Laura Derksen

So proud to have @voxdev.bsky.social highlight our work on how EMRs have saved lives in Malawian HIV clinics -- efficiency improving measures are even more important given drastic funding cuts to foreign aid and HIV treatment

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Stanley Tucci in Conclave

Congratulations, Pope Leo!

I am hopeful it may even improve as his wife has worked a lot in international aid

Have to say I am pretty proud of Canada today. Looks like the right wing populist is going to lose in his own riding

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

I will try!

No, but I mean old google translate worked just fine. Do I have to pay for something now? So far it seems like this problem happens with the gmail extension but not on the google translate webpage.

google translate has gotten so much worse lately, e.g. changing the meaning of emails to the point that I reply completely differently (and wrongly)... is this AI hallucinations? Anyone else seeing this?

😂

So far Canadian and American maple syrup are still the same price (or maybe Canadian used to be cheaper?)

Basic household items under lock and key at Target (America)

People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing. Despite the high HIV prevalence in Malawi, individuals do not seem to adjust their behaviour to avoid infection—this may be due to the perceived transmission risk being so high that people become fata...

🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing.

Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Matthew O. Jackson: Can Trade Prevent War?

Time to remind ourselves of some observations about how trade appears to help stabilize alliances and prevent international conflict www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mat...

(this is my advice for every applied metrics class for every audience)

My advice is not that fun but I'd devote a decent amount of time to a recap of linear regression and interpreting coefficients and interactions etc.

Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV

Five years

3 million deaths

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It worked bsky.app/profile/bara...

First run of the spring and I was overtaken by a Norwegian dad with a kid in the stroller and another kid in a carrier on his back

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease.

That is, until January."

-- Nick Kristof

My 4yo bingeing With Love Meghan on Netflix. "What's she gonna make next??? We don't know!"

Would ya look at that

They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing

a man in a white shirt is standing on a set of stairs with his arms in the air ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing on a set of stairs with his arms in the air

Trudeau rn

Chrystia Freeland prob thinks Zelenskyy was *too* deferential. Also Trudeau called him "Donald"

Is Canada the only country standing up to Trump or what

Potential Clinical and Economic Impacts of Cutbacks in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Program in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 Background: Future U.S. congressional funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program is uncertain. Objective: To evaluate the clinical and economic impacts of abruptly sca...

So many organizations I’ve had the privilege of working with received termination letters from USAID this week. Here’s an estimate of how many lives may be lost as a result, in South Africa alone: >500k additional deaths, >500k new infections
doi.org/10.7326/ANNA...

More efficient than any DOGE idea yet

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Last chance -- extended abstracts are fine! Hope to see you in Oslo #econsky #NCDE2025