Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him)

Come and join the NIHR Policy Research Unit Behavioural and Social Sciences!

We're a recruiting a Research Assistant/Research Fellow to be based @ucl-cbc.bsky.social.

For more details - and to apply by Tuesday 3rd March - visit the link below:

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Billionaires

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Is there a name for that colleague who "replies to all" using the email just before the one you sent, thus making your answer really difficult to find in the thread? Bonus point if they use that message to suggest exactly what you were recommending ;-/ #AcademicSky

Can it be because it’s slightly harder to look something up quickly in a different tab in a phone?

Super important findings for everyone running surveys to evaluate knowledge!!

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

I'm looking for people who would like to co-create a resource helping EDI organisations in academia to be more trans and non-binary inclusive. Ideas include:

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Economic Development & Quantitative Economics Fixed-term four-year appointment, to begin in Fall 2026. The department seeks an applicant with exceptional teaching and research records in Development Economics, broadly defined. We particularly welcome candidates whose research addresses contemporary development challenges. Candidates are expected to transcend traditional mainstream approaches by engaging with new emerging development issues.

Featured on INOMICS: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Economic Development & Quantitative Economics #Econsky

Espérance de vie à la naissance des femmes et des hommes selon le vingtième de niveau de vie et la période. Entre les périodes 2012-2016 et 2020-2024, l’espérance de vie des personnes du 1er vingtième augmente légèrement, celle des personnes du 2e au 5e vingtième diminue, tandis que celle des personnes du 6e au dernier vingtième progresse.

#Démographie | En l’espace de 8 ans, l’espérance de vie des personnes dont le niveau de vie est compris entre 800 et 1 300 euros diminue.
👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...

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!