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Today the The White House announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by SPARC, Peter Suber (@[email protected]), Michael Eisen, and so many more. #OpenAccess whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

More than 1/3rd of kids below the age of 5 in India are stunted and 2/3rds anemic! Why soil health matters for nutrition- read here: hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-cr…

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Couldn’t agree more!

[1/n] I am offering a free Zoom "intro to R" data visualization workshop on November 5th, 2022 after popular demand. Specifically, I will go through the use of ggplot2. All disciplines and beginner* R skill levels are welcome. PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics

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THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry. New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."

📣📣 New data alert: we Development Data Lab are releasing open village and town maps for all of India. Find them at the top link here: devdatalab.org/shrug_download… We wrote a post with some more details about the maps: devdatalab.medium.com/open-access-ge… Sam Asher Tobias Lunt 1/5

Many pundits misunderstand the jobs most at risk from robots: this paper shows it is middle managers. High & low skilled employment INCREASES with more general purpose robots, but 🤖 don’t need supervision & a lot of managers suddenly become unnecessary. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It has cost nearly two dozen local authorities in the North of England £4.65 million to bid for the Towns Fund, Levelling Up Fund and Future High Streets Fund. They they secured £310 million. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

#EconTwitter: A thread on conferences/workshops on political economy, with a call for papers and links: 1/n:

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 We study the impact of disclosure laws in the housing market in India. The Maharashtra real estate regulator mandated developers to provide information & made these details public in May 2017 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Vaidehi Tandel @anupamKnanda Nandini Agnihotri 🧵👇 1/n

What Gen Z & even millennials don't think about enough is that the retirement age is dropping fast due to technological progress & life expectancy going up due to medical progress. In 20 years, retirement could be at 50 & life expectancy at 80. How do you fund the 30 years? 1/5

New research on the impact of climate change on politics shows that in India, areas experiencing higher temperatures have: - greater voter turnout - with winning candidates from agri backgrounds - who invest more in mitigation measures like irrigation docs.iza.org/dp15764.pdf?ut…

happy to share this piece I wrote for Al Jazeera English What happens when the so-called “solutions” peddled by apocalypse investors fail to solve the problems they keep generating? >aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

In our recent paper, we use negative binomial model on a global cross-section dataset to evaluate if religious freedom impeded efforts to combat spread of Covid-19. For more : link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Paper with Vaidehi Tandel Arnab Dutta and Ashwini Narayanan is accepted in the in the Journal of Population Economics! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🇮🇳🇨🇳 - India’s dependence on Chinese imports keeps growing • In 2023-24 financial year China edged past the US to reclaim its position as India’s top trading partner • India’s imports from China rose by 56% since 2020, fuelling a 75% rise in country's trade deficit with China

.Stuti Manchanda and Nilay Saiya are our “Secularists of the Week” for their published paper studying the link between Christian nationalism’s political empowerment and direct violence against religious minorities. x.com/hemantmehta/st…