Niall Keleher
@nkeleher.com
I lead the data team at www.poverty-action.org.
Here for research and 🔱⚾ Mariners Trending (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rpmiwqwdty4ewduqdz6nxcfj/feed/aaafwna52dqco)
Here for research and 🔱⚾ Mariners Trending (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rpmiwqwdty4ewduqdz6nxcfj/feed/aaafwna52dqco)
Extremely productive and enlightening collaboration with colleagues from across tech, programs, research, policy, and academia.
Thank you @cgdev.org and @agencyfund.bsky.social for convening!
Thank you @cgdev.org and @agencyfund.bsky.social for convening!
Dec 9–10: IPA's Niall Keleher (nkeleher.com) joins @cgdev.org & The Agency Fund Working Group in London to set standards for evaluating AI tools in low- and middle-income countries + share IPA’s work building ethical, scalable data systems.
IPA's Research & Data Science Hub: data.poverty-action.org
IPA's Research & Data Science Hub: data.poverty-action.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Extremely productive and enlightening collaboration with colleagues from across tech, programs, research, policy, and academia.
Thank you @cgdev.org and @agencyfund.bsky.social for convening!
Thank you @cgdev.org and @agencyfund.bsky.social for convening!
Peak oppo taco broadcast. Solidarity to Reg Mowley.
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Seattle Mariners: Rizzs' radio call of Suárez grand salami
Longtime Seattle Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs delivered a memorable call of the go-ahead grand slam by Eugenio Suárez in Game 5 of the ALCS.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Peak oppo taco broadcast. Solidarity to Reg Mowley.
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With Two Homers in Game 5, Eugenio Suárez Slams Mariners to 3-2 ALCS Lead blogs.fangraphs.com/with-two-hom...
With Two Homers in Game 5, Eugenio Suárez Slams Mariners to 3-2 ALCS Lead
The prodigal third baseman flipped the script on an otherwise tight, back-and-forth battle in Game 5.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The Mariners are trending! 🔱⚾
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September 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The Mariners are trending! 🔱⚾
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I am teaching a PhD seminar this fall which attempts to put a decision-theoretic lens (or lenses) on research design.
So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks.
Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What's missing?
So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks.
Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What's missing?
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I am teaching a PhD seminar this fall which attempts to put a decision-theoretic lens (or lenses) on research design.
So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks.
Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What's missing?
So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks.
Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What's missing?
@ewpod.bsky.social shoutout from Aaron Goldsmith after a Carlos Vargas wild pitch then strikeout. Nice! #EffectivelyWild 🔱⚾
August 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@ewpod.bsky.social shoutout from Aaron Goldsmith after a Carlos Vargas wild pitch then strikeout. Nice! #EffectivelyWild 🔱⚾
It's a fun day when @slangsonsports.bsky.social posts are #Mariners Trending and #MLB Trending feed top posts
Weeee! #TridentsUp 🔱⚾
Weeee! #TridentsUp 🔱⚾
August 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's a fun day when @slangsonsports.bsky.social posts are #Mariners Trending and #MLB Trending feed top posts
Weeee! #TridentsUp 🔱⚾
Weeee! #TridentsUp 🔱⚾
Great to see @criclerici.bsky.social's work highlighted! Indeed a very cool member of @poverty-action.bsky.social
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @CriClerici
@poverty_action who works on topics related to gender + health
@poverty_action who works on topics related to gender + health
June 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great to see @criclerici.bsky.social's work highlighted! Indeed a very cool member of @poverty-action.bsky.social
The comments are better journalism than this article.
The Trump administration's Signal group chat leak may be the world's most relatable fail. Who hasn't added a stranger to a text thread or group chat?
'We've all done this': Trump admin group chat scandal is its most relatable fail
The Trump administration's Signal group chat leak may be the world's most relatable fail. Who hasn't added a stranger to a text thread or group chat?
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March 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The comments are better journalism than this article.
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I make Cal Raleigh's dumper bigger every day until the Mariners extend him: Day 2
November 14, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I make Cal Raleigh's dumper bigger every day until the Mariners extend him: Day 2
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A ray of light. Heavyweight is the podcast I come back to more than any other. So glad to learn it has a new home.
We've got some big news: Heavyweight officially has a new home Pushkin Industries. Tell your friends, your exes… tell the strangers on the subway! And be sure to subscribe to the feed to hear about new episodes.
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‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns
Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.
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February 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A ray of light. Heavyweight is the podcast I come back to more than any other. So glad to learn it has a new home.
With the level of disruption caused by the attacks on USAID, this is a reminder that the same people propose to end US funding to the World Bank and IMF. Feels like another extreme jolt to the international development world looms.
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
February 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
With the level of disruption caused by the attacks on USAID, this is a reminder that the same people propose to end US funding to the World Bank and IMF. Feels like another extreme jolt to the international development world looms.
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
Great respect for these @cgdev.org leaders. Congratulations!
CGD is thrilled to announce the appointment of Markus Goldstein and @clemencelanders.bsky.social as Vice Presidents and Senior Fellows!
Their leadership and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to navigate this pivotal moment in global dev.
More details:
www.cgdev.org/article/cent...
Their leadership and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to navigate this pivotal moment in global dev.
More details:
www.cgdev.org/article/cent...
The Center for Global Development Announces New Vice Presidents
The Center for Global Development (CGD) has today announced the appointment of Markus Goldstein and Clemence Landers as Vice Presidents and Senior Fellows.
www.cgdev.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Great respect for these @cgdev.org leaders. Congratulations!
The #databs crowd knows this very well.
The broader point is that databases are easy to (willfully?) misinterpret. Representing these numbers as evidence of fraud is dishonest.
Fraud = financial *gain*, and so requires data on "recipients" not "database entries."
Nearly half of Elon's entries aren't recipients.
Fraud = financial *gain*, and so requires data on "recipients" not "database entries."
Nearly half of Elon's entries aren't recipients.
February 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #databs crowd knows this very well.
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New blog post! After archiving USAID data last week, I decided to play around with and recreate parts of the ForeignAssistance dot gov dashboard with #QuartoPub and #ObservableJS. I learned a ton about D3 projections and making pretty Javascript plots #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New blog post! After archiving USAID data last week, I decided to play around with and recreate parts of the ForeignAssistance dot gov dashboard with #QuartoPub and #ObservableJS. I learned a ton about D3 projections and making pretty Javascript plots #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
Not good.
February 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not good.
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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
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At $190 per person per year, US foreign aid costs less than a Netflix subscription. It's one of the key ways to help people in dire need worldwide. Walking away from that signals a retreat from global responsibility.
January 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
At $190 per person per year, US foreign aid costs less than a Netflix subscription. It's one of the key ways to help people in dire need worldwide. Walking away from that signals a retreat from global responsibility.
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We’ve forgotten who we are…
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Executive Order of the President suspending refugee admissions to the United States
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January 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We’ve forgotten who we are…
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GitHub change logs make it possible to see how and where the government has been scrubbing web pages of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility content.
www.404media.co/github-is-sh...
www.404media.co/github-is-sh...
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
www.404media.co
January 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
GitHub change logs make it possible to see how and where the government has been scrubbing web pages of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility content.
www.404media.co/github-is-sh...
www.404media.co/github-is-sh...
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Learn the answers in our article "How do we know the history of extreme poverty?": https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods
How do we know the history of extreme poverty?
To estimate historical global poverty, researchers can analyze economic data and reconstruct national accounts to understand income levels and inequality in the past.
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January 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Learn the answers in our article "How do we know the history of extreme poverty?": https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-history-methods
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You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.
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