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One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls. I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*. If you find our work

Short thread on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC, which brings a huge amount of heat to the northern Atlantic. If it slows, the region west of Britain cools. And the Gulf Stream moves closer to the US coast, causing warming there. Both are already happening,

We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data! These three aspects would make this a dream job for me: • You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team. • You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important

funny/sad that autocorrect thinks the phrase 'what has gone right with today's generation' must be wrong.

Who saved 154 million lives over 50 years? World Health Organization (WHO) Six lives per minute! The name of the hero: Immunisation Programs. Let's make sure this great example of global progress, this triumph of human collaboration, gets its deserved attention! who.int/news/item/24-0…

We just published three homes from South Sudan 🇸🇸 on Dollar Street . When you see what “$70 per month” looks like in reality, it stops being “just a number”. Thanks to volunteers of Every Village. gapminder.org/dollar-street/…

Is Israel committing humanitarian crimes in Gaza? The Israeli gov’t strenuously denies it. Aryeh Neier, a giant in the world of human rights who escaped Nazi Germany and later cofounder Human Rights Watch, says the answer is yes. Our conversation from today’s GPS:

Prices for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells in in China fell 51% over the last year and now sit at $54/kWh. The average global price for these cells last year was $95/kWh.

Great to see Y8 upgrading their worldview with Gapminder Ola Rosling and Dollar Street Anna Rosling Rönnlund | Speaker

44 scientists have issued a stark warning about the threat of a major ocean circulation change, causing a detrimental disruption of climate patterns lasting for centuries to come. Check out this short video explaining what this is all about.

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Are you a science geek with an interest in public health? You probably imagine people like you know more about the future of global health than others… Watch me present some test results at 10:20 in Stockholm at the Nobel Week Dialogues today: svtplay.se/video/ePvVQGV/…

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We just launched a new #AI testing of chatbots' global misconceptions: The Artificial Worldview Benchmark #AWB. WORST SCORE: #grok2 xAI, only 70% correct! (Soon results for #Grok3 stay tuned Elon Musk) youtu.be/D7e1d16da0A?si… See gapminder.org/ai, OpenAI Meta

Today likely marks the lowest number of child deaths in human history. UNICEF’s latest data shows that the world’s most important number keeps falling. A quiet global miracle — almost never mentioned in the news. Thank you for tracking it, UNICEF Data.