Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse.

A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Cars kill in more ways than one.

The U.S. says Africans’ health data shared under humanitarian aid deals will be aggregated and anonymized, but the State Department’s demands have sparked an outcry in Africa and raised concerns that the data could be misused or exploited.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

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Any insights on how reliable these data are?

It makes no sense that Speaker Heastie may be trying to kill a bill that would finally slow down New York's repeat reckless drivers. But according to yesterday’s reporting in @hellgatenyc.com, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Some of the world’s best chefs are switching from gas stoves to induction to get better control and consistent results.

" Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Wild to me that the thing that finally resulted in the anti-vaxxers winning was a deadly pandemic that demonstrated the true magic of vaccines in front of everyone’s eyes

blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/cl...?

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟒:𝟎𝟎 𝐆𝐌𝐓 (noon Eastern, 5 pm East Africa Time).

Hear from Nana Dr. Antwi Boasiako Amoah, Director of the Climate Change Department at the Environmental Protection Agency - Ghana

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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