In late November, NPR’s Planet Money covered USAID, GiveWell, and Effective Altruism in a way that feels surprisingly uncritical of the movement. Worth remembering that EA has drawn substantial criticism, from its philosophical assumptions to its real‑world impacts. Interesting episode, but not the whole picture. #Economics #EffectiveAltruism #Nonprofits #PolicyStudies #NPR #Givewell #USAID

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5622126/usaid-ngo-givewell-effective-altruism

📘✨ New Release! The Gift is a powerful research-based book exploring strategic studies and global power dynamics. A must-read for thinkers, analysts, and policy enthusiasts.

#NewRelease #TheGift #StrategicStudies #NewResearch #GlobalPolitics
#InternationalRelations #PolicyStudies #Geopolitics #Thinkers
#BookLovers #NonFiction #AcademicReads #DrNaimTahirBaig

"Policy Perspectives" is the flagship journal of the Institute of #PolicyStudies (IPS) — an Islamabad-based think tank dedicated to promoting policy-oriented research and human development.

Peer-reviewed and 💎 #OpenAccess by Pluto Journals 🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/Pluto_PolicyPerspectives

#Governance #InternationalRelations #PakistanAffairs #FaithAndSociety

📜 We've got a new article out 📜

*Angst M, Müller NN, Walker V. Automated extraction of discourse networks from large volumes of media data* (open access)

https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2025.4

As part of our sustainability.discourses project, we developed an automated method to gather and track discourse networks around urban sustainable mobility, based on media data.

The article describes the approach in detail and reports an evaluation of the internal validity (do we measure what we ourselves think we measure) of the pipeline.

tl;dnr: Automating discourse network data gathering can work well to capture broader tendencies. In many cases, it is likely not worth investing in automating data gathering to understand discourse however.

Want to see the daily updated pipeline in action? Check out the web apps and resources here: https://sustainability.discourses.ch/en/

#CompSocSci #policystudies #networkscience #nlp #nlproc

It's weird that many people who seem utterly committed to #HarmReduction suddenly think the same constructs do not apply as to policy.

Why should we demand purity in policy contexts we rightly judge as problematic in other contexts?

#PublicHealthPolicy #PolicyStudies #PolicyAndAdvocacy

#Introduction - Here as part of #twittermigration!

I'm a #publicpolicy practitioner by day and a #sociology #PhD student by night, studying the application of #intersectionality in government. Based on unceded #Wurundjeri lands (so-called #Melbourne #Australia.

Interests include #socialsciences #socialpolicy #inequality #BlackFeminism #CriticalRaceTheory #auspol #policystudies #feminism. Particularly keen to follow other #WomenOfColor #WoC in #academia!

Am I doing this right?

Second day of presentations by #UBC Master in Public Policy and Global Affairs capstone project teams. Amazing to see all the work teams have been doing around the world/on many topics/with clients in many sectors over the past 9/4 months.

See https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq_or1sPris/ for some photos from yesterday's presentations.

For a sense of past projects, see https://sppga.ubc.ca/master-public-policy-global-affairs/experiential-learning/global-policy-project/global-policy-project-catalogue/

#MPPGA #PolicyStudies #graduate