I am teaching a PhD seminar this fall which attempts to put a decision-theoretic lens (or lenses) on research design. So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks. Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1... What's missing?

@ewpod.bsky.social shoutout from Aaron Goldsmith after a Carlos Vargas wild pitch then strikeout. Nice! #EffectivelyWild 🔱⚾

It's a fun day when @slangsonsports.bsky.social posts are #Mariners Trending and #MLB Trending feed top posts Weeee! #TridentsUp 🔱⚾

Great to see @criclerici.bsky.social's work highlighted! Indeed a very cool member of @poverty-action.bsky.social

The comments are better journalism than this article.

I make Cal Raleigh's dumper bigger every day until the Mariners extend him: Day 2

Also {modelsummary} and {tinytable} modelsummary.com vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

A ray of light. Heavyweight is the podcast I come back to more than any other. So glad to learn it has a new home.

With the level of disruption caused by the attacks on USAID, this is a reminder that the same people propose to end US funding to the World Bank and IMF. Feels like another extreme jolt to the international development world looms. www.project2025.observer

Great respect for these @cgdev.org leaders. Congratulations!

The #databs crowd knows this very well.

New blog post! After archiving USAID data last week, I decided to play around with and recreate parts of the ForeignAssistance dot gov dashboard with #QuartoPub and #ObservableJS. I learned a ton about D3 projections and making pretty Javascript plots #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

Not good.

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

At $190 per person per year, US foreign aid costs less than a Netflix subscription. It's one of the key ways to help people in dire need worldwide. Walking away from that signals a retreat from global responsibility.

We’ve forgotten who we are… marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/exec...

GitHub change logs make it possible to see how and where the government has been scrubbing web pages of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility content. www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

Learn the answers in our article "How do we know the history of extreme poverty?": https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

🔱⚾ Feed bsky.app/profile/did:... Appreciate feedback to make it useful to others. @mlbcolby.bsky.social @benranierimlb.bsky.social @raisethetrident.bsky.social @lockedonmariners.bsky.social @lukearkins.bsky.social @byadamjude.bsky.social @bytimbooth.bsky.social @seatimessports.bsky.social

Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, we risk repeating the catastrophic delays of COVID-19.

In Nairobi for the first time in ten years. So much of the city's landscape has changed. Yet the resilience of the urban forest is inspiring.

CGD president @rglenner.bsky.social is here!

Congratulations to my Mum, the first female Vice-President-Elect of Ghana! The first woman to lead a university in Ghana, and the best-performing Minister of Education in Ghana’s history in terms of standardized test scores, graduation rates and more. And still the humblest person I know. History.

Been using @typst.app recently. After all of the recent Overleaf hullabaloo, this is the new Dvorak/Qwerty divide. Typst is sooo fast at compiling PDFs.

Men may behave more aggressively than they would want to if they wrongly believe this is what other men (and women) view as « manly » - not crying or using violence to get respect. Here is recent experimental evidence on this from Rio de Janeiro. #EconSky #gender blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

I hope I am not late to the party (was away post-quals chilling) but here are some thoughts on why this is bad IMO: First, a disclaimer that I am writing this as an African who is a speaker of multiple African languages, NLP researcher of African languages, and HCI researcher focusing broadly on..

Great opportunity for PhD students!

Decidedly not ready for the What's Hot Classic content. Much more inclined to #mostpop bsky.app/profile/did:...

Glad to see research enabled in a privacy-safe manner.

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Beautiful way to start Sunday. Thank you @gaborbekes.bsky.social.

Looking forward to digging into the Chart Data API from @ourworldindata.org

Very excited about this. Opens up a lot of new data collection and analysis opportunities from documents. Thank you. @inesmontani.bsky.social!

A sign that we're in the good place. Hey @jackyeclayton.bsky.social!

Big step forward last night in our family boardgame experience. Added Patchwork to the list of child-approved options.

Trying out this starter pack thing. Ag/Dev economists, let me know who I've missed! #EconSky go.bsky.app/Fhdu7mW

Inspired by @dmckenzie.bsky.social's World Bank Researchers starter pack. I've created a starter pack for researchers within the J-PAL, IPA, and CEGA networks go.bsky.app/GXq3VE5 As the name suggests, it's just a start. Space to add more!

I started a starter pack for World Bank researchers. Let me know if I am missing you go.bsky.app/BWMsQG6

If you're using your own domain name as your BlueSky handle, I'll follow you immediately. "foo.bsky.social" feels the same as "[email protected]" to me. Gets the job done, but looks clunky. If you already have a domain (you should), set it up as your handle: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

We're cooking up some exciting data science and engineering work at Innovations for Poverty Action! Come join the team or spread the word. #dataskyence #pydata

🚨🚨Data science jobs at IPA!!🚨🚨 Apply your data science & engineering skills to problems of global poverty with more data than you can imagine. Seeking data scientists in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Mexico, or Colombia. poverty-action.org/data-scienti... poverty-action.org/senior-data-...