Matt Jonas

Insight team at @H_S_E. Research, insight, service design, podcasting, food and other stuff. Views my own.

[Government Social Research (GSR) @GSR_UK]

Congratulations to the @H_S_E Insight & Service Design team for winning ‘In-house team of the year’ at the @TweetMRS & @researchlive Awards 2024! It was awarded for outstanding work which has helped transform their organisation 👏 This is #GovernmentSocialResarch

[Steve Akehurst @SteveAkehurst]

What are the biggest ‘vote moving’ policies for voters right now - and what are the characteristics they most prioritise a Prime Minister having?

Bit of a unusual experiment for @Persuasion_UK on dividing lines.

I think it’s vaguely interesting, anyway. 🧵

[British Election Study @BESResearch]

📢 NEWS📢

(Just over) 48 hours on from the announcement, the pre-campaign wave of the British Election Study Internet Panel is in the field!

Keep watching this space for analysis and insights in the run-up to July 4th

[Jack Worlidge @jackworlidge]

🚨📣This morning we’ve published Whitehall Monitor 2024 – the 11th edition of @instituteforgov’s data-driven assessment of the civil service.

A chart-heavy🧵of the top areas of analysis from this year’s report...

https://t.co/9Qa3xrpOhr

[Tom Westgarth @Tom_Westgarth15]

So the UK govt has just dropped a 'generative AI framework' for public service delivery.

A few interesting things buried in this which may hint at the direction of UK from a policy/delivery side 1/5 🧵

[Matt Jonas @matthewcjonas]

Very proud of the Insight and Service Design team here at @H_S_E. A lot of hard work went into this over several years.

Huge thank you also to the other teams at HSE who apply the findings and turn this into change in the real world.

[Analysis Function @gov_analysis]

@Ed_Authority #AiGAwards WINNER!

The winner of the AiG Inclusion Award is...

Matt Jonas from the Insight and Service Design Team @H_S_E for their work ‘Understanding the needs of non-English speaking and disabled high-rise residents’.

Huge congratulations Matt! 🎉🏆🌟🎉@GSR_UK

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[Andrew Sissons @ACJSissons]

Wanted to do a proper thread on this excellent chart. I think it's a v important issue that receives hardly any attention from policy makers.
The idea of a mid-life dip in wellbeing is a pretty common finding - but what causes it and what to do about it is a bit of an enigma...

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs

An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.

The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

[Robert Ford @robfordmancs]

Another statistic which looked highly dubious to me. The current situation in the Middle East is likely to reduce Muslim support but by 65%? Such a swing would be unprecedented. So I did a quick google on "Muslim Census poll" and...

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Top 10 A-level subjects

1994 vs 2023

1. English … Maths
2. Soc Sci … Psychology
3. Maths… Biology
4. Gen Stud Chemistry
5. Biology … History
6. Geog… Sociology
7. History … Business Studies
8. Chem … Art
9. physics Economics
10. Art … Physics

[Samuel Wong @samuel_wong_]

When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen https://t.co/SPWz27iLoD

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small.

1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

[Great British Getty Images @shitbritishpics]

Friends Daniel (left) and Smudge drink cider at Cleethorpes bus station. They are waiting to see if any good-looking girls arrive in town for the day (2001)

[Johnny Runge @JohnnyRunge]

🚨My @ESCoEorg report is out! Based on @YouGov survey.

Understanding of economy is good on interest rates & inflation, less so on GDP & economic inactivity.

How not to communicate: “falling inflation”, “avoiding a recession”, “tight lab market”.

Blog: https://t.co/13SxUfTEx4

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🔎THE GLASS FAMINE🔎
I think you’ll find this story from #materialworld pretty 🤯
It’s about how a simple substance changed the world.
About how decisions taken centuries ago still shape our lives.
It begins with one of the most extraordinary moments in modern military history
🧵

[Matthew Holehouse @mattholehouse]

context

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of the EU referendum. To mark it, we've done some polling with Public First (thanks to @racheljanetwolf and team and to @SophieStowers for putting these graphics together). You can find details here: https://t.co/7Af4XXJjHf 1/8

[Jimmy McIntosh @jimmy__mcintosh]

Here's where I'm currently at on the map of places to get a drink (non-club, for free) in London late (earliest closure 2am). I'll keep adding when I can be bothered to look! Up to 109.

https://t.co/0YHgTngtKp

[Matt Jonas @matthewcjonas]

@stianwestlake As well as public reluctance to join experiments, there is a big job to do in educating people on why they're useful. Off the back of a failed experiment, many people simply question why all that money was wasted on something that didn't work...

[YouGov @YouGov]

New survey design experiments by YouGov's @PME_Politics demonstrate the the importance of question framing to properly measuring public opinion

See the results on leading questions and acquiescence bias in the next tweets 👇

https://t.co/pqOH8s4Z9J