🌍🌐🛠️🌱Delighted to lead #policymaking workshop on Global #SustainableAI #Policy at inaugural @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Community #Climate Night, part of Imperial Sustainability Month 2026 - thank you organising societies & @granthamicl.bsky.social @imperialenterprise.bsky.social.

#OurImperial

Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed? - LSE Impact What reproducing Wennerås & Wold's classic 1997 study on peer review bias reveals about policymaking and the use of evidence in research policy.

👀ICYMI: "Higher education is full of “policy anchors”: emblematic studies that become reference points for reform"

#AcademicSky #GenderBias #Policymaking

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🧐Did you know that girls and women play an essential role in energy transition? 🔋

Check out this research compilation to know more about this issue👇

#EnergyAccess #GenderEquality #SustainableDevelopment #PolicyMaking #CleanEnergy #8M #WomenHistoryMonth

22. CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH & THE CITY: A conversation with Cristina Temenos - Urban Radar In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Cristina Temenos from the University of Manchester to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and ev...

It was a total pleasure to have @ctemenos.bsky.social on #UrbanRadar to talk about her work on #crisis #policymaking, public health and the city with me and @itsbethperry.bsky.social. From social infrastructures to the politics of expertise, listen here:

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How do political coalitions take shape? And how do they hold together? Is it just a matter of shared beliefs?

New #PROTEMO research by @msmaor.bsky.social published in @psjeditor.bsky.social offers answers: www.protemo.eu/news/protemo...

#Emotions #Policymaking #PROTEMOInsights

We must first describe #behaviour accurately. And that’s where CSS transforms #policymaking. Good policy starts with good diagnosis. With digital trace data, we can track opinion shifts, monitor #misinformation, map #networks of influence and detect emerging risks. Description is not passive.

RE: https://idf.social/@djoerd/116120203638516600

Wish we had an overview like this for every country! How sustainable are our universities and research organizations?

Which initiatives are there (e.g. on replacing plastics in the lab)? And which are ignored?

Where could small investments […]

Are you developing education recommendations for policymakers? 🔍 This @be2global.bsky.social guidance note can help you assess evidence and inform decisions based on “what we know” to achieve impact: bit.ly/4htn6LN

#evidence #education #research #policymaking #BE2

How do you assess the quality of evidence for different research methods? 🔍 Find out with this guidance note from @be2global.bsky.social on assessing the strength of evidence in the education sector: bit.ly/4htn6LN

#evidence #eduaction #research #policymaking #BE2

Federal Reserve Says Prediction Markets Are a Valuable Tool for Policymakers If you're not a Federal Reserve economist, you should probably still be wary of Kalshi.

Federal Reserve Says Prediction Markets Are a Valuable Tool for Policymakers #Technology #Business #Other #PredictionMarkets #Policymaking #FederalReserve

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As #ComputationalSocialScience reshapes #policymaking, its legitimacy will depend on maintaining accountability, transparency, and ethical oversight.

When we think about #NaturalLanguageProcessing, we often think about chatbots or language models. But one of its most powerful and underappreciated applications is in data collection for evidence-based #policymaking.

Speaker at Utah Eagle Forum says federal transgender bill would prompt litigation; defends state ban A U.S. representative told an Eagle Forum audience he opposed a federal bill by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that he said would not protect children and would be rapidly litigated; he defended a three-year state ban he helped pass and warned courts could be asked to redefine 'men and women.'

A U.S. representative warns that a federal bill aimed at penalizing doctors for providing gender-transition procedures to minors could lead to legal chaos and ultimately fail to protect children.

Learn more here!

#UT #CitizenPortal #ChildProtection #PolicyMaking #LegalChallenges

A new bill in Kentucky aims to streamline the Parole Board's decision-making process by establishing four-year terms and allowing two-member panels for hearings.

Learn more here

#KY #CitizenPortal #CriminalJusticeReform #GovernanceTransparency #PolicyMaking

Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws? Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws? So let’s imagine this has gone well. We’ve got a solid idea. We’ve persuaded a government to back it. The legislation is being drafted. The machinery is grinding into life. Which means — realistically — we’re waiting. Not months. Years. And while all that process is happening, another question naturally pops up: Is there anything we could start doing now, using the laws and powers we already have?

Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws?
Say we’ve agreed on a better housing system.

The laws are coming.
The machinery is spinning up.

But while we’re waiting…
surely we can start doing something?

#RethinkHousing #UKHousing #PolicyMaking #HomesNotAssets

🗣️ Vincenzo highlights lessons relevant for #Luxembourg, discusses the challenges of translating empirical evidence into #policymaking, and offers advice for young researchers working on pensions.

👍Interview moderated by @kunlee.bsky.social, Tony Atkinson Fellow & (LIS)²ER Research Associate.

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Committee advances two resolutions to change session timing and remove 'germaneness' rule The committee recommended 'do pass' on HJR6 (proposing two 45‑day sessions and other changes) and HJR7 (keeping 60/30 but removing germaneness). Supporters said the measures increase legislative control; opponents warned of rushed work and costs for citizen legislators.

New Mexico lawmakers are debating radical changes to their legislative sessions that could reshape how they set their agenda—will this lead to better governance or chaos?

