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It’s economics, stupid: Why the UN is inefficient and what to do about it UN reforms: Budget cuts and dramatic restructuring aren’t going to cut it. The aid sector needs to understand its economic inefficiency problem.

It’s economics, stupid: Why the UN is inefficient and what to do about it: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

YouTube video by Science With Tom Alfred Wegener vs. The Fixists (Continental Drift) - Science History Battle Rap

If you want to understand the debate in geology between "fixists" and "drifters", before the acceptance of Plate Tectonics, this is a good place to start 😂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC1E...

Bridging data gaps: predicting inadequate micronutrient intake with machine learning

We’ve just published our latest work on bioRxiv!

In this study, we present a methodology to estimate inadequate micronutrient intake - a key driver of malnutrition -using food consumption data, socio-economic indicators, and climate variables.

Check it out here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AI revolution in a graph: coding will never be the same again.
#stackoverflow

The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.

On the tragic shutdown of USAID humanitarian data streams:

"Humanitarian data loss is just one part of a broader information collapse threatened by the US retreat from its global leadership role, but its consequences are immediate and deadly."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

YouTube video by Nobel Prize Nobel Prize lecture: John Jumper, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

John Jumper’s Nobel lecture is amazing. A great reminder to us practioners on how much pain and failure is behind even the most extraordinary breakthroughs and how many brilliant minds it takes to build every inch of truth. Scientific progress is a painful collective effort ! youtu.be/qX1aYUckvnY

Forecasting trends in food security with real time data - Communications Earth & Environment Levels of food consumption for the next 60 consecutive days can be forecast for Mali, Nigeria, Syria, and Yemen, using a machine-learning methodology that combines publicly available ecological, socia...

Happy to share the latest publication of our team :

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The methodology we introduce establishes the groundwork for a global, Deep Learning early warning system designed to anticipate and detect food insecurity.

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