Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
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Announcing the 2024 The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive, the second cohort of our 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog.
Learn about progress studies, get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience
📊New OECD Data: Over 2 million people are experiencing #homelessness in the OECD, but rates differ across countries. We have just released a major data update to our Affordable Housing Database. Explore x-country data on 🏠 #prices , #vacancies , #homelessness , #evictions & more!
Emissions of substances that deplete the ozone layer have fallen by more than 99% since 1989.
Today's Data Insight by my colleague Esteban Ortiz-Ospina.
→ Here are all our Data Insights: ourworldindata.org/data-insights
Great job working for a fantastic organization. Our World in Data is looking for writers to help turn the evidence and data into compelling and informative narratives.
ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024
Learned a lot from Doyne Farmer 's 'Making Sense of Chaos'. Packed with interesting ideas about how to bring complexity science into economics, and the critiques of economics are thoughtful and well-informed rather than straw men.
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1 in 5 US retail milk samples test positive for H5N1 avian flu fragments. This suggests extent of infection in dairy cows may be under estimated. ‘Fragments’ does not mean there is an infection risk but this needs confirmation by looking for viable virus. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…