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What is needed to make policing effective in the future? Bring your most radical ideas to our next World Café on 10 March, 6-8pm. We’ll discuss cyber crime, trust in police, tech & innovation over free drinks &nibbles🍷
@tomkirchmaier.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social
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Black and white photo of two people holding books with a bookshelf in the background. Text reads Narratives in policy-making.

📢 Watch the recording of Narratives in Policy-Making, marking the launch of the new issue of #LSEPPR.

The panel featured Dr Adam Brzezinski, Professor Sarah Dillon, Professor Paul Dolan and Baroness Sharon White DBE, and was chaired by Professor Sonia Livingstone.

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🇪🇸 The Spanish Constitution promises #democracy at #work.

For the past year, @benbraun.bsky.social has been part of the expert group of 13 convened by @yolandadiaz.bsky.social ky.social and led by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social studying how to deliver that promise.

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Why immigration policy is hard | Alan Manning 6:30pm Mon 2 Feb | Alan Manning | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Video of Alan Manning's immigration policy lectures (part 1) now online. Second lecture next Monday 10th Feb. www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-i...

Join us for another conversation about impactful partnerships (& free lunch) TOMORROW Weds 4 Feb 12-1pm with @lizstokoe.bsky.social @robtelneajai.bsky.social (LSE Impact Award rising star 2025) & Anita Tweh on their work to change citizenship legislation in Liberia.
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PhD Scholarship

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

Work from anywhere: how remote work is transforming jobs | LSE Research Explore how technology is transforming the world of work through the rise of ‘work from anywhere’. Prithwiraj Choudhury examines the benefits and future impacts of this shift.

“For decades, smaller towns in Britain & US (& frankly every country in the world) lost their young people to large cities. Work from anywhere creates a fairer, spatial distribution of talent. Over time, it leads to the revitalisation of small towns.”
@prithwirajc.bsky.social in our latest magazine

Why immigration policy is hard and how to make it better - UK in a changing Europe Alan Manning argues that the UK needs to move away from the current divisive debate on immigration that portrays immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad in order to create more effective immig...

Why immigration policy is hard and how to make it better. By @alanmanning4.bsky.social - who should know. ukandeu.ac.uk/why-immigrat...

Automation is not hollowing out British factory jobs - LSE Business Review Fears that new technology will wipe out jobs are as old as the factory floor. But automation in British factories is linked to higher employment.

New analysis by @anikbak.bsky.social Daniel Chandler, and @econopete.bsky.social shows that rather than taking jobs away, automation in British factories is linked to higher employment @cep-lse.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lsebr.bsky.social

The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16 | LSE British Politics Australia's ban of social media for under 16s has re-ignited the same debate in the UK. Sonia Livingstone argues that more evidence is needed before such a ban.

The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Should governments ban social media for under-16s?

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In our next LSE World Café we'll be discussing decolonising knowledge and education (why? how? should we?) with Katerina Dalacoura, @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social, Sharmila Parmanand & Giannis Efthymiou
Join the conversation, over free 🍷
Thurs 5 Feb, 6-8pm
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Chart showing U.S. bond holdings of Danish pension funds. Value of US bonds in Nov 2025: DKK 5.66 billion, or USD 887 million.

AkademikerPension announced it will sell its U.S. Treasuries, worth $100 million. Do Danish pension funds sit on a giant pile of Treasuries that they could dump?

Sorry to inform you: no. In fact, they've been selling U.S. bonds for years: $3.2bn in Jan 2023; down to $890mn in Jan 2026. 1/2

Only public ownership of the water system will solve its crisis | British Politics and Policy at LSE The recent report by the Independent Water Commission led by Sir John Cunliffe recommends the abolition of Ofwat and deeper regulatory reforms. But further regulation won't resolve the fundamental ten...

A @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social post that comes to mind a lot at the moment, "Public ownership is not a panacea, but it is a vital starting point from which to build a transparent, equitable, democratic water system."

What is financial hegemony, and how does it end? | Coffee break research at LSE YouTube video by LSE

The Trump administration is ripping up the rule book, what does it mean for US financial dominance? Benjamin Braun @lse-ei.bsky.social explains 👇

Trump’s attack on the BBC is an opportunity to modernise the corporation | British Politics and Policy at LSE Trump's threat to sue the BBC over a misleading edit feeds into narratives of political bias. It's time the BBC became truly independence from governments.

