‘We were very committed to ideals of open science and research transparency from the start. The idea is if you generate evidence, you want to share it openly. You want to share it honestly.’ – Edward ‘Ted’ Miguel
Edward ‘Ted’ Miguel, a renowned global development leader and professor, shares enlightening insights
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Thanksgiving in the states (which probably means you won’t be reading this till Monday at the earliest), I’ll be grateful for sitting next to an impeccably polite economist reading and correcting a draft paper, which is taking every ounce of my self-discipline not to read over his shoulder (he’s doing it with paper and pencil, too; I have a student who uses a ReMarkable and she let me have a go on it today and I regret to inform you I will soon be spending money that should go on food or wine on one).
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Climate change is a worldwide and potentially centuries-long event, but it is precipitating thousands of local and short-term crises that demand response. That means it is urgent to move away from thinking about climate change as “distant and unimportant” or “distant and universally existential” towards “immediate and differentiated.”
In a collection marking the second anniversary of the pandemic, scholars from around the world outline innovations that can help increase vaccination, masking, and other preventative behaviors.