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John Davies

@johnardavies.bsky.social
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Economics, data, tech. Data scientist working in London (ex @nesta_uk @deliveroo data science teams). Creative & digital economy. Views my own. johnardavies.github.io

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 9h
Scorsese's 'The Departed' on #BBCiPlayer. Also recommend the film it's a remake of 'Infernal Affairs' www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The Departed
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 18h
Invitation to Tender: AI sovereignty study. We are looking for a partner to deliver a conjoint study and nationally representative survey of UK adults to understand public expectations around UK ‘AI sovereignty’. Full details: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/itt-ai-sover... Deadline: 27 October 2026
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Invitation to tender: AI sovereignty study 2026
A nationally representative survey of UK adults to understand 'AI sovereignty' and trade-offs
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you have experience writing, commissioning and editing arts and culture features the #BBC is recruiting for its #Culture editor position #Jobs careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Culture-...
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Culture Editor
Culture Editor
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interesting @nestauk.bsky.social video discussing opportunities and issues in using #Agentic #AI for social good www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJL...
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Agentic AI: opportunities and lessons for social good
YouTube video by Nesta
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Gipsyan & #RAVL's 'South Steppas' to start Sunday. From the new EP electricshapes.bandcamp.com/track/south-...
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South Steppas, by Gipsyan & RAVL
from the album South Steppas
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 09/10/2026
Dear people of the UK, this Prize is for you! In 1946, the British founded the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 80 years on, NRW says "Thank you", presenting its highest award, the State Prize, to the people of the UK, recognising the deep friendship between the state and the UK.
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Petra Schwer @petraschwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interested in what members of the mathematical community think on the recent release of hundreds of preprints on openproblems? I recommend reading the snapshot of immediate reactions collected on proofs and prompts! proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/1... #math #mathAndAI #mathsky #mathematics
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100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“We are all grappling with the announcement of 6 October. We think that it is useful to have a snapshot of the community’s gut feeling today, and this is what you see below. We will keep it o…
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Howard Hodgkin, Norwich, 1999 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
Purchased 2001
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OpenAI has released 722 new maths results. It does feel like maths is going to change in a major way. github.com/openai/math
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GitHub - openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.deutschlandfunk.de/ehemaliger-b...
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Geheimdienste - Ehemaliger BND-Chef Hanning laut Medienberichten wegen Spionageverdachts festgenommen
Der frühere Chef des Bundesnachrichtendienstes, Hanning, ist wegen Spionageverdachts festgenommen worden. Wie der Generalbundesanwalt mitteilte, wird Hanning unter anderem des versuchten Landesverrats...
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The sculptural forms of OMA's De Rotterdam
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paddy Thorne's track 'Everything Fell at Once' to end the week. From the new album on @mighty-force.bsky.social records mightyforce.bandcamp.com/track/everyt...
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Everything Fell At Once, by Paddy Thorne
from the album Fragile World
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An uplifting spiral in work by #TsurutaArchitects at #LondonOpenHouse
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Open letter/guidelines to AI companies from the Maths community on responsible release of AI generated mathematics agmai.org
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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's me discussing trends in cultural consumption with Korean news! n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
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[인터뷰] “문화 소비 격차는 소득이 아니라 ‘문화 자본’의 문제”
데이브 오브라이언 맨체스터대 문화창조산업학 교수 국내 극장가에서는 관객 수가 줄어드는데도 4DX, IMAX 등 특수관을 찾는 발길은 오히려 늘고 있다. 2025년 한국 영화 시장 매출액과 관객 수는 각각 전년 대비
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Paxton Locher house (with glass roof closed) at #OpenHouseLondon
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel the most common situation in policy is that trade-offs are rarely mentioned i.e. the free lunch claim is implicit
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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Re Your First Home - a reminder that H2B * Raised house prices overall * Helped developer profits * In London, raised prices, not supply * In more affordable areas, supply up but no price effect Govt will have to think hard about benefits vs lessons learned, as Angela Rayner put it today.
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy / Felipe Carozzi, Christian A.L. Hilber, Xiaolun Yu / Journal of Urban Economics, 2024



