Ricky Nathvani
thicknavyrain.bsky.social
Ricky Nathvani
@thicknavyrain.bsky.social
Lead Data Analyst at Camden Borough. Ex-Research Fellow in Machine Learning x Environmental Health at Imperial College/Physics PhD at UCL. Freelance Writer for SciShow, Crash Course, Study Hall and Veritasium.
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💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress

Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage.

It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇

britishprogress.org/articles/red...
April 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
After months of waiting, dead excited to give this a read. The rest of @unlearnecon.bsky.social's stuff is excellent, I doubt this will be any exception.
March 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow Alicia Cavanaugh and Prof. Brian Robinson on their recent publication in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Read it here! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics
Principles of dense, mixed-use environments and pedestrianisation are influential in urban planning practice worldwide. A key outcome espoused by thes…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In Cambodia, half the operations to detect active cases of tuberculosis have halted.

They estimate it has led to around 100,000 people missing screening, 300 drug resistant TB cases going undiagnosed, and 10,000 drug susceptible cases going undiagnosed.
February 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🚨 New paper 🚨 A method for measuring urban vitality and relationship to street-level characteristics using time-lapse images, that scales globally. 70 years post Jane Jacob's writing about vitality, we show, for the first time, the relevance to African cities: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics
Principles of dense, mixed-use environments and pedestrianisation are influential in urban planning practice worldwide. A key outcome espoused by thes…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Thank you, Jimmy Carter.

This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
December 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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A major new report from @centreforcities.bsky.social calls for the Government to take much bolder action on reform to be sure to achieve its goal of 1.5 million new homes this Parliament!

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December 3, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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I love how every single UK voter focus group is all 'we don't want more identikit posh boys. We need a change', and then you show them whoever looks the most like Tom Tugendhat and they go 'yeah, something about him says "Prime Minister", you know';
www.moreincommon.org.uk
September 2, 2024 at 2:15 PM