17% of people who would benefit from a hearing aid use one (WHO). In low-income countries, 93% have fewer than one audiologist per million. Today's PCDN Weekly Impact: hearing loss, careers, and 24 jobs, funding and upskilling picks. Subscribe free:

Fellowship call, translated.

Fellowships are hard. Craig has had many rejections, won quite a few, and helped hundreds of people apply.

Free fellowship listings every week: pcdn-impact.beehiiv.com

20/30: Boardy connects people. The PCDN Career Digest is a matchmaker for careers: jobs, fellowships, funding, upskilling, news and tools, six days a week. This weekend's issue became newspaper personals. 7 days free: pcdnglobal.beehiiv.com #ImpactCareers

🤝Volunteer at the 2026 SID-US Annual Reception!
Join us on November 19 and be part of one of SID-US’s flagship events.

📅 Volunteer application deadline: Friday, November 13
👉 Apply here: buff.ly/RQNHgkg

#SIDUS #SIDUS2026 #InternationalDevelopment #Networking

when you start to feel the network effects.

nice work @boardyai

Apply to work with me as a predoc at Harvard Kennedy School! Projects in development and political economy, including on norms, gender, networks, and media. Rolling basis until Nov. 16.
Details here:

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I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.

His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.

I say that without reservation.

3.1 billion people live under a mobile internet signal and don't use it (GSMA).

For the poorest fifth in low- and middle-income countries, an entry-level smartphone costs 48% of monthly income.

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19/30: I run an impact job board with 1,352 live jobs, and my advice is still to go beyond job boards. Join a network or a community, and try Boardy. Then search 55 job boards free in one place: impactai.pcdn.global

Co-created with Boardy. #ImpactCareers

Every entry-level role wants experience. The first year has to come from somewhere.

The biggest ladder around that snake: fellowships and scholarships. Then volunteering, building in public and short paid projects.

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Three AI models played 21 simulated nuclear crises. Nuclear signaling showed up in all 21. That study opens today's PCDN AI for Impact Newsletter, plus 25 tech and social impact roles. Free:

Developers expected AI to make them 24% faster. Measured, they took 19% longer. They still believed they were 20% faster.

METR's 2025 trial, which METR now calls out of date.

metr.org/blog/2025-07-1…

Domestic workers earn 53.3% of what other employees make each month. In 2019 it was 56.4%.

80 million workers. 77.2% women. 83.1% informal (ILO, 27 Oct).

ilo.org/resource/news/…

Three hiring lessons from the Social Change Career Podcast:

Apply early. Program staff read early and referred ones first (Nanako Tamaru).
Learn how the org is funded (Brad Smith).
Switching fields? Say so (Spencer Campbell).

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