TY Conan O'Brien for raising awareness & supporting ALS TDI !! 💚 We have supported this nonprofit biotech for 10 yrs. As someone with #ALS who never expected to live this long, it’s incredible to see the impact of the Ice Bucket Challenge. Celebrities caring makes a difference!!

we lost a great friend and colleague at Davidson
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Please share this news about RVI intensive summer courses! I'll serve this year as a director of the Horn of Africa course and we're assembling a great team of speakers.

We are pleased to share with you the Heritage Institute’s State of Somalia (SOS) report, an annual publication that covers the main developments and key trends in politics, security, economy, humanitarian issues, and the role of external actors. 

This report documents the

Following recent failed #als #mnd trial candidates data - press releases are not easy to interpret. One thing for sure press releases & other comms can mislead.

My 'devil detail' post on misinformation. If newly diagnosed my series might be worth a read.

onein300.com/2022/06/26/mis…

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For those interested in security studies in #Somalia , here is ⁦Paul D Williams⁩’s new study that recently was published. I read it. It is a warning to policymakers & it is a must read research. Thanks Prof. ⁦Harun Maruf⁩ ⁦4DialogSk⁩ ctc.westpoint.edu/the-somali-nat…

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/boo…

Please share this news about RVI intensive summer courses! I'll serve this year as a director of the Horn of Africa course and we're assembling a great team of speakers.

ANNOUNCEMENT | 2024 Annual Courses

We're thrilled to announce the return of the Great Lakes, Horn of Africa, & Sudans annual courses. Register for an unparalleled chance to network & deepen your understanding of the region alongside peers and experts.

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I’m #AllinforDavidson because this college does such a great job preparing its students for lives of leadership and service, as our amazing alums demonstrate so powerfully in their work. Make your gift today! The time is now: davidson.edu/all-in

What are you doing tomorrow? Going #AllinforDavidson , right? 'Cats go wild for days like this!

It's the 20 year anniversary of the withdraw of Vioxx from the market after it was revealed Merck skewed the clinical trial data to hide massive risk of heart attacks, leading to 55,000 premature deaths. Why we need to let the FDA do its work properly. ucsusa.org/resources/merc…

Important JAMA piece by Holly Fernandez Lynch & Aaron Kesselheim examining the aggressive mifepristone Supreme Court case. They argue politics and courts are being used to fight science & agencies, and this is exacerbated by recent suss FDA decisions,..

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NEW REPORT | PROSPERITY TO THE PERIPHERY?

In this report, Jonah Wedekind 🍉 examines the politics of resource extraction and governance in post-2018  #Ethiopia . Peripheral regions demand fair resource shares, amid shifting power dynamics.

Read more: bit.ly/3VqNDQP

'circling the wagons' is not an effective strategy for learning organizations. But that's mostly what I've seen in the past five years in the ALS space. Doesn't seem to matter which organization.

The core question at the heart of our current debates over the failed Relyvrio clinical trial is this: what constitutes effective patient advocacy, and how are we measuring it? We have to hold ourselves accountable to those metrics.

worth rereading -- press release from 2022
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