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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Including: The dog's gaze: a visual history by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumnus Thomas W. Laqueur This book will be featured in the upcoming Alumni Book Club www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book cover depicting a dog gazing at a man, who is, in turn, gazing at the viewer
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are:

The internet we could have had by Christopher M. Kelty
Deep connections by Katja Bego
What tech calls governing by Adrian Daub
Quantitative easing and tightening edited by Francis Breedon
Archival research for international relations by Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
Purges by Edward Goldring
How women win presidential elections in Latin America by Catherine Reyes-Housholder
The inclusive wealth of nations by Eoin McLaughlin
Botley farmer by David Chun
The dog's gaze by Thomas W. Laqueur.
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When can we use two-way fixed effects (TWFE)? A comparison of TWFE and novel dynamic difference-in-differences estimators doi.org/10.1177/0081... Paper in Sociological Methodology by Associate Member @ruettenauer.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Damp places, unhappy faces: local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure on residents’ wellbeing in England doi.org/10.1080/0267... Paper in @housingjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social & @dspi-oxford.bsky.social student @neftalememanuel.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is (not) engaging with a digital parenting intervention in Tanzania? Analysis of predictors using data from a factorial randomized trial doi.org/10.2196/86129 Paper in @jmirpub.bsky.social Pediatrics & Parenting co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Lucie D. Cluver
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are:

The obsolescence of human rights by Filip Balunovic
The economic diplomacy of peace in the Middle East by Libby Lahar
The politics of independence referendums by Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet
War at arm's length by Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes
Strong mayors and leadership capital by Max W. Stafford
Memory and institutional amnesia in government by Alastair Stark, Hridesh Gajurel, Jack Corbett, Dennis C. Grube, Heather Lovell and Rodney J. Scott
Empirical political theory by Nahshon Perez
Governing the welfare commons edited by Anton Hemerijck and David Bokhorst
Gender, leadership, and crisis by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, Farida Jalalzai and Malliga Och
Non-linearity in econometric modeling volume 2, Empirical applications and source code by Sarit Maitra.
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is the UK electorate fragmenting? Not so fast www.ft.com/content/28ea... @financialtimes.com article by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @martamiori.bsky.social, with contributions from Nuffield Fellow @profjanegreen.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The impact of an ageing population on pandemic risk in England doi.org/10.64898/202... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social members @thomrawson.bsky.social, @dvaldenegro.bsky.social, @drjenndowd.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How political events become demographic: Toward a cumulative demography of conflict and violence doi.org/10.1111/padr... Paper in Population & Development Review by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mathis Ebbinghaus, Nuffield Alumna Liliana Andriano and Patrick Heuveline
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
Emotional technologies by Eva Illouz and Jonas Ferdinand
Being liberal by David Howarth
Youth political representation edited by Kira Renée Kurz and Brit Anlar
Waves of discontent by Jacob F. H. Smith
Women and regulation edited by Sara R. Rinfret and Michelle C. Pautz
Blurred boundaries edited by Jessica Edens McCrary and Lynée Lewis Gaillet
Critical qualitative methodologies in gender and sexuality edited by Maureen A. Flint, Luis Alvarez-Hernandez, Janie Copple, Joseph D. Sweet and Whitney Toledo
Spatial economics by Hans R.A. Koster, Stef Proost and Jacques-François Thisse
The Conservative Party and the constitution by Daniel Pitt
Advanced data analysis techniques, theory and applications edited by Sofia D. Anastasiadou, Theodore G. Chadjipadelis, Nikos Koutsoupias, Angelos Markos and George C. Menexes
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Levelable graphs doi.org/10.1007/s000... Paper in Annals of Combinatorics by Kieran Bhaskara, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Michael Y. C. Chong, Takayuki Hibi, Naveena Ragunathan and Adam Van Tuyl
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Protection versus compensation: The class divide in advanced democracies ssrn.com/abstract=743... @ssrn.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alexander Trubowitz
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Getting ready for #OxfordOpenDoors at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social tomorrow. Barbara has curated a display including material on Morris Motors from the Library's Lord Nuffield archive collection. Come along from 12:00-16:00 on Saturday to see some rarely displayed items! #MorrisMotors
A partially assembled display containing notes, technical drawings and photographs relating to Lord Nuffield and Morris Motors
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Phenomic profiles and disease patterns of 1.9 million participants from Our Future Health doi.org/10.1038/s415... Paper in @natmed.nature.com by V. J. Straub, S. Benonisdottir, G. S. Bentivoglio, N. Wary, R. Campbell, A. Kong and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @melindacmills.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Including: Setting fire to reason: the ethics of free speech by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumnus Jeffrey W. Howard
Book cover: black background with white and orange text reading Setting fire to reason: the ethics of free speech - Jeffrey W. Howard
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are:

