International Development, Political Economy and (ideally) camping. PhD Candidate at @UoftT_PolSci.
Joined November 2012
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1 Oct 2025
If this happened in Africa, the donors would all pull out 😡
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10 Sep 2025
I'll be at APSA with a phenomenal crew discussing some very cool research. Come find us tomorrow at 2pm!
Politicians and Public Provision in Africa: Elites, Elections, External Finance
tinyurl.com/ylajdbrr
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20 Aug 2025
Top notch work from @NicolaNones
#OpenAccess from @IntOrgJournal -
Trade and Exchange Rate Competition in East Asia - cup.org/3Uw6Mzk
"We provide evidence that exchange rate depreciations are undertaken at the behest of export industries"
- @MarkManger & Nicola Nones (both @munkschool)
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#OpenAccess from @PSRMJournal -
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures - cup.org/4jws0HN
- Jacob Winter (@UofT_PolSci), Ben Cormier (@StrathPolIR), @TeresaKramarz & @MarkManger
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16 Apr 2025
💸Does the World Bank give easier loan terms to the allies of its most powerful member states?
➡️Using Latent Semantic Scaling, J. Winter B Cormier @TeresaKramarz @MarkManger find little evidence of favoritism toward powerful allies cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
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10 Aug 2023
There's a funny facial expression people get when you ask em what their PhD is about. A second or more of anguished freezing as they:
1) desperately try to infer how smart you are, so that they can pitch it at a level neither insultingly vague nor nerdview inside-baseball
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21 Jun 2023
In 2014, Canada Bread's operating revenue was $1,439 million. A $50 million fine for price fixing is a rounding error.
Meanwhile, food bank visits are up 60%.
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16 Jun 2023
HAPPY 40 MILLION CANADIANS DAY
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12 Jun 2023
"Random noise continues to limit our understanding of public opinion!"
This is why they don't let me write headlines 😐
@CTVToronto
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26 Apr 2023
"Spadina Bus" is truly an anthem for the people.
25 Apr 2023
Did you catch @mmmbarclay "33 Songs From Here" in the Music & Sports issue? We thought we'd make a playlist so you could listen along while you read! (excluding 3 songs that aren't on streaming)
on Spotify 🟢: open.spotify.com/playlist/7p…
and Apple Music 🍎: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/…
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17 Mar 2023
In 1847, Toronto's population was 20,000, and we admitted 40,000 refugees 😮☘️
(Okay yes this did lead to sectarian violence, but my point is that Canada still has lots of space)
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23 Feb 2023
Took a break yesterday from being confused by my own data to being by confused someone else's!
🙏 @SkelAlex @amusulan @I4Replication 🙏
23 Feb 2023
I had an amazing time yesterday replicating research from @AJPS_Editor in the Toronto Replication Games with brilliant & fun colleagues, @amusulan & @JacobWinter5!
Thanks to @I4Replication, Profs. Abel Brodeur, @RohanAlexander & others for organizing!
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9 Feb 2023
Great piece by Ted Chiang on ChatGPT et al. "Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web" – and its "hallucinations" are actually compression artifacts. kottke.org/23/02/ted-chiang-…
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3 Feb 2023
If I could do it all over, I would go back and write my field exams in the form of progressively deranged first-person dialogue.
1 Feb 2023
Probably the most insightful abstract of a book review ever written. I have a whole new level of respect for James Fenske.
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23 Jan 2023
TIL: Along with "Diarrhoea of the mouth" and "Constipation of the brain", Zambia's Handbook on Unparliamentary Language includes the phrase "Chinese Money" in its 37-page list of terms which "lower the dignity and integrity of the House".
parliament.gov.zm/sites/defa…
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30 Nov 2022
Oh good, Ontario saved $1.2 billion this quarter by not spending on schools and hospitals.
Not like those have been under any pressure the last few months 🙄
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30 Nov 2022
This isn't cuts- it's money that was already budgeted but didn't get spent.
What could we have done with this money? Well, $1.2 billion is the *annual* budget of @sickkids hospital, where surgeries for children are being delayed this fall.
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9 Nov 2022
Genuinely one of the best ways to spend your money.
9 Nov 2022
Together with @Canva we’re delivering money to people in extreme poverty in Malawi. They’re free to spend it however they like and decide for themselves how best to design their own future. More at GiveDirectly.org/canva
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18 Oct 2022
Over the last three years, @UofT's student employees used their mental health benefits more than ever.
In response, the university froze benefits for three years, and now wants to cut them by 10%. 😡
✊ @cupe3902
17 Oct 2022
One healthcare expense stood out: mental health services (therapy). Usage went from $416k per year in 2019 to $1.2MILLION in 2022!!! An increase of 287% in just 4 years! More and more Unit 1 members are seeking mental health services. Here's line graph with therapy in blue (6/15)
ALT Line graph comparing visions, drug, and HCSA expenses. With mental health steadily rising
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