William A. Masters
@wamasters
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Prof. @tuftsnutrition, on economics of agriculture, food & nutrition. Photo is https://t.co/lHF9MGLNnO. Teaching blog: https://t.co/MIblsu5B20. Just like this IRL too.
Somerville, MA
Joined June 2009
The #FoodEconomics textbook is up! Free to read online, for an accessible intro to changes in #agriculture, #nutrition and #health. The 1st half uses #food to teach #EconomicPrinciples, and the 2nd is lots of #DataViz with links to online data sources.
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RT @Revkin: Such a great resource for ag /nutrition /food educators and students of any age! Just wrapped a wonderful #sustainwhat conversa…
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RT @vox_dev: What can we learn from food economics? Last month on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol spoke…
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Our new #Fellowships from @ANH_Academy offer a year of funding to bring recent #research into #policy decisions in #SubSaharanAfrica or #SouthAsia, via placement in a policy-making organization. Aim is healthier diets, less loss & waste + climate & equity.
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RT @CarbonFootpri17: 🌍Join upcoming Webinar! 🥗Global #Sustainable #DietaryTransition: Advances and Challenges 🗓️November 11, 2024 🎙️Chair:…
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RT @vox_dev: What can we learn from food economics? Last week on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol spoke t…
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RT @ameliafinaret: Big thanks to @vox_dev for having me and @wamasters to talk about our new #OpenAccess textbook, #FoodEconomics.
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RT @vox_dev: Today is World Food Day - here on VoxDev we have a range of articles & podcasts that discuss nutrition, hunger & poverty, scho…
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🆕What can we learn from food economics? Today on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol speak to @timsvengali about their new, open access textbook on Food Economics and what we can learn from the subject:
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@vox_dev @TuftsNutrition @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol @timsvengali Huge thanks to @vox_dev and @timsvengali for this podcast! Teaching faculty and other #EconTwitter folks can subscribe to our e-list for class slides etc from here:
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The power of #OpenAccess: in just 5 months there's been over 100k free online uses of the #FoodEconomics book. If each person used 5 chapters, that's >20k unique users. You can join them here: and check out our teaching blog:
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Good news on obesity rates in the U.S. -- so far covered only by the @FT's @jburnmurdoch and @Axios' @caitlinnowens? FT explainer and Axios image is via Mike Allen's newsletter: Lots of #FoodEconomics to study @TuftsNutrition!
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Faculty search at Deep Springs College: two dream jobs teaching top students in small classes. Any field of humanities & social sciences, any rank, typically for 4 to 6 years of life-changing experience in the beautiful high desert of Eastern California.
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Hard-won lessons about teaching in higher education, from 35+ years of practice. Here's what I've learned best serves our students in @TuftsNutrition @TuftsUniversity, from an interview with Prakarsh Singh at the new @PlakshaUniv in Chandigarh
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@michael_nielsen Paging Mary Davis, from @TuftsUEP
We spend so much of our lives working, but we don’t always understand how it’s affecting our health and sense of purpose. Economist Mary Davis explains the research behind her new book, "Jobs, Health, and the Meaning of Work." @TuftsUEP
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@eeshani_kandpal @JustinSandefur @marcfbellemare @thom_katherina PPS for economic purposes, an equivalent adjustment is to focus on calorie shares. That's just setting each hhld's total food consumption to 100, instead of the actual level that depends on their heights, weights and physical activity (plus small adjustments for other factors)
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Great outreach from @IFPRI-India on "Why India must track the cost of a healthy diet", by @_SudhaNarayanan @kalraghunathan and @AnitaChristophr, in the Hindustan Times. A clear summary of how tracking #FoodPricesForNutrition can guide action on nutrition.
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Thanks to @_HannahRitchie and all of @OurWorldInData for clear visualization of the global #FoodPricesForNutrition data computed by @FAOstatistics & @worldbankdata. Now available in a more user-friendly format, for #EconTwitter and others:
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Coming soon on Sept. 20th -- a chance to discuss the latest results from #FoodPricesForNutrition. Thanks to @UArkansas @ICubedR we'll all be online, so we can do more while @flyingless
Join us for the next event in our speaker series with William A. Masters, Ph.D. (@wamasters) from Tufts University. 📅 September 20 | 🕘 9 - 10 AM (CT) 📍 Online Only | VOD Available More details at the link here: #SolvingWickedProblems
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