Climate change edited by Chiara Cordelli and Melissa Lane
Interest rates and asset values by Richard Thomas
The great green grab by Philippe Le Billon
Grounding the cloud by Ali Fard
The rise and rise of human rights by Kirsten Sellars
The return of the great powers by Brendan Simms
Setting fire to reason by Jeffrey W. Howard
The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham volume 14. supplementary letters edited by Philip Schofield, Tim Causer and Chris Riley
A course in interacting particle systems by Jan M. Swart
Modern statistical methods and theory by Richard J. Samworth and Rajen D. Shah
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The role of childlessness in changes in cohort fertility: Cross-national comparisons of countries in Europe, East Asia, and North America doi.org/10.4054/DemR... Paper in @demresjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Ermisch
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A forecast-error taxonomy facing multiple shifts doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... Paper in Econometrics and Statistics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Alumna and Associate Member Jennifer L. Castle, Nuffield Research Fellow Jurgen A. Doornik and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow David F. Hendry
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are:

Steering structural change edited by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Maurice Obstfeld and Petia Topalova
Writing with research by Kristen B. Neuschel and Ann Marie Rasmussen
Humanitarianism from below? edited by Till Mostowlansky and Elmira Muratova
Subversion and seduction by Audrye Wong
How to keep your research project on track edited by Keith Townsend and Mark N.K. Saunders
The political economy of artificial intelligence edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb and Catherine E. Tucker
How citizens encounter the democratic state by John Boswell
European integration in the constitutional borderlands by Päivi Leino-Sandberg and Peter L. Lindseth
Death by the powerful by Katy Snell
The return of ideology edited by Heiko Beyer Alexandra Schauer
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Innovation and the great divergence doi.org/10.1111/ehr.... Paper in @echistsocreview.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry and Runzhuo Zhai
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Coercive nuclear threats under domestic dissonance: How public opinion shapes the nuclear credibility of autocracies and democracies doi.org/10.1080/1352... Paper in @cspjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @samseitz.bsky.social & Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Contribution of lifestyle factors to sex differences in educational inequalities in life expectancy in selected European countries doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Paper in Annals of Epidemiology co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @jdzazueta.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why housing markets fail and how to fix them www.ox.ac.uk/news/pulse/p... @ox.ac.uk news story highlighting the research of @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library. They are:

Self-sabotage by Todd McGowan
Doing open social science by Patrick Dunleavy and Timothy Monteath
Poverty in the UK edited by Mel Hughes, Debbie James and Carrie-Anne Mizen
Governing global emotions by Jessica Pykett
How to win a trade war by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
Moral economics by Alvin E. Roth
The Oxford handbook of revolutionary elections in the Americas, 1800-1910 edited by Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Andrew W. Robertson
Networks: by A. D. Barbour and Gesine Reinert
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach doi.org/10.1080/0032...
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:

The disruption of the British party system by Richard Rose
Active and passive citizens by Richard Tuck
Ties that bound by J.C. Sharman
Surviving chaos by Mark Leonard
Shared morals by Jae-Hee Jung
Evaluating the Obama presidency edited by Meena Bose and Paul Fritz
Random dictatorships by Alexander Libman
Democratic drain by Justin Gest
Worse than war by Anke Hoeffler and James D. Fearon
The solidarity economy by Tehila Sasson
Corporate governance (5th ed.) by Bob Tricker
Bayesian workflow by Andrew Gelman [and 10 others]
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The limits of leadership advantage in Stackelberg duopoly doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... Paper in Economics Letters by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Toan Le
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:

