Please help spread the word about our AOM TIM event for researchers in the global south! Aiming to build a network, develop ideas and expand AOM benefits. linkedin.com/posts/susanne-…

New post, coauthored with Caroline Viola Fry! Podcast and newsletter links in the reply. newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/y9n9at3t

check out our review on the evidence on training of LMIC scientists...our conclusion: lots more research to be done in this area!

deadline to apply is this friday!

last day to apply!

REMINDER: Apply for the 2025 Migration & Organizations Conference by February 14! Submit a paper or express your interest in attending here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Apply for the doctoral consortium here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Best ⁦Ezra Klein⁩ podcast ever. Listen and hope. Another one for ⁦Pod Save America⁩ podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the…

The freeze on foreign aid has put millions of lives at risk, & waivers for certain programs meant to protect the most vulnerable aren’t working. Charles Kenny explains that if Secretary Marco Rubio wants to avert needless deaths, he must fix the waiver process now: bit.ly/4aTbrmk

We need USAID now more than ever, writes karen mathiasen. As 2025 presents a bleak outlook for countries that rely on USAID for bilateral aid, she argues that now is the time to act, not pause: bit.ly/3Q4JcY1

USAID has been fighting disease, feeding children, and promoting goodwill around the world for six decades. As this article makes clear, dismantling this agency would be a profound foreign policy mistake - one that Congress should resist. nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opi…

A thread on USAID, and why it’s a long way from over… The wanton disruption of US assistance has been murderous. By now, kids will have died from malnutrition or one of the afflictions of camp life –perhaps dehydrating diarrhea.

Please help us circulate the call for applicants to the second workshop for LMIC early career researchers - a fun interactive event with great mentoring and networking opportunities

🪧#TIM Division Ideas Development Workshop, March 18th, 2025 📢 Open to early-career scholars in Low and Middle-income countries studying #TIM topics. 🗓️ Apply Before March 3rd, 2025 Applicaion Link: forms.gle/UQx5cLugFmc4GH… More info at: linkedin.com/posts/aom-tim-…

Hello twitter - anyone got a suggestion for a way to convert scopus Eid’s into DOIs that doesn’t rely on using scopus?

Despite grim headlines, it's not time to give up on aid, writes Lee Crawfurd. Instead, he argues that we need to do a better job at showing how effective aid can be: bit.ly/4bRISWD

Changes to foreign aid and domestic science are making headlines — but changes to funding science in developing countries are getting far less attention. Our new post discusses why this matters for the U.S. and the world: mattsclancy.substack.com/p/funding-r-an…

In light of the news that NIH is cutting support for lots of research abroad, posting Caroline Viola Fry and I’s recent piece arguing this kind of work has huge ROI, benefits the US, and is a small share of our R&D spend.

Matt Clancy Caroline Viola Fry 3/4 of R&D now happens outside the United States. Despite the internet, advanced knowledge transfers is still a social function (person to person) to an astonishing degree. Funding joint projects is one of the way America connects to that ¾. Foreign students are another. We