i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

If the eggs in the egg sandwich are not from Japan, this is going to fail!

New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

UN official says Israel's "deliberate shooting" of the single building where a fertility clinic was "immediately reminded me of the Rwanda genocide where I was a judge and where they ripped the bellies of pregnant women, pulled out the fetuses because they wanted to kill off the entire Tutsi group."

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

RF Kuang's new book's synopsis

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers! @antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟 We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

Excited and honored that “Creating Partisans” has won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for its contributions to research on pol. organizations and parties from @apsa.bsky.social! Many thanks to the committee & everyone who helped improve the book! @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.

Markus Goldstein making the point that there are very few papers in top economics journals on sub Saharan Africa.

I'm reading The Inheritance of Loss in preparation for the new one :D

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

“We built our house with our own hands, and now it’s gone.” The Punjab floods, which have killed hundreds of people, are the latest in a string of extreme weather events this year that have devastated Pakistan. Many businesses that rely on agriculture have seen their impending harvest washed away.

New working paper alert 🚨 We investigate the influence of police unions in U.S. local politics. We show that in cities where the mayor was supported by a police union, police departments obtain more resources, but, if anything, police performance worsens in these cities. More in the thread below.

TIL that @rizahmed.bsky.social is pro-sortition (random selection of citizens to become politicians) 😱 youtube.com/shorts/M7oTO...

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

What do bureaucrats maximize? New research by @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social & @saadgulzar.bsky.social demonstrates that governments can reduce intractable emissions problems — if they have the right incentives. legal-planet.org/2025/08/15/w...

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I got invited to write a Policy Brief based on our @nature.com article in the thread below. This is a new type of article for Nature's flagship journal. It just got published and you can read it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join as for double(!) EuroWEPS 🇮🇹-edition, generously hosted by Bocconi (@aalrababah.bsky.social & @catherinedevries.bsky.social) & @eui-eu.bsky.social (@eliasdinas.bsky.social). Very much looking forward to this! 👇

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Journalists in Gaza describing their starvation in real time Originally compiled by @standing-together.bsky.social

Just read @adambonica.bsky.social 's latest deep dive into the Democratic Party's campaign finance spamming. Wow! data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Had a great chat with Divya Gupta about my work on politicians and bureaucrats over at In Common Podcast www.incommonpodcast.org/podcast/134-...

The world's biggest food distribution program reduced stunting and subsequently increased wages. Kathy Baylis at #ABCDE2025. Paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... Summary blog voxdev.org/topic/health...

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

on.ft.com/4ffKLOH How BYD caught up with Tesla in the global EV race

Prof. Naidu in the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

What is there to say. Palestinians in Gaza are dropping from starvation imposed by Israel. We witness and can do nothing.

There will come a day when everyone will have always been against this.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

60+ people desperate for food killed by Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem. All charts free to use:

Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for covering our (w @saadgulzar.bsky.social) work on bureaucrat incentives to reduce crop-related fires and air pollution! Full paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽

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No families in Gaza are meeting their basic food needs. A disturbing visualization of the catastrophe. 🚨 Take action, and tell Netanyahu to stop blocking aid. Link in reply!

Public confidence in Pakistan's bureaucratic effectiveness is at an all time low. What does research tell us about the incentives, selection, and training needed to improve the current state of civil service? I discuss in a recent @voxdev.bsky.social blog: voxdev.org/topic/public...

A good piece on India’s new manufacturing. But before you conclude anything on the chances of replicating the East Asian model or the potential for job creation, we must ask two questions. + www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/b...