Privatising humanity by Kate Bayliss
Beneath the wage by Annie McClanahan
Make your manuscript work by Laura Portwood-Stacer
New perspectives on global gender-based violence edited by Angela Wilcock and Helen Williams
Ladder or lottery by Gary A. Hoover
Realigning humanitarianism in the Balkans by Čarna Brković
Principles of digital democracy by Roslyn Fuller
The price of the world by Friedrich Lenger
Twilight of the dons by Colin Kidd
The economics of over-the-counter markets by Julien Hugonnier, Benjamin Lester and Pierre-Olivier Weill
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
Charm by Julia Sonnevend
Memes and politics in the UK by Rosalynd Southern
The rise and fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan
What we inherit by Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko
The Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, 2016-2025 edited by Julie Curtis
Public policy writing that matters by David Chrisinger
Black voices in the halls of power by Jennifer R. Garcia, Christopher T. Stout and Katherine Tate
Modernity's critical conscience by Olof Hallonsten
Against money by J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev
Trajectory of power by William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Teacher sorting and inequalities in student achievement: Unequal exposures and differential returns to teacher qualifications doi.org/10.15195/v13... Paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @saidhassan.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Power and poverty: The distributional consequences of Walmart Supercenter openings doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Paper in Labour Economics by Lukas Lehner, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti and Rafael Pintro Schmitt
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research doi.org/10.1038/s415... Paper in @nature.com co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Thomas Brailey
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Conceptualizing private military and security companies doi.org/10.1177/0738... Paper in @conflictmanagement.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Thomas Brailey
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meritocracy: A qualified defense doi.org/10.1177/0002... Paper in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow David Miller
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... Paper in World Development by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @alexyeandle.bsky.social and Associate Member David Doyle
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Including "Picking winners: citizenship, central banks, and consumer finance" edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Desmond King
Book cover showing people queuing in a bank
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
Doing, failing, and realizing policy change by Maximilian Schiffers
The AI paradox by Virginia Dignum
Democracy, liberty, and judicial review by Alexander Kaufman
Technocrats in turmoil by Nicolas Jabko
Not token gestures edited by Roberta Hurtado
Political knowledge and democracy at scale by Philipa Friedman
Picking winners edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King
Challenging inequalities by Paul Johnson
Rotation of power by Antonios Kouroutakis
Time series decomposition and seasonal adjustment by Ping Zong
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW! You can find the latest research papers, media appearances etc by Nuffield members on the College homepage www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk (scroll down) powered by the Library's weekly Research Digest email. Thank you to the Nuffield Comms Team for making this happen!
Screenshot of a website showing link cards to academic papers written by and an award won by Nuffield College members
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Practice-dependent governance of AI doi.org/10.1007/s105... Paper in Journal of Business Ethics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Associate Member @henrikdku.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Harmonising French and German administrative DADS-EDP and SIAB data: A practical guide on how to create comparable data sets on maternal employment doi.org/10.1186/s126... Paper in Journal for Labour Market Research by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @sanderwagner.bsky.social et al.
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Including Research handbook of macroprudential policy edited by David Aikman and Prasanna Gai Which includes the chapter "Housing and macroprudential policy" by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer
Book cover depicting skyscrapers
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
Beyond the mask by Balázs Böcskei, Mariann Fekete, Ádám Nagy and Andrea Szabó
Obama and the bomb by Frank Leith Jones
Why nations still fight by Richard Ned Lebow
Viral debt edited by Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray and Frederick F. Wherry
The power of ideas and discourse in political analysis by Vivien A. Schmidt
Can democracy and capitalism be reconciled? edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Scott C. Miller
Understanding mathematical sociology by John Skvoretz
Migration and social policy in a changing world by Bryan Fanning
The United States and the unmaking of neoliberal order by Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz
Research handbook of macroprudential policy edited by David Aikman and Prasanna Gai
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Unintended consequences of open datasets: is agent-driven secondary analysis publishable? @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Office for Open Research online event: Wednesday 01/07/26 11:00-12:00 Book now: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BOSE26_OpenD...
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Have a look at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Giving Day page: nuffieldcollege.givingday.co.uk You can see a running total of donations received and even scroll a map of the world to see where donors are based #NuffGiving2026
A map of North Western Europe showing donations from England and France
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Social projection and political behaviour in low-information environments doi.org/10.1017/S147... Paper in European Journal of Political Research by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @alexyeandle.bsky.social and Johan Ahlbäck
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Life expectancy in China and the contribution of regional dynamics doi.org/10.4054/DemR... Paper in @demresjournal.bsky.social by Mengxue Chen, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @wensu221.bsky.social and Vladimir Canudas-Romo
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
Incel by Katherine Denkinson
Bitcoin bros by Dan Cassino
Iran and the bomb by Sina Azodi
Empirical Bayes by Roger Koenker and Jiaying Gu
Code war by Allie Mellen
Globalising the Nordic model edited by Mary Hilson, Carl Marklund, Andreas Mørkved Hellenes and Byron Z. Rom-Jensen
Political authority by Michael Buckley
Answering to us by Minh Ly
Every man's home a castle by Julia Bowes
High-dimensional probability by Roman Vershynin
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Under the radar: a longitudinal exploration of mental health among children & adolescents experiencing parental & caregiver death during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa doi.org/10.1111/camh... Paper in Child & Adolescent Mental Health co-auth by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Lucie Cluver
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Resisting relegation to the rank and file: Explaining the effects of status seeking on military force structure doi.org/10.1017/eis.... Paper in @ejisbisa.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @samseitz.bsky.social
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Library staff will be running Library Popup sessions around @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social this term, the next one will be TODAY (Tuesday 9th June) 11:00-12:00 in the Octagon. We can answer any questions you might have about using the Library and wider research assistance. #AskALibrarian
A book opening to reveal a selection of questions that you might like to ask a librarian:
Which libraries can I use and how?
How can I get data for my research?
How do I search SOLO?
How can I manage my references?
How do I publicise my work and track its impact?
What do I need to do to make my work open access?
How do I find books or online resources?
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