Why? A country in a weaker trading position sees: - ↘️ GDP → ↘️ health budgets - ↘️ democracy → ↘️ priority for public services. ...and pays high price in ↗️lives lost. Traditional indices (trade centrality & openness) miss this. Relational tools (asymmetry) help identify power relationships.

I tested on panel data for 140 countries (2000–2024) the impact of relational indices on under-5 #mortality using structural modelling (SEM) in a Fundamental Cause Theory framework. Results were beyond expectations: asymmetry in #trade (a country dominated by others) increases U5MR by 19 to 57%!

“Methodological nationalism” dominates social sciences: countries are studied as isolated boxes, independent of one another. Yet no country is an island... even islands!😉. Its trade relations, political influence, or even its position in global #networks shape its #health outcomes. 2/5

Name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you

New: The Atlas, newspaper from the makers of @codastory.com and @thecontinent.org. With nice photos too! Sign up for delivery via Signal or WhatsApp www.theatlasnewspaper.org

I love the choice of photos in @thecontinent.org!

Random question: Why are so many pigeons white in Sevilla?

Interesting, as always, and again, what a powerful picture published in that issue!

May I suggest replying with something like:

Meanwhile, my pitiful attempt to get out of the earth attraction... 🪂

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

Amazing picture illustrating climate change in Madagascar.

The standing ovation to Rubio that shocks #Africa. Please #EU, take your distance!

Post a tree you photographed

Amazing figures! Will be interesting to see post-Covid figures too.

Opening a discussion on the relative perception on fertility decline.

Happening now (cont'd): Maria Rita Testa, Prof. at Luiss Guido Carli University in Roma presenting on Concerns about #environment and #fertility, at a conference organized by Dutch- & French-speaking Belgium associations.

Happening now: Birgit Van Hout,UNFPA representative in Belgium, presenting on The Real #fertility crisis, conference organized by Dutch- & French-speaking Belgium associations.

Excellent ! 🤗 Une petite erreur d'encodage (peut-être à cause de l'accent sur la majuscule) :

Do not read the scriptures literally: l am not batman.

Me, before and after marking students' work filled with #AI hallucinations and nonsense. #academia #halloween

Remarquable étude auprès de 900 immigrants d' #Afrique en #Belgique menée par @demographielln.bsky.social, l'IRD, UGent et VUB. Rapport d'analyse bientôt disponible sites.uclouvain.be/roam-be/?Pag...

Sjölander's #DAG (2020) for extended KM doesn't make sense to me. A vertex by def is a **variable** but here Y(0) is always = 0 (i.e. Y(1) is only observed if no event at t=0, as per equation 1 of the paper). Y(0) shouldn't be in DAG. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci @statsepi.bsky.social, any opinion?

Ce qu'il y a de bien avec les festivals de jazz, c'est qu'on peut boire une bière avec un pain-saucisse sans avoir l'air d'un beauf. #Dinant #jazz #festival www.dinantjazz.com/model/artistes

Again, and again, and again...