Manpreet Singh
@manpreet1.bsky.social
Work on global health and development strategy @gatesfoundation. Escaped doctor from the UK with a public health background. Dad to two kids. Opinions are mine (he/him)
@alicefraser.bsky.social Is there a way of buying the audiobook that ensures you (and Chris) get the biggest cut?
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
@alicefraser.bsky.social Is there a way of buying the audiobook that ensures you (and Chris) get the biggest cut?
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan... this by @economeager.bsky.social is an astonishing essay. With some excellent, loving, put downs about both the British and Americans.
You Love America
A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; Yale, Du Bois, Bagehot, Pynchon, Fitzgerald
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan... this by @economeager.bsky.social is an astonishing essay. With some excellent, loving, put downs about both the British and Americans.
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that point could end up being the difference between arsenal finishing second with 81 points and second with 82 points
September 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
that point could end up being the difference between arsenal finishing second with 81 points and second with 82 points
This is fantastic fun!
In the first seven days since I launched this new game, almost ten thousand people from 82 countries have played it. (Top cities so far: New York City, Zurich, Toronto, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm)
What topics would you like me to add next?
dataguessr.com
What topics would you like me to add next?
dataguessr.com
Dataguessr
Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.
dataguessr.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is fantastic fun!
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Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985
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cancel out a band by inventing their exact opposite: the restoring pumpkins
August 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
cancel out a band by inventing their exact opposite: the restoring pumpkins
Douglas Adams was a time traveller
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Douglas Adams was a time traveller
Most things by @timharford.ft.com are an instant recommend. This piece about the impact of aid funding cuts is essential: www.ft.com/content/8575...
"A million deaths may be a statistic, but it is also a million tragedies. Most of these tragedies could still be prevented"
"A million deaths may be a statistic, but it is also a million tragedies. Most of these tragedies could still be prevented"
The unfolding tragedy of ending US aid
Funding cuts could result in one million deaths in the next year
www.ft.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Most things by @timharford.ft.com are an instant recommend. This piece about the impact of aid funding cuts is essential: www.ft.com/content/8575...
"A million deaths may be a statistic, but it is also a million tragedies. Most of these tragedies could still be prevented"
"A million deaths may be a statistic, but it is also a million tragedies. Most of these tragedies could still be prevented"
This is obscene. Also, any news about RFK and vaccines should remind people that he profits from anti-vax legal cases: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is obscene. Also, any news about RFK and vaccines should remind people that he profits from anti-vax legal cases: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o... I'm glad that @nickkristof.bsky.social is reporting on the impact of the USAID cuts
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o... I'm glad that @nickkristof.bsky.social is reporting on the impact of the USAID cuts
I needed to read this piece by @iandunt.bsky.social: iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
An unapologetically positive piece about immigrants and immigration
An unapologetically positive piece about immigrants and immigration
Thank God for immigrants
This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.
iandunt.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I needed to read this piece by @iandunt.bsky.social: iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
An unapologetically positive piece about immigrants and immigration
An unapologetically positive piece about immigrants and immigration
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
🧵
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
🧵
December 6, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
🧵
In a word: Harvard.
Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.
🧵
This is a remarkable piece of writing, about the most compelling of cricketers.
Bumrah in Perth: reinventing how good you can be at this thing
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Australia’s mission improbable: crack the genius of Jasprit Bumrah in 10 days | Barney Ronay
India’s supreme fast bowler destroyed the top order in Perth and the hosts have little time to avoid a second Test repeat
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:10 AM
This is a remarkable piece of writing, about the most compelling of cricketers.
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The gif we've all been waiting for.
November 27, 2024 at 10:06 PM
The gif we've all been waiting for.
This is a good reanalysis of the impact of GiveDirectly. The vast majority of our family's personal giving is to this org. Partly because the impact is compelling. Mostly because development, to me, is about agency. And unconditional cash transfers enable agency.
Re-evaluating the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers - The GiveWell Blog
This year, we re-evaluated the cost effectiveness of direct cash transfers as implemented by GiveDirectly.
blog.givewell.org
November 23, 2024 at 2:27 PM
This is a good reanalysis of the impact of GiveDirectly. The vast majority of our family's personal giving is to this org. Partly because the impact is compelling. Mostly because development, to me, is about agency. And unconditional cash transfers enable agency.
. @kopalo.bsky.social is a must read for anyone interested in global health or development. I 100% agree with him here.
Would add - getting serious about adaptation often means getting serious about impact of climate change on health and food systems.
Would add - getting serious about adaptation often means getting serious about impact of climate change on health and food systems.
The World Bank and other IFIs should get serious about climate adaptation in low-income countries: www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-world-...
The World Bank and other IFIs should get serious about climate adaptation in low-income countries
Instead of merely externalizing high-income countries’ policy priorities (especially mitigation), focus should be on promoting energy access for rapid growth and adaptation.
www.africanistperspective.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:11 PM
. @kopalo.bsky.social is a must read for anyone interested in global health or development. I 100% agree with him here.
Would add - getting serious about adaptation often means getting serious about impact of climate change on health and food systems.
Would add - getting serious about adaptation often means getting serious about impact of climate change on health and food systems.
I heard it was a mekko chamber
November 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I heard it was a mekko chamber
I updated the data in my article about the history of child mortality.
Without any large exceptions, every second child died — in Ancient Rome, in hunter-gatherer societies, in the pre-Columbian Americas, in Medieval Japan, in Imperial China, or the Renaissance.
ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...
Without any large exceptions, every second child died — in Ancient Rome, in hunter-gatherer societies, in the pre-Columbian Americas, in Medieval Japan, in Imperial China, or the Renaissance.
ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...
November 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds!
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Will keep updating!
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November 17, 2024 at 2:08 PM
We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds!
go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD
go.bsky.app/RScFWyt
go.bsky.app/ADqkPeH
Will keep updating!
go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD
go.bsky.app/RScFWyt
go.bsky.app/ADqkPeH
Will keep updating!