cega-uc.bsky.social
We generate innovative research policymakers use to reduce global poverty. Follow our #openscience (@ucbitss.bsky.social) & #inequality initiatives (@berkeleyolab.bsky.social). Learn more at https://cega.berkeley.edu/.
👤 Joined on 10 February 2025
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@cega-uc.bsky.social🌍🌐📊💡Great to present on scaling #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #DPI via #AI 4 global #sustainabledevelopment impact @ #WorldBank #MeasureDev2026 Lightning Talks session. Thank you World Bank Development Impact & Development Data Group, @beckerfriedman.bsky.social & @cega-uc.bsky.social 4 organising.
Show PostMany thanks to our speakers for a successful BITSS Annual Meeting! One of our main take-aways was the tension between using LLMs in research and reproducibility. Reproducibility remains an important issue in research, and this is a topic we think is important to pay attention to.
Show PostProf. Josh Blumenstock's research with @cega-uc.bsky.social was featured in a Berkeley News article. Using machine learning, he found that it would only take $318 billion per year (0.3% of the global GDP) to bring millions of people out of extreme poverty.
Show Post🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
Show Post🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency. @cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
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