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We take advantage of two spatial discontinuities in Britain's Help to Buy (HtB) scheme to explore the effectiveness and distributional implications of mortgage credit expansion policies. Employing a Difference-in-Discontinuities design, we find that HtB significantly increased house prices and had no detectable effect on construction volumes in severely supply constrained and unaffordable Greater London. Conversely, HtB did increase construction numbers without a noticeable effect on prices near the English/Welsh border, an affordable area with comparably lax supply conditions. While HtB did not help would-be-buyers in already unaffordable areas, it boosted the financial performance of developers participating in the scheme.
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Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don't measure the most important part of the economy in official statistics. Every economist and policymaker should be concerned about this:
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Villager's 'Sedated (Spaced out)' to start Sunday. From the new album villagersound.bandcamp.com/track/sedate...
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SEDATED (SPACED OUT), by Villager
from the album NOWHERE FM: VIVA LA VILLAGER
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The #CharliXCX version of #Madonna's Danceteria oral history (references to Hackney Wick and MySpace now mashed up with 80s Manhattan) #FridayFeeling www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzh...
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Madonna & Charli - Danceteria (Afterhours Mix)
YouTube video by Madonna
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to reading this!
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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 24/09/2026
An opinion I semi-seriously hold is that AI text, by law, should have to be rendered in that 1980s-style robot font. You know which one I mean. I am now extending this to say that you should, by law, have to read it out through a vocoder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmin...
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Westminster (typeface) - Wikipedia
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Isokon building at #London open house (@isokongallery.bsky.social sorry for missing you out of shot)
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Reichstag on the Thames at @fosterandpartners.bsky.social during #OpenHouseLondon
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote a thing with @fbarez.bsky.social on what just happened in AI and what we should do about it www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-09...
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Expert Comment: Flying blind into the AI age
Professor Maike Osborne and Dr Fazl Barez outline the urgent need to develop better measurement tools for evaluating the safety of advanced AI technologies.
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why be inspired by the 80s or the 60s when you can use the Middle ages (or maybe it's the Tudor period?!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl4...
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Troye Sivan - Party (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Actress' track 'Overchord' to start Sunday. From the new album actress.bandcamp.com/track/overch...
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Overchord, by Actress
from the album Radical Frame
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Devil (and his cat) visit Moscow and #BBCSounds in this adaption of Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita' www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov on BBC Sounds.
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Derin Denham @derindenham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New York Street with Moon by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1925
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Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This week's blogpost is on the spectacular world of Richard Seifert & Partners architectural-icons.com/blogs/news/t...
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The Spectacular World of R. Seifert & Partners
Few architectural practices altered the skyline of post-war Britain as radically, prolifically, or provocatively as R. Seifert & Partners. Led by the enigmatic, impeccably dressed Colonel Richard ...
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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Spatial-equilibrium modelling now works directly in your browser. Choose a city, draw a policy on the map, and see results by grid cell in near real time. Here is a stylised Crossrail experiment in London. 🧵 sites.google.com/view/ahlfeld...
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#HelenaHauff b2b with @danielmarkavery.bsky.social to push through Monday soundcloud.com/danielavery/...
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Helena Hauff b2b Daniel Avery - Edinburgh May 2026
Recorded live at Day Festival Edinburgh, May 2026
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@ezracollective.bsky.social's track 'Someday' to start Sunday. From the new album ezracollective.bandcamp.com/track/someday
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Someday, by Ezra Collective
from the album Here Because of Hope
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In amongst the buildings at #Heatherwick studios London #OpenHouse
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interview with Arca @residentadvisor.bsky.social ra.co/features/4520
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Arca: Diva, Interrupted · Feature ⟋ RA
One of experimental music's most cutting-edge producers is now one of this era's defining stars. Where does Arca go next? For our third summer cover story, Rachel Grace Almeida finds out.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The paperback is here, everyone!
Paperback edition of my book The Measure of Progress
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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Policy Live 2026 is underway 💥 Still to come on our live stream: ⏰ 13:00 - Dan Tomlinson MP on getting growth in every postcode ⏰ 15:30 - Jess Philips MP on tackling violence against women & girls ⏰ 16:30 - Josh MacAlister MP OBE on governing a changing Britain Watch now: bit.ly/4A4igO1
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Leaving aside the uncertainty on the exact probability, can't remember seeing an astroid or nuclear cataclysm probability number close to this. Raises a few issues if representatives of a private company are making statements like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feels like Maths is about to become like Formula 1: the skill of the driver definitely matters, but... openai.com/index/navier...
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sir Terry Farrell's great masterpiece on the Thames, Embankment Place, is to be saved for posterity, being listed Grade 2 today, with Adam who designs all our artwork being cited as 1 of the 2 experts in the listing. Check out our collection celebrating it: architectural-icons.com/collections/...
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That AI agents have been able to formally verify the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (i.e. automate the proof checking) when this is an active research project set to take many years feels like a big deal to this layperson - even if FLT's truth not in doubt. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...
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FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Anika Kunst's track 'The Witness' to speed out of the parting week unterwegsrecs.bandcamp.com/track/the-wi...
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The Witness, by Anika Kunst
from the album Unterwegs IX - Anika Kunst - The Power of Presence
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
William Friedkin's The French Connection on #BBCiPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The French Connection
Gritty action drama in which a brutal maverick cop uses unconventional methods to break a Franco-American drug ring operating in New York. The film won five Oscars.
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Analysis of #EmilyinParis on BBC Sounds' #TheGlobalStory: the total % effect on tourism is small, but it is concentrated in specific areas due to amplification on social media platforms. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Global Story - Did Emily ruin Paris? - BBC Sounds
Can TV shows and movies reshape the cities we live in?
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Was könnte schiefgehen wenn wir KI nutzen um den Klimawandel zu lösen? Ein interessantes Hörspiel nach @tomhillenbrand.de's 'Hologrammatica' @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy www.deutschlandfunk.de/hologrammati...
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Podcast - Hologrammatica
Privatdetektiv Singh sucht eine verschwundene Programmiererin für digitale Gehirne. Und entdeckt ein Geheimnis, das alles verändert. Wenn KI die Welt retten kann – geben wir die Kontrolle ab? Ein Scie...
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Emilio Isgrò's 'Prayer for Europe' (2016) from his exhibition at the #Estorick collection (closes 6th Sept) www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions
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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A celestial journey reconstructing remembered 90s ambient from Brock van Wey to start Sunday bvdub.bandcamp.com/album/almost...
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[almost] Live From Space, by bvdub . Brock Van Wey
1 track album
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Blickrichter @blickrichter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
„Open-AI hat neue Modelle getestet, das machen die die ganze Zeit, weil halt niemand so genau weiß, wie Sprachmodelle funktionieren […]“ JA DANN IST JA ALLES GUT😬 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/c...
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CN013 ApoKIlypse - Darum bricht KI aus
Podcast-Folge · Cybernation - Der Podcast für digitale Sicherheit · 11. August · 54 Min.
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