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#NM #LegislativeReform #CitizenPortal #CivicEngagement #NewMexicoLegislators #PolicyMaking

#Legacoop a Parigi.
Incontri con #RappresentanzaItaliana e #OCSE la voce delle cooperative nei luoghi dove nascono norme e politiche globali x far conoscere specificità e valore delle cooperative.
#Legacoop #Cooperazione #Rappresentanza #EconomiaSociale #InteresseGenerale #PolicyMaking #Cooperative

How does evidence travel through global policy networks? - LSE Impact The COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented mobilisation of new and existing research to support policy at the local, national and global scale. Drawing on evidence from the Overton policy citation dat...

💥New | How does evidence travel through global policy networks?

✍️ @kat-hart.bsky.social

#EvidenceForPolicy #ResearchImpact #Policymaking

“ #Warsh might surprise us all by showing unexpected integrity, but don’t count on it. He may be better than the alternatives, but that’s a very low bar, which mainly tells us how sorry a state #economicpolicymaking — actually, #policymaking of any kind — has reached in the age of #Trump.”

ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST The Ecological Continuity Trust is a charity that supports long-term ecological experiments in the UK, to advance better environmental management now and in the future.

We are a small #environmental #charity committed to preserving long-term #ecological experiments #LTEs, & ensuring that data from those experiments is at the heart of #policymaking, #sustainable land-use, & #education.

More: bit.ly/EcolConT 🌍

Lets Rethink Policy-Making: What All of This Was Really About This post brings together the themes explored across the series — punishment, incentives, unintended consequences, and cost — to reflect on what policy does once it becomes a system. It asks how evidence can sit alongside values to design laws that work better in the real world.

Across drugs, sex work, migration, and punishment, the same pattern kept repeating.

This post steps back to ask what all of that was really about — and what happens when morality and evidence drift apart in policy-making.

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #SystemsThinking

Lets Rethink Policy-Making: Illegal Drugs – Cost of Losing the War. Has the War on Drugs delivered what it promised? Looking at fifty years of UK policy, this post explores drug use, harm, and public cost — not to win an argument, but to ask whether “being tough” turned out to be an especially expensive way of managing a persistent human behaviour.

Did the War on Drugs work the way we hoped?

A calm, evidence-led look at fifty years of UK policy, persistent behaviour, and the costs of trying to legislate reality away.

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #EvidenceBasedPolicy

Lets Rethink Policy-Making: Illegal Drugs – A cheaper alternative. Let’s Rethink Policy-Making: Filthy Lucre What happens if we stop pretending the illegal drugs market will disappear? Using conservative figures for England & Wales, this post explores how costs, criminal profits, regulation, and incentives interact — and why redesigning where money flows may matter more than repeating moral arguments.

We spend ~£20bn a year dealing with the consequences of illegal drugs in England & Wales — while ~ £10bn flows to criminal markets.
What happens if we stop pretending the market will disappear?
🧵 Filthy Lucre
#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #SystemsThinking #EvidenceNotPanic

An outright #ban on #socialmedia is less the act of a confident #government, and more a scramble to regain #control over a #technology and an #industry in the wake of a #failure of traditional top-down #policymaking. Effective #regulation involves rather #stakeholderconsensus and #digitalliteracy.

Lets Rethink Policy-Making: Illegal Drugs – Who’s Been Getting Rich. Let’s Rethink Policy-Making: The Filthy Lucre. What happens when the public cost of managing illegal drugs is larger than the market itself? Looking at England & Wales data, we explore why drug use persists, how costs accumulate across health, crime and social services, and why pretending demand can be driven to zero may be one of the most expensive policy assumptions we make.

We spend roughly £20bn a year dealing with the consequences of illegal drugs in England & Wales — while the market itself is worth around £10bn.

This isn’t a moral argument. It’s an accounting one.

🧵 The Filthy Lucre

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #EvidenceNotPanic #SystemsThink

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President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon stressed the need for investment in human resources and research at a meeting with the National Council for Scientific Research, advocating for science to guide national decision-making and strengthen research-policy links.

#Lebanon #Research #PolicyMaking

Lets Rethink Policy-Making: what Happened Elsewhere? Ok — so before we go any further, it’s probably worth asking a fair question. Is this just how things work everywhere? Or is there something particularly British — or English — about the way we’ve handled it? Up to now, we’ve mostly been looking at the UK. That’s deliberate. It’s the system we live in, pay for, and argue about. But it also risks leaving us with a blind spot. So now feels like the right moment to widen the lens. Let’s have a look at what’s happened elsewhere — maybe we find good examples, maybe someone has cracked it — or maybe different choices just led to different kinds of mess. Because if everyone ended up in the same place, we might just be looking at an unavoidable problem. But if some countries ended up doing noticeably better — or noticeably worse — then what we’re really looking at is design.

Is this really inevitable — or just how we chose to design it?

Comparing UK policy with international approaches to drugs, sex work, and migration, and what different assumptions produce in practice.

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #EvidenceBasedPolicy

2025 DSE infographic

👏 Last year DSE released 7 (!!) #OpenSource #AI tools that are helping advance global environmental #policymaking and improve #LandManagement. See them all in our 2025 annual report!

📘https://dse.berkeley.edu/2025-annual-report

#KigaliSim #DataScience #EnvironmentalScience #AIForGood

🌍🌐🌱Great to present @unesco.org Int. Decade of Sciences 4 #SustainableDevelopment -endorsed research on leveraging #GenAI #multimodal #LLMs 4 smarter #environmental #policymaking @HAW Hamburg European Seminar on #AI 4 #Sustainability & #Climate, many thanks to organisers
More info➡️ shorturl.at/51Tf0