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Companion book available here: teal-insights.github.io/soas_llm_tra...

Presentation slides available here:

teal-insights.github.io/soas_llm_tra...

YouTube video by Teal Emery AI for the Skeptical Scholar

Just uploaded my "AI for the Skeptical Scholar" workshop to YouTube - 2 hours of practical guidance for researchers who want substance over hype.

These tools can help small teams tackle ambitious policy research that used to require massive resources.

youtu.be/mIStv_pCEZQ

RDM Weekly - Issue 006 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 6 of RDM Weekly is out! 📫

- AI for the Skeptic from @tealemery.bsky.social
- Data Management for Educators from @ekholme.bsky.social
- Managing Longitudinal Data from @ukdataservice.bsky.social
- Regular Expressions #rstats from @liomys.mx
and more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

@emollick.bsky.social Found a perfect example of your "jagged frontier" concept:

Current AI image generation can paint a gorgeous dumpster fire in Monet's style in seconds, but completely fails when I ask it to create a helpful diagram explaining the jagged frontier itself. Meta! 🎨📊

AI for the Skeptical Scholar online book

Just delivered "AI for the Skeptical Scholar" to 50+ SOAS researchers.

Put all materials online for free - hoping it gives folks allergic to AI hype a realistic resource for learning actually useful skills.

📖 teal-insights.github.io/soas_llm_training

Iraq / IMF Article IV staff report. Always read the footnotes in IMF staff reports! www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Cuomo to Katonah Town Board

Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped Into Funding AK-47s for Coup The indictment reads like a cinematic plot: A Harvard Fellow and another activist allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s, Stinger missiles and grenades to topple South Sudan’s government. What they lacked was...

We've all been there. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They should have given you a fancy wine opener set

Seminar on World Bank’s New Radical Debt Transparency Report The launch of the Radical Debt Transparency report, featuring Pablo Saavedra, Vice President for Prosperity and Manuela Francisco, Global Director for Economic Policy.

New World Bank report "Radical Debt Transparency" being discussed tomorrow in Tokyo (11am), tonight US East Coast (10pm) with registration form here (tip: put the same information in both boxes for each question). www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Tesla on the hunt for space to park its overflowing inventory.

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/06/17/t...

Analysis-Emerging market local currency debt could end decade-long drought as dollar wanes LONDON (Reuters) -A weakening U.S. dollar is lifting a long-neglected asset class - emerging market local currency debt - after a more than decade-long drought. Emerging market local​-​currency bond ...

"Emerging market local currency government bonds have enjoyed returns of more than 10% since the start of the year - more than double the around 4% delivered by the hard-currency peers, according to JPMorgan indexes." ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...

Absolute insanity. The US President is ordering deployment of armed agents specifically into “Democrat power centers”.

There aren’t any more warnings left to make. Our house is on fire now.

This is not a partisan issue. Our Congress must act immediately to protect our democracy.

You can see it in his eyes: Schumer is going to unleash one heck of a sternly worded letter

I hope there was a large layer cake to celebrate, too.

The alarming surge of “wrench attacks” in crypto puts owners on edge “The main problem is that cryptocurrency turns every holder into a walking bank vault. And being your own bank means accepting that you can be...

Help, my libertarian stateless fantasy currency requires the resources and legitimacy of the state to protect me! sherwood.news/crypto/the-a...

WB Chief Economist: "The current [debt sustainability framework] system is too quick to decide that countries merely need loans to tide them over, when most low-income countries today are in fact insolvent and will need debt write-offs ..."

Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’ Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

UFO myths gripped America for decades, and the Pentagon finally figured out where a lot of them came from.

It was the Pentagon.

🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4kz4Cdq

Will America’s Unbalanced Trade Doom the Dollar? Concerns that the U.S. trade deficit will drag down the dollar are overdone.

"Indeed, changes in exchange rates and net international investment positions have shown no correlation over the past decade outside of the U.S. either, according to cross-country data from the International Monetary Fund." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

Boss move for Ramaphosa would be to offer Musk political asylum.

big distinction here between “does the USG need space x?” (Y) and “does space x need elon musk?” (N), and USG has many, many ways to make that second question excruciating for space x if they choose to

If you want to open a Github issue on one of my projects just to tell me how great it is, I fully support that, btw 🥹

Why China’s “Overcapacity” Looks Very Different in the Global South A new Financial Times article about rapid changes in Pakistan’s electricity mix highlights how the large-scale production of solar panels and batteries in China, criticized as overcapacity by G7 gover...

As G7 nations decry Chinese solar overcapacity, Pakistan’s middle class is using it to power homes, decarbonize, and reshape energy access—one rooftop at a time.