Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Excited that Open Phil is funding this @metaculus.bsky.social forecasting tournament on the future budgets and spending of NIH and NSF, and surprised that forecasters are expecting basically no cuts www.metaculus.com/tournament/...

Applying to NEUDC Feels like they're trying to tell me something

Nathan Franz, PhD student at UT Austin - he’ll be on the market this fall! Paper is about the trade off between public and private facility deliveries, leading to a situation where private and more expensive facilities have worse health outcomes Website: nathan-franz.github.io

🚨New Paper🚨 Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics" My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PEPFAR, the U.S. global health program that has saved over 26 million lives from HIV, is in limbo. Without reauthorization, its future is uncertain. What does it look like to be a child who lives this uncertainty? whatweare.substack.com/p/before-you...

After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso will be published on 8 July. www.amazon.com/After-Spike-...

By the way, for anyone wondering why we have imports on the books from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the answer is that someone logged imports from Honduras incorrectly.

Even if you think that having an overall trade deficit is bad, trying to zero out trade deficits with each country individually doesn't make sense. A quick example:

Pakistan: 29% Sri Lanka 44% Bangladesh 37% China 34% Vietnam 46% India 26% Thailand 36% Indonesia 32% Cambodia 49% South Africa 30%

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

A timely, important, and wonderfully written piece on the Demographic and Health Surveys by Caren Grown. So much learning stands on the shoulders of the DHS. Donors must step up and step in— and soon— especially to rescue the 18 surveys currently in the field. www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...

BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

Haven't tried it yet but www.aid-archive.org

Our group has been hard at work to release a new tool: The Data Rescue Tracker. The tool aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is downloading which dataset from which government websites. Please share! www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...