THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Cal Newport writing in the @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

A randomized trial of the Becoming a Man program found nearly a 50% reduction in violent crime arrests by teaching young men to slow down reflexive decisions. Small interventions can save lives at scale.

A 2025 highlight ⚡ In February, CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving, led by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, guest-edited the Winter 2025 issue of Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Learn about the project & read the entire open access issue: bit.ly/3Qm49ha

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

New paper out today! The most cost-effective nudges in the US and UK are NOT the most cost-effective in China, Mexico, or India. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sagepub.com @casbsstanford.bsky.social @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

🎁 Our forever holiday wish list. What are you wishing for in your community? If you want the same things… we should talk. bit.ly/Run4what

Are you leading a (mostly) happy life, a meaningful life, or a psychologically rich life? Take this fun quiz at the Washington Post and find out! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...?

Im concerned by the whole Bari Weiss + 60 min CECOT segment. But Im mostly concerned b/c its exactly the sort of thing we worried Weiss would do. We have priors and those priors inform how we’re reading the news. That said, were it not Weiss + my priors, decision to delay also seems reasonable

Funding Opportunity! We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply. #Econsky

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

2026 summer #fellowships & #internships for #PhD students and also those graduating. Locations include US, UK, Thailand, Brazil, Remote, etc. Most deadlines in Dec and Jan. Most available for international students. Please share for visibility. Also comment if you know of any internships. 🧵

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I wonder if this post is satirical. “this technology” (presumably #AI) is SO broad that the post is probably poking fun at it I mean, spellcheck has AI in it. Some folks methods literally involve using AI for analyses. Search engines, OCR, etc How does one not use it if working on a computer?

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ICE’s cruelty is tearing our neighbors apart during the holiest time of the year. As faithful Americans, we demand that ICE stop attacking our neighbors. Watch our new ad with @protectdemocracy.org and then head over to LoveNotICE.org to add your name to our letter. #LoveNotICE

I was so glad to discover Andrea Gibson this year, just sad to only discover them due to news of their death - but that does not stop their words being so alive and so inspiring #poetry #poem #poet m.youtube.com/watch?v=wXSu...

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Church is Massachusetts replaces Jesus, Mary and Joseph with a sign saying “ICE Was Here”. The Nativity scene is intended to spark dialogue... and that it has!

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Hertz using AI voice agent without disclosing it. When I asked if it was an AI agent, they transferred me without acknowledging it’s AI 🤖

Differences come from mid- and post-training. And tools. But all the “frontier” labs are copying each other as they try to one-up each other. There aren’t a lot of new ideas out there at that scale.

The Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making is one of my favorite conferences. They're accepting applications DUE January 15th. Conference is in Boulder, CO May 27-29, 2026 reinholtzresearch.com/files/CFDM20...

I’d like to see @upshot.nytimes.com put out a salary comparison (or cost-of-living) calculator Theyve got an amazing one for rent-vs-buy, and this feels like another one of those gnarly decisions people understandably err on

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

As Ive gotten older Ive become more aware of how I move through the world. Not like 8yo->14yo, but like 20->30 Things like mannerisms, interpersonal quirks, how I imagine I appear to others when giving a talk– in my 1st job I dont think I conceived of this, but now I do. I wonder how that develops

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with an interdisciplinary team (me, @bstewart.bsky.social, and @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social). Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please apply by THIS SUNDAY, Dec. 14!

It is simultaneously true that ML tools are incredibly useful and that many of their most intense adherents are selling snake oil

NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.

🔥🔥 New publication alert! 🔥🔥 We need to talk more about climate adaptation. Regardless of where we stand on climate politics, climate change is already changing our environment, and bringing with it more weather-related disasters like wildfires and floods 🔥⛈️🌊.

If you read one thing this Sunday, read @jaredb-econ.bsky.social's post on whether the affordability crisis is a crisis (link below), featuring the Affordability Serenity Prayer: econjared.substack.com/p/is-the-aff...

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble. You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Hadn’t seen this post (from 2020) by @statmodeling.bsky.social discussing paper by Leao & Eyal (2019) on history of RCTs Useful discussion (though I haven’t read the paper) highlights importance of overcoming political resistance to RCTs statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/14/r...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I unfollow people for posting too much. At some point I get to believing that all that person does is sit in front of BlueSky thinking of the next thing to post. You follow enough folks like that you start to see the monoculture that comes from online people posting about online things.

Florida #AIBillofRights meets the Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights 🤝 Safe and Effective Systems 🤝 Algorithmic Discrimination Protections 🤝 Data Privacy 🤝 Notice and Explanation bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

SCOTUS is tossing out its credibility with each emergency docket decision. “The justices have wholly denied only one of Mr. Trump’s 32 emergency petitions in his second term…” Its a shame. I hope they reverse course and stand up for our system of checks & balances. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Im surprised by these. But also think 2024 elections, SCOTUS decisions, HHS policies, etc all serve to shift norms If elected leaders / public officials are espousing these views, it makes sense others will update their beliefs. Many of my beliefs are shaped by liberal figures in similar positions

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

I’m struggling to come up with good faith arguments for why Trump keeps pardoning people convicted of taking bribes, defrauding the American public, etc. Like he doesn’t *have* to pardon these people. It’s also not the sort of sentence where it somehow feels morally unjust they were punished. Idk.