Thanks for the posting, Surita. I'm excited to share knowledge on #monitoring and #evaluation approaches for implementing organizations. We have a lot to learn from each other. Looking to join in the work of Action for Sustainable Development, SRDC-SRSA, @DECIPHerCentre, and others. #LearningJourney

In case you didn't see it yet: I'm hiring a postdoc to work on improving reproducibility in research. Application deadline March 20:
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* Job alert * seeking a consultant with demonstrated experience developing online courses for large, global audience. DIME Analytics runs a virtual course on field research methods (4,000+ students globally in 2023) that we are looking to improve. Details:
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I'm teaching poverty measurement this semester and I made a little shiny app where students can move incomes or the poverty line around and see how various common poverty measures change. Feel free to use or share or tell me what I should add or modify.
ryanbriggs.shinyapps.io/Poverty_Measur…

Interested in #MetaScience , #replications & #devecon ? Apply as a replicator & come work with Jörg Ankel-Peters, JulianRose & myself. Replicators also contribute to a meta-paper summarizing the results from all individual replications. Oh, and you get 2500€! bit.ly/46W0uxl

After honesty researcher's retractions, colleagues expand scrutiny of her work | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Thanks for the highlight, Amber. Heifer International folks are excited about the results as well!

🙌Excited to see USAID take essential steps to improve #costeffectiveness evaluation quality. Kudos to USAIDPolicy for publishing new guidance on evaluation SOWs, reports and cost analysis.

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We all know social science is in the he midst of a 'credibility/replication/reproducibility crisis.'

Lots of very good and important work being done in this space. It often has 'depressing' implications: look how bad everything is!

A brief🧵to reframe this conversation...

'In Nepal, 1/5 of the poverty reduction between 1995 & 2004 was attributed to increased work-related migration & remittances

40% of the decline in poverty between 2001 & 2011 was attributed to increases in migration to the Persian Gulf & Malaysia'

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Many people who contribute to research do not get credit as authors

To address this, PLOS journals (except for PLOSMedicine) now have more inclusive criteria for authorship

More inclusive than ICMJE criteria

theplosblog.plos.org/2023/05/plos-a…

🚨 Final version of 'Globalization and Inequality in Latin America' with Brian Kovak.

We think this paper can serve as good background material in a graduate trade / development class. Please retweet!

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All of you interested in how to measure #women 's time use in a cost-effective way, I'm going to leave this new paper here:
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Someone sent me this job posting, which refers to 'push-button replication' pae.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Amentum_Career… Warms my heart to see one of my better naming conventions live on! 😀

Do you know someone who is an expert on the #dairy sector in #Afica ? Heifer International could use your help. Check out this RFP: devex.com/jobs/consultan… Africa Dairy Perivoli Africa Research Centre Africa Research Inst Research Africa Journal of Dairy Science | JDS Communications 4D4F - Data Driven Dairy Decisions For Farmers Cornell Dairy Journal of Dairy Research

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the APC for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. EiCs Stephen Smith Til Ole Bergmann Birte Forstmann) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately. I am joining this action and have also resigned imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.p…

300 people committed most of the shoplifting in a city of 9 million. A useful reminder that most crime & violence is committed by a tiny number of people, and that nearly every effective social or policing problem has to be hyper targeted or it will fail.
nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyr…

Interested in learning how to analyze data and present results in a compelling way? The #DEDP MicroMasters course Data Analysis for Social Scientists equips learners with these technical skills and more. Enroll here: mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course… MITx Courses #EconTwitter