Works in Progress
The Works in Progress team and authors
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@worksinprogress.bsky.social
@alfredtwu.com
Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party Delegate, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement. art: http://alfredtwu.com
@pablohutch.bsky.social
Assistant professor in Agricultural Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Research interests: agriculture/livestock/productivity/institutions/economic history/data viz
@bechhof.bsky.social
statistics obsessor, economics enjoyer, occasional engineer, founder at TrovBase
@ronanlyons.bsky.social
Housing, cities, history. Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Director of TRiSS and Data Lead at CEPH. Dad of 3, husband of 1, soccer coach, rugby fan. ronanlyons.com and ronanlyons.substack.com.
@tomchivers.bsky.social
"Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
@rachellaudan.bsky.social
Freelance these many years after quitting academia early (history and philosophy of science and technology,From Mineralogy to Geology); then food history (Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History). www.rachellaudan.com
@drnickcowen.bsky.social
Criminologist at the University of Lincoln. He/him. Read how to stop crime here: https://lncn.ac/drink
@nataliacm.bsky.social
@roadscholar.bsky.social
Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
@mattsclancy.bsky.social
Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
@lgilbert.co
researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: horizon scanning @ renaissance philanthropy; writer, laurenpolicy.com. formerly: open phil, qi, ucsd, caltech, etc.
@johnrmyers.bsky.social
Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
@johnkroencke.bsky.social
johnkroencke.com https://theceme.substack.com/p/private-planning-and-the-great-estates
@heidiwilliams.bsky.social
professor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp // leveraging research to promote science and progress
@guillaumeblanc.bsky.social
Econ prof in Manchester (soon Vancouver). I study culture, demography, institutions in development. And I like croissants. 👉 guillaumeblanc.com
@elidourado.com
On a sacred quest to increase the pace of economic growth at the Abundance Institute. On the side of the builders. tfp/acc 🚀
@stuartjritchie.bsky.social
Comms at Anthropic; writer and podcaster on bad science. Newsletter: https://www.sciencefictions.org/ Podcast: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@nanr.bsky.social
@calebwatney.bsky.social
Co-founder IFP // scientific, technological, and industrial progress
@dkedrosky.bsky.social
Economic historian. Ph.D. student in economics at Northwestern University. Writes at https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/
@benjaminreinhardt.com
Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉 https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
@anyamartin.bsky.social
Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Former director @ PricedOut
@scientificdiscovery.dev
Science writer and chart maker. Researcher at Our World in Data. Co-founder of Works in Progress. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev https://twitter.com/salonium 🏳️🌈
@sambowman.co
Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
@underthenettle.bsky.social
Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
@worksinprogress.bsky.social
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