I’ll be taking a break from Bluesky. I need to focus on my dissertation for a bit. See you in the new year.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Also, 528 Megawatts?!? I just did a quick google search and that is roughly equivalent to the smallest nuclear power plant in the US. Just for this one data centre.

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters. equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

I mean, that reply though, 10/10, no notes

Aus einem heutigen Artikel in Haaretz über die psychischen Problem von Soldaten, die in Gaza in den letzten Monaten gedient haben. Quelle: www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Help: I remember seeing a recent-ish paper (economics?) on cross-disciplinary citations in social science. Anyone here can confirm I'm not hallucinating?

So, listen up, kids: When Russia deliberately launches dozens of drones against Poland and Romania, that is NOT warmongering and NOT a threat of war between Russia and NATO.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Uhm, he suggested to just kill people with mental illness who commit crimes. On air. I am not even sure what to say any longer.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Bluesky doesn’t get to position itself as an alternative to the Nazi app and suspend Black women for being flippant about someone who was a MAJOR factor in attacks on our well being and livelihood, while his own folks actually killed him is still frying my brain. And you’re gonna hear about it.

I think we should have never stopped highlighting how deeply, deeply weird these guys are. Just so strange.

Big shout out to the Austrian politicians who are destroying Schengen because they're too scared to stand up to a bunch of racist Facebook Uncles. I hate you all. Related: 10 minutes of pointless security theatre at the SLO/AT border and I've lost the first connection on a 14 hour journey home.

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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900-year-old coins from Kilwa (Tanzania) that were found in northern Australia www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/africans-i...

Was Helsinki geschafft hat, ist der Beweis, dass die #VisionZero keine unerreichbare Utopie bleiben muss. Wir brauchen auch in Deutschland endlich eine ambitionierte #Verkehrswende. 🚲 #StädteFürMenschen 💚 #NoIAA 🚘🚫

Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog

After 14 years, the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive hydroelectric power dam on the Nile River, is complete. The dam was officially inaugurated. It is a huge achievement for Ethiopia, with hopes that the power generated can reduce poverty & power shortages.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

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Must watch for all. Free resource. Eqbal Ahmad, speaking of his interaction with Fanon, 45'30"-ish. How injurious the relationship of domination is both to the dominator & the dominated, to the victim & the victimiser. When the victim stands on his feet & fights back, he’s not a victim anymore.

All of us—including myself—should publish fewer but better papers. And we should spend more of our time on scrutinizing existing work, so we know which claims can be trusted. But that's hard work with little recognition. Thanks @sophieehill.bsky.social for doing it. Impressive 🕵️‍♀️ work. Fun to read.

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

Take the time to learn the {mirai} package, an async framework for R. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it. Jobs that used to take hours now take minutes in parallel with mirai. And I'm getting never-before-seen performance in my Shiny apps. mirai.r-lib.org/inde...

PSA: Never ever piss off Sophie with an awful statistical analysis (full of bad errors and likely manual manipulation of tables), she will come for you...

To cite this meme: Photoshop et al. (2025)

Und natürlich wird es keine „Female Depression Epidemic“-Takes und Artikelserien dazu geben

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

Ähm ja. Wer solide datengestützte Politik machen will sagt, daß die Sozialstaatsquote seit Mitte 1990er unverändert ist und seit 1975 um ~10% zugenommen hat [von ~26% auf 29%], 50 Jahre stabil trotz völlig anderer Alterszusammensetzung und erheblich besserer Versorgung.

Don't forget to add this white text to all your publications.

Again, the exhausting thing for me in the current era is not only being treated like fucking idiots by actual idiots, but the mainstream press position that treating me like a fucking idiot is in fact the reasonable position.

This is all very understandable and I don’t want to shit on any of these guys, but what that actually means is it would maybe be useful to look at the middle class in the West as being wealthy, even though not filthy rich, and that being part of the problem.

Die »Ocean Viking« wurde von der libyschen Küstenwache mit automatischen Waffen beschossen. Das Patrouillenboot der Täter stammt aus Italien. Es war nicht die erste bewaffnete Attacke gegen SOS Méditerranée.

This is amazing!! For the curious reader, I must plug: doi.org/10.1017/pan....

I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh. I present: OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects

Nepal is in chaos. Angry crowds are chasing ministers in the streets. Govt buildings, hotels, and officials' homes are burning. The spark? Deep corruption—ignited by a social media ban. PM has resigned. The govt has collapsed. Tourists are stranded. The airport is shut. Over 500 injured.

A lot can happen in a few hours 😮 Nepal's Prime minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli has resigned, protesters have set the parliament building on fire. Protesters have also stormed the office of the country’s largest party, Nepali Congress & residences of several prominent politicians.

Excuse me, what? This is huge, if true, and will be incredibly damaging to Israel.

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned after protests in reaction to the police killing of 19 people during protests against a social media ban.

what Car Brain does to a mf

The Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy of Ukraine, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, reported that the Iskander missile used by the Russians to strike the Cabinet of Ministers contained more than 30 components from the US, the UK, and Japan. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Wir gedenken: Heute vor 25 Jahren, am 9. September 2000, wurde Enver Şimşek an seinem Blumenstand in #Nürnberg vom #NSU ermordet. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau und seine zwei Kinder. Er war das erste Opfer der rassistischen Mordserie des NSU. #KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen