Links I Liked

Now President Trump is US tweeter in chief, I’m going to have to start running more screen grabs in these round-ups. Here he is taking on author Isaac Marion. 21,000 RTs and counting….

How has your country changed since the year of your birth? Fun interactive, which also allows you to compare with progress in other countries

How to write a blogpost from your journal article in 11 easy steps. Patrick Dunleavy’s post was the most read in 2016 on the excellent LSE Impact blog and is good advice for non-academic bloggers too.

ODI’s 10 recommendations on how to influence policy with research

Hats off to whichever genius at The Economist came up with this graph of Japanese GDP v tuna prices.

Killer fact (literally). Massive new WHO study finds tobacco costs the world economy over $1 trillion a year. More than 1.1 billion people smoke

In the spirit of getting out of our filter bubble, check out this 2m trailer for anti-aid film Poverty, Inc. Listen first (you might agree with some of it), then critique.

Systems thinking: a cautionary tale (cats in Borneo). Nice illustration