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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social |
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Chief Executive, The British Academy, Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
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Hetan Shah
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Hew Locke says he could not resist the idea of placing such a work in the former house of the Gladstones, who had become wealthy from slavery.
You can come view the piece on Friday night or Saturday at our free Summer Showcase
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Hetan Shah
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We’ve commissioned a new piece of artwork by Hew Locke to be unveiled this week. The piece references Guyana, the rubber barons of Manaus in Brazil, the slave trade that powered their wealth, and images of the now crumbling colonial buildings in Guyana www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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UK wants to be ‘reliable partner’ on science, says Patrick Vallance
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Hetan Shah
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As the new Government gets to work I recommend new Ministers and senior civil servants read this piece from @ldfreedman.bsky.social on writing strategies and why they so often fail to deliver the change people were hoping for
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Life expectancy is lower in the United States than in other high-income countries
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Hetan Shah
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As the new Government gets to work I recommend new Ministers and senior civil servants read this piece from @ldfreedman.bsky.social on writing strategies and why they so often fail to deliver the change people were hoping for
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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Hetan Shah
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I’ve written on R&D priorities for the new Govt. We need a funding review for universities given the huge pressure on finances. Interdisciplinary perspectives can help achieve Government missions. & let’s deepen international partnerships www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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How did the media perform in the election? How could it be strengthened in a fragmenting information landscape? I’ll be exploring these issues with a panel of experts on Saturday 3pm as part of @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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As France is in our minds today I’m struck by this piece in the Sunday Times which shows the number of children studying French A-level has dropped from 22,700 in 1996 to 7,000 this year t.co/PCZeA84JeI
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On Saturday you can hear from Gary Younge who will be talking about the books that have shaped him. As a curtain raiser you can listen here to his new 10 Minute Talk about the story of Georges Dukson and the liberation of Paris www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/the-lio...
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Next Friday night / Saturday day come to our @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase - a free festival of ideas. We have talks, exhibits, film screenings, performances and a walking tour of St James’ Park www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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Great to see Patrick Vallance appointed as the new Science Minister - someone who understands how the R&D system works. I flagged in this interview that he was trying to embed research across government. His move makes sense as a way to finish the job
www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...
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Anglo-Saxons may have fought in sixth century northern Syrian wars www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Winning the election will feel like the easy bit once they turn to the in-tray
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Why is there no NORAD Sir John Curtice tracker? It could be a hit with my demographic
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Can’t be repeated often enough: ‘The creative sector now accounts for around 6 per cent of the UK’s goods and services and employs 2.3mn people.’
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Very interesting on how food inflation means climate change is affecting the core business of central banks on.ft.com/3Lu6h4p
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‘Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.’
Mindblowing from Our World in Data
ourworldindata.org/part-one-how...
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Hetan Shah
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You can see @britishacademy.bsky.social Manifesto setting out priorities for the next UK government here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...
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Hetan Shah
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The priorities for the next UK government set out in this Nature editorial nicely complement those in our own @britishacademy.bsky.social manifesto www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The tension between food security and free markets as exemplified by Russian fertiliser on.ft.com/3VJWnjC
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Starting to see a bit more coverage of demographic change and its implications www.theguardian.com/business/art...
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‘A researcher granted a five-year global talent visa and who has a partner and two children would be liable to pay £20,974 upfront, with no option to spread the payments. In total, upfront UK visa costs are 17 times higher than the international average’ www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Two weekends away - come hang out at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase - a free festival of ideas with talks, exhibits, film screenings and a botanical tour of St James’ Park!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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Margot Finn
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"the 428-year-old secret dossier of Robert Cecil, spymaster to Elizabeth I and the man who discovered the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, has been pieced together using this key document. It reveals how Cecil set up and used a clandestine espionage network to spy on European monarchs for the English throne."
