David Lewis

Professor of anthropology and development @LSE. Academia, global development, music and other stuff

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

This. https://t.co/Bgy0SjrHCn

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

@TimNewburn Hope the treatment is going well Tim x

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

An important discussion of ecological precarity in Bangladesh https://t.co/1H48yDPtH1

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

@1michaelgray1 Today people don’t even ‘pass away’, they ‘pass’. Another euphemism too far for me.

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

Aid as reparation - you know this is going to be ground-breaking

[Rethinking Economics @rethinkecon]

The World Cup starts next week but it's a tournament built on inequality.

Here are the many issues with it.

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

Important insights on arts and development

[LSE International Development @LSE_ID]

Theatres, libraries, and community art centres across Ukraine are doing serious anti-corruption work. Dr David Jackson and Sophia Anders argue that international donors should recognise and support these efforts, as they offer a route to lasting change.
https://t.co/AyWLydwZpx

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

Our blog from Sri Lanka

https://t.co/j5nhBfxRxG

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

@nomhossain An essential part of DS, get it on the reading list!

[LSE South Asia Centre @SAsiaLSE]

What role does advice play in making entrepreneurs resilient? @lewisd100 @LSE_ID @LSEAnthropology & @LAHeslop @Bruneluni report on their @AFSEE_LSE research on advice-giving in Sri Lanka, w/ @anushwij @CSFasia.

https://t.co/bVIHd2apnn

@puljal @Dilmah @LSEEcon @LSEManagement

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

Applying our findings on entrepreneurship advice in Sri Lanka
@DevReimagined @UNDP
@devcomms @FCDOGovUK @AFSEE_LSE @EADI

https://t.co/cR8Ro3bV8C

[Prestige Couch @prestigecouch_]

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door.

The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo.

A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work.

Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

Book Launch: Reimagining Development: Bold Directions Towards a Thriving Worldhttps://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/events/a-world-of-insecurity/book-launch-reimagining-development-bold-directions-towards-a-thriving-world

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

IN THE MOMENT (by David Lewis) https://t.co/v2CSzhgkhW

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

@TimNewburn How about meeting up soon ?

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

The new album is now available for sale on CD (in a limited hand numbered edition) directly from me, or digitally via Bandcamp (along with all my other music). https://t.co/Sz6SKWVX6h

[David Lewis @lewisd100]

@audowla A very uninformed perspective, Bangladesh gets poor international coverage

[LSE Social Policy @LSESocialPolicy]

Minds that Dare – liberation of thought and expression: The ALM and Academic Freedom

Join us this week to hear @FrijtersPaul share his experiences in academia that led him to set up Academia Libera Mentis (ALM).

📆 Wednesday 28 Jan, 6.00pm-7.30pm
➡️https://t.co/jJ9wsY01Kn

[LSE International Development @LSE_ID]

🌟Book extract: Worlding Home by Maren Larsen explores how #UN #peacekeeping camps shape everyday urban life in Goma, DRC - not apart from the city, but within it.

If you’d like to learn more, attend the book launch 👉https://t.co/ojeK4EwMlZ

Fullpost 👉 https://t.co/0EVsjE3QDV

[Saba Naqvi @_sabanaqvi]

We have the deposed Bangladesh prime minister on Indian soil, the national anthem of that country is a composition by Rabindranath Tagore, we have always claimed a historical role in the liberation of Bangladesh. But today we are so mean spirited that we cannot allow an athlete from that country to play in a commercial franchise. We will have no moral stature left in South Asia. And we are choosing this nasty uncivil script not befitting a great power/civilisation because two state elections are looming where we wish to abuse all minorities as Bangladeshi. The hindutva hardliners who spew lies now seem to set the direction our great nation takes. What a fall from being a moral power the world admired...Hope we rethink on this one.