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Timur Nusratty

@nusratty

emerging market telecommunications & data (@GeoPoll). legal & regulatory. food, music, film, art, travel. berkeley native. london-based.

 london, england
Joined September 2010
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Thank you @GavinNewsom @NancySkinnerCA @AsmBuffyWicks for a budget that supports the @UofCalifornia’s mission of keeping #HigherEd accessible in CA. This funding will strengthen the UC community & allow us to provide the support students need to succeed. Thanks again! #UCAdvocate
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Colleague and friend JP Murungu commenting about our work on satirical news in Africa at the PAMRO conference.
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John Murunga of @Geopoll shares his team's #experience of working on #satiricalnews programming in #Africa, as well as the #lessons learnt along the way. #PAMRO2019 #news #Satire #media #research #mediaresearch #trends
Modernizing Research through Mobile by Stephen Joos link.medium.com/yVBAOgLv6W
Modernizing Research through Mobile

Modernizing Research through Mobile

My work building products to modernize research using the mobile phone to bring social change.

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The New York Times
@nytimes11 Jan 2019
On average, American Facebook users aged 65 and older posted seven times as many articles from fake news websites as adults 29 and younger, a new study found nyti.ms/2D4aWr9
Older People Shared Fake News on Facebook More Than Others in 2016 Race, Study Says (Published 2019)

Older People Shared Fake News on Facebook More Than Others in 2016 Race, Study Says (Published 2019)

Users aged 65 and older posted seven times as many articles from fake news sites as adult users 29 and younger, a study published this week found.

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Nobody is moving our cheese: U.S. surplus reaches record high - NPR US milk consumption down = cheese production up, but fewer want the processed stuff. apple.news/A8tJkkvo0QWCYGfKl…

Nobody is moving our cheese: U.S. surplus reaches record high

Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.

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Talking about staying power. Here’s to another great Golden Bear: Jerry Brown’s Midnight in America - POLITICO apple.news/AntXr_VLlRwOc4fD0…

Jerry Brown’s Midnight in America

California’s governor leaves a rich and complex legacy. But in our interview, he seemed much more concerned about the future of the planet than with writing his political epitaph.

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Truth and perspective by my dear friend and Kabul compatriot, John Dempsey. Well done JD. Let's hope DJT takes heed. ti.me/2w0tB21
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Horrible attack in Kabul last week that killed many former colleagues at Roshan. Still in disbelief. So very sad. bit.ly/2sRWQB7
Support the country’s biggest tactical voting drive ever and stop Extreme Brexit! bestforbritain.org
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@BBCWorld27 Mar 2017
Turkmen Asian Games mascot gets makeover bbc.in/2ooHrGh
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IFC project to deliver mobile broadband to 10m people in 31 EMs. Supporting SDGs ands commoditization of data - developingtelecoms.com/tech/…
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@guardian26 Aug 2016
Judge in Stanford sexual assault trial removes himself from all criminal cases trib.al/rDuYHzx
Judge in Stanford sexual assault trial removes himself from all criminal cases

Judge in Stanford sexual assault trial removes himself from all criminal cases

Judge Aaron Persky, who has been accused of repeatedly failing to hold men accountable for sexual violence against women, has asked to be reassigned

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Now that's a find. teapaw.org/mashable/status/650351…
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@mashable3 Oct 2015
Michigan soybean farmer finds nearly complete mammoth skeleton on.mash.to/1OOSiDY
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Berkeley ranked top public university by 'U.S. News' news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/09…
Berkeley ranked top public university by 'U.S. News' - Berkeley News

Berkeley ranked top public university by 'U.S. News' - Berkeley News

For the 18th straight year, UC Berkeley has been named the nation’s top public university by U.S. News & World Report, with UCLA and Virginia placing second and third respectively. The University of...

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Sad and difficult times for the old country: For $14.50, Afghan Refugees Make a Desperate Bet on a Way Out nyti.ms/1QyW81O
For $14.50, Afghan Refugees Make a Desperate Bet on a Way Out (Published 2015)

For $14.50, Afghan Refugees Make a Desperate Bet on a Way Out (Published 2015)

More young people fleeing Afghanistan are setting their hopes on Europe and embarking on a route that is among the worst for refugees.

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Hundreds evacuated in Bethnal Green after second world war bomb discovery gu.com/p/4bddx/stw
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The Guardian
@guardian28 Jul 2015
Learning to code can help entrepreneurs stay ahead of the game trib.al/sF6GZqR
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@guardian28 Jul 2015
Life in Squares review: ‘absurd, beautiful characters in a ridiculously golden world’ trib.al/5wgwbK0
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