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There's a 'live discussion' on AI institutes in the UK. Question: what can the UK learn from Canada's Vector Institute? Canada built a top AI institute in under 5 years. It now publishes at NeurIPS scale, shapes national policy, and retains local talent. Lessons for the UK:🧵

New long post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. Many factors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers — have had a very real impact. scientificdiscovery.dev/p/the-decline-…

How does R&D contribute to economic growth? A response to David Edgerton from me and Pedro Serôdio (🔗 in next post)

new for @britishprogress: a broken regulatory state has led to delayed investment, eroded state capacity, powerless politicians, zombified companies and rate-limited startups it's time to change the model not a bonfire, but a controlled explosion: britishprogress.org/reports/fixing…

Britain’s long-term economic growth and strategic heft depend on winning the global contest for top-tier scientists, engineers, and technical founders. Following the government's announcement of a new head-hunting unit for scientists, engineers & founders, I wrote for

Some may find this a helpful way to think about the relative benefits of reducing the barriers to doing high return capital projects (like building more homes where most needed) versus forcing pension funds to invest in projects that haven’t found investors.

National prosperity and security depend on strategic capabilities – eg vaccine production. Britain’s capabilities have been allowed to wither. I wrote for Centre for British Progress with Ben Johnson, Louise + Andrew Bennett about how the Industrial Strategy can rebuild them.

One principle makes nuclear power unaffordable. That’s Linear No Threshold: the theory that there is no safe level of radiation. It's wrong. But on Friday, the US President signed an executive order to reconsider it. 🧵 worksinprogress.co/issue/the-bad-…

🚨🗺️ I’m extremely pleased to announce that the wonderful ‘Scout’, built by the team at the recently closed Tract, is now OPEN SOURCE! @britishprogress will act as its custodian. Scout is an amazing tool that lets anyone see key planning data online.

Pedro Serôdio You can see monthly discretionary income broken down by income quintile in the Asda Income Tracker series (Credit Asda/CEBR) To the authors point, inflation in non-discretionary goods/services has a leveraged impact on discretionary income for the lowest income quintiles