iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catia Batista @catiabatista.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Celebrating 15 years of #NOVAFRICA at our 2026 Conference on Economic Development! Grateful to #AbhijitBanerjee #IsaacMbiti @sandrasequeira.bsky.social @dmckenzie.bsky.social all presenters/discussants, co-founder #PedroVicente #RaquelFernandes #MagdaFerrão and graduate students spread globally!

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Next @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev mtg this F Jun 12 11am US eastern! Presenters: @nikhil03.bsky.social (Harvard): Public Investments in Primary Ed & the Rise of Private Ed in India @rajdevbrar.bsky.social (Berkeley): Information search among HS students in India Join us! Contact me for Zoom link.

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Rajdev Brar @rajdevbrar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

landlawsofindia.org Fantastic resource by Land Rights Initiative (LRI) -- a database of 1000+ colonial & post-colonial central and state laws in India

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Mapping Indian Land Laws

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Rare sighting in the latest JDE #econtwitter #econsky: a paper about Somalia! Brar et al. show that an intervention targeting gender norms shifts support for gender-equitable norms + aspirations; novel lab-in-the-field evidence of enhanced ability to withstand peer pressure

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This chart documents one of humanity’s greatest achievements, in my view. We just lived through the fastest population growth in human history. It would have been impressive if food supplies had merely kept pace — but on every continent, they grew even faster than the population.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn

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Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Percentage of self-sufficiency by country for specific food groups Source: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Julia Milton @yuliamilton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

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Clara Delavallade @claradelav.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Empowering women starts with engaging everyone. 🫂 Our recent GIL policy brief summarizes the evidence on engaging men for women's economic empowerment. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub... #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #SocialChange #EconSky #AfricaGIL @rajdevbrar.bsky.social

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

Old ruin viewed through a glass frame with the original outlines of the building etched onto the glass

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Mike O’Sullivan @mbosullivan.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We're looking for a creative & technically strong economist to lead experimental research on women’s access to capital & entrepreneurship support in Ethiopia (and beyond). Join us at the Africa GIL team! Pls share! Details ⬇️ worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersi... #EconSky #EconJobs 🧵

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Pierre Biscaye @pbiscaye.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Excited to see my JMP in the World Bank DIME Blog today! tinyurl.com/3aa5w7bc Many studies show short-run effects of agricultural shocks on violent conflict. My JMP asks: what about the long-run? I find that desert locust swarm exposure persistently s conflict over the next 14 yrs. A 🧵 1/13

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

This chart gives an overview of 3.4 million years of accelerating technological change. → We live at a time when the world can change dramatically within our lifetime. From my article on the history and future of technology: ourworldindata.org/technology-l...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 01/11/2023

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/mapping-ch...

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