Of all the albums from my youth, Siren Song of the Counter-Culture will always hold a special place for me. No idea whether it is the reminiscence of high school days or just the raw sound Rise Against lost over the years. Just a great 40 minutes of music.

Ich mag diese zweite Liga.

Happy first day of term everyone! Looking forward to teaching some econometrics today.

In another episode of The Glorious Life of a Researcher, I am listening to four hours of recorded Texas Senate Committee meeting from 1993. This is the life!

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

Mood of the morning.

New working paper out yesterday. Thank you for the thread, Keith!

Have we passed peak intelligence? In international tests, student scores for reading and maths sunk to a new low. US teens are struggling to concentrate & evaluate information. The excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Warning: this thread is dark 🧵

My music nostalgia has reached new heights and so I am listening to old Blackmail records. Everyone Safe is an absolute hit: open.spotify.com/track/4iaxVL...

Academia really is glorious business. I just spend about an hour collecting all 32 variables in the SCF that are necessary to calculate real estate wealth of respondents. Riveting.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Why that is certainly interesting: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Seems like complexity is not the only force at work here. Good scientific discourse. I am looking forward to the reply.

Gemischter Tag für die Familie Schlotterbeck.

SC Freiburg ultra group Corrillo with a choreo ahead of #HolocaustRemembranceDay. “Do not forgive, do not forget.” Via @kurvenhelden.bsky.social

Ich wollte die Brände in Kalifornien zum Anlass nehmen etwas über Klimawandel, Naturkatastrophen und Versicherung zu schreiben. Dabei will ich auch etwas über die Lage in Deutschland sagen.

Ich denke, was die Klöckner Sache vor allem zeigt, ist eine gewisse Hilflosigkeit der Konservativen. "Wir machen doch alles was ihr wollt" impliziert, dass man mit realer Politik, Wünsche der AfD Wählerschaft bedienen kann. Ich denke nicht, dass das stimmt. Hass und Protest sind so nicht bedienbar.

Das ist schon wirklich beeindruckend, wie @cdrosten.bsky.social @tilojung.bsky.social herleitet, warum er glaubt, das Virus sei WAHRSCHEINLICH von Wuhan-Markt statt aus dem Wuhan-Labor gekommen (so ab 2 h 20 min). t.co/wgB1zcazlS

Removing tail risk through tort reform increases the number of trauma units in hospitals and that reduces traffic fatalities in the affected HSAs. Fascinating presentation by Meghan Esson at the 2024 CEAR/ MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop.

I don’t know what this says about me, but I do some of my best thinking on a stuffed regional train while drinking crappy coffee.

Wanted to present a working paper here that @valuz, Ralf Elsas and I have been working on for a while now: ssrn.com/abstract=471.... This maybe a bit unusual for #Econsky as it not only has decision theory, but also some asset pricing in it. A thread:

Taco Saturday doesn’t really have a nice ring to it, but they were delicious.

Good news do still exist.

Something worth pointing out about the plan to get rid of VA health care. It only saves money if you think that the vets shouldn't get services paid by gov't. If you want them to get services in another program, it'll likely cost more. The VA is very cheap.

I always read whatever Sam Bowles puts out. This with Mattia Fochesato. Humans have always competed for status and resources, but enduring inequality requires specific conditions: concentrated wealth, state power, and cultural acceptance of disparities. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Apparently some people need to hear this: the profit margin of the entire US health insurance industry is 3.3%. Many things are wrong in the healthcare system, but sometimes insurance companies are just the bearer of bad news.

Boy, our elf on the shelf certainly had a devious little trick he played on our kids tonight.

As someone who has always (kind of intuitively) doubted that we should use weighted probabilities normatively, this is the aspect I enjoy most about this paper.

Transcribing guitar chords for my daughter using the Songs package in Latex. The notation is super weird, but the end product looks really neat.

#EconSky Severe climate events (floods, wildfires) are raising insurance costs – on average, home insurance premiums increased 21% this year. Will policyholders keep insuring their homes? We (@blcollier2.bsky.social, @tobiashuber.bsky.social, Andreas Richter & I) explore this in a new working paper.

Just saw a defunct railway control center and looked it up. There is a website dedicated to information on these things. Super fun. Made me miss the olden days of the www when all we had were these little treasure chests maintained by enthusiasts.

Ich: "ALLE großen politischen Parteien haben ein Kommunikationsproblem." Lindner: "Hold my Porscheschlüssel and watch this..."

This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

Tech guys are always like “wow you’re being rude to me? You’re saying *I* don’t have the answers for humanity? Me? The guy who invented an app that orders napkins?”

Die beste Analyse zu dem Hamas-Überfall, die ich bisher gelesen habe. #WeStandWithIsrael #Israel #IsraelUnderAttack www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Herzlich Willkommen hier @isabelschnabel.bsky.social.

This is spot on.

Her: Honey, can you plant some bamboo for me? Me: Sure, how much work can that be? The answer is 5 hours.

Harvest time!

I wrote a super simple function that writes LaTeX importable tables from Julia, using just a DataFrame as input. Took me less than an hour. I just love how easy this language is to write in.

Seeing my daughter exploring math for the first time and enjoying every second of it is one of the best experiences I have ever had in my life.