this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

Ending slavery increased GDP by 9.1% as slavery reduced the welfare of the enslaved substantially, while only generating minuscule welfare gains to slave owners. Fascinating topic that once again highlights how coercive instructions are economically detrimental! www.nber.org/papers/w3435...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

in Canada, the Liberals were historically unpopular, then Trump started talking about the 51st state stuff, the Liberal leader did a lot of talk about resisting him, and the polls looked like this:

Fuck yea! Science!

Research active faculty teach classes that are significantly closer to the knowledge frontier.

Agree.

Just arrived.

Chinese AI labs must celebrate the 100k visa EO.

"Cutting the VAT rate on restaurant meals, for example, was not one of the most pressing priorities coming out of the Munich Security Conference." Well put, Deutsche Bank. (On the disappointment with Germany's infrastructure fund helping to finance giveaways.)

"New study finds salary benchmarking cuts pay gaps by 25%. Pay dispersion partly arises from firms’ uncertainty about market rates, with key implications for pay transparency policy." New paper from Perez-Truglia, Li & Cullen www.restud.com/whats-my-emp...: #econsky #REStud

Hate speech fuels stochastic terrorism risk. "Stochastic terrorism has been defined as the incitement of a violent act through public demonization of a group or individual.” Amman and Malloy (2021) www.jstor.org/stable/27073...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Fascinating read.

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Tired: Adjusting for covariates Wired: “Building a digital twin”

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy DISS 2026 📅 February 23-24, 2026 🔬 Online (Zoom) Deadline: November 15 Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al. #EconSky #EconConf @tmartens.bsky.social

It appears that the marginal energy used by a standard prompt from a modern LLM is relatively established at this point, roughly 0.0003 kWh (8-10 seconds of streaming Netflix) Water is more complicated (.25mL to 5mL+), depending on definitions. Training resources are much less clear at this point.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Great news but it also very telling that this moves to Luxembourg.

Braucht keine Worte.

Fun fact: Auditors use this to see if variances are due to number switchups.

Pakistani Brit: I’m London Mayor Sadiq Khan, nice to meet you

Here we go, opportunism beats conscience.

Revelio Labs offers another solid case study on how accountability infrastructure can be (and will need to be) rebuilt in the private sector and/or with crowdsourcing. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-zw...

🔗 Paper available via @ssrn.bsky.social: www.accounting-for-transparency.de/publications... #ClimateFinance #BankingRegulation #SustainableFinance #TRR266 #Transparency

Main findings: • Higher bank-level climate risk transparency • Less (long-term) financing and lower investments of their high-risk borrowers • Improved bank-level environmental performance But: Watch for substitution to less committed/regulated banks.

🌍 Can climate stress tests drive real change in the financial system? TRR 266 WP No. 205 by Jannis Bischof, Vincent Giese, @gerritvzedlitz.bsky.social (Uni Mannheim) & Luzi Hail (The Wharton School) shows they can – primarily if banks are already climate-committed or under ESG pressure.

This is insane and it should be a wake-up call that you should not cave in. There will always be more demands.

Summary: German science journalist uses Nature's new disclosures policy regarding referee reports to discredit climate change study without noting that the comments of referees were adressend. static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

Es war vorhersehbar das die üblichen Personen die Offenlegung von Refereereports von Nature nutzen um gezielt Falschinformationen zu streuen. Axel Bojanowski unterschlägt in seinem Tweet das die Autoren auf die Kritik eingehen und die Bedenken (warscheinlich) entkräften, da die Studie ja /n

So when are we starting to monitor US GDP with nightlights?

Can finally write about the US would have a better economy if it had a Western institution.

Statement from the American Economics Association. Signed by AEA President & former USDOL Chief Economist @lkatz42.bsky.social Former BLS Commissioner Abraham Former Treasury DAS & Chief Economist Dynan, & Chair of AEA Govt Relations Committee Ken Troske bsky.app/profile/mart...

This is really disturbing:

Parenting.

Finally somebody did this study. "We find a large positive effect of subtitling on English-language skills of over one standard deviation."

If I had to bet I would say chances of a decrease in interest rates just dropped.

PBS funding solved in 3 seconds through addiction

Muss man den L.L.M in Deutschland mit seiner Herkunft tragen oder ist das einfach Status? Sprich Max Mustermann, L.L.M. (UCLA)?

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

If you are interested in understanding how much CO2 firms generate and how this should be reported, check out this paper. "The resulting CO2-statements yield a measure of a company’s current corporate carbon footprint, while stock variables on the CO2-balance sheet convey summary information (...)"

Heute läuft die Frist ab. Und Deutschland steht kurz davor, über 5 Milliarden Euro für sozialen Klimaschutz einfach verfallen zu lassen. Warum? Weil die Bundesregierung keinen fertigen Plan hat. 🧵

Habt ihr euch gefragt, warum so viele indische Kurierfahrer unterwegs sind? Viele werden von teuren Privatunis hergelockt, verschulden sich, landen in einem Teufelskreislauf aus miesen Jobs und überfüllten, möblierten Apartments. Meine ganze Recherche gibt's bei der @taz.de taz.de/Das-Geschaef...

If you read my work, I have always loved using em-dashes. Now I actually go through & replace them with semicolons or parentheses (even when dashes would be better) because people assume they are AI Reminds me of the great Delve Collapse - use of the word dropped after it became associated with AI.