Lauren Gilbert

Congratulations to Francis Halzen, UW-Madison, and the entire IceCube team! (Another Nobel prize in physics brought to you by the NSF!) www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

This paper brings back fond memories - this was my first field RA experience!

Important piece by @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social in @labourlist.bsky.social, calling for the national screening committee to hurry up and review screening for harmful lead exposure. Ours is a "remarkably complacent and cavalier approach". We must take the issue more seriously, as in the US/France.

1/ A few reflections on this thought-provoking post from Vijayendra Rao — an economist I greatly admire (and a coauthor, many years ago). 2/ Part of this reads as a critique of economics as it was.

This week in In Development: Matheus de Souza writes about disaster data, and how it's... really a lot worse than you probably think. indevelopmentmag.com/disaster-dat...

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

South Sudan has some of the worst possible conditions for collecting quality administrative data. But South Sudan actually has quite good administrative data. How? @danhonig.bsky.social writes for In Development on how to make governments effective: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/what-the-s...

tomorrow. @danhonig.bsky.social

So I updated Twitter on this, so I should probably put it here as well: all responses will probably be slow. Earlier this month, we discovered my father has a five-inch tumor in his hip. We're waiting on the core biopsy, but the FNA biopsy confirms it is malignant and high-grade.

Nice piece by @wilsonmking.bsky.social on a surprisingly unsolved question: Why are Indian kids so short? (Even more than India's development would imply.) It felt a bit voyeuristic to me though, like reading about myself or something.

I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

Lauren runs In Development Magazine, and the tweet seems earnest - if you're the right person to write this, you can pitch the article at indevelopmentmag.com/pitch/ @lgilbert.co

I love America.

I'm in @arguablymag.bsky.social today making a case for a positive-sum immigration policy in the UK: www.arguably.uk/p/20-ideas-f...

I have a piece with Niamh O Regan in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social mapping child lead exposure by parliamentary constituency, drawing on modelling by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/he...

last day to submit pitches to In Development for the time being*: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/call-for-p... *we will probably keep to a cadence of opening pitches once every six months or so. so we'll next open pitches in January.

📣 Apply to lead research at one of the most important global education foundations: the Prevail Fund. Feel free to reach out if you're interested -- happy to discuss the role. www.prevailfund.org/careers?ashb...

not sure if @mosenkis.bsky.social is a great friend or a terrible one for specifically forwarding me emails about a book I am likely to dislike

immigrants do raise housing prices but they aren't the reason your rent is too damn high new post from me on immigration's effect on housing prices: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/immigratio...

New short blogpost! I wrote a round up of cancer research news from ASCO2026: - Daraxonrasib, the breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug - Big 7-year results of lorlatinib for ALK+ lung cancers – Talazoparib, a prostate cancer drug that cut the risk of progression by half and much more. Read here:

"Inept political and economic strategy has left the UK in a horrendous situation." @alanbeattie.bsky.social on immigration policy dilemmas in advanced economies. www.ft.com/content/c57b...

With a link to my recent paper with @lgilbert.co progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

@juliamurdza.bsky.social: “EAs:”

How do we get back to a closer relationship with Europe? Clare Short, Peter Holmes, Orla McBreen and Lauren Gilbert giving us the lowdown.

Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop. @lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward. For the Progressive Economy Forum. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

Next, @lgilbert.co and @jdportes.bsky.social on how to escape the UK's immigration doom loop. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

btw I will be speaking at the Progressive Economy Forum on Saturday about a paper @jdportes.bsky.social and I wrote, arguing the value of immigration to the British economy

The last piece of the first issue of In Development is out! There are 7.7 million people with opioid use disorder in India. Only 45,000 of them are receiving evidence-based treatment. Akshay Narayanan explains how this happened. indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/cheap-drug...

In advance of migration stats at 9.30, expected to show further fall, a reminder of extent to which migration has boosted the UK labour market recently. The number of non-EU origin migrant employees has increased by more than 2 million (while UK-origin employees have fallen by about 700K). [1/3]

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I'm hiring for In Development's first not-me hire. Help shape the future of development journalism; edit pieces that do serious cost-effectiveness analysis AND have jokes. Up to $90k USD, fully remote worldwide. indevelopmentmag.com/jobs/

They’re called clustered standard errors because they cluster just under beta/1.96 in published studies.

Initially, I wasn't going to cover migration in the first issue of In Development so it wasn't just Lauren's Special Interests, The Magazine but then @charlesjkenny.bsky.social pitched us a piece on emigration, so obviously I published it: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/wheres-my-...

This week in In Development: Jakarta added ten million new residents in a decade and traffic got *better*. How? Transit, of course. indevelopmentmag.com/jakarta-tran...

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

This week in In Development, Daniel Yu - founder of Africa's largest B2B company - argues young people who are interested in development should consider starting a business instead of working in aid: indevelopmentmag.com/exporters-wi...

@lgilbert.co told me about this magazine a few days ago and my first thought was: when can I publish here? Check it out, for development researchers, policy makers, overthinkers, contrarians, the justice-minded, the word-obsessed, dreamers, and poets.

1) is it weird to go to your mutual's book event 2) is it more or less weird if you mention you're mutuals at said event @soumayakeynes.ft.com

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

my living literature review has a one-year update on what we've learned about immigration recently

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it