Thrilled to see the introductory paper to our guest edited special issue, written by @MatthiasThiema3 and I, published in @EconSocJournal. We argue that central banks play a crucial role in maintaining and transforming the state-economy boundary.

The most exciting live race coverage I've ever seen - on the Great Wall of China!🔴 GTWS 2025 - Jinshanling Great Wall Trail Race LIVE via @YouTube.

RT @skape_ed: Join us on Wednesday as Ewan Robertson presents on 'Whose Knowledge? Patterns of Committee Witnesses in Spain's Congress of D….

Such a perfect trilogy of films about love and relationships. This lovely video essay breaks down what is so profound about these minimalist films about connection and attraction.

Exciting as ever. I’ll try to lead a 5K run on the first morning of the conference to get people started on a healthy endorphin high!.

Good explainer of why Trump policies and vibe are sending the US economy into turbo drive. There’s a lot the UK should learn from this. via @financialtimes.

Huge congratulations to @DylanCassar_ for publishing this important paper in @FinandSoc. One of the first significant developments in performativity theorising of financial markets for a long while.

It’s time for the UK to join the Empire of Liberty as its 51st state

@uoessps Turns out the story made the front page!

@uoessps.

I was quoted in the headline for a story in The National about how Labour’s negative tone since taking power and their resulting unpopularity are undermining the government’s growth mission. Where is the optimism to unleash the animal spirits?

RT @complexmarkets: Just submitted 107,000 words of a manuscript entitled "Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health" with @The….

The irresponsibility spans multiple governments from both political parties but the recent decision by Labour to prohibit extraction of gas from our own North Sea fields (to rely on imports instead) must count as the most self defeating public policy choice in recent history.

How reliance on wind power is leaving the UK dangerously exposed to risk of black outs and the whims of other countries, contributing to deindustrialisation, and driving the cost of living crisis.

Europeans will never understand the United States: it’s optimism, industriousness, belief in hard work and meritocracy, its patriotism, love of freedom, and flat social hierarchy, it’s ‘dream’. Easy to mock, but it’s made the country the motor force of the modern world.

RT @skape_ed: Skape is delighted to welcome Göran Sundqvist from @goteborgsuni to present on 'Science Advice and Policy Influence: The Case….

* “grids” should have been “trods” a word which I don’t think has any meaning outside Scotland!.

Crossing the line of the final race of the season at Tinto hill. I love this race: it’s short (7km), nice amount of elevation gain (475m), the route has paths rather than narrow muddy grids, and the downhill is pretty runnable by Scottish hill racing standards.

As someone who grew up in the depressed post-industrial Cornish town, St Austell, it’s heart warming to know the mines are being reopened for lithium extraction

One of those rare videos that captures the madness of hill racing (at death defying world class speed)

@TheEconomist’s report on how the US is leaving Europe behind in wealth per capita is worth reading in full. Peculiar silence on this throughout social sciences, but is most important development of last 20 years.