Just uploaded my "AI for the Skeptical Scholar" workshop to YouTube - 2 hours of practical guidance for researchers who want substance over hype. These tools can help small teams tackle ambitious policy research that used to require massive resources. youtu.be/mIStv_pCEZQ

Issue 6 of RDM Weekly is out! 📫 - AI for the Skeptic from @tealemery.bsky.social - Data Management for Educators from @ekholme.bsky.social - Managing Longitudinal Data from @ukdataservice.bsky.social - Regular Expressions #rstats from @liomys.mx and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Just delivered "AI for the Skeptical Scholar" to 50+ SOAS researchers. Put all materials online for free - hoping it gives folks allergic to AI hype a realistic resource for learning actually useful skills. 📖 teal-insights.github.io/soas_llm_training

Iraq / IMF Article IV staff report. Always read the footnotes in IMF staff reports! www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

I’m old enough to remember when “Presidential Advisor Calls for Ethnic Cleansing” would have been a bigger story.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Cuomo to Katonah Town Board

We've all been there. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New World Bank report "Radical Debt Transparency" being discussed tomorrow in Tokyo (11am), tonight US East Coast (10pm) with registration form here (tip: put the same information in both boxes for each question). www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Tesla on the hunt for space to park its overflowing inventory. @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/06/17/t...

"Emerging market local currency government bonds have enjoyed returns of more than 10% since the start of the year - more than double the around 4% delivered by the hard-currency peers, according to JPMorgan indexes." ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...

Absolute insanity. The US President is ordering deployment of armed agents specifically into “Democrat power centers”. There aren’t any more warnings left to make. Our house is on fire now. This is not a partisan issue. Our Congress must act immediately to protect our democracy.

You can see it in his eyes: Schumer is going to unleash one heck of a sternly worded letter

I hope there was a large layer cake to celebrate, too.

Help, my libertarian stateless fantasy currency requires the resources and legitimacy of the state to protect me! sherwood.news/crypto/the-a...

WB Chief Economist: "The current [debt sustainability framework] system is too quick to decide that countries merely need loans to tide them over, when most low-income countries today are in fact insolvent and will need debt write-offs ..."

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

UFO myths gripped America for decades, and the Pentagon finally figured out where a lot of them came from. It was the Pentagon. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4kz4Cdq

"Indeed, changes in exchange rates and net international investment positions have shown no correlation over the past decade outside of the U.S. either, according to cross-country data from the International Monetary Fund." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

Boss move for Ramaphosa would be to offer Musk political asylum.

big distinction here between “does the USG need space x?” (Y) and “does space x need elon musk?” (N), and USG has many, many ways to make that second question excruciating for space x if they choose to

If you want to open a Github issue on one of my projects just to tell me how great it is, I fully support that, btw 🥹

As G7 nations decry Chinese solar overcapacity, Pakistan’s middle class is using it to power homes, decarbonize, and reshape energy access—one rooftop at a time.

$ORCL $MS $MCD @mediaitenews.bsky.social @wsj.com www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

📢 [New Research] 📢 We tracked EVERY S&P 500 company's reaction to Fed announcements for 20 years The Paris Climate Agreement didn't just change environmental policy—it completely flipped how Wall Street prices sustainability during rate hikes. From -28.5bp penalty to +64.5bp protection 📈🧵

unorthodox monetary policy www.ft.com/content/22a7...

The kids are all right. Even at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

I’d say roughly 80% of the masters students I’ve taught at SAIS are international students. Tim’s comment about the economics of this is completely correct.

If you’re not in higher education, let me clarify that this is a five alarm fire. If this continues, it will be an unmitigated disaster for US universities. In economic terms, undergrads and masters students mostly pay full tuition that subsidizes American students.

Once again, @xkcd.com got it right.

In one dramatic example, Gambian officials said the State Department issued a veiled threat of cutting funds to their fragile democracy if they didn’t approve a license for Musk’s Starlink.

This is the thoughtful, in-depth MAGA-Mao conversation I've been looking for. Highly recommend. open.spotify.com/episode/6L2b...

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

There comes a time in one's life when you realize you actually have to learn about SDMX. Wish me luck.

I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

1/3 In my latest piece for China Reform Imperative, I argue that it is meaningless for banks to provide GDP growth forecasts for China and to vary these forecasts over the year as economic conditions change. This is not how China's economy works. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

The risk that Trump suddenly cuts off Europe's access to the Visa and MasterCard networks as a "pressure tactic" is something that Finland's central bank is preparing for: www.reuters.com/business/fin...

✨Use llms from #rstats with ellmer ✨Version 0.2.0 is on CRAN now. No blog post yet because I'm about to go on vacation, but in the meantime you can check out the release notes: github.com/tidyverse/el....

Wow. Bukele’s approval rating has dropped to 55%, with people specifically citing the CECOT deal with the United States as a reason for disapproval. This is why I’ve said that Bukele is playing with fire with this. It’s hurting him internationally and now domestically as well.

This week I built a comprehensive command-line interface for Zotero. If you have `uv`, you can install it with `uv tool install pyzotero-cli`. There are example Cline/Cursor rules in the Github repo to help teach your AI assistant how to use it. I'll do a video demo soon. github.com/chriscarroll...

Absolutely disgusting The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

For a few hours yesterday, Elon Musk's chatbot responded to questions by randomly mentioning "white genocide" in South Africa. @alibreland.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social investigate the strangest day yet on X.

Can’t make this shit up.

“Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.”