Brett Keller
@brettkeller.bsky.social
roving data guy
global health researcher, hiker, photographer, diver
global health researcher, hiker, photographer, diver
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What’s happening to science in the US is devastating, and has implications across the world. The Demographic and Health Surveys programme has reportedly been terminated
War on Science update: DHS does surveys around the world. It's a key part of how we understand the world. Web of Science has 3501 items that mention DHS in the metadata; currently averaging about 350 per year. The last contract to run it was about $57 million per year. dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What’s happening to science in the US is devastating, and has implications across the world. The Demographic and Health Surveys programme has reportedly been terminated
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Happy to have this piece on Ali Kony out with @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Once in line to succeed his dad Joseph Kony, and considered the 'Foreign Affairs' minister of the Lord's Resistance Army in charge of trading ivory and gold -he decided to escape. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...
Ali Kony and the twilight of the Lord’s Resistance Army
What the defection of Joseph Kony’s son tells us about the once-dreaded Ugandan rebel group.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
February 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Happy to have this piece on Ali Kony out with @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Once in line to succeed his dad Joseph Kony, and considered the 'Foreign Affairs' minister of the Lord's Resistance Army in charge of trading ivory and gold -he decided to escape. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...
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"A crucial window where cephalopod [neolithic-like] civilization could have occurred is the time between when mentally high-performing cephalopods came to their own, and the time when aquatic vertebrates really took over" and started eating them
pacificklaus.com/the-silurian...
pacificklaus.com/the-silurian...
The Silurian Hypothesis: It was the Cephalopods
Text, footage and photographs by Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel A long time ago, as an enthusiastic young, naive graduate student I went to a conference, which was just a few years away from its inevitable tran...
pacificklaus.com
November 12, 2024 at 11:54 AM
"A crucial window where cephalopod [neolithic-like] civilization could have occurred is the time between when mentally high-performing cephalopods came to their own, and the time when aquatic vertebrates really took over" and started eating them
pacificklaus.com/the-silurian...
pacificklaus.com/the-silurian...