#Trump’s attack on the BBC is an opportunity to modernise the corporation, argues @damiantam.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

How can you maximise your citations?
LSE researchers/research support join our workshop on 26 November to find out more about SEO/GEO, key words, blogging and how to monitor your citations.
Weds 26 November 12.45-2pm (lunch provided for those in person)
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The world is on the cusp of climate tipping points – the stakes could not be higher for COP30 - EUROPP Global warming is pushing the Earth past climate tipping points, causing irreversible damage to natural systems. The stakes could not be higher for COP30.

#COP30 is underway in Belém, & as the climate crisis worsens, pressure is on states to make progress in negotiations.

Below, read a thread of research-led commentary on what's at stake🧵🌏👇

First, Manjana Milkoreit @sthlmresilience.bsky.social on climate tipping points for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Happening on Thursday 👇🏼
What factors drive or disrupt international trade?
Is a rules-based global trade system still achievable?
Join us to discuss

What's the future for international trade?
Join our next World Café event on 13 Nov to hear from @jpvasquez.bsky.social, Tom Raster @lseechist.bsky.social, Giulia Leonelli @lselaw.bsky.social & Oksana Levkovych @lseir.bsky.social, then debate over free drinks.
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The AI-generated content that caused real world violence in the UK | LSE Research YouTube video by LSE

The latest film in our AI, technology and society series looks at the role of social media (particularly the dismantling of fact checkers & wild west of blue ticks) & gen AI images in the worst far-right rioting in the UK since WW2 with LSE100 Fellow Beatriz Lopez Buarque 👇

Scientists have made embryos from human skin DNA for first time - wondering what that might mean? Watch the video to learn more from Professor Emily Jackson 👇

New blog by my dad, worth a 👀
“Search engines and LLMs are very useful without the need to appear as a ‘faux human’”
Drawing on a recent project with colleagues testing ChatGPT’s ethics, common sense and cultural sensitivity in conversation.

❓What's best way to drive innovation around the world, in an equitable and ethical way
🗣️Join the debate at our next World Café, 23 Oct, 6pm with @asvalero.bsky.social, Max Herbertson, Tina Saheb & Youngjin Yoo. Interesting chats over free 🍷
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LSE Green Skills Lab: Launch Event - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment Join us to launch the LSE Green Skills Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative supported by the LSE Global School of Sustainability that will produce academic research on the labour market dynamics of the green and digital twin transition, the identification of skill gaps in the green transition, and the development and evaluation of industrial policy to achieve a Just Transition.

🌳Join us on September 22nd to launch the LSE Green Skills Lab that will produce academic research on the labour market dynamics of the green and digital twin transition and the development and evaluation of industrial policy to achieve a Just Transition.

Safety Listening in High‐Risk Situations: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Safety Voice in Aviation Safety listening—responses to voice acts aimed at preventing harm—can avert organizational failures like airplane crashes. Research often focuses on attitudes and perceptions of listening using self-...

🗣️ Speaking up can save lives — but only if others listen.

Alyssa Pandolfo, Tom Reader & Alex Gillespie studied flightdeck transcripts before crashes and near-misses to reveal how safety listening behaviours shape outcomes.

Read the #OpenAccess paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I really enjoyed this conversation on INDIGNITY with David for @ppfideas.bsky.social - it is even better if you listen to the whole series (previous two episodes were on philosophical and then legal/political interpretations of dignity)!

The problems with Reform UK’s immigration policy - British Politics and Policy at LSE Reform UK's policy on immigration of "detect, detain, deport" will be highly costly, involve sending money to authoritarian regimes, and have uncertain results.

"There are many ways in which Reform UK’s immigration policy could end in failure, even on its own terms."
Alan Manning @cep-lse.bsky.social sets them out in @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Stem cells: the future of science explained | LSE Research YouTube video by LSE

The huge leaps forward in developmental biology🧫have social, ethical, legal & cultural implications just as important to consider as AI. This revolutionary science will need public support to transform medicine.
👇Latest film in our 'AI, tech & society' series with Emily Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social