NYC is limiting the hours when trash is taken out because of issues with rats, and it's genuinely hard to pick a favorite quote from today's presser
Pick your fighter:
Cost-Effectiveness Should Be a Learning Priority, Not a Compliance Requirement @caitlin_tulloch et al @CGDev https://t.co/XXgFqzusW8 - part of our #evidence#evaluation in global development work
📢 Historic announcement: @USAID will provide $200 million to @UNICEF to provide life-saving treatment to severely malnourished children.
The largest leap in coverage on record.
Can't believe I missed this:
A Monte Carlo Murder Mystery: A Holmes-Watson-#PyMC adventure!
These folks produced an awesome short-film on using PyMC to solve a murder.
Who knew Sherlock Holmes was a Bayesian?
https://t.co/1aNcsWMflu
Here's The NYTimes decrying unfair past coverage of the Haiti story (note use of the guilt-saving passive tense): “For more than a century, Haiti *has been labeled* a disaster, a basket case, a place so destitute, indebted, lacking and lawless that it needs constant saving....
UNICEF estimates that the cost of Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods will increase by 16% over the course of the year. That could result in >600k kids with wasting losing access to treatment compared to 2021.
IRC clinics in Afghanistan have seen a thirty-fold increase in acutely malnourished children in 1 month alone.
As UN raises the appeal to $5B, we're calling on the intl community to reach a solution that puts food, medicine & cash in the hands of Afghans https://t.co/Qi1Vp1XGBd
Thanks to Daniel Foote for saying to
@POTUS what all decent supporters of Haitian sovereignty and dignity have been saying for a decade and more! Finally truth spoken by power to power! https://t.co/JW7TNhICRm