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Hetan Shah
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Nice piece about experiments and ideas more than fifty years ago driven by asking what if technology was there not to indulge us but expand us on.ft.com/4bvDtmE
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Two weekends away - come hang out at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase - a free festival of ideas with talks, exhibits, film screenings and a botanical tour of St James’ Park!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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Hetan Shah
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I wrote this 5 years ago on the need to improve productivity (we named it the ‘statistic of the decade’ at the RSS) but we aren’t much further forward…
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Hetan Shah
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Nice reminder from @timharford.bsky.social that to fix a lot of other problems in the UK we need to fix weak productivity growth on.ft.com/4clTQmN
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Hetan Shah
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Great piece on the Russia - North Korea relationship and their positioning as oppressed nations in a bid to appeal to low and middle income countries
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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We pointed to prohibitive visa costs for researchers in our @britishacademy.bsky.social Manifesto which makes various recommendations for an incoming government www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...
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‘A researcher granted a five-year global talent visa and who has a partner and two children would be liable to pay £20,974 upfront, with no option to spread the payments. In total, upfront UK visa costs are 17 times higher than the international average’ www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Hetan Shah
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Ooh a new regular New Statesman column from David Edmonds on philosophical thought experiments
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/0...
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Hetan Shah
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One of the things I love about @britishacademy.bsky.social is the wide range of work we support. Like this interdisciplinary conference next week exploring English church music from the 'Golden Age' of 1485-1688
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A free family day out on Sat 13 July to our @britishacademy.bsky.social
Summer Showcase. Exhibits including The Museum of Invented Pasts; speakers such as Gary Younge; discussions on fixing the UK housing crisis, and a botanical tour of St James’ Park www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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The average library is ‘an informal citizens advice bureau, a business development centre, a community centre and a mental health provider. It is an unofficial Sure Start centre, a homelessness shelter, a literacy and foreign language-learning centre’ www.theguardian.com/news/article...
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Turns out giving £6m was just not enough to overcome sexism in 1987
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Sir Howard Bernstein dies. What a legacy he leaves for Manchester from having joined the town hall aged 18 as a junior clerk
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The ‘repeated scrapping of projects [in the north] has become notorious, playing into a sense that the reality of poor connections in the region & the latent economic potential they are holding back, is simply not understood in London.’ @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social FT mag cover story on.ft.com/3xEkatb
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Wetherspoon gave ‘its staff the option of a zero-hours contract or one with guaranteed hours. …according to Wetherspoon, 97% of its hourly paid staff are now on a guaranteed-hours contract.’
We’ve missed you @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social
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‘This was a good debate (possibly the best in the campaign thus far).’ The verdict and a write up of our joint science and research hustings event yesterday
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It’s the big one! We’ve opened a call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Global Professorships. We offer up to £900k over 4 years to attract internationally established scholars to work in the UK to engage in cutting edge humanities & social science research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/glob...
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We are doing something really cool. We've commissioned the brilliant photographer Arko Datto to bring to life the themes of Nandini Das’ Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury), winner of the British Academy Book Prize
www.thebookseller.com/news/british...
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The REF’s open access policy “should not gamble with the future of the academic book publishing ecosystem by setting an embargo period of only 24 months” - coverage of our letter on Open Access www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-lear...
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Hetan Shah
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We are doing something really cool. We've commissioned the brilliant photographer Arko Datto to bring to life the themes of Nandini Das’ Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury), winner of the British Academy Book Prize
www.thebookseller.com/news/british...
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Our friends at AHRC are looking for new members of their Advisory Board (which is different to the AHRC Council) - 2 meetings a year
www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w...
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Diane Coyle
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I agree - publishers have become interested only in whether authors have £10k for OA, not in the quality of the book. Incentives favour vanity publishing by those with large grants, as the scheme is currently structured.
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Pekka Lund
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And what a sad fightback it is.
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Hetan Shah
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Open access proposals for REF2029 could have 'damaging consequences for researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences, for whom longform outputs are an important mode of publication.'
@britishacademy.bsky.social calls for pause of OA proposals
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pause-o...
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We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Visiting Fellowships 2025!
As part of our commitment to international engagement we will give up to £40k for academics to spend 3-6 months to be based at a UK higher education/research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/visi...
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