GO. AND. WORK. WITH. MATT! ⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️

Daniel Kahneman - what a life and what a loss. May his memory be a blessing. npr.org/2024/03/27/124…

New Wellcome Mental Health funding call! Applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis. Must include a computational and experimental component and take a symptom based approach. 📆 23 July 2024 wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

Come work with us! Our World in Data is looking for a writer who can write global issues for a wide audience. You could focus on poverty, inequality, health, demography, or any of the many other topics we cover (or don't yet)! (And the team is awesome.) ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

Solutions start with scientific discovery. And if we work together, we can improve health faster. That’s why I’m excited for Wellcome to partner with Novo Nordisk Foundation and Gates Foundation on this $300 million initiative. wellcome.org/news/novo-nord…

📢NEW REPORT! Last year Wellcome commissioned a landscaping report to synthesise the evidence on gaps, barriers, and opportunities for attributing anthropogenic climate change impacts on human health. The report, led by Colin Carlson is live now bit.ly/3V0MbTJ

Bravo John, Hannah and Andrew!

Fantastic to have Wellcome working with APHRC on this new initiative to catalyze innovation in mental health data science across Africa. More details below!

Absolutely delighted to have Wellcome providing the brilliant Our World in Data team with long-term support. Vital to have high quality, accessible public goods like this that help us all develop a clearer understanding of the world and the trends that are shaping it.

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl…

Over the weekend, we Economic and Social Research Council made a big announcement about an investment that I hope will be of interest to anyone who cares about using evidence to make better public policy, or about harnessing AI for social science. I wanted to tell you a bit more about it, so here's a 🧵

“Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life” If you read one article today, please make it this one! Superb & so important from Anjana Ahuja Financial Times ft.com/content/cd3dbc…

Best advice i ever got was “when considering whether to say yes to something, imagine it was next week”. And yet i still manage to forget this 50% of the time.

We're looking for Research Engineers to work at the intersection of LLMs and impactful scientific problems! Applications close next Tuesday 18th. Link to job ad in thread.

Also, exciting news here about new £17m investment from Wellcome in our secure efficient OpenSAFELY platform to build privacy preserving tools on top of mental health data for researchers, and more. Huge thanks to Wellcome and NHS England as ever. phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researche…