Grace Heymsfield

NYC is limiting the hours when trash is taken out because of issues with rats, and it's genuinely hard to pick a favorite quote from today's presser Pick your fighter:

Cost-Effectiveness Should Be a Learning Priority, Not a Compliance Requirement @caitlin_tulloch et al @CGDev cgdev.org/blog/cost-effe… - part of our #evidence #evaluation in global development work

📢 Historic announcement: @USAID will provide $200 million to @UNICEF to provide life-saving treatment to severely malnourished children. The largest leap in coverage on record.

Can't believe I missed this: A Monte Carlo Murder Mystery: A Holmes-Watson-#PyMC adventure! These folks produced an awesome short-film on using PyMC to solve a murder. Who knew Sherlock Holmes was a Bayesian? youtube.com/watch?v=lB_wu6…

Here’s a sort of roundup of my thinking on the Times Series: newrepublic.com/article/166594…

Here's The NYTimes decrying unfair past coverage of the Haiti story (note use of the guilt-saving passive tense): “For more than a century, Haiti *has been labeled* a disaster, a basket case, a place so destitute, indebted, lacking and lawless that it needs constant saving....

UNICEF estimates that the cost of Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods will increase by 16% over the course of the year. That could result in >600k kids with wasting losing access to treatment compared to 2021.

IRC clinics in Afghanistan have seen a thirty-fold increase in acutely malnourished children in 1 month alone. As UN raises the appeal to $5B, we're calling on the intl community to reach a solution that puts food, medicine & cash in the hands of Afghans rescue.org/press-release/…

We continue the fight against malnutrition. #CHWs increase coverage of #wasting treatment in Guidimakha, Mauritania @Acontraelhambre, @acfwestafrica, @LopezEjedaN CHW-led treatment a @UNICEF simplified approach mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/12…

Incredible story detailing the relationship between gangs in Haiti and businesses. apnews.com/article/busine…

Thanks to Daniel Foote for saying to @POTUS what all decent supporters of Haitian sovereignty and dignity have been saying for a decade and more! Finally truth spoken by power to power! cepr.net/us-envoy-to-ha…

@DaliaDavoudi Not I says the red hen

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Haiti's political instability exacerbates another crisis: Malnutrition devex.com/news/haiti-s-p…

@jrdn_d the latter

is lobster good or just expensive?

.@drcampatterson of @uamshealth on @NPR The Delta Variant And Arkansas' Low Vaccination Rate Fuel COVID-19 Cases npr.org/2021/08/10/102…

@RexChapman @GageAndDestroy

Can't make it through an in-flight movie without tearing up. #Babe