Sanjush Dalmia
@SanjushDalmia_
Science, Innovation and Technology Policy | Fellow @BritishProgress | Former Science Policy Advisor @UKLabour | NHS Doctor & Medical Researcher
9. Britons are widely convinced of the benefits of free trade which they believe positively impacts the UK as a whole (71%), them and their families (51%) and their local area (47%). The UK-US (57%) and the UK-India trade deals (53%) are also supported by the majority of Britons.
Absolutely vile. The betting lobby is so panicked by the fear of a higher tax on the most harmful forms of gambling that they have resorted to utterly ignorant racism.
Not sure of his origins
The evidence in 2025 that increasingly powerful models make it easier for novices to create bioweapons demands our urgent, global attention. Material harm isn’t inevitable by any measure, but the way to reduce material risk is to prepare and act now.
We’ve decided to treat this launch as High Capability in the Biological and Chemical domain under our Preparedness Framework, and activated the associated safeguards. This is a precautionary approach, and we detail our safeguards in the system card. We outlined our approach on…
3000 people died in Britain in 2022's heatwaves, meanwhile those who claim to be progressive want us to not have air conditioning so that we can *checks notes* "truly feel the heat" and "bear the unbearable"
I'm very proud to have won the Royal Statistical Society's award for best statistical commentary by a non-journalist this year 🥹 The award was for my piece "The rise in reported US maternal mortality rates is largely due to a change in measurement", which looked at the impact…
trevorklee.substack.com/p/we-need-to-i… A good idea from @trevor_klee -- there should be an org that *just* focuses on reanalyzing clinical data to look for new indications for old drugs.
Mission‑driven government needs more than ambition: we must rewrite the rules of the game. Today for @britishprogress, @pdmsero and I show how mechanism design (‘ reverse game theory’) can help the Government shape markets, crowd in investment and deliver radical reform.
More evidence that real-world trials >> benchmarks for understanding the productivity effects of AI (whiteheat.substack.com/p/ai-evals-for…)
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
Had a great time at the @progbrit reception last night - thanks for organising!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Summer Reception last night!☀️ It was a fantastic evening filled with great conversations, between friends old and new. A special shout out to our speakers, and to all our members for being part of such a memorable night!
"It's the economy, stupid" Voters vote based on the state of economy. But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most? This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets. But the inflation plays the biggest role.
It doesn't have to be this way. lichfields.uk/media/8198/sma…
How much misconduct/fraud is there in the academic literature? About 0.2% of papers get retracted, but that's obviously a severe underestimate. Probably the best estimate comes from a manual (!!!) inspection of 20K (!!!) Western blot images. Estimate is 3.8% (1/2)