🚨🚨🚨Announcing the 2023 SUMMER INSTITUTES IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 🚨🚨🚨 This program will run in 28 locations around the globe this year! Learn more (and apply) at: sicss.io/locations

Some people say that English education in India began in 19th c as an act of colonial social engineering designed by Thomas Macaulay, who said in an 1835 “minute” that the purpose of state aid to schools was to create a class who were Indians in looks but English in thoughts.

🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform: 1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids 2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)... devdatalab.org/shrug 🧵1/N

📢📢 We are hiring! Join Sid George (Siddharth George), Sid Hari, Apurva Bamezai + me on an ongoing large, exciting Bihar-based project on local governance! Apply here: forms.gle/2HSfY4kcmF3exJ… Details 👇🏾 PDF: dropbox.com/s/ghiap3c739e3… Econ RA Listings #EconTwitter #PoliSciTwitter

Would you consider unwanted touching and intimidation in a public place “severe” form of sexual harassment? Indian Penal Code punishes this up to 5 years. Asking this for a research project! Please retweet! @sofiafamaral Girija Borker Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Ajay is an excellent instructor. Please share with people who would want to learn R. Bahujan Economists

Coffee + meeting for Pune Public Policy Festival Missing Indraneel Chitale, Omkar Sathe & a few others Rugwed Deshpande Siddharth Desai Shardul Manurkar Ayush Patel Ovee Karwa Siddharth Shah

The Policy Associate (PA) role focuses on converting research to policy insights. We have a separate Google form for that role (and the link in the quoted tweet below is incorrect). Apply on this link below! Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Made my day 🙂 Both the accompaniments are great fun too.

How cool is this! Reminds me of all the Allison Horst illustrations

The mysterious Cereal Gap in India: In a new article in Ideas for India, Jean Drèze and I update our figures with the latest consumption data of 2022. 100 million tonnes of cereals are unaccounted for. Where do they end up? Have a read and let us know … Road Scholarz

summer school in data analysis using R this short course by SARA Institute of Data Science looks like a wonderful opportunity for young researchers, especially in social sciences in India. more details: sara-edu.netlify.app/school many thanks for this great initiative Dr. Ajay Kumar Koli, PhD !!

Data For India is looking to hire a talented and experienced Lead Frontend Engineer with a strong focus on React and overall user experience. If this is you, and you're excited about data and what we're doing, DM me with a few lines about yourself and I'll send you a full JD.

📢📢 We are hiring! 📢 Looking for a Research Associate with STRONG DATA skills! Join Sid George, Sid Hari, Apurva Bamezai + me on an ongoing large, exciting Bihar-based project on local governance! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…… Econ RA Listings #EconTwitter #PoliSciTwitter

Last 2 days to submit extended abstract for the International conference on "Social Identities, Institutions, and Economic Development in South Asia" co-organized by Azim Premji University , Bhopal & Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative YSI_South_Asia Deadline for abstract submission: 24 Nov,2024

We are hiring RAs at the Centre for Sustainable Employment CSE- Azim Premji University Azim Premji University. RAs work closely with professors and post-docs on State of Working India and related projects. Past RAs have also been co-authors on published papers. Please apply and spread the word.

Pls share with students applying to colleges this year NLSIU has launched an exciting new undergraduate degree in the social sciences & humanities Interested in the sociology and politics majors? Debangana Chatterjee (She/her) & I will be answering your questions this Saturday at 6pm

📢Official pincode boundaries dropped yesterday! India's open-data ecosystem keeps giving. I know many people who'll have a jump in their step on the way to office today.

In today's Hindustan Times , Ayush Patel and I remember the memories from Lord Meghnad Desai's Political Economy class. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics hindustantimes.com/opinion/meghna…