Dominik Kopinski
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@DKopinski
Professor @uniwroc | Senior Advisor @PIE_NET_PL | @Fulbright alum at @GWElliott | FDI, African development, China-Africa, critical minerals | Views my own.
A new paper shows that neoliberal austerity policies implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s were associated with a *20% decline in real incomes.* The destruction caused by these organisations across the Global South is staggering.
People who see doctors are sick so it must be the doctors causing the sickness
❓ Dlaczego Chiny wygrywają w Afryce? ➡️ Podejście „Pure Business”: w przeciwieństwie do Unii Europejskiej, która uzależnia wsparcie od reform demokratycznych i praworządności, Chiny stawiają na suwerenność partnerów i czysty zysk. To model „róbmy biznes, nie politykę”.
Referring to India’s rotating presidency of BRICS, Pezeshkian called for the group to play an independent role in halting aggressions against Iran and in safeguarding regional and international peace and stability: @drpezeshkian to @narendramodi #IranWar
My two posts on AI in academia got over a million views and a thousand angry responses. I got a few things wrong. I stand by the rest. But most people reacted to the headline, not the arguments. So here are all 20 theses laid out. Tell me which ones you actually disagree with 🧵
I love the work Alexander has been doing. But here is where we disagree: both academic articles and the work of juniors/RAs are equilibrium objects. Yes, AI can (or soon will be) able to write the types of articles we've written *in the past*. That means that new articles will just be better. Many of those working heavily with AI have seen their workflow, idea generation, research process change drastically with these tools. They are writing very different papers. The alpha will be in writing papers with AI that AI cannot do on its own. From my own experience: I am not writing more papers, I'm writing very different papers, ones I would have not been able to write before. This is incredibly exciting (for me, maybe not "the world"). @lugaricano has said similar things on here. Regarding juniors and RAs, I have to admit there was a few weeks in January where I had little work for my RAs. I did think: maybe there will no longer be an RA role. But then I sat them down, taught them how to use Claude Code, then Codex, gave them access to it, and now they're busier than ever (Jevons paradox for work). So yes, the types of things they were doing before have been largely replaced by AI, but RA + AI is incredibly useful. @cblatts made a similar point here as well. All of this to say that science will change. I'm very worried about implications of AI for labor market, but not for science: it will be a huge positive and boon for humanity. (all of my statements above are not future proof btw, the centaur phase may be more temporary than I expect).
🧵China–Africa trade hit $348B in 2025, but a surge in Chinese exports is deepening long-standing imbalances. What do the numbers really show and why does it matter for African economies? A thread based on a CGSP article by @christiangeraud. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/the-2…
Polish companies are expanding into Western Europe, and Germany is a prime target bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
