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Absolutely key to understanding what happened in Afghanistan over the past few weeks. My take here: blogs.prio.org/2021/08/what-h… susannah george @PRIOUpdates AAN Afghanistan

Great article by colleague Kristian B Harpviken. An important takeaway: Data about capabilities should always be viewed with a critical eye! In this case, it seems key decisionmakers were fooled by the numbers. Chaos ensues. #Afghanistan

SV har klima som en av sine hovedsaker i valgkampen. Eller har partiet egentlig det? Kommentar. aftenposten.no/meninger/komme… (abo)

The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) skunk-works are working in high gear to bring you the next generation of predictive modelling. Check out this early draft of a new time-shifting framework for training models github.com/prio-data/step… 🤖 @PRIOUpdates

github.com/peder2911/mark… I have some pretty fun plans for this package, including performance improvements with Cython, and spatial effects between cells! Written to support the development of the Stepshift package for #VIEWS Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) / @PRIOUpdates

The paradox of our Golden Age of science: more research is being published by more scientists than ever, but the result is actually slowing progress! With too much to read & absorb, papers in more crowded fields are citing new work less, and canonizing highly-cited articles more.

Postdoc opportunity (up to three years) at NTNU in Trondheim associated with @PRIOUpdates research project ‘From Curse to Demographic Dividends: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Youth Bulges’. Application date: March 1st. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Oljefondet må trekke alle sine investeringer ut av Russland - det er ingen grunn til at ikke Norge kan ha egne sanksjoner samtidig som vi er med på EU sine: borsen.dagbladet.no/nyheter/ut-av-…

Europe must be willing to sacrifice to push Russia back. Stop buying oil and gas immediately, cut Russia off everywhere. Is a few weeks of rationing really that hard to live through to stop a war in Europe?

I Sverige utløser krigen i Ukraina ny Nato-debatt. I Norge bør den være en del av en ny 🇪🇺-debatt. aftenposten.no/meninger/komme… (abo)

3 russian cosmonauts on the international space station showing their solidarity with ukraine

SG Jens Stoltenberg to MEPs: "The price we pay as the EU, as #NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money. The price they pay is measured in lives lost every day. So, we should stop complaining and step up and provide support. Full stop.” #StandWithUkraine

More and more countries achieve to decouple economic growth from CO₂ emissions. Just made this new chart that shows the evidence for 25 countries. Growth is up, emissions down.

Leaving twitter and moving to Mastodon! @[email protected]

"The grandson died in Afghanistan". Painting by Valentin Chekmasov, USSR, 1988.