 9 slides - I told you it would work!!!

“We are committed to investing in the UK’s capability to realise the potential of data and enable scientific breakthroughs' - Stian Westlake on SDR UK's accelerator announcement #smartdata

sdruk.ukri.org/2024/05/21/fun…

JUST PUBLISHED - How have the institutions of #UK #devolution affected economic performance? By Esmond Birnie Ulster University #EconTwitter #Wales #Scotland #NorthernIreland 👇
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Russian government announces it no longer recognizes the maritime borders of Lithuania and Finland.
moscowtimes.ru/2024/05/21/ros…

US says Russia likely launched space weapon - BBC News

Well this is going to make things interesting at the ITU. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Cultural observation:
A Japanese tweeted, saying there are too many 🇨🇳games nowadays, and it's hard to simply judge whether they are domestic games based on appearance alone. But he can tell right away bc characters in Chinese games just start busting out poetry out of nowhere.

Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature, says Malte Elson go.nature.com/4dIi1Nv

Great piece from Daniel Stid on the role of unaccountable grantmaking foundations in driving the parties away from majoritarian politics.

philanthropy.com/commons/grant-…

I've just come across a suggestion that ghosts declined in the 20th century because improved detection techniques and scientific breakthroughs meant more murders were solved and perpetrators punished, reducing the need for the dead to return and seek justice