If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
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Me too…so boring but no alcohol, regular pilates & swimming, gulping drugs at the first sign of trouble have all worked for me.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Timeline cleanse
Horrific, horrific news from Alder Hey in Liverpool.
And I’m already seeing anti-vax nonsense in response to this tragic news on social media. We are living in such dangerous times.
The impact of cuts to US data will be global: my letter in @financialtimes.com today on.ft.com/465WTiF
My first time in Le Monde, on how the US administration is erasing vital global datasets, and what to do about it:
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Ahead of our Data for Development event on 17 June feat. @clairemelamed.bsky.social @timdobermann.bsky.social & others as part of #LSEFestival our Zambia senior country manager outlines the challenges of data in developing countries & what a demand-first strategy looks like.
Read the blog:
Very excited to contribute to panel on data & development, 17 June, come along!
The US rep to the IEA said that "pursuing offshore wind power would make countries reliant on China." It's instructive to explore this sort of claim, in particular for what it reveals about those claiming it. Two points:🧵
This. Spain has the good fortune to have vast wind and solar resources and the good sense to invest enthusiastically in them. It's on track to being Europe's green energy superpower.
and in the meantime more data disappears: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
As the dust begins to settle in the post-USAID funding landscape, one thing is becoming clear for the development sector: this moment offers a critical opportunity to reshape digital systems and data policy. Read our latest blog as we discuss what this reimagined data ecosystem could look like.
Locking up the classics/econ crossover audience
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
No spoilers but Wordle is backing #TeamPenguin today
Yes I loved it. The lanyards a great idea, there was something weird about everyone standing around in the interval with them on…like being at work!
What's going on with #data in the US? Good summary of present and possible future implications... www.ft.com/content/a2cb...
Delighted and honoured to have been appointed to the UN Working Group on Data Governance.
The agenda is BIG: fundamental principles; interoperability frameworks; fair sharing of benefits & safe data flows.
Please get in touch if you have ideas or views!
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EXCL: Anneliese Dodds, the international development minister, has quit her post over Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the international aid budget by almost half to pay for a generational increase in defence spending.
Find open data about USAID programmes (and some sources which have been taken down)
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What a chart. Source: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/s...
Today seems a good day to read @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social. But then, why would you ever not read someone who writes the sentence: 'I quite enjoy working my way through retaliatory tariff lists and reverse engineering the rationale'. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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Thanks Max, so excited to work with you and the brilliant @ourworldindata.org team!
