link roundup

Three important things:

• Roots of Progress is accepting applications for their Blog-Building Fellowship! This blog was born out of the BBI, and my writing has benefitted tremendously from it; I highly recommend.

• I am still putting together a UK women in science and tech policy meetup; sign up here.

• This will get incorporated into an updated version of the medical migration post, but there is new evidence from Sweden that actually brain drain might be real. I’m surprised!

And the usual links:

• Medicaid saves lives.

• The screwworm containment has broken. Fuck.

• Only 17% of papers with “data available on request” actually have data available on request.

• Scientists have created a new color that has only been seen by five people (so far).

• 23 London boroughs had no housing starts in Q1.

• The UK police spend some of their time growing weed. You know, as one does.

• Mark Carney says he is going to govern in econometrics.