The first player to use the London System in a world chess championship match became world champion 😅

With 1600+ homes demolished, thousands are homeless as Delhi prepares for the G20 summit. We map the impact of demolitions across the city | Research Land Conflict Watch

AI hype is on full swing, to a large extent, because of language models. But as a writer, I am not totally convinced about the “productivity boosts.” You see, writing fulfills a dual purpose. On the one hand, we write to communicate. But on the other hand…. /1

SHRUG 2.0 is a go! Check out Paul's excellent (as always) thread on our ongoing efforts to democratize access to India's data for research, policy, etc. As always, contributions and feedback welcome!

🚨The long-awaited SHRUG v2 is here! An amazing culmination of several years of hard work by our team Development Data Lab. Tons of new, exciting, and high-res open-source administrative and geospatial data for social science researchers. Send us your feedback; more to come soon!

🚨Please stop calling this brain drain. When there are high overseas returns to education, *more people get educated*. Think about all the folk working their asses off for this exam, and then *staying in India*. High returns for migrants are good, they build human capital. 1/N

📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

This fantastic investigation needs to be read very carefully. More researchers need to publicly release replication data and easily understandable code.

This is a really important paper. These findings are potentially relevant in the Indian context as well, where anonymized Population Census microdata has been unavailable to researchers and has potential to unlock new dimensions for policy-relevant research.

Gukesh enters the World Top 10 and after 37 years overtakes Anand as India #1 🔥🔥🔥

Our new crop of exciting PhD students start their research careers with us.

2023 FIDE World Cup final: Magnus Carlsen vs Praggnanandhaa R!

Having one of those "I must read this and learn all of it even though that's a fool's errand and I have better things to do" moments with this guy

Legend. Was watching his games very closely all throughout the Candidates; his composure throughout the tournament was incredible, even after that heartbreaking loss to Firouzja in Rd 7. The future is well and truly here.