Fathin Ungku

Bridging the research-policy gap at Swedish House of Finance. Reach me at [email protected]

[Fathin Ungku @fat___thin]

@szshkh in sweden they call it "alcohol liberated". lmao.

[Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸 @ns_whit]

The ultimate Singapore culture shock: a $15k bike left unattended

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

To no one's surprise, the Nobel Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

Here are 3 things from her to start your dive into her work:

[Fathin Ungku @fat___thin]

Young Chinese Love Everything About Sweden. Except Living There. @SixthTone; https://t.co/PEiGO9Ulno

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

THREAD: How to verify images online?

Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements.

So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

[Swedish House of Finance @SHouseofFinance]

Why are only 20% of researchers in #finance female? SHoF’s short film “Sidelined in Science” discusses the science behind roadblocks to women’s academic career in (financial) economics. Marieke Bos @MariekeJBos will premier the movie at the #MFA meeting on March 16 in Chicago.

[Joe Brock @JoeReuters]

Last year we began investigating a shoe recycling project run by Dow and the Singapore government. We discovered that shoes they said would be turned into jogging tracks were exported to Indonesia. 🧵TV/story 👇@specialreports https://t.co/fizDQFjG4v

[Francesco Marconi @fpmarconi]

ChatGPT is trained on a large amount of news data from top sources that fuel its AI. It's unclear whether OpenAI has agreements with all of these publishers. Scraping data without permission would break the publishers' terms of service.

[Fathin Ungku @fat___thin]

@szshkh wow people are horrible. i think she's super gorgeous! bjork vibes!

[Jack Farchy @jfarchy]

Commodity fraud scoop

Trafigura Group is facing more than half a billion dollars in losses after discovering metal cargoes it bought didn’t contain the nickel they were supposed to

@megacontango

https://t.co/qgsn9XA5kF

[E l s a @laeelxa]

I Sverige lär vi barn att resonera, analysera och dra slutsatser och vuxna universitetsstudenter att stava.

[Dewey Sim 沈炜淳 @deweysim]

NEW: Singapore will lift its few remaining Covid-19 restrictions, no longer requiring residents to wear masks on public transport from Feb 13. The multi-ministry task force, formed in 2020 to lead the government's virus response, will be stood down.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

begging people to stop romanticizing the pre-industrial era

[praveen menon @JournoPraveen]

New Zealand's Ardern leaves legacy of kindness, disappointments My take on @jacindaardern shock resignation today. @reuters #NewZealand https://t.co/p1VQklLRfA

[Fathin Ungku @fat___thin]

Half of green claims used to sell products in EU are misleading, Brussels finds https://t.co/OFYx8pN6sb

[Stanley Widianto @stanleywidianto]

Here is our developing story: https://t.co/g6u197BbbM

[Amy Chew @1AmyChew]

#PAS green wave decades in the making, will pose serious challenge to #PH govt, #Malaysia's way of life. PAS's influence accelerated in last 20 years, via thousands of schools owned by PAS or its supporters, spread across the country.

Thread

https://t.co/vBOe9yu06G

[Cate Cadell @catecadell]

A thread here for those who don't understand why the China protests over the weekend protests are so shockingly rare.

Surveillance. In. China. Is. Extreme. Think you could evade Chinese police? Let's walk through it:

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

geographic breakdown of china’s recent anti-govt protests
ht @reuters