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Venture capital investment into defence tech companies has boomed in recent years on hope of US gov contracts. US investment in defence start-ups surged from less than $16bn in 2019 to $33bn in 2023, PitchBook data shows. ft.com/content/45da39…

Sorry for the cliché, but #TheDawnOfEverything (David Graeber and David Wengrow) really is a book that everyone should read. Completely changed my view of human history and consequently of what we are capable of building together in the future.

What role should governing bodies have in academic governance and assurance? I’m speaking today at the CDBU conference Whose Universities? I’ll be building on my earlier Higher Education Policy Institute Policy Note and blog hepi.ac.uk/2023/01/17/how…

We are now open to Special Issue Proposals! Have an exciting, engaging new insight that you would like to share with the Sociology audience? Submit now! Deadline 3 October 2023 Details below! britsoc.co.uk/media/26237/so…

The Cable Wars undersea chessboard in one map👇 ⚠️Trans-Atlantic financial information exchange via fiber optic cable encompasses $10 trillion per day

Hey friends! Devika Dutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with Carolina Alves and Surbhi Kesar). In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊 ingridhk.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/6yyd00…

I wrote about writing👇🖊️👇

Interesting piece by Morten Hansen, Teaching Assistant at IIPP, on the importance of writing from a teacher's perspective. He asks "what does the usage of automated reasoning do to the student experience?" Read his reflective piece here: kingsdh.net/2023/12/11/poc…

VS theme call! "Comparing, categorizing, valuating: entangled modes of ordering" -- edited by Thomas Müller, Leopold Ringel, Elisa Ronzheimer and Jørgen Sneis valuationstudies.liu.se/Comparing_cate…

Great seeing this Centre for Global Higher Education report out! Lots of insights for those interested in the digital economy of HE.

UKRI project to support book publishers to transition to open access models, especially learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers. uksg.org/newsletter/uks… Geraint Rees @KurtDeketelaere UCL Press UCL Open Science and Scholarship Tiberius Ignat Ignasi Labastida Wouter Schallier

📣 Latest research article Michele Martini, Moscovitz, Rocío Fernández, Morten Hansen, Hughson, Marfán & Oudai Tozan examine UNESCO’s construction of a commons approach to global education. #OpenAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My longish review of Michel Callon's Markets in the Making (in which I sidle from Salman Rushdie to the Waterboys by way of Benjamin, Akrich, Foucault, Rorty Anders Blok all all that) is finally out in @jcultecon tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our paper on university datafication has just been published. We analyse university struggles in making data useful and becoming data-powered organisations. Written with Kean Birch and Sam Sellar. Available open access: shorturl.at/PaAbi

My suggestion for a framework for understanding how digital capitalism is changing: doi.org/10.1177/205395…

People seemed to appreciate this reading list, so I'm posting it again (with a small update). It's the 10 key books in the reading list for my course, "Development Economics", which I teach at Cambridge.

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Our new #commentary by Morten Hansen 👉 introduces the concept of ‘cognitive lock-in’ to explore how #platforms like #ChatGPT create technological dependencies, questioning the future of #AI #monetization beyond the attention economy. Check it out 🔗 buff.ly/4enKFmF

I’m very happy to announce that the book that I, @SotiriaGrek Joakim Landahl and M Lawn have been working on for the past few years is now published: The World as a Laboratory. Torsten Husén and The Rise of Transnational Research in Education 1950-1990s link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…