Prof. Wolfers has reignited the econ 101 debate! Battle stations, @besttrousers.bsky.social !

I just used refine.ink to proofread a paper that's nearly ready for circulation. It had 23 comments. The first caught us using "reduces" instead of "increases" when describing our main treatment effect in the abstract. I highly endorse this tool for preventing such embarassing errors!

A friend told me this week they flew their whole flight at 6,000 feet bouncing around this week b/c of air traffic control limits

"The man who co-discovered the double helix, perhaps not surprisingly, regarded DNA as the ultimate puppet master, immeasurably more powerful than the social and other forces that lesser (much lesser) scientists studied. Then his hubris painted him into a corner."

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

@sgadarian.bsky.social I started working at yale recently (👋🏻 @paulgp.com ) and this from the daily newsletter yesterday had that small town local newspaper feel

Oh my GOD lmao

Seeing Like a Nate.

Kid was asking ChatGPT for Linux/chrome command line code for downloading YouTube videos and the sample URL ChatGPT used was Never Gonna Give You Up. He got rickrolled by AI

Look at how ratings of Israeli restaurants in the U.S. declined as Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza intensified.

“The future of finance is here, and it’s the Smart Con wait shit have the signs already been printed? They have?”

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

What have we learned about training entrepreneurs? Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr... Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

Submarine warfare.

My friend is starting his kid early learning about the countries of the world @texasinafrica.bsky.social

Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Who did this?!

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

An econ predoc made the mistake of asking my advice on grad school applications @socio-steve.bsky.social

This Frenchman has outfrenched every single one of us

I love a Don travel post and this is no exception. Don’s like if Rick Steves also had a secret passion for civil bureaucracies. It’s no wonder New York named the new Penn Station after him.

Welp @scientificdiscovery.dev and Jacob are back again, Will AI Cure Disease? By the end of the 4.5 hours you'll be significantly older and might find out! www.worksinprogress.news/p/will-ai-so...?

Went for a walk w/a friend and was told it’s more exercise if you carry a weighted backpack @ryancbriggs.net so I went to the basement and put in dense stuff, soup broth and flour. It was nerve wracking because I knew if I fell I’d be rouxined.

Thanks for highlighting our work on the promise of group coaching programs! Lower cost + similar effects = easier scaling! www.nber.org/papers/w34309 @roccozizzamia.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @lassebrune.bsky.social

I’ll be there tonight. Come say hi! 👋

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

If you're looking for some food banks to donate to, we vetted a ton all over the country back in 2020, in conjunction with our marble league sponsorship, a sentence that I swear made sense in context. Anyway -- there are links to 17 of them in this thread. (And apologies for linking to... y'know.)

I've been, lots of fun! ( cc @zoemclaren.bsky.social )

Happy 74th birthday, bassist and singer, songwriter William "Bootsy" Collins. 🎂 #Parliament #Funkadelic

Another kind of science brain gain from immigration: Ito, et al show Colombian scientists abroad are connectors between researchers in those countries and in Colombia for the long term voxdev.org/topic/migrat... cc @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social @lgilbert.co

I know what @seema.bsky.social 's choice for jewel heists will be!

Great news on @malengo.org: With a new large investment from The Shapiro Foundation (theshapirofoundation.org), we'll be able to bring several hundred vocational training and university students from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to Europe over the coming years! More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...

Argentina's bailout... "more than the entire worldwide USAID budget last year." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

PSA: Covid cases can be infectious for over a week. A friend with Covid is still testing highly positive on rapid tests after 8 days. If your rapid test is positive you are still infectious. Stay home, mask up, ventilate indoor spaces so you don’t spread it to others.

Book launch day -- congrats to @arvind2011.bsky.social & Devesh Kapur! The book is full of data and historical vignettes, but more importantly, really challenges a lot of received wisdom about India's development trajectory. Must read.

One of us has just spent the day in hospital having a hernia op & it's obvious to anyone who uses it that many NHS workers are not from this country and yet they provide brilliant care, with many on less than £39k. Why are we not screaming from the rooftops the huge benefits of immigration? #EconSky

Anybody happen to have an example of a market designed for a broader social benefit external to the market (not just for the buyers and sellers participating), like cap and trade is for pollution? @besttrousers.bsky.social @daveevansphd.bsky.social @socio-steve.bsky.social @socio-steve.bsky.social

This is bananas.

I noticed he wanted to convince people it wasn't interesting and didn't call it "sociology reform" @socio-steve.bsky.social

Excellent, as usual, explainer from Maia

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We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.