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NASDAQ now down over 3% on the day

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Save the date! 📅March 12⏰9:30AM EDT 📌IFPRI Policy #Seminar: No time to waste: Moving from Commitments to Action on Food Loss and Waste. 🤝Co-organized by IFPRI, @worldresources.bsky.social & the Embassy of Denmark 🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/FoodWaste- @cgiar.org #FoodLossAndWaste

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On the Atlanta Fed GDP model, latest numbers appear to suggest something else is going on beyond a Q1 imports surge

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Always a bummer when you see a screenshot from Twitter and it's someone you assumed would have left long ago.

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Economic policy uncertainty has only ever been higher during the pandemic, and during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis / Eurozone debt crisis. (And the latest weekly reading is even higher.)

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Measles Tracker: an open-access repository for tracking measles in the U.S. in real time 🇺🇸📊 Detailed data by age, jurisdiction and more + a timeline so you don't miss any information. Created by Dr Francesco Branda: github.com/fbranda/meas...

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Wild Coast has expanded its cat food recall over bird flu

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Unidentified disease in DRC surpasses 1000 infections as of Feb 27 (BMJ) (if you're sharing please note afaik it is not clear if this is a virus- new or otherwise- though some known candidates have been ruled out)

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Useful thread on interpreting the drop in the Atlanta Fed's realtime GDP tracker #EconSky

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UPDATE: HE RETURNED IT

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I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

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Got porch-pirated today. Hope the dude likes linear algebra.

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RIP Boris Spassky, a three-time world champion and titan of the game

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Concerning outbreak of an as yet unidentified disease in central DRC which has killed over 50 people to date

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new yield curve inversion just dropped

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HEADLINE: Texas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It’s the state’s WORST in nearly 30 YEARS. There is absolutely NO REASON measles outbreaks should be on the rise. Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% EFFECTIVE against measles. So, let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND others. 🧪🧵⬇️

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The US reports its first measles death in almost a decade (last one was in 2015)

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I've reached the stage where free AI tools are considerably better than Google for finding studies on mainstream-ish topics, and maybe marginally better on weird topics (though depressingly extremely good at hallucinating exactly what I'm looking for)

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#H5N1 Bird flu has now been detected in California rats, another reminder that zoonotic diseases does not respect species boundaries. Public health actions and surveillance must stay ahead of the curve.

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The scale of what's happening with Chinese solar abroad is undercovered. Great piece by @davidfickling.bsky.social Take Pakistan: it imported 16.6 GW (!) of Chinese panels in 2024. At 15% capacity factor, that's 21 TWh for the year on a grid that totaled 150 TWh! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter is out: "Someday, any day, a truly staggering insurance loss will occur – and there is no guarantee that there will be only one per annum."

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"China’s local governments are rushing to issue bonds to refinance hidden debt, further tightening liquidity in the financial system." https://buff.ly/4kqNvv1

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Doing a deep dive on Mpox with @dadakim.bsky.social right now and it’s so interesting and so disturbing…

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"There are signs that the country as a whole is struggling to maintain adequate home insurance markets in the face of rapidly intensifying climate effects. The solution is not to move the deck chairs around on the Titanic, but to change course."

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Today we're highlighting another exceptional Black scientist. Dr. Alan Powell Goffe (1920-1966) did important work that contributed to the development of the first polio and measles vaccines. He was also a pioneer in HPV research.

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A relatively skeptical take on gene drives as anti-malaria strategy

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Really interesting work looking at changes in poverty status within/across cohorts in five countries across time. #EconSky

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Particularly pernicious because the intuition is half right. If you could just increase CO2 levels and keep weather the same, you would increase plant growth. Unfortunately increased CO2 does in fact affect the weather, and the climate loss to yields is bigger than the CO2 fertilization gain.

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Wow, finally happened: The average wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs has now broken $8, per USDA.

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Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->> www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Short thread.......

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